Degrees Held

B.A., 1966, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., 1967, University of Chicago
Ph.D., 1971, University of Connecticut

Academic Summary

Stephen Tabachnick specializes in British literature from 1880 to 1940. His areas of research interest include biography and autobiography, the graphic (or comic book) novel, and travel literature, as well as fiction and poetry. He sees literary criticism, biography, and teaching as interpretive arts and tries to help his students find their own voices and perspectives.

Courses Taught

3221 British Literature of the Romantic Age
3222 Victorian Literature
3224 British Literature of the Twentieth Century
3321 American Literature Before 1860
4430 The Graphic Novel
7006 The English Profession
7292 Modern British Poetry
7276 British Romanticism
7473 Verbal/Visual Texts: The Graphic Novel

Major Publications

• Editor, Teaching the Graphic Novel. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009
• Lawrence of Arabia: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• Fiercer than Tigers: The Life and Works of Rex Warner. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002.
• T.E. Lawrence. New York: Twayne, 1997. Revised second edition; first edition published 1978.
• Images of Lawrence. (With photos from the collection of Christopher Matheson.) London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.German and Japanese translations.
• Editor, Explorations in Doughty's "Arabia Deserta." Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
• Editor, The T.E. Lawrence Puzzle. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
• Charles Doughty. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
• Harold Pinter. Co-author William Baker. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1973.