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Kathy A. Psomiades is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences since 2021. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (1990). Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, with expertise in feminist theory, anthropology, and aestheticism. She has authored influential books like Primitive Marriage (2023) and Beauty's Body (1997), and co-edited Women and British Aestheticism (1999). Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary studies of gender, race, and cultural history.
Her teaching includes courses on Victorian literature and critical theory, such as ENGLISH 247 and 546S. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship (2002) and has presented widely, including plenary lectures at conferences on 19th-century women writers and Victorian studies. Her research grants include funding for Primitive Marriage (2003 NEH). She advises graduate students in English and has held multiple directorships of graduate studies since 2006.
Her publications span decades, from foundational feminist critiques of Victorian poetry (1989) to recent analyses of anthropology’s role in shaping literary modernity (2023). Key themes include the intersection of literature with evolving anthropological theories, gendered interpretations of domesticity, and the cultural politics of aesthetic movements. Her scholarship consistently challenges traditional periodization frameworks, emphasizing cross-disciplinary and feminist reinterpretations of Victorian intellectual history.
