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VCU Libraries Faculty Vita

Farley

Kevin Farley

Humanities Collections Librarian (Assistant Professor)
Collection Analysis and Investment
Room 213, James Branch Cabell Library
(804) 828-8772
kdfarley@vcu.edu

Education

Ph.D. English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
M.L.S. Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
M.A. English, Kent State University, 1986
B.A. English and Philosophy, Old Dominion University, 1984

Previous Professional Experience

Bibliographer for English, Journalism, and Speech, University of Georgia at Athens, 1999-2001

Presentations

"The Library de-Texted." Tenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. Montreal, Canada, 2012

"Milton Downed: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying about the Book." Eighth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. UCLA, 2010

"Some Good, Perchance: Shakespeare's Failures." Shakespeare at Kalamazoo, 2005

"Donne's Transgressions." Renaissance Imprisonment Conference, HM Tower of London, UK, 2004

"Raleigh and the Conditions of Elizabethan Authorship." Citadel Conference on English Literature, Charleston, SC, 2002

University Committee Work

University Hearing Board, 2007-2011

VCU Libraries Committee Work

Professional Development Committee, 2009-2010

Grievance Board, 2008-2009

Professional Organizations

American Library Association, 1995 - present

Association of College and Research Libraries, 2004 - present

Collection Management Subject Areas

African American Studies, Cinema, English, History, International Studies, Mass Communications, Music, Philosophy, Religion, World Languages and Literature.

Research Interests

Cultural Studies, Literary Theory, Media Studies, History of the Book and Emergent Textualities, Libraries as Experimental Social Environments.