Biography
Assistant Professor; Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies and Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture
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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From Anne of Green Gables to Anne of the Suburbs: Lucy Maud Montgomery reimagines home in Anne of the Island
- Women's Writing, 2020
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From collapse to relationality improv: High school stories in motion for justice
- Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2017
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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, 2015
Research Classification
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Current Scholars in Applied Communication, Leadership and Culture
