Katie A Warczak
- Visiting Lecturer
Dr. Katie A. Warczak is a Visiting Lecturer in Literature in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her Ph.D. in English and African American and Diaspora Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her published articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as American Literary Scholarship, The Hemingway Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies. She has a forthcoming chapter in Hemingway and Posthumanism (Edinburgh UP, 2025) titled “‘Papa, please try to act like a human being’: Moving Beyond White Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro" and is revising for resubmission an article on race, animality, and disability in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and another on racial representations in Amelia E. Johnson's Clarence and Corinne; or, God's Way.
Education & Training
- Ph.D., English and African American and Diaspora Studies, The Pennsylvania State University (2023)State University (2023)
- M.A., English, The Pennsylvania State University (2018)
- A.B., English and History, Ripon College (2016)
Representative Publications
“F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,” with Krista Quesenberry. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual – 2020, edited by David J. Nordloh, Duke UP, 2022, pp. 157-75, https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1215/00659142-9750636. “When Dietrich Met Hemingway: Archival Documents Correct the Biographical Record.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 40, no. 1, Fall 2020, pp. 96-103. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/hem.2020.0030. “Challenging and Changing Humanity’s Absoluteness.” Review of Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/Personhood, by Megan Glick. Humanimalia: A Journal of Human/Animal Interface Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, Fall 2020, https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9447. Review of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction, by Sami Schalk. Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, 2020, dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i1.7419.
Research Interests
African American Literature, Animal Studies, Children's Literature, Disability Studies, Modernism, Posthumanism
