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Washington University in St. LouisArts and Sciences
Manuscript from AMCS - St. Louis Circuit Court Project

Kate Parker

Post-qualification
Fields: Interests: theories of passion, sensibility and sentimentality, feminist criticism, the erotic, early modern pornography, history of sexuality, deep ecology in the premodern period
Email: [ klparker@artsci.wustl.edu ]
Biographical Information

Teaching Experience: Instructor, Writing 1 (Fall 2005-Spring 2006; Fall 2008-present); Instructor, University College 2150 "Topics in Comparative Literature: Is it Love?" (Summer 2007); Instructor, Comp Lit 215C "To Libertines: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Erotic Fiction" (Spring 2007); Co-Instructor (with Wolfram Schmidgen), E Lit 3524 "Topics in Literature: Gender and Revolution" (Fall 2006); Teaching Assistant, Film 220

Service: Convener of Dissertation Workshop (2008-2009); Danforth University Center Senior Fellow (2008-2009); Co-President of Graduate Student Senate (2007-2008); Co-Chair of the GSS Diversity Committee (2007-2008); University Committee on Sexual Assault (2006-2008); Advisor to S.A.R.A.H. (2006-2008); Chair of the Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards Committee (2006-2007)

Conferences: Instructor, Comparative Literature 2150 "World Literature" (Summer 2008); Teaching Assistant, Comparative Literature 449 "Between Image and Text" (Spring 2008); "Introduction to Film Studies" (Fall 2007); "Corporeal Pedagogies: The Role of the Body in the 'Exemplary Teaching' of Molière's *Bourgeois Gentilhomme* and Madame de Lafayette's *Princesse de Clèves*" at Washington University's 16th Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Symposium (March 2007); "Absorption and the Orgy in Sade", given at the Group For Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference [GEMCS] (February 2007); "Reading in Pieces: Fragmentation and the Gothic Narrative" at Washington University's 17th Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Symposium. 

Awards: Danforth University Center Senior Fellowship (2008-2009); Recipient of the Otto E. Gansow Memorial Scholarship (2007-2008)

Publications: 'The Hideous Monster and the Beaver': Sadomasochistic Language in Kathy Acker's *Blood and Guts in High School *(co-authored with Jennifer Mitchell, MA '05, for a special issue of *Critical Sense: The Pornographic Imaginary: Sex, Violence, Commerce, Culture*, Spring 2005)