Kennedy

Alexandra Kennedy (she/her) is a PhD candidate currently at work on a dissertation that explores representations of virginity and subjectivity in English literature from 1590 to 1740. She has teaching experience in first-year composition, the History of Literatures in English I (from Beowulf to Jefferson), and Shakespeare. Her academic interests include gender and sexuality studies, women’s writing, the history of medicine, and manuscript studies. You can find a sample of her writing at The Recipes Project, in Manuscripts on My Mind, and forthcoming in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing. She has presented work on the representation of professional women in Restoration comedy at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference (2018), participated in the Folger Institute’s “Intersecting the Sexual: Modes of Early Modern Embodiment” Symposium (2019), and completed a Rare Book School-University of Virginia Fellowship (2019/20). She will give a paper on gender, performance, and Thomas Killigrew’s autograph revisions to The Parson’s Wedding at the upcoming “Points of Interest: Early Modern Punctuation, On and Off the Page” conference. Before beginning her studies at the University of Virginia, Alexandra received her MSt in English (1550-1700) from the University of Oxford, and her BA in English from Middlebury College.