Laura Quinney

Professor of English

Departments/Programs

Comparative Literature
English
European Cultural Studies

Degrees

Cornell University, Ph.D.
Cornell University, M.A.
Yale University, B.A.

Expertise

Romanticism. Poetry. Literature and Philosophy: subjectivity and self-conflict.

Profile

Professor Quinney teaches Romanticism, poetry and poetics, and philosophical approaches to literature. She has published several scholarly books - Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth (UP Florida, 1995), The Poetics of Disappointment (UP Virginia, 1999) and William Blake on Self and Soul (Harvard, 2010) - as well as two books of poetry, Corridor and New Ghosts (Borderland Books, 2008 and 2016). She is currently writing a book manuscript on the subject of "self-haunting." Webpage

Courses Taught

COML	132b	Poetry and Philosophy
COML/ENG	141b	Literature and Time
COML/ENG	149a	Dante's Hell and Its Legacy
ENG	10b	Poetry: A Basic Course
ENG	108a	Literature and Heresy
ENG	145a	Poetry and the Supernatural
ENG	148b	Me, Myself, and I: The Theme of Self-Conflict
ENG	156a	The Modern Prometheus
ENG	220a	Poetry and Philosophy
HUM	10a	The Western Canon
HUM/UWS	4a	Epic Literature

Awards and Honors

Brandeis Senior Faculty Research Leave (2016 - 2017)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Facultly Research and Creative Projects (2016 - 2017)

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 - 2010)

Cornell Society of the Humanities (1986 - 1999)

Harvard Society of Fellows (1986 - 1999)

Martin Sampson Teaching Award (1985)

Scholarship

Quinney, Laura. ""Dickinson's Poise"." The Wordsworth Circle (2021). (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. ""Dickinson's Poise"." The Wordsworth Circle (2021). (forthcoming)

Quinney, Laura. "Heaps of Time in Beckett and Shelley." Romanticism and Time. Ed. Celine Sabiron and Sophie Lanier- Musitelli. Open Book, 2021

Quinney, Laura. ""A Raking Angle" (poem)." Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2020).

Quinney, Laura. ""The First Years" (poem)." Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (2020).

Quinney, Laura. "Karen Swann’s Lives of the Dead Poets." European Romantic Review 2020

Quinney, Laura. "Review of Alexander Regier, Exorbitant Enlightenment: Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations." Review of English Studies December 2019

Quinney, Laura. ""The Bewilderment of the Self in Beckett and the Romantics"." European Romantic Review 30. 3 (2019): 323-330.

Quinney, Laura. "Mysticism." Blake in Context. Ed. Sarah Haggarty. Cambridge University Press, 2019

Quinney, Laura. "The Anxiety of the Self and the Exile of the Soul in Wordsworth and Blake." Theories of the Self in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. John Baker and Marion LeClair. Manchester University Press, 2018

Laura Quinney. "Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowledge." Self-Knowledge (Oxford Philosophical Concepts). Ed. Ursula Renz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016

Quinney, Laura. New Ghosts. (Poems). Madison: Borderland Books, 2016.

Quinney, Laura. ""'Subjectivity and Despair in Blake and Kierkegaard"." Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature. Ed. Thomas Constantinesco and Sophie Mustitelli. Routledge, 2015

Quinney, Laura. "Laura Quinney on Merwin." Los Angeles Review of Books (2015)

Quinney, Laura. "William Blake and His Contemporaries." The Blackwell Companion to English Literature. vol. 3: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature 1660-1837. Ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., et al.. London: Blackwell, 2014

Imagination, Parts 1 and 2. Speaker Quinney, Laura. Canadian Broadcasting Company, 2013.

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. 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. Essay on Paul Muldoon. 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.