Faculty Profile

Dr. Mary Ann O'Donnell Professor of English Dean of the School of Arts

Education:

• A.B., College of Mount Saint Vincent
• M.S., Columbia University School of Library Service
• M.A., Manhattan College
• Ph.D., Fordham University

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Author of Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (2nd ed., Ashgate, 2004; 1st ed., Garland, 1986) and various articles and reviews on Behn, including articles in Janet Todd's collection, Aphra Behn Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and Todd and Hughes's Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Co-editor of Aphra Behn: Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity (L'Harmattan, 2000) and Aphra Behn: Transgression, Tradition, Innovation (Bilingue GA, 2005). Also works on seventeenth-century poetical miscellanies in manuscript, especially Bodleian MS Firth c. 16 (Aphra Behn's commonplace book).

Current research focuses on the literary connections of the Alice, Countess Dowager of Derby, and of the Hastings family, the Earls of Huntingdon, in the seventeenth century.  Author of entries in the revised DNB on two of Alice's daughters, Frances Stanley Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, and her sister Anne Stanley Brydges, Countess of Castlehaven.

Co-founding editor of Literary Research Newsletter; former bibliographer for the Modern Language Association.

Has been awarded grants by NEH, ASECS, the Huntington Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, and the Newberry Library.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 110: College Writing
• ENGL 284: Myth and Fairy Tale
• ENGL 309: British Literature: Beowulf to 1674
• ENGL 337: Literature by Women
• LLRN 204: Roots of the Modern Age: Literature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7346
• Office: Miguel 210
• Fax: (718) 862-8016
• e-mail: maryann.odonnell@manhattan.edu

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