Katherine Gray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
English Department
Assistant Director of the Westover Honors Program
Lynchburg College
434/544-8489
Gray@lynchburg.edu
Experience/ Background
2007-present: Associate Professor of English at Lynchburg College
2001-present: Assistant Director of the Westover Honors Program
2001-2007: Assistant Director, Senior Symposium/LCSR Program
1991-2007: Assistant Professor of English, Lynchburg College
Adjunct Professor of English and Women's Studies, Randolph-
Macon Woman's College
Visiting Professor, Sweet Briar College
1988-1991: Instructor of English at Lynchburg College
1979-1988: Adjunct Professor of English at Lynchburg College
Degrees and Certifications
1995 Ph.D. George Washington University (English Literature)
1978 M.A. University of Virginia (English Literature)
1977 B.A. Randolph-Macon Woman's College (English)
Professional/ Research Interests
Contemporary Irish literature and culture
Drama and Theatre
Contemporary Theory
Gender Issues
Honors and Awards
2005 Summer Research Grant Recipient (Ireland, cultural studies), Lynchburg College
2003 Summer Research Grant Recipient (Croatia, International Women's Conference), Lynchburg College
2001 Award for Initiative, Lynchburg College
1999 Summer Fellow, National Humanities Center
1998 CIEE Seminar Fellow, Conflict Resolution: On the Threshold of Peace in Northern Ireland
1992-1995 University Fellow, George Washington University
1992, 1993 Faculty Development Grant, Lynchburg College
Publications
"The Hollins Critic," Encyclopedia Virginia. 2009
"The Attic LIPs: Feminist Pamphleteering for the New Ireland." In Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities. Katherine Kirkpatrick ed. University of Alabama P, 2000.
The Academy of Music Theatre, Act II. February 2000.
The Academy Marquee. November 1999.
Club Juana: A First Amendment Case? Co-Documentary. Co-Producer, writer, interviewer (with Dr. Margaret McLaren, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.). Filmed by Chuck Weiss, Orlando, Florida. Summer 1999.
"Marketing Women: A Graduate Seminar Integrating the Humanities and Marketing." Marketing for the Millennium. Proceedings of the Atlantic Monthly Association. Vol. XV. Ed. Jerry W. Wilson. Madison, WI: Omnipress, Inc., 1999.
"Troubling the Body: Toward a Theory of Beckett's Use of the Human Body On Stage." Journal of Beckett Studies 5:1-2 (1995-6), 1-17.
"Footfalls...faux pas?" Journal of Beckett Studies 5:1-2 (1995-6), 203-206.
"Beckettian Interiority." Beckett Today/ Aujourd' hui 5 (Fall 1996), 95-103.
Recent Professional Presentations
"The Relocation of Consciousness: Subjectivity in Anne Enright´s The Gathering."
(the phenomenology of the body in a recent Irish prize-winning novel)
South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, 2009
"Presenting the Postmodern Performative: ‘How It Is' 'We Go On'"
(on a post-Austinian variety of performativity in the plays of Samuel Beckett)
South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, 2008
"Introducing the Tain bo Cualinge"
(using an ancient Irish epic in the classroom)
The Association for Core Texts and Courses, Williamsburg, 2007