Katherine Fama

Dr. Fama is an Assistant Professor of American Literature in the School of English, Film, and Drama at University College Dublin. Dr. Fama is at work on the 'Literary Architecture of Singleness'. This book project uncovers the reciprocal relationship between the early 20th-century novel, domestic architecture, and the single woman in America.

She has also worked as a Marie Curie Fellow with the Zukunftskolleg and the Department of Literature, and a Research Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Konstanz in Germany. Dr. Fama has also been the recipient of a Volkswagen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship taken at the Literature Department of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North-American Studies, at Free University Berlin, and fellowships from Smith College, the Huntington Library, and the Lilly Library. Dr. Fama has served in the Delegate Assembly of the MLA and organized recent panels for MMLA and the American Studies Association. 

Dr. Fama received her doctorate in English and American Literature (with a certificate in American Culture Studies) from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013. She teaches feminist theory, American literature, culture studies, and text and tradition.  Her previous work in narrative theory and modernism can be found in JML; work on architecture, race and single women  will appear in MELUS; and writing on women's narrative accounting in 'Studies in American Naturalism.' Current projects also include work on class-passing women, singleness and aging, and the links between domestic architecture and the history of emotions.

Dr. Fama welcomes inquiries about the MA in American Literature and the PhD program at UCD.
Phone: +353 01 716 8158
Address: School of English, Drama, and Film
Newman Building
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Ireland