
Kelly Scott Franklin
- Delp 205
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— Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis ReySome say that we shall never know and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer day, and some say, on the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Kelly Scott Franklin
Education
Ph.D. in English, the University of Iowa
M.A. in Spanish, Middlebury College
M.A. in English, the Catholic University of America
Selected Poems
“Education in the Humanities.” Local Culture 4.2 (Fall 2022).
“St. Joseph of Cupertino.” Local Culture 4.2 (Fall 2022).
“The Train of the Wounded.” Translation of “El tren de los heridos,” by Miguel Hernández. Jesus the Imagination, Vol. 6, 2022.
“Structure.” National Review LXXIV.4 March 7th, 2022.
“Failed Adoption, Michigan.” Ekstasis Magazine, June 22, 2021.
“ora et labora.” Ekphrastic Review Biweekly Ekphrastic Challenge, May 7, 2021.
“Trespass.” National Review LXXIII.6 April 5th, 2021.
“Civic Duty.” Driftwood Press 1.2 (Spring 2014): 13-14.
Selected Publications
“Buoyant Hope and Sinking Despair.” The Wall Street Journal. June 12th, 2020.
“In Praise of Walt Whitman.” National Review Online. August 17, 2019.
“An American Bard.” Claremont Review of Books. XIX.3 Summer 2019.
“A House, A Curse and a Moral Dilemma.” The Wall Street Journal. May 24, 2019.
“Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part I.” The Catholic World Report. 2019年4月5日.
“Master of the Frontier.” National Review LXX.18, (October 1, 2018).
“Much More Than a Glance at the Bad Old Days.” The Wall Street Journal. August 26-27, 2017.
“Stand and Wait: Understanding Milton Anew.” Commonweal Magazine. January 26, 2017.
“Reading Flannery O’Connor for the First Time.” The Catholic World Report. May 20, 2016.
“‘Without Being Walt Whitman’: Vicente Huidobro, Whitman, and the Poetics of Sight,” Comparative American Studies 12.4 2014.
Interviews & Media
Interview, The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, March 2023 [On Dante’s Purgatorio].
Interview, The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, Sept. 2022 [On Dante’s Inferno].
Interview, The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, March 2022 [On Homer’s Odyssey].
Interview, The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, June 2021.
Interview, National Review Great Books Podcast, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. May 1, 2018.
Interview, Radio Free Hillsdale, “Professor Perspective,” December 15, 2017.
Interview, National Review Great Books Podcast, Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” September 26, 2017.
Hillsdale College Online Courses: Mark Twain. Fall 2017.
Interview, The Eric Metaxas Show, Homer’s Odyssey. July 31, 2017.
Courses Taught
ENG 104: Great Books in the Ancient and Medieval Traditions
ENG 105: Great Books in the British and American Traditions
COR 450: English Capstone
ENG 360: American Literature 1820-1890
ENG 370: Naturalism and Modernism, 1890-Present
ENG 402: Walt Whitman: Making an American Poetry
ENG 402: The Major Players: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe
ENG 402: Modern American Novel
ENG 402: Whitman and Dickinson
ENG 597: Creative Writing Workshop in Poetry
Biography
I was born in Colorado, spent several years of my childhood in Latin America, and finally settled in northern Minnesota. I graduated with a B.A. in English and Spanish from Franciscan University of Steubenville. I have an M.A. in English from Catholic University of America and an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College. In 2014, I graduated with a Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa.
I married my college sweetheart, Jessica, and we have a daughter named Gianna. We are devout Christians. We live in Hillsdale in an old house that we’re slowly fixing up. I play the ukulele and the guitar. I write for various magazines and newspapers on subjects of literature, culture, and faith. I am an avid fountain pen enthusiast and a fair-weather Kansas City Royals fan.