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Catherine McKenna

cmckenna@fas.harvard.edu

Department Chair 2008--; Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures, 2005–. PhD, Harvard University, 1976. Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York, 1976-2005; Director, Queens College, CUNY, Irish Studies Program, 1984-97; Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Graduate Center, CUNY, 1986-2005; Coordinator, Medieval Studies Certificate Program, Graduate Center, CUNY, 1990-2005; Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, 1996-2005. Author of The Medieval Welsh Religious Lyric (Belmont, 1991). Editor of Gwaith Llywelyn Fardd and Gwaith Llywelyn Fardd II, on the religious poetry of Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch, and the Marwysgafn Bleddyn Fardd, for Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion, ed. R. Geraint Gruffydd, vols. II, VI, and VII (Cardiff, 1994-96). Author of articles on medieval Welsh narrative prose and bardic poetry and on the hagiography of St. Brigit of Kildare. She is writing a study of representations of St. Brigit from the 7th through the 21st century and preparing an English-language version of the Cyfres Beirdd y Tywysogion.