LINDA ARBAUGH KINNAHAN
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Office: College Hall 623
Telephone: 412-396-6440
Email: kinnahan@duq.edu

 

 

EDUCATION
B.A., James Madison University
M.A., James Madison University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Twentieth-Century American and British Poetry
Feminist Theory and Criticism

COURSES TAUGHT
Contemporary American and British Poetry and Theory
American Literature 1900-1945
American Modernism and the Visual Arts
Modernist Women Writers
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
19th Century American Poetry
Feminist Theory/Feminist Poetics

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse. University of Iowa Press, 2004.

Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

"Feminist Experimental Poetics in America and England." Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally. Ed. Romana Huk.  New Hampshire: Weslyan University Press, 2003.

"Reading Barbara Guest." The Scene of Our Selves: New Work on the New York School Poets. Eds. Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 2001.

"'Now I am Alien': Immigration and the Discourse of Nation in the Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy." Contemporary Women's Poetry: Reading/ Writing/ Practice. Eds. Alison Mark and Deryn Rees-Jones.  London: Macmillan, 2000.

"Experimental Poetics and the Lyric in British Women's Poetry: Geraldine Monk, Wendy Mulford, and Denise Riley." Contemporary Literature,1996.

"Look for the Doing Words: Carol Ann Duffy and Questions of Convention" in Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Criticism and Theory. Ed. Romana Huk. SUNY University Press, 1996.

"History and the Textual Process: 'To Discover Woman' in William Carlos Williams's Prose and Early Poetry." William Carlos Williams Review, Fall 1994.

" 'A Seizure of Power': Language Innovations and a Feminist Poetics in the Works of Kathleen Fraser." Contemporary Literature, 1992.

"Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams: Lines of Contact." William Carlos Williams Review, Fall 1990.

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