Katherine Binhammer, PhD. (York), M.A., B.A.

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 most recent 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" (under contract, Cambridge UP)

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Teaching

I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses in eighteenth-century British literature, women's literary history, narrative theory, and gender and sexuality studies. In all of my teaching, I see the classroom as a generative space of intellectual engagement, one where our collective curiosity to understand why, what and for whom a writer is creating hones our critical thinking skills. Teaching, for me, is a collaborative hermeneutical journey into the pleasures of the literary text. 

ENGL 150 - Introduction to English Studies

An introduction to studies in the discipline recommended for students considering a major, minor, or Honors degree in English. Students will be introduced to a variety of methodological approaches while learning about literary, cultural and media studies, with special attention to topics such as race, Indigeneity, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. NOTES: Not to be taken by students with 6 units in approved junior English.

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ENGL 343 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Prerequisite: 6 units of junior ENGL, or 3 units of junior ENGL and 3 units of junior WRS. Note: variable content course which may be repeated if topics vary.

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ENGL 465 - Studies in Gender and Sexualities

Prerequisites: 12 units of senior ENGL with a minimum of 6 units at the 300 level. Note: variable content course which may be repeated.

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