Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Keely McCarthy is a Professor of English and coordinator of the Writing Program at Chestnut Hill College. Dr. McCarthy teaches courses in the first-year writing and liberal arts program. Her research, published in Early American Literature, and 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era and elsewhere, focus on Native American and English cultural encounters in colonial America.

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

  • Foundations in the Liberal Arts
  • College Writing: ENGL 101
  • Early American Literature: ENGL 264
  • Early American Topics
  • 18th Century British Literature: ENGL 225

Scholarly Interests

  • Writing Pedagogy
  • Early American Literature and Native American Literature
  • 18th Century British Literature

Publications

  • “The Problem of Cultural Reproduction in Gulliver’s Travels.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Vol. 19 (2012).
  • “’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.