Dr. Katherine Fama
Vita
2015–2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, University of Konstanz
2014–2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, Winterthur Museum, Garden, Library
2013–2014 Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, JFK Institute for North-American Studies, Literature Division, Free University Berlin
Education:
PhD: Washington University in St. Louis
MA: New York University
BA: Swarthmore College
Research concentrations
- 19th and 20th-c American Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- American Culture Studies
- African American Literature
- Urban Architecture
- Modernism
Functions within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (May–December 2015)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
Research project „The Literary Architecture of Singleness: American Fiction and the Production of Women’s Independent Space, 1880-1929“
Abstract
Publications
„Melancholic Remedies: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood as Narrative Theory.“ Journal of Modern Literature 37.2 (Winter 2014), pp. 39-58.
Works in Progress
The Single Architecture of Contending Forces: Lodging Independent Women in Pauline E. Hopkins’s „Little Romance.“
The Literary Architecture of Singleness: American Fiction and the Production of Women’s Independent Space, 1880-1929
Kontakt
Tel. 0041 71 68694-53
E-Mail katherine.fama[at]uni-konstanz.de