L. Brown Kennedy

Biography
L. Brown Kennedy, broadly trained (at Duke and Cornell) in English literature, has special interests in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture (Shakespeare, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Milton, Renaissance and Reformation cultural history, theology and historiography). Additional teaching and research interests include: the literature and culture of the Southern US; women's writing and the representation of gender; the representation of childhood and children's literature; and Irish literature and culture. She is currently engaged in a study of Virginia Woolf as a reader of Shakespeare.