Karen Allison Hammer
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and Women’s Studies
Karen Allison Hammer’s fourth peer-reviewed, academic article, “Butch Characters and the Trope of Mental Illness: Re(Viewing) Postwar American Film Through Feminist, Disability, and Transgender Theory” will appear in December. Hammer is completing her dissertation, BUTCH BETWEEN THE WARS (AND BEYOND), under the guidance of Dr. Wayne Koestenbaum.
Contact
3075756907
Positions
Academic Interests
women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; 20th and 21st century American literature; transgender studies; Critical Race, queer, and disability theory; film studies; postwar women writers; Chicana/o studies; border studies; modernism(s); archival pedagogies; digital/multimodal rhetoric and pedagogy; writing across the curriculum (WAC).
Education
University of Wyoming, M.A. in English
Tufts University, B.F.A in Visual Art
Publications
I have four peer-reviewed, academic publications to date.
