Dr Kenneth Chong

BA, MA University of New South Wales, MA PhD Princeton University

Kenneth Chong is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800).

Kenneth works primarily on medieval literature and intellectual history. His research interests include medieval (and modern) theology and philosophy, scholastic thought, Middle English, and monasticism. He has published in Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Bunyan Studies, and 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, and writes reviews for Books & Culture. Currently, he is preparing scholarly articles on Pearl, Piers Plowman, and Anselm's Monologion, as well as working on a book manuscript about the rewriting of scholastic theology in the vernacular. His project at CHE examines the theological passions from roughly the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.

Research

The Theological Passions, 1100-1500.

Publications:

• “Trees of Knowledge,” Books & Culture, March/April 2015, 33-34.
• “Faith and Reason: Warning the Reader in The Pilgrim’s Progress,” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (15: 2008), 37-61.
• “Enchanting the Reader in The Pilgrim’s Progress,” Bunyan Studies (12: 2006/2007), 70-87.
• “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Self-Chastisement in Donne’s ‘If poysonous minerals,’” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (29.4: 2005), 41-56.