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Kevin Killeen is a Thomas Browne champion having written extensively about Browne and published the Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne
Biography
Kevin Killeen received his PhD. from Birkbeck, University of London and, before coming to York, he lectured at Birkbeck and the University of Leeds. He has research interests in early-modern science and intellectual history, poetics and rhetoric, and in the uses of the Bible in the seventeenth century. He is currently working on a study of the unknowable and the apophatic in early modern thought. Kevin came to York with a Leverhulme fellowship, out of which emerged The Political Bible in Early Modern England (2017), which looks at the cultural uses of the biblical kings and the Old Testament in the Renaissance, and the ways in which it was used as a vibrant and combative political language. Earlier work addressed the religious, philosophical and political landscape of mid-century England, centred on the writings of Thomas Browne, a scholar and scientist with a bewildering range of interests that come together in his encyclopaedia of error, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). Kevin is currently editing this as a two-volume work for Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne and his first monograph was on Browne’s place in early modern intellectual culture. More recently, he has written on seventeenth-century poetry, including essays on Anne Southwell, Anna Trapnel, Phineas Fletcher and John Donne. He is the organiser of the Thomas Browne Seminar, an annual symposium which examines the seventeenth-century history of science and scholarship, religious and antiquarian thought, natural history and the history of trivia. Previous meetings have been held at Birkbeck and Leeds. He has organised conferences on Poetics and Prose theory, on Time in Early Modern thought, Technology and Invention in the seventeenth century, Biblical Exegesis and a large scale event on The Bible in the Seventeenth Century. He is on the council of the Society for Renaissance Studies and is the editor of the Society’s journal, Renaissance Studies. Taken from York University website www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/kevin-killeen/ |
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