Academic Background
MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab), PGDipLathe, FEA, FHEA
I was an undergraduate at Somerville, and did a master’s at St John’s College, Cambridge. I was called to the bar in 1994 and worked for the Government Legal Service for seven years. I became Official Fellow and Tutor in English at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, in 2014. Before that, I taught at the University of Glasgow and Birkbeck, University of London, and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach literature in English 1760 to the present, plus the first-year paper Introduction to English Literature.
Postgraduate Teaching
Modern & Contemporary Literature; war literature; literature and silence.
Research Interests
- Transhistoricism
- Big Literary History
- Literary Form
Hobbies
I enjoy learning languages and have so far tackled French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Latin, modern standard Arabic, biblical Hebrew, Yiddish, Old English, and ancient Greek with varying degrees of success and no fluency.
Selected Publications
- Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (2007)
- Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011)
- Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015 (2018)
- Silence: A Literary History (under contract with OUP)
As Editor
- Tove Jansson Rediscovered (2007) [with Malin Lidström]
- The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009)
- The Modernist Party (2013)
- Writing War, Writing Lives (2016) [with Lara Feigel and Nancy Martin]
- The First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity (2018) [with Santanu Das]
- British Literature in Transition: 1960-1980 – Flower Power (2019)
- On Commemoration: Global Reflections upon Commemorating War (2020) [with Catherine Gilbert and Niall Munro]
- Silence: An Anthology (under contract with Bodleian Publishing)
Links
Subject notes for courses taught at Jesus College:
- Classics and English
- English Language and Literature
- English and Modern Languages
- History and English
See also Faculty of English website and Kate’s personal profile.