McCarthy

Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English


Office Location:  St. Joseph Hall, Morton Wing, SJ13
Office Phone:  215.753.3627
E-Mail:  mccarthyk@chc.edu





Educational Background 

  • Ph.D.   University of Maryland, English Literature, 2000 
  • M.A.  University of Maryland, English Literature, 1995 
  • B.A.  University of Miami, English Literature, Honors in Women's Literature, 1992 

  

Courses Taught 

  • Writing (English 100 and 101)
  • Introduction to the Liberal Arts
  • Eighteenth-century British literature 
  • Early American literature

 

Scholarly Interests  

Writing, Rhetoric, Early American Literature, 18th Century British Literature and Native American Literature

  

Publications  

“The Problem of Cultural Reproduction in Gulliver’s Travels.1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, forthcoming  

“’A Sweet Union of Souls’ or dangerous conversions?  Jonathan Edwards’ missionary best-seller,” Journal of the Jonathan Edwards’ society, on-line journal, March 2011 

“Conversion, Identity, and the Indian Missionary,” reprinted in World Christianity, edited by Elizabeth Koepping.  Routledge, 2010. 

“’A Sweet Union of Souls’: The dangers of representing conversion in Jonathan Edwards’ biography of missionary David Brainerd,” Imaging the Other, 2008 

"Conversations, Identity, and the Indian Missionary." Early American Literature, 36:3, Nov. 2001 

 

 

Professional Activities 

Review Board, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 

CHC representative to Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators organization, 2004-present 

Member of WPA steering committee for national conference in Philadelphia in 2010, 2008-2010 

Reviewer for Oxford University Press 

 

Member:  

Council of Writing Program Administrators 

Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators 

Society of Early Americanists 

Modern Language Association