Prof. Kevin Killeen, Ph.D.

Kevin Killeen is Professor at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. His research interests focus on early modern science and intellectual history, poetics and rhetoric. His most recent book, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable (Stanford University Press, 2023), is a study of the apophatic and the theopoetics of early modern thought and considers how science, theology and literature were intermeshed during this era. It was the winner of the 2024 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, sponsored by the Sixteenth-Century Society & Conference (SCSC), as well as the winner of the John T. Shawcross Prize, awarded by the Milton Society of America. Kevin Killeen is one of the researchers in the AHRC-DFG-funded project ‘Scientific poetry and poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1580-1750)’.

Erin Murphy is at CAS upon the invitation of Dr. Nikolina Hatton (CAS Researcher in Residence/LMU) during the summer semester 2025.