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Jeremy
D. Knapp
Program: English Ph.D.
Began program in 2003
Area of Study: American Literature to the 1850s, Religion and Literature
Office: 51 EPB
E-Mail: jeremy-knapp@uiowa.edu
After eleven years of homeschooling, I began my undergraduate work at Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky, graduating with a major in Philosophy and a major in English. I subsequently completed language studies at the CIEL in Strasbourg, France. Besides my professional interst in the American colonial period and the early nineteenth century, I also have an abiding fascination with Irish authors such as Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde. I have presented papers on Seamus Heaney and Iris Murdoch and C.S. Lewis, and I have written on Music and Literature, the philosophy of Beauty, and the poetry of Anne Bradstreet. For two years I worked as an assistant to William Kupersmith, editing the Philological Quarterly, and I now teach in the department of Rhetoric. Music occupies much of my time, whether by listening, singing, playing a piano, or otherwise making joyful noise. I currently study organ (and lots of Bach) with Brett Wolgast in the School of Music. The picture shows me above a cove on the western shore of Ireland.