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 project that examines the cultural politics of instinct in the late-Victorian period.

Publications:

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

Awards:

2005-2006 Williams/Jennings Dissertation Fellowship
2004-2005 James C. Hormel Research Fellowship
2002 Graduate Research Travel Award, Lesbian and Gay Studies Project.