Katherine Elkins came to Kenyon in 2002 after teaching for many years at the University of California at Berkeley, where she received several teaching awards. She teaches Odyssey of the West as well as courses that examine modernism and postmodernism from an interdisciplinary perspective. Trained in comparative literature with a specialization in Latin poetry and nineteenth-and twentieth-century French, English, German and American literature, her current research focuses on the intersections of science, literature, and philosophy. She is completing a manuscript entitled Beyond the Archive: Non-Archival Memory in Baudelaire, Proust, and Beckett. A chapter of the manuscript received the A. Owen Aldridge award and excerpts have appeared in Discourse and Comparative Literature Studies. In 2004-2005, she was the recipient of Kenyon's Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship.

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Yale University

Selected Publications

"Middling Memories and Dreams of Oblivion: Rewriting Memory in Baudelaire and Proust," Discourse, forthcoming.

"History versus Memory: History's Theft and Memory's Return in Maryse Condé" in Maryse Condé: By Way of Introduction, Africa World Press, Spring 2004.

"Stalled Flight: Horatian Remains in Baudelaire's 'Le Cygne'," Comparative Literature Studies, Fall 2001.

Courses Taught

IPHS 113 Odyssey of the West
IPHS 114 Odyssey of the West
IPHS 215 Modernism and Its Critics
IPHS 318 Postmodernism and Its Critics