Kevin Binfield

Education

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska

Books

• Binfield, Kevin and William Christmas, eds. Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New York: Modern Language Association, 2018.
• Binfield, Kevin. Writings of the Luddites. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004, 2015.

Highlighted Publications

• “Orphanhoods and Bereavements in the Life and Verse of Charlotte Smith Richardson (1775-1825).”  Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin.  Eds. Laura Peters and Diane Warren.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 33-55.
• “Life Study in and beyond Mary Peach Collier’s Poetic Effusions.”  Teaching Laboring-Class British Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.  Eds. Kevin Binfield and William Christmas.  New York: Modern Language Association, 2018. 227-35. 

Courses Taught

• ENG 600 Research and Bibliography
• ENG 620 Life-Writing
• ENG 655 Romantic Literature
• ENG 657 Victorian Literature
• ENG 955 Seminar in English Literacy

Areas of Specialization

• British Romanticism
• 18th- and 19th-Century British Women's Literature
• Laboring-Class Writing
• Textual Scholarship

Awards and Distinctions

• Stephen B. White Award for Shared Governance (Murray State University)
• Board of Regents Award for Teaching Excellence (Murray State University)
• Presidential Research Fellowship (Murray State University)
• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Award
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend

Leadership and Service

• Director, Graduate Studies in English