K.S. (Kathryn) Roberts, Dr

Office location: Harmonie 1315.0311

Office Hour: by appointment

Literature and Cultural Analysis courses:

• NICA Summer School: Creative Work(s): Cultural Production Studies Across the Disciplines (2023-2025)
• Theories of Culture and Research in the Humanities (ReMA Arts, Media and Literary Studies)
• The Novel, with and against Liberalism (MA Literary Studies)

American Studies courses:

• Histories and Methods of American Studies (MA)
• American Studies in Practice II (second-year BA)
• Theories of Culture III: Consumer Nation (third-year BA)
• Cultural Analysis in American Studies (second-year BA)
• Americas I: The American Century and Beyond (first-year BA)
• Special Topics: Voice of America: Sound Media and the Public Sphere (first-year BA)

PhD Students:

• Hanne Nijtmans, University of Groningen, expected 2026
• Kai Hopen, University of Groningen, expected 2027

Advising topics:

• critical approaches to American literature, art, and media; artist residencies; modernism; African American literature and culture; history of education/universities; labor movements and organizing; history of feminism and gay liberation; utopia: in literature, theory, and history; the culture of politics and politics of culture in the 21st century