Fr. Thomas G. Kass, C.S.V., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
English Department
Office: 111 Bradley House
Phone: (603) 641-7058
E-mail: tkass@anselm.edu
Areas of Specialization
Courses Taught
Special Topics
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Augustan Satire
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Pope and Swift
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Samuel Johnson
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James Joyce
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Novel
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Tragedy
Publications
"Samuel Johnson, Memory, and the New Millennium." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Voltaire Foundation Abstract. January 2000.
"Reading the Religious Language of Samuel Johnson's Sermons." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 51.4 (1999): 241-251.
"Samuel Johnson and Time: A Christian View of the Millennium." Selected Papers of the Northeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature. Manchester: Saint Anselm College Press, 1999. 109-114.
Review of Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, by Robert DeMaria, Jr.. Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 37.2 (1998): 44-45.
"The Mixed Blessings of the Imagination in Johnson's Sermons." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 47.2 (1995): 89-101.
"Holy Fear and Samuel Johnson's Sermons." English Language Notes 33.2 (1995): 36-48.
"Incarnational Tension in Robert Browning's Karshish." The American Benedictine Review 44.3 (1993): 236-248.
"Johnson's Sermons: An Enlightened Response to Radical Evil." Christianity and Literature 41.4 (1992): 395-405.
"Samuel Johnson's Sermons: Consolations for the Vacuity of Life." Diss. Loyola University, 1988. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1989. 8912702.
"Representative Course Outlines and Instructional Plans: A Teacher's Guide to Advanced Placement Courses in English Language and Literature." New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1985. 90-98.
Thumpy's Story: A Story of Love and Grief Shared. Springfield: Prairie Lark Press, 1984. Spanish Edition, 1986. [I collaborated with Nancy C. Dodge in writing this booklet which deals with grief-sharing strategies for children]
Conference Presentations
"Samuel Johnson, Memory, and the New Millennium," Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment: The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University College-Dublin, July 1999.
"Samuel Johnson and Time: A Christian View of the Millennium," Northeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Saint Anselm College, October 1998.
Moderator, "Literature and Religion II," Northeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Saint Anselm College, October 1998.
"Reading the Religious Language of Samuel Johnson's Sermons," Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, College of the Holy Cross, September 1996.
"Samuel Johnson's Sermons and the English Sermon Genre," Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Ottawa, September 1995.
Chair, "The Famine and Patrick Kavanagh," American Conference for Irish Studies, Saint Anselm College, September 1995.
"Samuel Johnson's Representations of Death," Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Marquette University, October 1993.
"Samuel Johnson and the Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Ideology of Holy Fear," Northeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Yale University, September 1993.
"Words Made Flesh: Incarnational Strains in Selected Poetry of Robert Browning and Gerard Manley Hopkins," Colloquium, English and Theology Departments, Saint Anselm College, January 1992.
"The Mixed Blessings of the Imagination in Samuel Johnson's Sermons," Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, University of Missouri, October 1991.
"Integration of Values and Knowledge: Theory and Practice," Association for Integrative Studies in the Humanities Conference, Saint Anselm College, November 1990.