Author and leading specialist on the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde presents Holloway Lecture
The Holloway Lecture features Nicholas Frankel, author and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, who is a leading specialist on the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The lecture takes place Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m., in McDaniel Hall’s Coley Rice Lounge. It is free and open to the public.
McDaniel College’s English department hosts the annual Holloway Lecture with a presentation by Nicholas Frankel, a leading specialist on the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The lecture takes place Monday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Coley Rice Lounge in McDaniel Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Frankel is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, where his research and teaching focus on Victorian literature, media, and culture. He is the author and editor of numerous books on Wilde, including “The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection” (2022), “The Invention of Oscar Wilde” (2021), “The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde” ( 2018), “Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years” (2017), and “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition” (2011). He also edited “The Sphinx by Oscar Wilde, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts: A Facsimile” (2010).
In 2001, Frankel was awarded the Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize from the Society for Textual Scholarship. He has received prestigious fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center in 2016, Yale Center for British Art in 2006, and the National Humanities Center in 2001-02. Frankel is also the recipient of a 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to support his forthcoming book, “Dreamer of Dreams: The Vision of William Morris,” about Victorian designer, writer, and activist William Morris.
Frankel has earned a bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, master's degree in English Literature from University of Southern California, and Ph.D. in English Literature from University of Virginia.
Fred G. Holloway
The Holloway Lecture is named for Fred G. Holloway, the college’s fourth president. A graduate of the class of 1919, he went on to earn a divinity degree from Drew University and was ordained by the Methodist Protestant church in 1921. He served in Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland, before he became a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1927. He became an administrator at the Seminary, and, after a short time, president of the college. For more information about the Holloway Lecture, call 410-857-2530.
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