Katharine Beutner

Department/Affiliation: English
Phone: 330-287-1957
Office Address: 303 Kauke
Email: kbeutner@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Smith College 2003
• M.A., The University of Texas at Austin 2006
• Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin 2011

Courses Taught

• First Year Seminar: "Coming of Age at the End of the World"
• ENGL 120: Investigations in Literary and Cultural Studies
• ENGL 161: Introduction to Poetry and Fiction Writing

Publications

• Alcestis . Soho Press, 2010. Winner of the 2011 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
• "'The Sole Business of Ladies in Romances': Sharing Histories in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote." Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Ed. Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh UP, 2011. 165-181.
• Review of A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley, Rachel Carnell. Women's Writing 17.1 (April 2010): 196-198.
• "Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster." Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 19 (Nov. 2006): 35.

Notes

I write fiction and creative nonfiction and study the literature of the long eighteenth century. I'm currently at work on a novel tentatively titled Killingly, set at Mt. Holyoke College in the 1890s, and am continuing to research the writing lives of a group of early eighteenth-century women writers (Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood, Martha Fowke Sansom, and Laetitia Pilkington). My interests include literary history and historiography, biography and autobiography, genre fiction, digital humanities, and textual studies.