Kristin Pitt

Kristin E. Pitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, holding affiliate appointments in Global Studies and Women's and Gender Studies. She earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary narratives in the Americas, with particular attention to discourses of the body, women’s and gender studies, and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx studies. Her work bridges literary analysis with intersectional frameworks addressing colonialism, postcolonialism, and transnationalism.

Her scholarship spans critical analyses of authors like Clarice Lispector, Reinaldo Arenas, and Maryse Condé, exploring themes such as bodily politics, national identity, and resistance to colonial and patriarchal structures. She has published in journals like Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Atenea, and authored the monograph Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas (2010). Her recent work interrogates the intersections of labor, food systems, and immigration in contemporary U.S. narratives.

Dr. Pitt’s teaching and advising engage students in interdisciplinary approaches to literature, gender, and global studies. She currently serves on committees within the Women's Resource Center and maintains active participation in UWM’s academic community.