Hampshire College

L. Brown Kennedy, broadly trained (at Duke and Cornell) in English literature, has special interests in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture (Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Milton, Renaissance and Reformation cultural history, theology and historiography).

Additional teaching and research interests include the literature and culture of the Southern U.S.; women's writing and the representation of gender; the representation of childhood and children's literature; and Irish literature and culture.

She is currently engaged in a study of Virginia Woolf as a reader of Shakespeare.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
CSI-0237/HACU-0237: Fictions of Childhood (Spring 2012)
CSI-0268/HACU-0268: Joyce & Lacan: An Introduction (Spring 2012)
HACU-0177: Ireland Imagined (Fall 2011)
HACU-0288: Shakespeare and Woolf (Fall 2011)