Theresa Kemp
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Theresa D. Kemp (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1994) joined UWEC’s English Department in 1999, and currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. In addition to courses on writing and research methods, she teaches Shakespeare (early modern and post-colonial revisions), medieval and early modern British literature, women's literature (early modern and contemporary), women’s studies and feminist theory, and British/US representations of witchcraft.
Since 1993, Dr. Kemp has been a member of the Editorial Collective for Feminist Teacher ( University of Illinois Press), and helped co-edit The Feminist Teacher Anthology:Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies (Teachers College Press, 1998).
She has been the recipient of several university as well as state and national awards, including a Newberry Library fellowship, a Wisconsin Humanities Council grant, and a NEH faculty grant to the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Selected scholarly articles and reviews by her include the following:
“‘Here must a beheading go before’: The Androgynist Theosophy of Jane Lead.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 34.3 (2005): 251-75. [ Click here for a table of contents. Full text is on Wilson only]
“Learning to Curse: Teaching Postcolonial Shakespeare(s) to Undergraduates.” Shakespeare and the Classroom 11.1 (2003): 7-20.
Rev. of Theodora A. Jankowski’s Pure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama ( Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2000), Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 31.2 (2002): 203-209. [Available through Wilson]
“Burned by the Home Fires.” Rev. of Catherine Belsey’s Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern England (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999), Review 24 (2002): 135-44.
“The Knight of the Tower and the Queen in Sanctuary: Elizabeth Woodville’s Use of Meaningful Silence and Absence.” New Medieval Literatures 4 (2001): 171-88. Essay was selected as the June 2002 “Article of the Month” by Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index ( Haverford University).
“‘The Lingua Materna and the Conflict Over Vernacular Religious Discourse in Fifteenth-Century England.” Philological Quarterly 78 (1999): 233-57 . [Available through Wilson]
“Translating (Anne) Askew: The Textual Remains of a Sixteenth-Century Heretic/Saint.” Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 1021-45. [available through JSTOR]
“Introduction” to Miscelanea, Meditations, and Memoratives by Elizabeth Grymeston. Renaissance Women Online. (Providence: Brown University, 1999). Online.
“Introduction” to A Mothers Counsell, or Live Within Compass by M.R. Renaissance Women Online (Providence: Brown University, 1999). Online.
The Feminist Teacher Anthology: Pedagogies and Classroom Strategies, co-editor and co-author of “Collectively Speaking,” an introduction to the volume. (New York: Teachers College Press, 1998). 1-10.
Rev. of Paula Blank’s Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings (London: Routledge, 1996), Sixteenth Century Studies 28 (1997): 635-37.
“‘The Family is a Little Commonwealth’: Teaching Mariam and Othello in a Special Topics Course on ‘Domestic England,’” Shakespeare Quarterly 47 (1996): 451-60.
