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Plymouth State University
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Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
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Tel: (800) FOR-GRAD or
(603) 535-2636
Fax: (603) 535-2572
Plymouth State University
MSC 11
17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Faculty
Karolyn Kinane
Graduate Adjunct Faculty, EnglishAssistant Professor, Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Office phone number: (603) 535-2402
e-mail: kkinane@plymouth.edu
Administrative contact: Mary Petz
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2746
Profile
Karolyn Kinane earned her PhD in English from the University of Minnesota and her BA in English from SUNY New Paltz. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College for two years and has been at Plymouth State University for three years where she teaches courses on Arthurian Legends, Shakespeare, Chaucer and Composition..
Degrees and Education
- PhD, English, University of Minnesota. Dissertation: "Sanctity Deferred: The Problem of Imitation in Early English Saints' Lives"
- BA, English, SUNY at New Paltz
Research Interests
Medieval and Early Modern England, particularly saints' lives, Arthuriana, pedagogy, medievalism, popular culture, Chaucer.Publications
Karolyn Kinane is the editor, with Michael Ryan, of "End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse" forthcoming from McFarland Press. She is also the author of "Antoine Fuqua and Jerry Bruckheimer's Multi-Culti King Arthur" in King Arthur: Transformations of the Matter of Britain on Film and Television edited by Michael Torregrossa, forthcoming from McFarland Press. Her article "Prayer and the Cross: Models for Imitation in Ælfric's Homily for Inventio S. Crucis" appears in The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England edited by Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer and Karen Louise Jolly (Boydell and Brewer, 2005). Dr. Kinane has also written bibliographic entries for the Facts on File series and Greenwood Press as well as reviews for The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures and The Journal of British Studies.Associations, Boards and Committees
Dr. Kinane is the director of Plymouth State's annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum and a contributing editor of The Once and Future Classroom, an online, peer-reviewed teaching journal for medieval studies in K-12. She currently serves on Plymouth State's Women's Studies Council, the Honors Council, and the Humanities Council.Professional Experience
She worked as writer and editor for a small weekly newspaper in Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow NY before pursuing her PhD.