Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of English

English and American Literature

Expertise

Romanticism. Literature and philosophy. Eighteenth-century literature.

Profile

Professor Quinney teaches and studies British literature, especially poetry, of the late-eighteenth century and Romantic periods. She is currently working on the representation of the inner life in the poetry and philosophy of this era.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, Newhouse Humanities Center, Wellesley College (2009)

Cornell Society of the Humanities (1986 - 1999)

Harvard Society of Fellows (1986 - 1999)

Martin Sampson Teaching Award (1985)

Courses Taught

ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	125a	Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge
ENG	125b	Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
ENG	148b	Me, Myself, and I: The Theme of Self-Conflict
ENG	180a	The Modern American Short Story
ENG	215b	Blake and Shelley
ENG	228b	Literature and Hersey
HUM	10a	The Western Canon
USEM	88a	Confessions and Meditations

Scholarship

Quinney, Laura. "Romanticism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism." Blackwell's Companion to British Romanticism. Ed. Charles Mahoney. London: Blackwell's, 2010 (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "Elizabeth Bishop." New Literary History of America. Ed. Greil Marcus, Werner Sollers, and Lindsay Waters. Cambridge: Harvard, 2009 (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. William Blake on Self and Soul. first ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. (forthcoming)

Quinney,Laura. "Ashbery the Neoplatonist." Something Understood. Ed. Nick Halpern and Stephen Burt. Charlottesville, VA: U Virginia Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "A House on Fire in Sunlight (The Poetry of Jack Gilbert)." Southwest Review (2008).

Quinney, Laura. "An Interview with Harold Bloom." Romantic Praxis (2007): <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/bloom_hartman/bloom/bloom.html>.

Quinney, Laura. "Escape From Repetition: Blake versus Locke and Wordsworth." Ritual, Routine, and Regime. Ed. Lorna Clymer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 63-79.

Quinney, Laura. "Swerving Neoplatonists." The Wordsworth Circle 37. 1 (2007): 31-38.

Quinney, Laura. "Escape from Reptition." Repetition, Ritual, Regime. Ed. Lorna Clymer. University of Toronto, 2005

Quinney,Laura. Essay on Louise Gluck. London Review of Books, 2005.

Quinney,Laura. The Poetics of Disappointment. University of Virginia Press, 1999.

Quinney,Laura. Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth. University of Florida Presses, 1995.