Kerstin Rudolph, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Kerstin Rudolph hails from Germany but has lived and taught in Illinois, upstate New York, and Mississippi before joining Catawba in August 2016. She is an Americanist by training, and here at Catawba, she teaches primarily early and nineteenth-century American literature and African American literature courses. In her scholarly work, Dr. Rudolph explores nineteenth-century race and gender relations. More recently, her research has focused on Human-Animal Studies. Peer-reviewed publications have appeared in American Literary Realism, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and the edited collection Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives: Thresholds in American Women’s Writing.