Assistant Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara

James Kearney is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and taught at Yale University from 2002 to 2006. His research interests include early modern drama, poetry, and prose; Reformation and Counter-Reformation thought; colonial discourse and postcolonial theory; and the history of the book. He has published articles on Shakespeare and Spenser and is currently completing a book project entitled The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England, an exploration of the central role that the material book played in the cultural imagination of Reformation England. The manuscript investigates early modern controversies concerning materiality from the relic and the sacrament to the trinket and the fetish in order to trace a partial history of the book within the crisis of representation brought about by the Reformation. Professor Kearney is affiliated with the Early Modern Center, the Renaissance Studies Program, and the Transcriptions Project at UCSB.

 Links:      UC Santa Barbara English Department | Early Modern Center | Renaissance Studies Program | Transcriptions Project