The University of St. Thomas

College of Arts & Sciences | Department of English

Raymond MacKenzie

Raymond MacKenzie

Raymond MacKenzie

Professor of English/Director of Renaissance Program Minor

rnmackenzie@stthomas.edu
Phone: (651) 962-5693

Office Location: JRC 323
Office Hours: (Spring 2012):

Courses taught in Spring 2012
GENG 522-01
22142		 The English Renaissance 1800-2100 T JRC 414

3 Credit Hours

The study of English drama, poetry, and prose of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in relationship to the major themes and developments of the Continental Renaissance. Potential authors studied include Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare. This course satisfies the pre-1800 British Literature distribution requirement.
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20613		 Renaissance Program Intern --- TBD

0 Credit Hours

Participants in the Renaissance Program complete one internship in a career-related field. Students are encouraged to be creative and to search for inventive ways of implementing a plan of practical work experience. A variety of options and opportunities is available through the Career Center.
Courses taught in Fall 2012
ENGL 362-01
42475		 Milton & 17th Cent Brit Lit 1330-1510 T R TBD

4 Credit Hours

This course offers an intensive focus on the literature and culture of the British seventeenth century. Such authors as Donne, Lanyer, Wroth and Herbert will provide a context for reading Milton's Paradise Lost. Critical approaches and issues will also be studied. Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112 or 190
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40270		 Renaissance Program Intern --- TBD

0 Credit Hours

Participants in the Renaissance Program complete one internship in a career-related field. Students are encouraged to be creative and to search for inventive ways of implementing a plan of practical work experience. A variety of options and opportunities is available through the Career Center.
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40933		 Renaissance Program Studies 1525-1700 M W TBD

4 Credit Hours

In accord with the Renaissance Program's commitment to foster the integration of theoretical and pra ctical learning, the design of this course is to promote the investigation of some theme or problem having a particularly interdisciplinary focus. This course will rely upon concepts and models stemming from both theoretical and practical sources in an attempt to further integrate aspects of these distinct branches of higher learning. Among the types of issues or topics that could fall within the scope of this course are: the meaning and value of work; the nature and place of technology; the relationship of individual to community; views of self - as worker and theoretician; models and parameters of authority.

Academic History

M.A., Ph.D., Kansas State University
B.A., Concordia College (Moorhead)
At St. Thomas since 1989

Expertise/Specialties

Milton
19th- and 20th-century British Literature
Literary Criticism
Modern French Literature

Selected Publications

Germinal, by Emila Zola [translation and notes] (Hackett, 2011).

Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert [translation, introduction, and notes] (Hackett, 2009).

“Rethinking Rhyme, Signifying Friendship:  Milton’s Lycidas and Epitaphium Damonis,” Modern Philology 106: 3, 2009.

Paris Spleen and La Fanfarlo, by Charles Baudelaire [translation, introduction, and notes] (Hackett, 2008).

“A Lock of Christina Rossetti’s Hair,” Connecticut Review 29: 1, 2007.

Thérèse Desqueyroux, by François Mauriac [translation, introduction, and notes] (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
                                               
"Mauriac's Viper's Tangle and A Woman of the Pharisees," in Mary Reichardt, ed., A Companion to Catholic Literature (Greenwood Press, 2004).

"Lady Cynthia Asquith," "Edmund Curll," "George Gilfillan," "Sir Allen Lane," "Viola Meynell," "Jacob Tonson," "William Wilson" in New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

God and Mammon and What Was Lost, by François Mauriac [translation, introduction, and notes] (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).

Viola Meynell, 1885-1956:  A Critical Biography (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).

"Alice Meynell," in M. Reichardt, ed., Catholic Women Writers (NY:  Greenwood Press, 2001).

"Language, Self, and Business Ethics," The Journal of Markets and Morality, vol. 3, 1, 2000.

"Lady Cynthia Asquith," "Catherine Carswell," "Ivy Litvinov," and "Viola Meynell" in Paul and June Schlueter, eds., Encyclopedia of British Women Writers (Rutgers University Press, 1999).

"Edwin Muir" in George M. Johnson, ed., British Novelists between the Wars (Sumter, SC:  Bruccoli Clark Layman), 1998.