University Fellow, French Studies

Contact Details

• Email: rvk2@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2693
• Subject: French

Research Summary

Dr Kenny's research has focused mainly on French poetry and drama. He has written extensively on early twentieth-century French poetry. More recently he has published articles on Molière and the importance of music in the comédies-ballets, and aspects of the early eighteenth-century Théâtre de la Foire. He is currently writing a full-length study on travelling theatre companies in the French provinces and abroad in the early eighteenth century.

Recent Publications

Contribution to main entry on France, culture and Society 1890-1939 in the new Greenwood Encyclopaedia of Literary Modernism.

'Images of Le Sauvage and La Nouvelle France in the theatre world of early eighteenth-century France' in Focus on Quebec 2.

Further essays on Québecois Society and Culture (Edinburgh 2000)