Kimberly Coates

Kimberly Coates is an Associate Professor of English and American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah (2004) and has expertise in Transatlantic Modernist literature, Gender Studies, and Psychoanalysis. Her research interrogates intersections of gender, trauma, and aesthetics in modernist texts, with a focus on figures like Virginia Woolf and dance as political praxis.

Dr. Coates teaches undergraduate courses on literary theory, British and American modernism, and world literature, as well as graduate seminars on feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and modernist cultural politics. Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary frameworks, addressing topics like war imagery, queer temporality, and embodied feminism.

Her publications span journals like Feminist Modernist Studies and Woolf Studies Annual, examining Woolf’s engagement with illness, spatial politics, and feminist resistance. Current projects include a book manuscript on surrealist writer Emily Holmes Coleman and explorations of dance in interwar literature. She is an active member of the Modern Language Association and International Virginia Woolf Society.