Ph.D., University of Chicago
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., McGill University

Kathleen Frederickson joined the UC Davis faculty in 2008. Her areas of interest include Victorian literature and culture; feminist and queer studies; the history of biology, psychology, and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Vital Instincts: Sexuality, Empire, and the Cultural Politics of the Natural 1870-1914.

Publications:

"Freud's Australia." differences. (forthcoming, Summer 2012)

"Victorian Pornography and the Laws of Genre". Literature Compass. (2011).

"Liberalism and the Time of Instinct."  Victorian Studies. 49(2). Winter 2007, 302-12.

"Up with Dead Privates." In Media Res. May 7th 2010. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2010/05/07/dead-privates

Awards:

2009           UC Davis Senate Faculty Research Travel Grant

2005-2006  Williams/Jennings Dissertation Fellowship 

2005-2006  University of Chicago Center for Gender Studies Dissertation Fellowship (declined)

2004-2005  James C. Hormel Research Fellowship