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Kathleen Renk

Associate Professor

20th-century British Literature, Postcolonial Literature

Office: RH 231
Phone: 753-6612
Email: krenk@niu.edu
Home Page: http://www.engl.niu.edu/krenk

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of Iowa; 1995

B.S. University of Iowa; 1978

B.A. University of Northern Iowa; 1975


Professional Interests


Caribbean Women Writers, including Jean Rhys and Dionne Brand

Post-colonial and Post-imperial literature

Literature and the History of Science


Selected Publications >

Current Courses >

Selected Publications

  • “‘Disaster Capitalism’ and Anti-Globalization in Pauline Melville’s The Migration of Ghosts”. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. 17:1 (Spring 2011): 65-79.
  • “Debating Darwin: The Alchemy of A.S. Byatt and Pauline Melville.” Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of Science. Cedric Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler, eds., New York: Rodopi, 2011, 467-485.
  • Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature: The Alchemical Literary Imagination. Routledge (2011).
  • “Magic that Battles Death: Pauline Melville’s Marvelous Realism,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (March 2009).
  • “Jane Eyre as Hunger Artist” Women’ Writing (U.K.) 15:1 (May 2008): 1-12.
  • Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts: Women’s Writing and Decolonization. University Press of Virginia, 1999.

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 414.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH301
Fall 2013ENGL 477.1 (details)
TTH / 3:30 - 4:45 / RH202
Spring 2013ENGL 765.P1 (details)
T / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH301
Spring 2013ENGL 471.1 (details)
TTH / 2:00 - 3:15 / RH 301
Spring 2013ENGL 474.00H1 (details)
TTH / 11:00 - 12:15 / RH 301
Summer 2011ENGL 495.00P1 (details)
* / * / *
Fall 2011ENGL 762.P001 (details)
M / 6:00-8:40 / RH 202
Spring 2012ENGL 668.1 (details)
T / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH202
Summer 2012ENGL 495.P1 (details)
* / * / *
Fall 2012ENGL 477.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH 205
Fall 2012ENGL 671.1 (details)
Tuesday / 6:00 - 8:40 / Rh302