Dawn Keetley is Associate Professor of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies, and Director of the Graduate Program in English.  She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 1994, with fields in women's literature, feminist theory, and nineteenth-century American literature.

After spending several years writing about nineteenth-century U.S. women's autobiography (for Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and American Transcendental Quarterly), then about fictional accounts of murderous women (for Emerson Society Quarterly, American Quarterly, and REAL:  Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature), and finally about men's homicidal jealousy and envy (for Legacy, Early American Literature, Poe Studies, and the Journal of Social History), Keetley is now working on a book entitled Jesse Pomeroy and the Emergence of Modern Pathology in Nineteenth-Century Boston - a cultural history about the conditions that led a fourteen-year-old boy, convicted in 1874, to torture and murder several small children.

Publications:

Books
Public Women, Public Words:  A Documentary History of American Feminism, Vol. 11, 1900-1970 and Vol. 111, 1970-2000, Ed. Dawn Keetley and John Pettegrew (Lanham, Maryland; Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).

Public Women, Public Words:  A Documentary History of American Feminism, Vol. 1, Beginnings-1900, ed. Dawn Keetley and John Pettegrew (Madison: Madison House Publishers, Inc., 1997).

Articles

"Bodies and Morals:  Hawthorn's "The Birthmark" and Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things," Literature/Film Quarterly 38.1 (2010): 1-13.

"From Anger to Jealouse:  Explaining Domestic Homicide in Antebellum America," Journal of Social History, Winter 2008, 269-98.

"Pregnant Women and Envious Men in 'Morella,' 'Berenice,' 'Ligeia,' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher,'" Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism 38 (2004; date of actual publication of volume, 2007): 1-16.

"Homicidal Envy:  The Case of Richard Henry Dana, Sr.,'s Paul Felton," Early American Literature 41.2 (2006): 273-304.

"Mothers and Others:  The Turn of the Screw and Anxieties over Substitute Mothers," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching "Daisy Miller" and "The Turn of the Screw," ed. Pete Beidler and Kim Reed (New York: MLA, 2005): 143-50.

"'I done something wrong':  Rage and Self-Beratement in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find,'" forthcoming in "On the Subject of the Feminist Business": Re-Reading Flannery O'Conner, ed. Teresa Caruso (New York: Peter Lang, 2004): 74-93.

"A Husband's Jealousy:  Antebellum Murder Trials and Caroline Lee Hentz's Ernest Linwood," Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers 19 (2002): 26-34.

"'Something to make a story about':  Glaspell's 'A Jury of Her Peers' and Rethinking Literature's Lessons for the Law," REAL:  Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 (2002): 335-355.  A special issue on Law and Literature edited by Brook Thomas.

"The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health:  Mary Gove Nichol's Rewriting of a Diseased Concept of Spheres," in Revitalizing the Canon:  Separate Spheres No More, ed. Monika Elbert (Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 2000), 117-42.

"Victim and Victimizer:  Female Fiends and Unease over Marriage in Antebellum Sensation Fiction" American Quarterly 51 (1999):  344-84.

"Beautiful Poisoners:  Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter,' Hannah Kinney's 1840 Murder Trial, and the Problem of Criminal Responsibility," Emerson Society Quarterly 44 (1998):  125-159.

"Law and Order," in Prime Time Law:  Fictional Television as Legal Narrative, ed. Robert Jarvis and Paul Joseph (Durham:  Carolina Academia Press, 1998):  33-53.

"The Power of 'Personification':  Actress Anna Cora Mowatt and the Literature of Women's Public Performance in Antebellum America," American Transcendental Quarterly 10 (1996):  187-200.

"Racial Conviction, Racial Confusion:  Indeterminate Identities in Slave Narratives and Southern Courts" a/b:  Auto/Biography Studies 10 (1995):  1-20.

"Unsettling the Frontier:  Gender and Racial Identity in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow" and Forest Life" Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers 12 (1995):  17-37.