Katherine Magyarody
استاد آموزشی · Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Simmons Universityمعرفی
Katherine Magyarody is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Children’s Literature at Simmons University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, Scouting history, diasporic communities, and Eastern European folklore. She teaches courses on fantasy, science fiction, and folk and fairy tales at the master’s level.
Dr. Magyarody holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Toronto, along with MA and BA degrees in English from the same institution. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Texas A&M University, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Her scholarship bridges literary analysis and cultural history, examining themes like colonialism, gender roles, and identity formation in diasporic contexts. Recent work includes contributions to Marvels and Tales, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing.
Dr. Magyarody’s fiction includes the young adult novel The Changeling of Fenlen Forest (2019), longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award. Her short story Goldhawk won the 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and appears in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017.
Awards include the 2018 Judith Plotz Emerging Scholar Honor Award and the 2017 PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize. She has reviewed books for the School Library Journal since 2017.
