Andrew McKendry
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APPOINTMENTS
- Associate Professor, Department of English, Section for Language and Literature, Faculty of Education and Arts, Nord University (2018-present)
- Canada Banting Fellow, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University (2016-2018)
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, English Department, Yale University (2014-2016)
- Lecturer, English Literature Department, Bilkent University (2014)
EDUCATION
- PhD, Queen's University, Canada (2013)
- MA, Queen's University, Canada (2008)
- BaH, Western University, Canada (2007)
PROFILE
Dr. Andrew McKendry is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of English and Leader of the Humanities, Education & Culture Research Group in the Faculty of Education & Arts at Nord University. He earned his PhD from Queen’s University (Canada) and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University (USA) and McMaster University (Canada). He is author of the book Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and he has published research on several major authors, among them John Bunyan, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Johnson, and Lord Byron. His current research focuses on the conceptual history of justice, in particular the religious underpinnings of modern ideas of merit and desert. At Nord University, Dr. McKendry teaches courses for the English One-Year Programs (3EN and 20ENG), the Bachelor of English Program (BAENG), the Master's Degree in Primary & Lower-Secondary Teacher Education (MAGLU), and the Senior Teacher (Lektor) Education in Social Sciences Master's Degree (LESAMF).
INSTRUCTION
Current
Dr. McKendry is course coordinator for Language & Literature in the English-speaking World, British Literature & Culture, and International English. Dr. McKendry also teaches the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century portions of a variety of English courses, plus units on academic research and writing. At the Master’s-level, he is responsible for a module on non-fiction prose.
Courses:
- ENG1017: Language and Literature in the English-speaking World
- ENG2026: British Literature & Culture
- ENG2028: Research & Academic Writing
- ENG5001/5004: Critical Reflections on Literature and Language in English Teaching Practices
- SP123L: International English
Previous
Dr. McKendry has taught a diverse range of courses on literature and on theory at institutions across four different countries. Offerings have included “Enlightenment and its Shadows” at McMaster University, “Crowds Multitudes and Mobs” at Yale University, “Introduction to Theory and Criticism” at Bilkent University, and “Authors in Context: Daniel Defoe” at Queen’s University, among several others.
He has also led workshops on academic writing and research for MA and PhD students as well as literature seminars for high school (VGS) students.
SUPERVISION
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Dr. McKendry is available to supervise undergraduate and graduate research in English through the following programmes:
- PED2002/2003, FOU1001: Research and Development Project - FoU (MAGLU)
- ENG5003/5006/5011: Master's Thesis in English (MAGLU)
- PhD in Professional Sciences (DRGPR)
Dr. McKendry serves as a practicum supervisor for students on placement for the Master’s Degree in Lower Secondary Teacher Education, as one of the Study Leaders for the annual study trip to the Norwegian Study Centre in York, UK, and as a supervisor to incoming Erasmus+ staff mobility trainees.
Previous
Dr. McKendry has supervised student research on a range of topics, including gender and the eighteenth-century novel; pupil motivation and fantasy novels; love in dystopian fiction; authorship in seventeenth-century epic poetry; simulation in postmodern fiction; teaching satire in the English-language classroom; and English literacy in Norwegian middle schools, among others.
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
- University Pedagogy (UNIPED), course, 200 hrs, Nord University (2024)
- Developing Doctoral Supervision, course, 75 hrs, University of Agder and Nord University (2021)
- Master’s Thesis Supervision Qualification, course, 30 hrs, Nord University (2019-2020)
- Professional and Pedagogical Skills II, course, 275 hrs, Queen’s University (2008-2009)
- Professional and Pedagogical Skills I, course, 200 hrs, Queen’s University (2007-2008)
Dr. McKendry's research focuses on the political and religious writing of the Long Eighteenth Century (from John Milton to Lord Byron). He is interested in the history of Protestant Dissent, particularly as it shaped understandings of sovereignty, autonomy, and justice. This interest informs his published research on Daniel Defoe and Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as his more recent work on disability in seventeenth-century religious thought. His writing has appeared in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Studies and Studies in Romanticism. He has recently completed pieces for Notes and Queries (Oxford), Mary Wollstonecraft in Context (Cambridge), Imagining Religious Toleration: A Literary History of an Idea, 1600-1830 (Toronto), and Global Bunyan and Visual Art (Bloomsbury). He has forthcoming chapters in the Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, 1700-1900 (Oxford), and The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge).
Dr. McKendry’s latest monograph, Disavowing Disability: Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation (Cambridge University Press, 2021), examined the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation. Exploring how the use and definition of the term “disability” functioned to allocate agency and culpability, he argued that the post-Restoration imperative to capacitate “all men”—not just the “elect”—entailed a conceptual circumscription of disability, one premised on a normative imputation of capability.
Dr. McKendry also leads the Humanities, Education and Culture Research Group, through which he has organized events such as the “Rights/Rites of Inclusion” seminar and the “Community, Crisis, and Change” seminar, and the ASANOR conference. He is Institutional Lead for the SEA-EU ASCET Project, and he sits on the faculty’s Research Committee (FLU-forskningsutvalget).