Name: Kelly Richardson
Title: Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies in English
Education: Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
M.A., English, Winthrop University
B.A., English, Winthrop University
Office: 232 Bancroft Hall
Phone: 803/323-4644
E-mail: richardsonk@winthrop.edu
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Area(s): American Literature to 1900, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Composition
and Pedagogy
Dr. Richardson received both her B.A. and M.A. from Winthrop University before completing her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her specializations include 19th-century and 20th-century American Literature, and she has taught a number of courses in these areas such as American Romanticism, American Realism and Naturalism, The 19th-Century American Novel, The 20th-Century American Novel, and 19th-Century American Women Writers. Richardson also has specializations in composition and pedagogy, and she served twice as Director of Composition. In 2022, she was awarded The James Pinckney Kinard and Lee Wicker Kinard Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Publications include contributions to Herman Melville in Context and Mark Twain in Context. Her current research generally explores the influence of place and setting on narrative constructions. For example, she has developed courses focused on “Literature and the Sea” as part of her interest in Herman Melville and the field of blue humanities. Most recently, she has expanded her focus on setting to include the mill history of the local region. Richardson was recently named the Margaret M. Bryant Endowed Professor in English, and she is currently serving as the Director of Graduate Studies in English.