Katherine Binhammer, PhD. (York), M.A., B.A.
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- kb1@ualberta.ca
- Address
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Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
Professor Katherine Binhammer teaches and researches eighteenth-century literature, feminist and sexuality studies, narrative theory and critical finance studies in the Department of English and Film Studies. Her recently published monograph, Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital in the Sentimental Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020), reads stories of loss in the late-eighteenth century for the way their narrative structure takes the form of capital. She has previously published The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747-1800 (Cambridge, 2009), and essays in venues such as Narrative, The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in Britain:1660-1789, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Women’s Studies, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in the Novel and The Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is currently Literary Director of The Orlando Project: Feminist Literary History and Digital Humanities as well as co-author of "A Feminist Literary History of Women's Writing in the British Isles, Orlando Volume One: The Beginnings to 1800".
Teaching
I regularly teach undergraduate courses in eighteenth-century British literature, narrative theory, creative non-fiction, and gender and sexuality studies. Recent graduate courses include "Capitalist Realism: 1713-2013", "The Global Eighteenth Century" and "The Cultural Politics of Jane Austen: Then and Now." In all of my teaching, I see the classroom as a generative space of intellectual engagement, one where the curiosity to understand literature collectively hones critical thinking skills. Teaching, for me, is a collaborative hermeneutical journey into the pleasures of the literary text.
Courses
ENGL 207 - How Stories Work: Introduction to Narrative
An introduction to narrative and narrative theory through a range of fictional and non-fictional writing. Prerequisite: *6 of junior English, or *3 of junior English plus WRS 101 or 102. Note: not to be taken by students with credit in ENGL 219.
ENGL 567 - Literary History