Katie Kent
Contact:
kkent@williams.edu
Stetson F11
413.597.2549
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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/