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Kate Schnur
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Kate Schnur
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUNY Queens College
Kate Schnur has been an active member of the MSA Contingent Faculty Caucus since its inception. She was one the organizers of two of the Caucus’s workshops devoted to labor solidarity and advocacy for contingent faculty: the first of which took place as a part of the Between the Acts digital caucus in the spring of 2022 and the second in MSA Portland this past fall. These two workshops produced the Advocacy Handbook now available on the MSA website. Her research focuses on how modernist literature draws upon contemporaneous medical theories of gender and sexuality. Her current book project, Knowledge Problems: Sex and Treatment in Modernist Genre studies how modernist authors’ experimentation with genre is dictated by their engagements with medical knowledge and theories of treatment, particularly those pertaining to pregnant and sexualized bodies. As an adjunct faculty member, she is invested in maintaining the caucus’s devotion to supporting the labor of contingent faculty as researchers and teachers within the spaces of MSA and their home institutions.
Publications:
“Mechanical Labor and Fleshy Births: Maternal Resistance in Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams,” William Carlos Williams Review, 37:1 (January 2020)
“The Doctor Treats the Ten-Breasted Monster: Medicine, the Fantastic Body, and Ideological Abuse in Djuna Barnes’s Ryder,” The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s, ed. Lizzie Harris McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, and Rebecca Soares, Routledge, 2019.
‘“I Found Another to Admire’: The Thing of the Female Body in William Carlos Williams’ Medical Narratives,” William Carlos Williams Review 33: 1-2, January 2017
Kate Schnur has been an active member of the MSA Contingent Faculty Caucus since its inception. She was one the organizers of two of the Caucus’s workshops devoted to labor solidarity and advocacy for contingent faculty: the first of which took place as a part of the Between the Acts digital caucus in the spring of 2022 and the second in MSA Portland this past fall. These two workshops produced the Advocacy Handbook now available on the MSA website. Her research focuses on how modernist literature draws upon contemporaneous medical theories of gender and sexuality. Her current book project, Knowledge Problems: Sex and Treatment in Modernist Genre studies how modernist authors’ experimentation with genre is dictated by their engagements with medical knowledge and theories of treatment, particularly those pertaining to pregnant and sexualized bodies. As an adjunct faculty member, she is invested in maintaining the caucus’s devotion to supporting the labor of contingent faculty as researchers and teachers within the spaces of MSA and their home institutions.
Publications:
“Mechanical Labor and Fleshy Births: Maternal Resistance in Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams,” William Carlos Williams Review, 37:1 (January 2020)
“The Doctor Treats the Ten-Breasted Monster: Medicine, the Fantastic Body, and Ideological Abuse in Djuna Barnes’s Ryder,” The Female Fantastic: Gendering the Supernatural in the 1890s and 1920s, ed. Lizzie Harris McCormick, Jennifer Mitchell, and Rebecca Soares, Routledge, 2019.
‘“I Found Another to Admire’: The Thing of the Female Body in William Carlos Williams’ Medical Narratives,” William Carlos Williams Review 33: 1-2, January 2017
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