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Tamar Katz

Associate Professor of English and Associate Professor of Urban Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 301
Phone: (401) 863-1959

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0610K - S01: 20th-Century Literatures in English -- CRN 14969 (Team taught with Prof. Daniel Kim)
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 0800A - S01: City Novels -- CRN 24952
  •  ENGL 1760R - S01: The Roaring Twenties -- CRN 25002

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Degrees
Ph.D. Cornell University 1992
M.A. Cornell University 1989
B.A. Yale College 1983

Research Interests
Twentieth-century literature, particularly modernism, urban literature and theory, gender studies

Professional Accomplishments
Professor Katz has published Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (Illinois Press, 2000). She has also written on Alice Walker and on recent historical fiction. She is currently working on a book about the relation of memory and the twentieth-century city.