Kathryn Hume Explained

Kathryn Hume (born 1945)^[1] is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University.^[2] She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.

Education

Hume graduated from Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.^[3]

Works

• The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics, 1975
• Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, 1984
• Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow, 1987
• Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, 1992
• American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960, 2000
• Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs, 2005, 2010
• Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel, 2012
• The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, 2020

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hume, Kathryn, 1945- . Library of Congress Authorities . June 27, 2015.
2. Web site: Named Professorships. Penn State University. December 3, 2017.
3. Web site: Kit Hume – Department of English.