Biography
Assistant Professor
BA (Dalhousie); MA (Memorial); PhD (Warwick)
Kate Scarth is the Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies and Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC). Her Montgomery work will involve public engagement activities centred on Montgomery and PEI. Kate also teaches the ACLC courses, “Putting Arts to Work,” “Digital Literacy,” and “Digital Humanities.” Her research focuses on English and Canadian literature written from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century and she is particularly interested in fiction about urbanism and the environment. Her book, "Romantic Suburbs: Fashion, Sensibility, and Greater London", is under contract with the University of Toronto Press. She is also leading a digital humanities, public engagement project, which includes a mobile app & website supporting a literary walking tour of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Recent Publications
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Highbury Heights; or, George and Emma Knightley, Suburban Developers
- , 2016-01-19
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"It-narratives, thing theory, and 'trivial things': Sophie Gee's The scandal of the season and The rape of the lock"
- Anniversary essays on Alexander Pope's 'The rape of the lock', 2016
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At home in that 'gay bathing place'; or, representing Brighton in the early nineteenth century
- Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms, 2015
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Picturing women's health
- , 2014
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Elite metropolitan culture, women, and greater London in Charlotte Smith's Emmeline and Celestina
- European Romantic Review, 2014
Research Classification
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Current Scholars in Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture
