About
Kathryn Davis received her PhD in Literature from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas, and her B.A. in History from the University of Kansas.
Courses Taught
Literary Tradition II
Literary Tradition III
Literary Tradition IV
Dante
Medieval Literature
Jane Austen
Shakespeare
Publications
“Jane Austen, auctor: moral philosophy and artistic practice.” Book chapter. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts. Edited by Joe Bray and Hannah Moss. Edinburgh UP, 2024.
“‘Stupor non meno’: What Virgil Saw.” Renascence 74.1 (2022): 3-21.
“The Author and the Phoenix.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 42 (2020): 28-44.
Liberty in Jane Austen's Persuasion. (Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2016).
"Another look at Mr. Elliot's 'Habits': What's so bad about 'Sunday-travelling.'" Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 36.1 (Winter 2015).
"'The first soldier [she] ever sighed for': Charles Pasley's Essay and the 'Governing Winds' of Mansfield Park." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal On-Line 35.1 (Winter 2014).
"Austen's Providence in Persuasion." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 35 (2013): 212-224.
"Exonerating Mrs. Dashwood." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 33 (2011): 61-74.