English Faculty - Katherine J. Anderson

Katherine Anderson
Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Phone: (360) 650-3761
Office: HU 361
Email: Katherine.Anderson@wwu.edu

Education

PhD, English and Victorian Studies, Indiana University
MA, English, Indiana University 
BA, English and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin

Research and Teaching Interests

• British and Anglophone Literature 
• Victorian Studies
• Empire and Postcolonial Studies
• Critical Terrorism Studies
• Phenomenology
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Moral and Political Philosophy

Selected Publications

"On the Absurdity of Ethical Capitalism." Public Books, 3 May 2019.

“The Banality of Empire.” Public Books, 1 February 2019.

http://www.wbt.com/media/audio-channel/police-terrorism-1865-and-2017>"Police Terrorism: 1865 and 2017." Interview by Mark Thomas, Carolina Focusfrom WBT, 27 October 2017.

“Trauma and the Torturer: Of Monsters and Military Men at Morant Bay.” Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature, edited by Lisa Kasmer, Routledge, 2017, pp. 121-140.

“The Sensory Citizen-Witness: Liturgies of Torture in Mid-Victorian Martyrological Novels.” Victorian Review, vol. 41, no. 1, 2015, pp. 143-161.