Kristin Pitt, Assistant Professor

Room: Curtin Hall, Room 787
Phone: (414) 229-4835
Email: kepitt@uwm.edu

Degree: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Teaching Interests:
19th- and 20th-century South and North American literature
Women and gender studies
Cultural studies
The modern novel

Research Interests:
19th- and 20th-century South and North American narrative
Gender, sexuality, and race in the literature of the Americas
Nationalism and narrative

Dissertation Title:
"Embodied Land: Narratives of Nationhood in the Americas"

Recent Publications:
"Resisting Colony and Nation: Challenging History in Maryse Condé's Moi, Tituba, Sorcière... Noire de Salem." Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 27.1 (2007).

"National Conflict and Narrative Possibility in Faulkner and Garro," CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 8.2 (2006) http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb06-2/pitt06.html

"Disappearing Bodies: The Nation and the Individual in José de Alencar's Iracema," Latin American Literary Review 67, January/June 2006.

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