Associate ProfessorEmeritus206-543-6356ckate@uw.eduFields of Interest 20th Century 21st Century Critical Race Theory Critical Theory Gender Ideology Nationalism Queer Studies Science and Technology Sexuality Background and ExperienceSummaryB.A., Manhattanville College, 1972M.A., Montclair College, 1979Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1985Areas of Specialization Sexuality Studies. Activities and Interests I am currently working on a book manuscript which investigates U. S. practices of passing and linked strategies of policing issuing from such disciplinary sites as law, bioscience, sociology, anthropology, literature, photography, film and other popular media all of which aim secure lines of color, class, sexuality, and gender in the name of national health. The study focuses on three sociohistorical moments, namely: the turn of the previous century; the cold war, and the turn of this century. The book project reflects my commitment to a cultural studies methodology and ongoing interests in critical race studies, queer studies, feminism, and (trans)nationalism. Research Publications, Essays and Articles Katherine Cummings. “Nasty Broads and Tender Bitches: The Televizing of AIDS Mothers We Love (to Hate).” Genders 1995. Katherine Cummings. “Sexualities.” The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States Oxford Univ. Press 1995. Publications, Books Katherine Cummings. Telling Tales: The Hysteric’s Seduction in Fiction and Theory. Stanford Univ. Press. 1991. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Rania Mahmoud. Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2014. Sydney F. Lewis. Looking forward to the Past: Black Women's Sexual Agency in 'Neo' Cultural Productions. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2012. Edmond Y. Chang. Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2012. Tanvi Patel. Emerging Crimewallahs: Modern Developments in South Asian Crime Fiction. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2011. Donald Leonard Anderson. Power and Indeterminacy: The Noisy Networks of Foucault, Cage, Burroughs, and Delaney. Dissertation, University of Washington. 2011. Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia Alejandro (Alex) Guardado, "Cinema of Loss: Exploring the Role of War and Trauma in Burundian Films," 2013. Research Advised: Undergraduate Honors Theses Noah Jacob Lee-Engel. Decolonial Declensions. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. LingLing Zhang. Diva In the Dark. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Barbara Marie Marshall. Remediation Techniques: House of Leaves a Critique of Trauma. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Milo Umberto Zorzino. Howards End, Thornfield Hall, and the Creation of Alternative British Modernities. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Nicole Grace Mendoza Masangkay. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Chris Brent Mulder. Dorian, Delano, and Deity: Worship in The Portrait of Dorian Gray and Benito Cereno. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Catherine Cooke Opie. Resisting Pedagogical Oppression:The Cultivation of Identity Through Memory and Experience in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Geoffrey Aaron Paul. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Lucas McKinley Barash-David. House of Leaves as Emergent Literature in the Digital Age. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Vincent Quang Pham. Revisiting Linsanity: Understanding the Continued Cultural Significance of Jeremy Lin. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Kelcie Anne Borton. Varied Views on Victorian Vices: Effects of Literary Idealism in Charles Dickens's Hard Times Versus Realism in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Chelsey L. Slattum. Unimagined Identity: The Many Implications of Namelessness in The Cocktail Party. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Christopher Chance Campbell. Truth, Deception: History and Narrative in Borges' 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.' Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Andrea M. Squires. You are welcome to it if you like:" Seeing and Being Seen, While Reading History from Within the Margins: A Look at Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy." Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Cassandra Louise Croft. The Metaphysics of Humanism in Invitation to a Beheading. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Trevor Neil White. The Digital Campfire: Interactive Horror Storytelling and Web 2.0. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Joanne Huo Yuan Ho. The Commodity of Memory: Gift Giving and Cultural Memory in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Jordan Douglas Whitlock. I Wanna Be Sedated: Complicity and Relativism in Coetzee's Progressive Male Subject. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2013. Courses Taught Summer 2018 A-term ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Spring 2018 ENGL 361 A: American Political Culture: After 1865 Autumn 2017 ENGL 302 B: Critical Practice ENGL 556 A: Cultural Studies: The Question of the Subject Summer 2017 A-term ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Spring 2017 ENGL 496 B: Major Conference For Honors Winter 2017 ENGL 304 A: History Of Literary Criticism And Theory II Autumn 2016 ENGL 302 B: Critical Practice: Monsters R Us ENGL 494 B: Honors Seminar: The Making of the Modern and Postmodern Liberal Subject Summer 2016 A-term ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies: Work That Body! ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice: (Re)Making History Spring 2016 ENGL 302 B: Critical Practice: (Re)Making History ENGL 361 A: American Political Culture: After 1865: The Evidence of Things Not Seen Winter 2016 ENGL 355 A: American Literature: Contemporary America Autumn 2015 ENGL 556 B: Cultural Studies: Queers That Matter Summer 2015 A-term ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies: It's Your Health ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice: Monsters 'R Us Spring 2015 ENGL 361 A: American Political Culture: After 1865: Work That Body! Winter 2015 ENGL 302 C: Critical Practice ENGL 302 D: Critical Practice Autumn 2014 ENGL 307 A: Cultural Studies: History Matters ENGL 537 A: Topics In American Studies: Sexuality & Citizenship Summer 2014 A-term ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies ENGL 302 A: Critical Practice Spring 2014 ENGL 207 A: Introduction To Cultural Studies Winter 2014 ENGL 440 C: Special Studies In Literature: "Tales of the City" ENGL 440 D: Special Studies In Literature Autumn 2013 ENGL 494 B: Honors Seminar: Making History ENGL 506 A: Modern And Contemporary Critical Theory: Modern & Contemporary Critical Theory Share: Print PDF
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