Katie Agile

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Bio

Biography: 

Katie Agile is a second-year English Literature PhD student. She focuses on 18th and 19th C. British Literature with an emphasis on the supernatural, Pre-Raphaelite art, and Feminist studies. Current research interests include monstrosity, medieval literature, and psychoanalytic theory.

Publications and Presentations:

"The Subversive Spectral Body: A Feminist Critical Reading of M.E. Braddon's "The Cold Embrace." South Central Modern Language Association Conference (SCMLA), 14 October 2023, Corpus Christi, TX. Conference Presentation. 

A Serpent in the House: Subversive Women in Victorian Literature and Art. 2022. College of Charleston, Master's thesis. ProQuest

Preliminary Exam Fields:

  • Victorian 
  • Romanticism  
  • Feminisms 

Languages: 

  • Arabic 
  • French 
  • Latin

Teaching:

Fall 2024 - Instructor for UWP1

Winter 2024 - Teaching Assistant for ENL 123: 18th-Century British Literature 

Fall 2023 - Teaching Assistant for ENL 10A: Literatures in English I: to 1700

Education:

Ph.D. English, University of California, Davis. 2023-Present

M.A. English, College of Charleston. 2023

B.A. Global Affairs, George Mason University. 2013.