Theresa Kenney, Ph.D.

B.A. English and Classics, Pennsylvania State University
M.A. English, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. English, Stanford University

 

• Literary Tradition I, II, III, IV
• Jane Austen
• Arthurian Romance
• Charles Dickens
• Medieval Lyric and Romance
• Religious Lyric
• Shakespeare
• John Donne

• Metaphysical poets
• Shakespeare
• Medieval Romance and Lyric Dante
• Myth
• Nineteenth Century Novel, especially Jane Austen.

• "Don’t know much about history: History and Histrionics, Moderation and Passion in Northanger Abbey.” Persuasions. Forthcoming.
• "Sensualiter Tangitur": The Christ Child ‘Born a Martyr’ in John Donne's Sermon for Christmas 1626.” John Donne Journal. Under consideration.
•  “A Tale of Two Captains: Whose Heart Is Worth Having?” Persuasions On-Line 39.1 (2018).    “The Nativity in the Middle Ages through the Reformation.” In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Rachel Fulton Brown and Rika Spiekermann. Berlin: De Gruyter. Forthcoming.
• “The Manger in the Early Modern Period.” In The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Edited by Rachel Fulton Brown and Rika Spiekermann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019
• “’This pomp is prizèd there’: Southwell’s Challenge to Courtly Identities in His Nativity Lyrics.” In Precarious Identities: The Works of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell. Edited by Vassiliki Markidou and Afroditi-Maria Panaghis. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• “‘God did play the child’: Robert Southwell’s ‘Christes childhood.’” Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400-1800: Robert Southwell, Volume 258. Gale/Cengage Learning, 2017. 194-198:
• “Benevolence and Sympathy in Emma.” Persuasions 38 (2017): 66-80
• “Why Edward Ferrars Doesn’t Dance.” In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Ed. by Eleanor Donlon. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015. (shorter version of essay published in Persuasions)
• “Why Tom Bertram Cannot Die.” Persuasions On-Line 35.1 (2014). 
• “‘God did play the child’: Robert Southwell’s ‘Christes childhood.’” Logos 17.3 (Summer 2014): 170-80.
• “The Christ Child on Fire: Robert Southwell’s Mighty Babe.” ELR 43.3 (2013): 415-45.
• “Why Edward Ferrars Doesn’t Dance.” Persuasions 34 (2013): 155-68.
  
   "Anne De Bourgh Smiles.” Persuasions On-Line (2013).
• “The Heroic Cicatrix and Bleak House,” with Cheryl Kinney, M.D. Dickens Quarterly 30.4 (December 2013): 267-77.
• The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!   Co-edited with Mary Dzon. University of Toronto Press, 2012.
• "The Christ Child on Fire: Robert Southwell's Mighty Babe."   ELR 42.2 (2012). Forthcoming.
• "Jane Austen, Revolution, Socialist Realism, and Reception: A Response to Helong Zhang's 'Jane Austen: 100 Years in China.'" Persuasions 33 (2012).
• "Aisha, Rajshree Ojha's Urban Emma: Not Entirely Clueless."   Persuasions On-Line 32.1 (Winter 2011).
• "Why Edward Ferrars Doesn't Dance."   In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.  Ed. by Eleanor Donlon. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. Forthcoming.
• "Mansfield Park and the Conscience Outside the Self."  In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.  Ed by Eleanor Donlon. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010.
• "Compassion and Condemnation in Wuthering Heights: Mediation, Christianity, and the Occult." In Wuthering Heights. Ed. by Joseph Pearce. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008.
• "'Slyness Seems the Fashion': Dexterous Revelations in Pride and Prejudice." Persuasions 27 (2006).
• "'As she was not really Mrs. Croft': Playing the Admiral's Wife in Bath." Persuasions 26 (2005).
• "The Infant Christ as Inspiration to the Anglo-Saxons." Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, March 2003.
• "Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian Humanist and Nun." Canticle, 2000.
• "From Francesca to Francesco: Transcribing the Tale of Passion from the Inferno to the Paradiso, or Thomas Aquinas as Romancier." Religion and Literature 31.1 (1999).
• "Women Are Not Human": An Anonymous Treatise and Responses.  NY: Crossroad, 1998.
• John Donne's Conversion from Misogyny." English Renaissance Prose 6 (1997-98).