Kathryn Hume (born 1945)[1] is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University.[2] She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.

Kathryn Hume
Hume's Pennsylvania State University directory image
Education
Occupation
  • Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emerita of English

Education

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Hume graduated from Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.[3]

Works

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  • The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics, 1975
  • Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, 1984
  • Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow, 1987
  • Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, 1992
  • American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960, 2000
  • Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs, 2005, 2010
  • Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel, 2012
  • The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, 2020

References

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  1. ^ "Hume, Kathryn, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
  2. ^ "Named Professorships". Penn State University. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  3. ^ "Kit Hume – Department of English".