Rachel R. Kelley PhD Student - Literature

Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Religion, Women Writers, and Transatlantic Poetics  

Education

M.A., English – Henderson State University 

B.A., English – Henderson State University

Conference Presentations

"Feel, Fair Creature of an Hour: The Petrarchan Pursuit of Time in Keats's Sonnets" The Annual John Keats Conference. Hampstead, London, UK, May 2024.  

"She Who Paints Sorrow Best: Charlotte Smith's Petrarchan Envy" British Women Writers Conference. Sioux Falls, SD, May 2025. 

"Death Becomes Him: Reexamining Sigourney's 'Death of an Infant'" Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 2025.