Thomas Kealy
Professor Kealy joined the Colby-Sawyer College faculty in 2000 to teach world literature and writing. His scholarship and teaching focus on early modern representations of science and nature in literature, literary cultures of Islamic Spain, and environmental humanities.
Education
- Ph.D., M.A., English, University of Oregon
- M.Ed., Adult Education, University of Rhode Island
- B.A. Philosophy and English, Wesleyan University
- Escuela Oficial de Idiomas; Ministerio de Ciencias y Educación, Madrid
Recent Courses Taught
- Shakespeare and Race
- African American Literature
- Digital Humanities
- Heretical Science: Galileo and Bruno
- Renaissance Literature
- Sevilla 1492
- College Composition
Awards/Fellowships
- Jack Jensen Award for Excellence in Teaching, Colby-Sawyer College (2003)
- Opler Award for Excellence in Academic Advising, Colby-Sawyer College (2005, 2018)
- National Endowment for the Humanities “Spain and its Islamic Past” (Granada, Spain)
- Fulbright Fellowship (Madrid, Spain)
- Scholar-in-Residence at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain)
- Sasakawa Leaders Fellowship for International Research, Tokyo Foundation
- Outstanding Leadership and Service Award, University of Oregon
- Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Oregon
- Dissertation Research Award, University of Oregon Humanities Center
Recent Community Service
- New Hampshire Humanities Board of Directors (Resource Development Committee)
- Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors (Education Committee)
Recent Research
“Baroque Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Emblematic Poetry” for the panel “Pre- and Early Modern Ecologies” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 2017.
“Roma, Gypsies, and the Politics and Poetics of (Mis-)Representation.” Panel chair and respondent: “Representing the Margins: Romani Cultures in the European Imagination” Northeast Modern Language Association, Toronto, 2015.
“A New Digital Cartography of ‘Convivencia’: Sevilla 1492” for the panel “Medieval Literature: Digital Humanities” Modern Language Association, Chicago, 2014.
“The Margin as the Center: Practicing Identity in al-Andalus: A Response to Franco Moretti” for “E(x)amining the Map: A Comparative Experiment.” ACL(x)/E(x)amine Conference, American Comparative Literature Association. Pennsylvania State University, 2013.
“Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Nature of Desire” for “Courtly World and Ecocriticism.” Modern Language Association, Boston, 2013.