UNC Greensboro|Directory|Jennifer Keith

Jennifer Keith

Professor, Department of English

English

Email Address: jmkeith@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.334.3282

Office

MHRA 3107

Education

Ph.D. Emory University
B.A., summa cum laude, Rollins College

Research Interests

Dr. Keith specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, with particular concentrations in poetry, women’s writing, textual editing, and manuscript studies. Her research for the two-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea has informed her monograph-in-progress—The Arts of Exile: Anne Finch’s Poetic and Political Designs. Among the graduate seminars Dr. Keith has taught, she has recently offered The Lyric, from the Early Modern to Romantic Eras and Early Women Novelists and Narrative Theory.

Selected Publications

    Later Collections, Print and Manuscript: Volume 2 of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

    Senior Editor, Jennifer Keith (with Claudia Thomas Kairoff).

    Early Manuscript Books: Volume 1 of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

    Senior Editor, Jennifer Keith (with Claudia Thomas Kairoff; assoc. ed. Jean I. Marsden).

    Poetry and the Feminine from Behn to Cowper. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.

    Pedagogy Special Issue: Teaching Anne Finch, Part 1. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830. Vol. 13, no. 2, 2023.

    Pedagogy Special Issue: Teaching Anne Finch, Part 2. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830. Vol. 14, no. 1, 2024.

    “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Anne Finch.” Studies in Philology 119.4 (2022): 729–755.

    “Anne Finch in the Twenty-First Century: Finding the Artist in History.” Literature Compass 2018;15:e12441; 1–11.

    “The Reach of Translation in the Works of Anne Finch.” Philological Quarterly 95 (2016): 467–93.

    “Lyric.” The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660–1800, ed. Jack Lynch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 579–95.

    “Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry.” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, fourth edition, ed. Roland Greene. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 420–22.

    “Anne Finch’s Aviary: or, Why She Never Wrote ‘The Bird and the Arras.’” Philological Quarterly 88 (2009): 77–102.

    “Alexander Pope.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, editor-in-chief, David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 4: 246–53.

    “Poetry, Sentiment, and Sensibility.” A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry, ed. Christine Gerrard. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 127–41.

    Selected Awards and Honors

    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship, 2020
    • Folger Institute Grant, 2014–15
    • Three-year NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant (Principal Investigator), 2010–13.
    • NEH/Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Fellowship (with Claudia Thomas Kairoff), 2010–11.
    • William Andrews Clark Short-Term Fellowship, UCLA (with Claudia Thomas Kairoff), 2010.
    • National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship, 2007–8.
    • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Women’s Caucus Editing and Translation Fellowship, 2005-6.
    • Linda Arnold Carlisle Award for Research Excellence in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2006.
    • College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, UNCG, 2005.
    • Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Summer Institutes in Literary Study, 2004.