Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of English

English

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

Honorary Chair Professor, National Taipei University of Technology. "In recognition of outstanding acheivement in the discipline of Literature." (2012)

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

COML/ENG	141b	Literature and Time
ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	10b	Poetry: A Basic Course
ENG	45b	Romanticism: Gods, Nature, Loneliness, Dreams
ENG	55b	Romanticism and the Supernatural
ENG	65b	The Last Romantics: Themes of Modern Poetry
ENG	108a	Literature and Heresy
ENG	125a	Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge
ENG	148b	Me, Myself, and I: The Theme of Self-Conflict
ENG	157a	Contemporary Poetry
ENG	161b	The Death and Life of the Subject
ENG	165b	Victorian Poetry and Its Readers
ENG	180a	The Modern American Short Story
ENG	225a	Romantic Poetry
FYS	44a	JustBooks: Tragedy, Right vs. Right?
HUM	10a	The Western Canon
USEM	88a	Confessions and Meditations

Scholarship

Quinney, Laura. "Shelley's Dante." The Wordsworth Circle (2013). (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "William Blake and His Contemporaries." The Blackwell Companion to English Literature. Ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr.. London: Blackwell, 2013 (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "'Subjectivity Is Truth': Blake and Kierkegaard". Proc. of Romantisme et Philosophie. Université de Lille: 2012. (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience." by Anne-Lise Francois. The Wordsworth Circle vol. Spring 2011

Quinney, Laura. "Response to Nelson Hinton's review of William Blake on Self and Soul." The Wordsworth Circle spring 2011. (2011).

Quinney, Laura. "Romanticism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism." Blackwell's Companion to British Romanticism. Ed. Charles Mahoney. London: Blackwell's, 2011. 412-24.

Quinney, Laura. "William Blake." The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement. 2011.

Quinney, Laura. William Blake on Self and Soul. first ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Quinney, Laura. "Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems." New Literary History of America. Ed. Greil Marcus, Werner Sollers, and Lindsay Waters. Cambridge: Harvard, 2009. 953-7.

Quinney,Laura. "Ashbery the Neoplatonist." Something Understood. Ed. Nick Halpern and Stephen Burt. Charlottesville, VA: U Virginia Press, 2009. 291-301.

Quinney, Laura. "A House on Fire in Sunlight (The Poetry of Jack Gilbert)." Southwest Review 93. 4 (2008): 572-82.

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 Repetition." 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.