Katarina Gephardt
Dr. Katarina Gephardt is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her areas of specialization include nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, Central European literature, and health humanities. Her monograph titled The Idea of Europe in British Travel Narratives, 1789-1914 (Routledge, 2014) focuses on polarized imaginative geographies of Europe in nineteenth-century British fiction and travel writing. She also co-edited (with Charles Sabatos and Ivana Taranenková) Home and the World in Slovak Writing: A Small Nation’s Literature in Context (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). Her current research focuses on health humanities topics and the relationship between genre and geography in nineteenth-century British women's travel writing on Eastern European destinations.
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Recently taught courses:
ENGL 4620: The World of the Brontës: Origins, Myths, and Afterlives
ENGL 4470: Jane Austen and Popular Culture
ENGL 4470: Bad Girls in Victorian Fiction
ENGL 3105: Mobility and Place in U.S. Travel Writing
ENGL 2110: Literary Journeys
