Kate Marshall
Assistant Professor
Specialty: 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Media and Technology, Critical Theory
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Kate Marshall’s research and teaching focus on the fictional, medial, and material worlds of the late nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has published articles on modern American fiction, science and literature, contemporary fiction, and teaching with technology. She is also a faculty member in Notre Dame’s History and Philosophy of Science graduate program.
Her book project, Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction, is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Corridor argues that the dominant topoi of modern American fiction, such as the infrastructure, transit networks, and corridors that organize domestic and institutional space, can be best understood as media, for it is in these figures that novels encode their own communicative processes.
Marshall is working on two new projects: the first, Novels by Aliens, is a study of character, interiority and the novel that draws on a surging interest in recent literary fiction in the not-quite-human narrative focalizer. This frequent phenomenon in contemporary novels begins a discussion of the alienation always present in the transfer of interiorities presumed by narrative fiction, and how the categories of personhood have been breaking down in various forms throughout the history of the novel in ways that these contemporary crises make visible. The second project is a collection of essays that examines the directional vectors of contemporary critical media theory. These are often serial, horizontal, liquid, or level, and point to forms of analogy and network models currently displaced by the desire for the embodied, the 3-D, or the vertical.
Recent Publications
- “Cyclonopedia as Novel (a meditation on complicity as inauthenticity).” Forthcoming in Leper Creativity.
- “Sewer, Furnace, Airshaft, Media: Modernity Behind the Walls in Native Son and Manhattan Transfer.” Studies in American Fiction 37.1 (2010): 55-80.
- “Reading Corridors in Electronic Literature.” Commissioned electronic companion piece for Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. (http://newhorizons.eliterature.org)
- “Prodigal Sun: Bataille, Delillo, Expenditure.” Scale 8+9 (Summer/Fall 2004), special issue: “Apocalypse,” pp. 41-51.
- “Future Present: Nanotechnology and the Scene of Risk,” in Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience for Literature, Art, and Society, ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2004, pp. 147-159.
Recent Honors / Awards
- Thyssen Foundation Grant, 2011 (with Markus Krajewski and Stephan Trüby, “Dienstbarkeitsarchitekturen”)
- Nanovic Symposium Grant, 2011
- ISLA International Faculty Exchange Grant, 2010
- Learning Beyond the Classroom Grant, 2009
- Faculty Fellow, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) Interdisciplinary Summer Seminar, University of Chicago, 2009
Contact
218 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-4125
kmarshall@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~kmarsha2
Postal address
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
