Department of English
JENNIFER KEITH
Title: Associate Head, Associate
Professor
E-Mail: jmkeith@uncg.edu
Phone: 334-4692
Office: 3322 MHRA
Jennifer Keith (Ph.D. Emory University) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early women writers, British poetry, and Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. Recent and upcoming graduate seminars include Satire: The Arts of Persuasion and Critique; Sex and Sensibility, 1660-1800; and William Blake and the Doors of Perception. In 2005 Keith was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.
Her research on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature focuses especially on how literary form interacts with authority, community, subjectivity, and gender. For 2007-2008 she received an NEH fellowship for her work on a critical edition of the poems of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Other awards for this project include the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship and the Linda Arnold Carlisle Award for Research Excellence in Women’s and Gender Studies. Keith has written numerous essays on poetry in the long eighteenth century. Her book on the category of the feminine as linchpin for authority and representation in eighteenth-century poetry—Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper—was published in 2005.