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Dr. Katherine Quinsey is a Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor. She holds a B.A. from Trent University and a Ph.D. from the University of London. Her research focuses on early modern literature, especially Restoration and Eighteenth Century works, with significant emphasis on print culture, gender/spirituality intersections, religion, ecology, and animal rights movements.
Dr. Quinsey has authored/co-edited influential works such as Broken Boundaries: Women and Feminism in Restoration Drama (1996) and Under the Veil: Feminism and Spirituality in Post-Reformation Britain and Europe (2012). Her recent scholarship explores Pope’s religious sensibility and environmentalism, culminating in Animals and Humans: Sensibility and Representation 1650-1820 (2017). Her current projects include two books on Pope addressing religious themes and environmental ethics.
Her publications demonstrate a sustained engagement with interdisciplinary topics such as early modern animal studies, feminist reinterpretations of religious texts, and the intersection of literary aesthetics with ecological thought. Recent work (2023) explores Christian environmental ethics and early modern theological frameworks for nonhuman agency.
Her contributions include over 40 peer-reviewed articles and edited volumes, with notable coverage of Anne Finch, Margaret Avison, and Edward Sherburne. She has held editorial roles including for Canadian Poetry and Lumen: Selected Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
