Katherine Montwieler

Katherine Montwieler teaches classes in nineteenth-century British literature and contemporary fiction, and she's published articles on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charlotte Bronte, Claire de Duras, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens, among other writers. Her book Acts of Faith: A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout was published by Ohio University Press in the fall of 2022. At UNCW, she has served as chair of the Department of English and director of the Women's Resource Center.

Education

PhD in English, University of Georgia
MA in English, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
BA in English and Spanish, College of the Holy Cross

Specialization in Teaching

ENG 230 Women and Literature (various topics)
ENG 290 The Novels of Jane Austen
ENG 336 British Romanticism
ENG 362 Love and Power Nineteenth-Century Style (Nineteenth-Century British Novel)
ENG 373 Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
ENG 373 Haunted Houses
ENG 495 Romantic Genders
ENG 560 Romantic Gothic
ENG 565 Feeling, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
ENG 580 Austen and Her Afterlives

Research Interests

Dr. Montwieler is interested in women writers, feminist theory, psychonanalytic approaches to literatures, cultural studies, and affect theory.

Professional Service

Guest Review Editor, Broadview Press; Juvenalia Studies,; Women's Writing; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature; Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture; Nineteenth-Century Contexts; Journal of Effective Teaching; Colonial Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal; Victorian Review

Community Engagement

Facilitator, Center For Fiction
Member, New Hanover County Public Library Advisory Board
Lecturer and Facilitator, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Women on Wednesday, Interactive Literary Club)
Lecturer and Facilitator, Let's Talk About It, North Carolina Humanities Council

Honors & Awards

Professional Development Grant for Project Completion, CAS, UNCW (2022).
ETEAL Applied Learning Pedagogy Initiative Award, Freedom on the Menu, with Donyell Roseboro, Denise Ousley, David Gill, and Clyde Edgerton, UNCW (2019).
Campus Action Project Grant, Mentoring Women Faculty: A Pilot Project, American Association of University Women (2017-2018).
Discere Aude Award, UNCW (2011).
CAS Dean's Grant, Internship and Service Program, New Hanover High School, UNCW (2011).
Distinguished Teaching Professorship, UNCW, 2009.