Katherine D. Harris

Current

• Assistant Professor of English at San Jose State University

Past

• Graduate Assistant Fellowship at City University of New York, Queens College
• Graduate Assistant Fellowship at The City University of New York, Hunter College

Education

• City University of New York Graduate Center
• New York University

Connections

26 connections

Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Katherine D. Harris’s Summary

Dr. Harris, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, San José State University, specializes in Romantic-Era and Nineteenth-Century British literature, women’s authorship, the literary annual, textuality and hypertextuality. Many of these issues are addressed in her article, "Infusing Bibliography and Book History with Hyper-Textuality: A Course for Undergraduates," an online supplement to the print materials. Harris’ most recent article, "Fantasies of Containment: Archiving Moments in Cyber- and Real-Life," addresses the gaps among hypertextuality, hyper-archives, digital literature and cyber-identities (forthingcoming Spring 2008 in the edited collection, Virtual Identity: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace). Her previous article on literary annuals establishes the genre as a distinct mode of cultural history: ‘"Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America. 99:4). She edits an online resource for the study of literary annuals, The Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/Index.htm) which will also become part of her most recent work, a comprehensive literary history of British annuals. With Laura Mandell, Virginia Jackson and Eliza Richards, she edits The Poetess Archive. The accompanying Poetess Archive Journal currently contains articles by all editors, including Harris’ article "Borrowing, Altering and Perfecting the Literary Annual Form – or What It is Not: Emblems, Almanacs, Pocket-books, Albums, Scrapbooks and Gifts Books." Dr. Harris' most current work involves the short story, the Gothic tradition and the literary annual. An edited collection of Gothic short stories from the annuals is forthcoming in 2008 with Zittaw Press (http://www.zittaw.com/).

Katherine D. Harris’s Specialties:

Nineteenth-Century Literature, Print Culture & Reading Practices; Victorian Novels & "Afterings"/Adaptations; British Romanticism; British Romantic-era Women's Poetry; Gothic Novel; Bibliography, Textual Studies & History of the Book; Hypertextual & Digital Studies (including Digital Humanities); Textual Editing; Feminist Theory & Women's Studies

Katherine D. Harris’s Experience

• Assistant Professor of English

  San Jose State University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  I am currently working towards tenure in the Department of English & Comparative Literature.

• Graduate Assistant Fellowship

  City University of New York, Queens College

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  September 2004 — May 2005 (9 months)

• Graduate Assistant Fellowship

  The City University of New York, Hunter College

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  September 2002 — May 2003 (9 months)

  I taught in the English Department during this fellowship year.

Katherine D. Harris’s Education

• City University of New York Graduate Center

  Ph.D. in English Literature , 19th Century British Literature, Women's Studies, Digital Humanities, New Media , 2000 — 2005

• New York University

  M.A. , Literature , 1997 — 2000

Additional Information

Katherine D. Harris’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Katherine D. Harris’s Interests:

Nineteenth-Century Literature, Print Culture & Reading Practices British Romanticism British Romantic-era Women's Poetry Gothic Novel Victorian Novels & "Afterings"/Adaptations Bibliography, Textual Studies & History of the Book Hypertextual & Digital Studies (including Digital Humanities) Textual Editing Feminist Theory & Women's Studies education, literature, technology, digital humanities, Internet, experimenting with technology in the classroom rock climbing, hiking, cooking

Katherine D. Harris’s Groups:

Modern Language Association
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Study of the History of Authorship
Reading and Publishing
Bibliographical Society of America
Society for Textual Scholarship

Katherine D. Harris’s Honors:

NATIONAL
Bibliographical Society Research Grant, 2007
Alternate, AAUW American Fellowships-Publication Summer Stipend for 2007
Tuition Scholarship, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, 2006
Digital Workshop, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006
New Scholar Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America, 2005
Bibliographical Society Research Grant, 2005
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 2004-2005
Cecilia Konchar Farr Best Feminist Essay Prize, RMMLA, 2000

SJSU
Student Success Grant, 1 course release, Fall 2007
Jr. Faculty Professional Development Grant, fund student asst., April 2007
Grant Development Program, 1 course release, Spring 2007
College of Arts & Humanities Release Time, 1 course release, Spring 2007
California State University Research Grant, 2006
Small Faculty Grant, fund graduate asst., 2006
California State University Research Grant, 2005
Graduate Student Assistant Program Grant, 2006

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