Marlene McKinley, Professor
Marlene M. McKinley
ProfessorDepartment of English
Suffolk University
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114-4280
Office: Fenton 226
Phone: ( 617) 573-8629
E-mail: mmmckinleym@yahoo.com
Degrees Held
Ph.D. University of Chicago
B.A. Carnegie-Mellon University
Employment
At Suffolk University since 1980
Research Iterests
Medieval Studies
Dr. McKinley has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a fellowship from the English Speaking Union, a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Sears-Roebuck Foundation and the Foundation for Independent Higher Educational Teaching Excellence Award.
She held the position of Eastern Regent of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, and has held the position of Faculty Sponsor of Suffolk University’s Eta Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta for the past 20 years.
In addition to presenting a number of readings, lectures, and papers in the United States and at international conferences in Canada, England, Germany, and Australia, as well as providing several readings and interviews on WDUR Radio in Cologne, Germany, and on ABC National Radio of Australia, her scholarly works are published in American, Australian, and German literary journals and in The Twentieth Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature, ed. Kath Filmer, published by Macmillan Press, London.
Dr. McKinley’s creative works, many of which she wrote for her husband’s music, include those for chamber ensemble and voice(s) and for orchestra and voice(s), one of which (Nostradamus) she narrates and has performed in both Boston and New York City.
The McKinleys’ latest collaborative effort is a one act opera, Blind Tom, which will be premiered by the New Jersey Opera Guild in 2007, with subsequent performances scheduled in New York City and in Boston, 2008.
The McKinleys’ Four Text Settings has been released by Koch Recordings; other works will be released in 2007 and 2008 by MMC Recordings.
Courses Taught
ENG 103 Advanced Freshman English
ENG 213 English Literature I
ENG 214 English Literature II
ENG 215 American Literature
ENG 311 Medieval Literature Survey
ENG 334 Seventeenth Century Literature
ENG 373 British Literature of the 1930s
ENG 399 Irish Literature