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Holly M. Kent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois-Springfield (UIS), where she specializes in U.S. women’s history and 19th-century history. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on women’s history, women’s activism, gender in the American South, family history, slavery and abolition, fashion history, and oral history. Kent’s scholarly work focuses on the intersection of gender, power, and social activism in antebellum American literature, particularly through her monograph Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction (2017). As editor of the forthcoming Teaching Fashion Studies, she also contributes to interdisciplinary pedagogy.
Kent’s research underscores how 19th-century women’s antislavery fiction served as a vehicle for moral persuasion and activism, navigating the constraints of gender norms. Her published works include analyses of women’s fashion writing in the Women’s History Review and the Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, highlighting her engagement with both historical and contemporary debates on gender and culture. Based in the Department of History at UIS, she continues to shape academic discourse through her writing and teaching.
