Kathryn R Kent
Associate Professor of English
E-mail: Kathryn.R.Kent@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2549
EDUCATION:
BA: Williams, 1988; MA: Duke, 1993; PhD: Duke, 1996
COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to American Studies, American Realism, Literature of the
American Renaissance; American Genders, American Sexualities; Introduction
to American Literature; Whitman and Dickinson; Literature by Woman; Introduction
to Women's and Gender Studies, Representing Sexualities: U.S. Traditions, Feminism and the Politics of Family
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Single White Female": The Sexual Politics of Spinsterhood in
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks"; Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing
and the Rise of Lesbian Identity, Duke University Press (2003)
PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
American Studies; Women's and Gender Studies, Chair
NEXT LEAVE: Spring 2006
PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
U.S. fiction & poetry; literary theory; cultural studies; women's
studies; gay/lesbian/bi/transgender/queer studies