Katie Kent

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Contact:

kkent@williams.edu
Stetson F11
413.597.2549

Office Hours:

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Associate Professor of English
Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program

BA (1988) Williams
MA (1993) Duke
PhD (1996) Duke

Research Interests:

Queer theory; gender and sexuality studies and U.S. literatures; Girl Scouting; U.S. Poetry

Selected Publications:

Books:

"Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity" (Duke, 2003)

Chapter: "Queer Modernity and Lesbian Representation," "The Blackwell's Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900-1950" (forthcoming)

Articles & Essays:

Review of "Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars," d. Ellen Spiro, "Women, Prisons, and Social Change," "The Scholar and Feminist Online," The Barnard Center for Research on Women, 5:3 (Summer 2007), http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/