KATIE MCKEE, PH.D.

DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOUTHERN CULTURE, AND MCMULLAN PROFESSOR OF SOUTHERN STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Kathryn McKee is a nineteenth-century Americanist with a specialty in the postbellum U.S. South. She is the author of Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South (2019) and co-editor, with Deborah Barker, of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary (2011).

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Women's literature