Katherine Malone is a native Philadelphian and a doctoral candidate in Temple’s English program.  Her fields of study include Victorian literature and culture, Victorian periodicals, rhetoric, and women’s studies.  Her dissertation focuses on literary criticism by Victorian women, including Margaret Oliphant, Anne Mozley, Geraldine Jewsbury, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and Ella Hepworth Dixon.  She has published book reviews in LIT: Literature in Transition and Victorians Institute Journal and is a contributor to the 2006 “RSVP Bibliography,” which appears in Victorian Periodicals Review. Katherine has taught undergraduate courses in English and Women’s Studies for the last six years and has been recognized by ATTIC for Merit in Teaching.

As a Graduate Teaching Fellow for the Center for Humanities at Temple, Katherine will teach  “A History of Readers and Reading” in Spring 2007.  Intended to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of book history, this course examines reading as an activity with personal, political, and ideological consequences.  Students will consider the ways religion, politics, gender, and social class shape our reading practices, as well as how our reading practices shape, sustain, and even undermine these institutions.  The course is cross-listed with English and Women’s Studies.