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Katherine Binhammer is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, where she has taught since 1995. Her academic work centers on the intersection of literary history, gender studies, and economic theory.
Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British literature, particularly exploring narrative structures of capital and women's literary contributions before Jane Austen. She examines how feminist and queer perspectives reshape our understanding of literary history, with special attention to seduction narratives, financial systems in sentimental fiction, and digital recovery of marginalized voices.
As Literary Director of The Orlando Project—a landmark digital humanities initiative publishing encoded profiles of 1,400+ women writers with Cambridge University Press—she advances feminist scholarship through collaborative digital methodologies. Her current book project extends this work with 'A Feminist Literary History of Women's Writing in the British Isles.'
Professor Binhammer teaches courses including Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENGL 343) and Studies in Gender and Sexualities (ENGL 465), framing the classroom as 'a generative space of intellectual engagement' for critical analysis of literary texts.
