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Kathy Beres Rogers

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Kathy Beres Rogers, Assistant Professor

Areas of interest   Contact Information
- British Romantic literature and culture
- Literature and Medicine
- Gender and Body Studies
- Hungarian Romanticism
  26 Glebe Street, #302
(843) 953-5925
rogerskb {at} cofc.edu

Profile

Kathleen Béres Rogers received her M.A. From Boston College (1998) and her Ph.D. From the University of Chapel Hill (2007). She joined the faculty in 2008. She teaches courses in late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She is currently working on an article about the universalization of Romantic women's bodies and on a book proposal about Romantic-era medical poems and their negotiation(s) between the cultural ideals of sympathy and detachment.

Recent Conferences and Publications

"A Kind of Necessary Inhumanity": Cultivating Negative Capability through the Clinical Gaze" in Studies in the Humanities (December 2007).

"Permeability and Its Uses: Affect and Audience in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets" in Women's Writing (16.1, May 2009).

She has also published an article about Agnes Mahoney for Alexander Press's Irish Romantic Women Writers (ed. Stephen Behrendt), and writes regular book reviews for ECCB,

 

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