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Katherine Stubbs

she/her

Title

Associate Professor of English

Department

English

Information

  • (207) 859-5280
  • [email protected]
  • 207-859-5252
  • Miller Library

Address

5280 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
EN138 Fantasies of Modernity: American Literature between the Wars A
EN200 Foundations of Literary Studies B
EN336 Early American Women Writers A
IS138 New World Disorder: America between the Wars, 1919-1939 A

Education

Ph.D. Duke University

Areas of Expertise

  • American literature

  • Working-class fiction

  • Ethnic literature

  • African-American literature

  • Cultural studies

  • Feminist theory

  • Women's studies



Personal Information

Katherine Stubbs teaches 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American literature. She has written an introduction for a reprint of Anzia Yezierska's 1927 novel, Arrogant Beggar, and her essays have appeared in New Media, 1750-1925: Studies in Cultural Definition and Change, differences, MELUS, and the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States.



Publications

Edited Volume:

Anzia Yezierska, Arrogant Beggar. Edited and with an introduction by Katherine Stubbs (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996) vii-xxxiv.

Edited Issue:

Colby Quarterly 36.1 (March 2000). �Work and Subjectivity.� Edited and with an introduction by Katherine Stubbs. 5-10.

Articles:

�Telegraphy�s Corporeal Fictions.� New Media, 1750-1925: Studies in Cultural Definition and Change. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).

"Reading Material: Contextualizing Clothing in the Work of Anzia Yezierska." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 23.2 (1998): 157-172.

"Mechanizing the Female: Discourse and Control in the Industrial Economy." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 7.3 (1995): 141-164.

"Gossip." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 359-360.

"Martha Brewster (ca. 1710-17??)." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994) 134-135.

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