- Date Of Birth: October 17, 1945
- Date Of Death: May 25, 2006
- State: Texas
October 17, 1945 – May 25, 2006
Kenneth Alan Hovey, Teacher and scholar, long time resident of Boerne and San Antonio, Professor Kenneth Alan Hovey died Thursday, May 25, 2006, at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. Born October 17, 1945, Hovey was Associate Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at San Antonio, with a B.A. from Cornell University (1967), an M.A from the Graduate Theological Union (1970), and an M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1982) from the University of Virginia. Having taught previously at the University of Cincinnati, North Carolina Wesleyan College, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Professor Hovey came to UTSA in 1984 with a specialization in Early Modern British (Renaissance) literature. He taught an extraordinarily broad range of courses and topics: Shakespeare, Milton, The Bible as Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, The Renaissance Idea of Humanity, The Literature of the American West, Jeffersonian America, The Literature of Scotland, The Byronic Hero, Washington Irving, American Regionalism, and many more. His love of literature inspired his students and his colleagues, and he challenged all who knew him with sharp questions and rigorous precision. His scholarly accomplishments include essays about Francis Bacon, Poe, Milton, George Herbert, Owen Wister, Cotton Mather, and others.
