Dr. Claudia Thomas Kairoff
Professor Of English
Contact
Office: C215 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5375
Email: kairofct@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Brandeis
MA University of Virginia
BA College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Areas of Interest
- 18th-Century Poetry
- Pope
- 18th-Century Women Writers
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 160 Introduction to British Literature
ENG 165 Studies in British Literature
ENG 300 Seminar in the Major
ENG 330 Restoration & Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENG 336 Restoration & Eighteenth-Century British Drama
ENG 737 Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry
HON 131 Approaches to Human Experience
Selected Publications
Anna Seward and the End of the Eighteenth Century, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, January 2012.
"Anna Seward and the Sonnet: Milton's Champion," Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 1 (March 2011).More Solid Learning": New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad, with Catherine Ingrassia, eds. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000)
Alexander Pope and His Eighteenth Century Women Readers, Southern Illinois University Press, 1994.
“Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney,” A Companion to Satire from the Biblical World to the Present, ed. Reuben Quintero (Blackwell, 2007), 276-92.
"Living on the Margin: Alexander Pope and the Rural Ideal," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 38 (Spring 2005), 15-38.
“Classical and Biblical Models: The Female Poetic Tradition,” Women and Poetry, 1660-1750, eds. Sarah Prescott and David E. Shuttleton ( Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 183-202.
Additional Resources
Curriculum Vitae: Word Version or PDF version