Kate Adams

Kate Adams is an Associate Professor of English and the inaugural Martha McCarty Kimmerling Chair in Women's Literature at Tulane University, specializing in nineteenth-century U.S. literature and culture, women's writing, African American literature, and gender and race theory. Her research explores intersections of privacy, property, and belonging in U.S. women's life writing and the impact of post-emancipation cotton economies on black racial formation.

• Research Focus: 19th-century U.S. literature, African American literature, gender and race theory
• Key Projects: Author of Owning Up (Oxford 2009), co-editing Legacy special issue on Alice Dunbar-Nelson (2016)

Support & Collaborations: Funded by NEH, AAS, ACLS, and Oklahoma Humanities Council. Active in literary recovery work for marginalized authors.