Katherine Weese
Elliott Professor of English
Email: kweese@hsc.edu
Education B.A. Williams College, English and History, 1987 Magna Cum Laude, Honors in English
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, English, 1988
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, English, with a minor in film studies, 1993
Years of Service 1993
Teaching Interests Contemporary fiction
Women's literature
Film
American Literature
Literary Theory
Composition/Rhetoric
Committee Assignments & Service to the College Honors Council 1996-2000; Director of Honors 2005-2008
Assessment Committee, 2005-2008
Chair, Department of English, 2007-2010
Gender Issues Committee, 2000-2003
Director of Rhetoric Program, Jan 2001-June 2004
Lectures & Programs Committee 1996-1999
faculty advisor to English honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, 1995-2006
Health Science Advisory Committee 1994-1999Most Recent Publications Fantastic Fictions: Women Writers' Narrative Structures and Supernatural Devices. Book Manuscript. Under contract.
The Eyes in the Trees: Magical Realism and Transculturation in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Spring 2006
The Invisible Woman: Narrative Strategies in Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries. Journal of Narrative Theory, Winter 2006
Family Stories: Gender and Discourse in Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter. Narrative, January 2002
Feminist Uses of the Fantastic in Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea. Modern Fiction Studies, Fall 2001.
.Normalizing Freakery: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and the Female Grotesque. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2000.
Independence Fostering Community: The Benefits of an Independent Writing Program at a Small Liberal Arts College. (Co-authed with Elizabeth Deis and Lowell Frye). In the volume Field of Dreams, University of Utah Press, 2002.
Teaching Academic Literary: The Uses of Teacher-Research in Developing a Writing Program. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publisher. Co-editor and author of two chapters, 1999. Honors & Awards Thomas Edward Crawley Award for Service to the College, May 2007
Professional Affiliations Modern Language Association
Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Literature-Film Association
Other Interests Long walks with two Gordon Setters: Duncan and Charlie
tennis, aerobics
cooking
Hampden-Sydney Women's Book Club
Family G. Daniel Weese
Aaron Daniel Weese
Evelyn Jane Weese
step-son, Neal Weese
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