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Deborah Knuth Klenck

Professor of English
English , 306 Lathrop Hall
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Degree

 AB Smith College 1974; PhD Yale University 1980

Teaching Experience

 A member of the Colgate English Department since 1978, teaching an array of English courses from Shakespeare to Restoration and Eighteenth Century to Survey of British Fiction and seminars on Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, and other authors, Professor Knuth Klenck has also taught in the Women's Studies Program, the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, and directed the honors program in English.

Specialities

 18th-century British literature, British fiction, women's studies, the drama and culture of London

Interests

 Jane Austen and British novelists of the early nineteenth century; Restoration and 18th century British literature and culture; British radio drama and popular culture

Publications

Selected Essays

"'You Must be a Great Comfort to Your Sister, Sir': Why Good Brothers Make Good Husbands," Persuasions: the Journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vol. 30, No. 1: Winter, 2009.

"Fun and Speculation: Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Predjudice As Revisions," Persuasions, Vol. 27, No. 1: Winter, 2005. 

"'Genial' Jacob Tonson," Introduction to the Catalogue of Jacob Tonson: England's First Modern Publisher, an exhibition at Case Library, 2000.

"'Lady Susan': A Bibliographical Study" in A Companion to Jane Austen Studies, ed. Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin (Greenwood Press, 2000). 

"Teaching Pope and Swift: Scriblerians in Context" in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century: Abstracts of Papers Given at the International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin (Voltaire Foundation, 1999.

"Friendship in Jane Austen's Juvenilia and Lady Susan" in Jane Austen's Beginnings, ed. J. David Grey (U.M.I. Research Press, 1989).

 "The Dunciad and Smart Students: Learning the Importance of Dunces" in Approaches to Teaching Alexander Pope, ed. Wallace Jackson and Paul Yoder (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993).

Other articles in Modern Language Studies, Persuasions, The Barbara Pym Newsletter, American Notes and Queries, and elsewhere. 

Selected Contributions to Reference Books

Entries in The Dictionary of British Literary Characters (Bruccoli-Clark-Layman, 1993). 

Revisions to C. High Holman and William Harmon, A Handbook to Literature (6th ed.: Macmillan, 1991).

Book Reviews

That Old Cape Magic (2009), by Richard Russo, reviewed  in America, The Jesuit Weekly, December 7. 2009. pp. 25-26.

Additional reviews in America, The Reader (Canada), and elsewhere.

Dissertation

 "The Dunciad and the Old Testament," Yale University George deF. Lord and Ronald Paulson, directors (DAI, 1981 May; 41 [11]:4721A)

Travel

 Professor Knuth Klenck has led six Colgate London Study Groups, as well as chairing the Committee on Off-Campus Study from 2001-05.

Professional Experience

Selected Conference Presentations

"Jane Austen's Brothers and Sisters in the City of Brotherly Love," Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), October, 2009.

"Epistles and Epistolary Jokes: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility," Annual General Meeting of JASNA, October, 2005.

"Running Wild and Talking about the Weather: Margaret in Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility,” for the panel “Imaging the Last Century: Film Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Novels,” at the annual Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, December, 1999.

Workshop on the Cultural Significance of Radio.  “Tales of the Village: The Georgic Pleasure of Listening to The Archers” an audio-illustrated talk at the annual MLA Convention, San Francisco, 1998.

"Friendship, Gossip, and 'Real Understanding' in Persuasion," for the Annual General Meeting of JASNA, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, October, 1993.

 

Distinctions

Colgate Alumni Corporation Board of Directors Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2004 

Executive Committee of the MLA Discussion Group on Media and Literature, 1999-2004 

Evaluation Panel, National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Awards 1992 

Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, Colgate University 1990

Elected member, M.L.A. Delegate Assembly 1985-87

Referee for submissions to Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in the Novel, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture