Quincy Schmechel

Professional Bio

Quincy Schmechel is a first-year student in Penn State's MA/PhD in English. She primarily studies Renaissance literature and has worked most extensively on the poetry of John Milton. Broadly, she is interested in the portrayal of religious and historical figures within Early Modern poetry, the interplay of biblical, classical, and mystical traditions in the literature of the Reformation, humanist intellectual traditions, allegory, and metaphysical philosophy and poetry.

Creatively, her writing blends memoir and lyrical essay, working across disparate subjects to explore the impacts of memory and narrative on identity formation.