Kathryn Ready

Dr. Kathryn Ready is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her research focuses on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with specialized expertise in women writers, gender studies, religious and political discourse, and intersections between science and literature.

Research Interests:

• Eighteenth-century British literary culture
• Dissenting intellectual traditions
• Gender and sexualities in Romanticism
• Anglo-French sociability networks
• Science-literature interplay in Enlightenment thought

Awards:

• SSHRC Standard Research Grant for Aikin family monograph

Teaching Areas: Eighteenth-century studies, novel development, women’s writing, and science-literature interdisciplinary approaches.

Notable Trends in Recent Publications: Her scholarship reveals a sustained engagement with Dissenting family networks (e.g., Barbauld/Aikin), gendered critiques of political economy, and the epistemological intersections between literary imagination and scientific inquiry during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Articles also highlight her interdisciplinary methodologies, connecting visual culture, cartographic metaphors, and philosophical debates to literary analysis.