Kinnamon:
Research
I am currently involved in several scholarly and professional projects:
- With collaborators Margaret Hannay of Siena College
(Loudonville, NY), Michael Brennan of the University
of Leeds (Leeds, England), and Hannibal Hamlin of
Ohio State
University-Mansfield, I am preparing an edition of the metrical psalms
of Sir Philip Sidney and his sister, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of
Pembroke (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- With collaborators Hannay and Brennan, I am working on the more than 3,400 letters
included in the correspondence to and from Sir Robert Sidney, first earl of
Leicester. Most of the letters are among the De L'Isle and Dudley Papers,
originally at Penshurst Place,
home of the Sidney family, but now on deposit at the Centre
for Kentish Studies in Maidstone, Kent.
- In 2003 I was on sabbatical
leave of absence to complete work on an edition of Sidney's letters to his
wife, Barbara Gamage Sidney (Ashgate, 2005). Funding has come largely
from a year-long NEH Fellowship and grants from the American Philosophical
Society and the Appalachian College Association. Our edition of the letters
of the Sidneys' daughter-in-law to her husband, Sir Robert Sidney, second
earl of Leicester, has been contracted for submission to Ashgate in 2009.
Research for that project was supported by a Summer Stipend from the NEH. We
are also preparing an edition of the letters of Rowland Whyte, the first
earl of Leicester's agent at the English court.
- I have verified quotations from Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of
Pembroke; Sir Philip Sidney; and Edmund Spenser for the current revision of the Oxford English Dictionary
(my work has been described at the OED Web site).
- With my sister Dr. Rebeccah K. Neff (recently retired from SAS Institute,
Cary, North Carolina), I have prepared an entry for the Encyclopedia
of Appalachia (forthcoming) on fruit desserts.
- Some of my publications
are described elsewhere in these pages.
- While in the UK on sabbatical, I joined with my sister and brother-in-law,
Harry Neff, in celebrating Harry's seventieth birthday. The festivities
included visiting a book at the British Library that we and others adopted
for preservation in Harry's honor. The book that now bears his
commemorative bookplate is John Lawson, A New Voyage to Carolina
(London, 1709), an early primary resource for students of North Carolina
history. An electronic
edition is available at the UNC library website.
My research has received grant support from sources such as the
following: