Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Keely E. McCarthy, Ph.D.

Keely McCarthy is an Associate 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.