Kathryn Hume

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

Education

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

Works

• 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.

References

1. "Hume, Kathryn, 1945-". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved June 27, 2015.
2. "Named Professorships". Penn State University. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
3. http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/iqn