Dr. Katherine Fama

Dr. Katherine Fama

Dr. Katherine Fama teaches in the School of English, Film, and Drama at University College Dublin. Dr. Fama is currently completing a monograph entitled The Literary Architecture of Singleness, which uncovers the reciprocal relationship between the early 20th-century novel, domestic architecture, and the single woman in America. She coedited an essay collection (with Jorie Lagerwey) entitled Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film Rutgers University Press (2022). Dr. Fama also writes about single women, aging, and the history of emotions. Dr. Fama's work has been published in MELUS, Studies in American Naturalism, and the Journal of Modern Literature; her research has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Volkswagen Foundation.