Kathleen Kane
Associate Professor of Literature
Contact
- Office
- LA 111
- Phone
- No phone provided by the University
- katie.kane@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours
Tuesday 12:30-2:00 and Thursday 12:30-2:00
& by appointment
- Website
- Curriculum Vitae
Education
Moorhead State University, English Major/Philosophy Minor, BA
University of Texas, English Literature: Ethnic and Third World Concentration/Philosophy Sub-emphasis, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
LIT 300 Introduction to Literary Theory
LIT 400 Cultural Studies
LIT 522 Petromodernity
Field of Study
Ethnic and Third World Literature and Culture. Energy Humanities. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cutlure. Critical Theory. Theories of Globalization. Irish and Native American History and Culture.
Selected Publications
“‘Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury’: Relocating Irish Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies, Volume, 15:1 (January, 2001), 98-123. Republished in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 208 (CLC-208), September, 2005.
“Sinn Fein and the Educative Process: An Interview with Daisy Mules.” Jovert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4.1 (Fall, 1999) . (Co-authored with Karen Steele and Bret Benjamin).
“Nits Make Lice: Drogheda, Sand Creek and the Poetics of Colonial Extermination.” Cultural Critique 42 (Spring, 1999). 81-103.
“Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy.” Situating College English: Lessons From an American University. Eds. Evan Carton and Alan Friedman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 159-164.
Publications
Book MS
The Deep North: Indigeneity, Big Oil, and Resistance
Publications
Book
Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port au Prince. Voice of Witness. New York, Verso, 2017. Arts and Culture Editor.
Articles
“Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont’s Two Headed Arrow/Tar Sands Project.” American Indian Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2021, 152-195.
“‘Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury’: Relocating Irish Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies, Volume, 15:1 (January, 2001), 98-123. Republished in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 208 (CLC-208), September, 2005.
“Sinn Fein and the Educative Process: An Interview with Daisy Mules.” Jovert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4.1 (Fall, 1999) . (Co-authored with Karen Steele and Bret Benjamin).
“Nits Make Lice: Drogheda, Sand Creek and the Poetics of Colonial Extermination.” Cultural Critique 42 (Spring, 1999). 81-103.
“Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy.” Situating College English: Lessons From an American University. Eds. Evan Carton and Alan Friedman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 159-164.
Solicited Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
“Art, Indigenous Resistance, and Big Oil,” in Two-Headed Arrow The Tar Sands Project: ed. Corwin Clairmont. Missoula; Missoula Art Museum, 2020, 92-93.
Short Stories
“The Empire Builder,” Twelve Winters Journal, vol II, 2022,
---. Republished in Cirque: A Literary Journal for Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, vol 12, #2, 65-71.
“Road Kill,” Salvage #6 November 2018, 213-219.
“PayDay Loans,” Black Warrior Review Fall/Winter 2010: Issue 37.1, 146-158. (Reviewed in The Review Review at )
Creative Non-Fiction/Autotheory
“Caddy,” Fence Fall-Winter 2021-2022. https://fenceportal.org/caddy-2/
Affiliations
Modern Languages Association: Delegate Assemblyperson, 2006-2009.
American Conference for Irish Studies
American Studies Association
Montana Gaelic Cutlural Society
Specialized Skills
Irish 100 Education, 2009, Irish Voice and The Irish American Magazine.
Humanities Montana Grant Award, 2008-2009
Council of Irish Culture, Irish Government: Research Award, 2008
NEH Summer Institute “Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800” Notre Dame, 2007
The Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, 2006-2007
The Winston and Helen Cox Teaching Award, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, 2003
Rocky Mountain Center for the Study of the West Faculty Research Fellowship in Regional or Western Studies, 2002
Honors / Awards
Awards
Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fall 2022
MESA Refuge Writer in Residence, Spring 2021: April 2-15.
Whitely Harbor Laboratories, Writer in Residence Award, San Juan Island, WA Aug, 2020
Sabbatical Award, 2020-2021.
UM Humanities Institute Nomination for a Summer NEH Grant, 2020.
Mortar Board Last Lecture, Fall, 2017
Faculty Research Grant, Spring-Summer Semesters, 2014
Biography Research Seminar Grant, August 29-September 1, 2012.
Palestinian American Fellowship in Palestine, May-June, 2012.
Mesa Refuge Writers Grant, October 1-14, 2010.
Irish 100 Education, 2009, Irish Voice and The Irish American Magazine.
Humanities Montana Grant Award, 2008-2009
Council of Irish Culture, Irish Government: Research Award, 2008
NEH Summer Institute “Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800” Notre Dame, 2007
The Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, 2007-2008
The Winston and Helen Cox Teaching Award, Ñý¼§Ö±²¥, 2003