Katherine Adams

Associate Professor
Office: 522 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-____
KAAdams@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

Specialization Areas

• American Cultural Studies
• Nineteenth-Century American Literature
• African American Literature
• Critical Race Theory
• Gender Studies and Feminist Theory

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 388: History of Literary Theory and Criticism
• WOST 701: Feminist Theory

Current Research Project(s)

My new book project, tentatively entitled Racial Locations: Geography, Culture, and Place in Black American Writing, investigates how conceptions of black racial identity intersect with rubrics of geographic and cultural space at the end of the nineteenth century.  Here I am particularly interested in how regionalist and nationalist frames of racial formation stand in tension with transnational movements, such as pan-Africanism, as well as with forces of political and economic globalization.  I am also editing a special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, focused on the theme of “Women Writing Race,” for fall 2009.  A third project currently under way is an essay considering the role that Gender Studies can play, as a long-established interdiscipline, in shaping the widespread trend toward more interdisciplinary curricula and programming.

Recent Publications

• Owning Up: Privacy, Property and Belonging in U.S. Women’s Life Writing, 1840-1890 (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2008)
• “Chute Dialogics: A Sidelong Glance from Egypt, Maine.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal. 17:1 (Spring 2005) 1-22.
• “Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism.” Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865. Ed. Shirley Samuels. Blackwell Publishers. (October 2004)
• “At the Table with Arendt: Toward an Interest-Based Model of Coalition Discourse.” Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 17:1 (Winter 2002) 1-33.