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Katherine Laura Biers
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
English-Compar Lit |
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Biography
B.A. (1993)
and Ph.D. (2002), Cornell University. Katherine Biers specializes in
19th- and 20th-century American literature, culture and media studies.
Fields of interest also include theatre, pragmatism, aesthetics,
political theory and theories of emotion. She is currently writing a
book on the idea of the virtual in pre-WWI American philosophy and
media culture entitled The Promise of the Virtual: Writing and
Media in the Progressive Era. She has recently published an
article in Representations on James Weldon Johnson and
ragtime, and has an essay in the volume Women’s Experience of
Modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002) on Djuna Barnes
and illustrated journalism.
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