Kathryn L. McKinley                                                                    

Associate Professor                                                                                             

Department of English DM 463C                                           

Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199

mckinley@fiu.edu
305 348 2229
                                                                                                                         

Degrees

Pennsylvania State University, B. Phil.
University of Toronto, M. A., Classics

University of Delaware, Ph. D., English

                                                                                      

 

                      

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Interests

        Anglo-Saxon and later medieval British literature and culture; Chaucer; Gower; medieval Latin; medieval constructions of

        classical antiquity; negotiations between religious and literary cultures in the later Middle Ages; medieval historicisms.

 Books

Reading the Ovidian Heroine: “Metamorphoses” Commentaries 1100-1618.  Leiden/Boston, 2001.

 

Articles

“Lessons for a King from Confessio Amantis 5.”  In Metamorphosis: the Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Alison Keith.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 302-34. 

“Manuscripts of Ovid in England 1100-1500.”  English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700  7 (1998): 41-85. 

"The Clerk's Tale: Hagiography and the Problematics of Lay Sanctity." The Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 92-111.

Ilias Latina: the Latin Homer.”  Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature 22 (1997):3-61.  Translation of the first-century Latin version of Homer’s Iliad popular in medieval school anthologies.

“The Silenced Knight: Questions of Power and Reciprocity in the Wife of Bath’s Tale.”  The Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 40-59.

“Kingship and the Body Politic: Classical Ecphrasis and Confessio Amantis VII.”  Mediaevalia 21 (1996): 167-93.

“The Medieval Commentary Tradition 1100-1500 on Metamorphoses 10.” Viator 27 (1996): 117-49.

"The Roman de la rose: Psychological Interiority in Medieval Allegory."  Analecta Husserliana 41 (1994):93-105.

"Chaucer's Flexippe." English Language Notes 30.2 (1992):1-4.   

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