Kelly Duquette

Kelly Duquette's research focuses on pre-modern race studies, the environmental humanities, and disability. Her dissertation, War Pastoral: Martial Eco-spaces in Early Modern Literature reconceptualizes the pastoral – typically understood as a genre that depicts the simplicity of rural life – as a genre of war literature, one that contends with the extractive environmental practices that colonial war brings about. Prior to teaching at Georgia Tech, she was a Dean's Teaching Fellow at Emory's Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, where her research focused on Indigenous Pedagogies. Duquette received her M.A. in Irish Literature at Boston College, where she studied 17th-18th century Irish drama and served as an Academic Technology Consultant at the Center for Teaching Excellence. She is a 2010 Teach For America Miami corps member. Duquette has published scholarship in the journal Shakespeare and the edited volume, Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance (forthcoming, October 2023). She received her Ph.D. in English from Emory University in May 2023.