Kerstin Rudolph, Ph.D.

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• B.A., M.A., Universität zu Köln, Germany

Rudolph hails from Germany but has lived and taught over the last decade 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 composition and introductory fiction classes as well as early and nineteenth-century American literature and African American literature.  In her scholarly work, Dr. Rudolph explores nineteenth-century race and gender relations, especially in the context of sentimentalism.  Her work on Charles W. Chesnutt and Victoria Earle Matthews has appeared in American Literary Realism and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.