Katherine (Kate) Culkin

She/her

I am a Professor of History at Bronx Community College.

Academic Interests

American Women’s History,
19th-Century American History,
metacognition, integrative learning

Positions

Professor, History, Bronx Community College
Professor, Biography and Memoir M.A., CUNY Graduate Center

Publications

  • “Ellen Tucker Emerson: Portrait of a Daughter as Secretary, Editor, and Biographer.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, 425-440. New York: Oxford University Press 2024.
  • “Prospects for the Study of Harriet Jacobs.” Resources for American Literary Study. 45, no.1 (2023): 1-30.
  • “The Education of Ellen Tucker Emerson.” New England Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2020): 74-100. 
  • “Prophetic Dramas: The Time Travel Narratives of Harriet Hosmer and Frances Power Cobbe.” In Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, 158-172. New York: Routledge, 2019. 
  • “‘Doing Historian Business:’ Great Men and Local History at Bronx Community College.”  Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Volume 26, no. 2 (2016): 246-255.
  • “A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College.” In Remaking the American College Campus: Essays, edited by Jonathan Silverman and Meghan Sweeney, 57-78. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2016.
  • Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
  • The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers.  Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. (Associate Editor.) 

Education

Ph.D., History, New York University, 2002
B.A., English, Middlebury College, 1991