- English Faculty
- James P. Carson
- Jennifer Clarvoe
- Adele Davidson
- Kathleen Fernando
- Ivonne M. García
- Thomas Hawks
- Sarah J. Heidt
- Lewis Hyde
- William F. Klein
- P.F. Kluge
- Deborah Laycock
- Perry Lentz
- Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky
- David Lynn
- Ellen S. Mankoff
- Theodore O. Mason Jr.
- Jesse E. Matz
- Janet McAdams
- Kim McMullen
- Pashmina Murthy
- Rosemary O'Neill
- Elizabeth Rogers
- Roger Rosenblatt
- Jené Schoenfeld
- Natalie Shapero
- Judy R. Smith
- Patricia Vigderman
- Katharine Weber
Kathleen Fernando
Assistant Professor of English

Contact Information
Sunset Cottage 201
740-427-5754 voice
740-427-5214 fax
fernandok@kenyon.edu
Kathleen Fernando has taught in the English Department since 2006. She teaches courses in Postcolonial literature and theory, South Asian literature, Caribbean literature, and Canadian Diasporic writing. Her research investigates the intersections between middle class notions of moral hygiene and religious constructions of purity/pollution that circulated in the years preceding, and following, Indian Independence/Partition. Women, gender and sexuality are thus central to her research, much of which is concerned with the role of South Asian women in the imperial and postcolonial imagination. She is currently working on changing her dissertation into a book length project.
Areas of Expertise
Post-colonial literature
Education
PhD York University
MA University of Illinois at Chicago
BA Goshen College
Courses Taught
ENGL 103/104 Silenced Histories
ENGL 103/104 Dirt and Disorder
ENGL 103 Representations of Race, Class and Gender in Post-colonial Literature
ENGL 265 Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures
ENGL 291 Decolonization and Violence
ENGL 291 Contesting Communalism: An Introduction to the South Asian Novel
ENGL 292 House and Home in Post-colonial Women's Writing
Department of English
Lentz House and Sunset Cottage
Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio 43022
740-427-5210



