Biography:
Katie Agile is a fourth-year English Literature PhD Candidate. She focuses on 18th and 19th C. British Literature with an emphasis on Classical Reception, gothic novels, Pre-Raphaelite art, and Feminist studies. Current research interests include liminality, monstrosity, medieval literature, and visual culture.
Publications and Presentations:
"Mourning Muslin and Mystical Veils: Death and the Afterlives of Veils in George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan." Victorians Institute Conference, 13 September 2026, Knoxville, TN. Conference Presentation.
"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.
Dissertation Committee:
- Elizabeth Miller (Chair)
- Arif Camoglu
- Claire Waters
- Carey Seal
Preliminary Exam Fields:
- Victorian
- Romanticism
- Feminisms
Languages:
- Arabic
- Latin
- French
Teaching:
Fall 2026 - Instructor for ENL3
Summer 2026 - Instructor for UWP1V
Spring 2026 - Instructor for UWP1V
Winter 2026 - Instructor for UWP1
Fall 2025 - Instructor for UWP1
Summer 2025 - Instructor for UWP1V
Winter 2025 - Instructor for UWP1
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.