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Katherine Bowers is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. She directs the Centre for European Studies and leads the Eurasia Research Cluster, specializing in Russian literature, digital humanities, and Gothic studies.
Bowers holds a PhD from Northwestern University (2011) and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge. Her award-winning monograph 'Writing Fear' (2022) established Gothic fiction's influence on Russian realism. Current digital projects include 'Digital Dostoevsky' analyzing the writer's corpus through computational methods.
As Acting Department Head (2024-25), Bowers promotes comparative studies of Central/Eastern European cultures. Her teaching spans Russian literature, European magic tales, and digital humanities methodologies. Honors include the International Dostoevsky Society Service Award (2023) and Killam Research Fellowship (2023).
Bowers co-founded the feminist DH collective 'Data-Sitters Club,' developing accessible text analysis guides. Her forthcoming 'Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms' (2025) reexamines literary realism through transnational perspectives.
