Tamar Katz

E. Tamar Katz is an Associate Professor of English at Brown University with a courtesy appointment in the Urban Studies Program. Her research focuses on 20th-century literature, modernism, urban studies, gender studies, and temporality. She holds a PhD from Cornell University (1992) and has received notable awards including the Bronson Fellowship and Guilford Essay Prize.

Education:

• PhD in English, Cornell University, 1992
• MA in English, Cornell University, 1989
• BA in English, Yale University, 1983

Research Interests:

• Modernist literature and its intersections with urban culture
• Gender studies and feminist critique
• Temporal analysis in city narratives
• Memory and nostalgia in urban contexts

Her current project, *City Memories: Modernism and Urban Time in New York City*, explores how New York's literary representations redefine modernist temporality through loss and nostalgia.

Publications: Recent work includes analyses of Virginia Woolf's urban themes, New Yorker journalism, and historical fiction. Her book *Impressionist Subjects* (2000) examines gender and modernist narrative forms.

Awards:

• Bronson Fellowship (1996)
• Guilford Essay Prize (1992)
• Cogut Teaching Fellowship (2013)

Teaching: She teaches courses on modernist cities, urban literature, and gender studies, including *ENGL 0700R - Modernist Cities* and *ENGL 1762L - City Spaces, City Memories*.