About
PhD
18th century British novels, theory of the novel, and the postsecular turn.
Email –
kjwaite@albany.eduEducation
PhD SUNY Albany: Department of English
B.S. in Secondary English Education from Clarks Summit University Publications
“The Spark of Kindness: The Rhetoric of Abolitionist Action in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” Fall 2019 Rocky Mountain Review of Literature
“Wulf and Eadwacer” A Translation from the Old English Fall 2017 Metamorphosis: Journal of Literary Translation Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Space and Post-Secularism: A Reading of The Female American” at the 43rd Annual North East American Society for Studies in the Eighteenth Century Studies at Fordham University in New York City, September 25-27, 2020. (Postponed due to COVID-19, anticipated Fall 2021).
‘”Divide Her Body Accordingly’ – Sexual Violence, Women, and Rousseau in the Works of Heinrich Von Kleist”51st Annual North East Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, March 5-8, 2020.
“Land and Legacy: The Transnational Ramifications of Sir George Lyttelton’s ‘Dialogue VIII’” 51st Annual North East Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, March 5-8, 2020.
‘”Pity Me and Pardon Me, O Virtuous Reader!’ — The Rhetoric of Abolitionist Action in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” PAMLA Conference, November 9-11, 2018, Western Washington University and at the EGSO Conference, April 4-6, 2019 SUNY Albany
“The Neo-Bildungsroman: Subject Formation and Community in The Underground Railroad” NEMLA Conference, March 21-24, 2019. Washington D.C.
“Religious Violence in a Disenchanted Age: A Postsecular Reading of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland”Humanities and Technologies Conference November 2-4, 2017 at Salve Regina University Memberships
NEMLA
RMMLA
EGSO
