Wendy Kurant, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: Early and Nineteenth Century American Literature, Southern Literature
Courses Taught
Dr. Kurant teaches English Composition I and II, American Literature I, Early American Literature, American Romanticism, American Realism and Naturalism, American Modernism, Southern Literature, and The Civil War in Literature (special topic).
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Georgia, 2001
- B.A., English, Oglethorpe University, 1990
Research/Special Interests
Dr. Kurant's research interests include southern literature, depictions of the South and the Civil War, women's fiction, and fictionalized historiography.
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Publications
Dr. Kurant’s first publication was "The Power of Love: The Education of a Domestic Woman in Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Two Years” in The Southern Literary Journal 2 (Spring 2002). Her subsequent publications are as follows: "The Power of Love: The Education of a Domestic Woman in Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Two Years.” The Southern Literary Journal 2 (Spring 2002); “The Making of Buck Preston: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Women, and Confederate Memorial Movement.” The Southern Quarterly 46.4 (Summer 2009); Book Review of Julia A. Stern’s Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic. American Nineteenth Century History 12.3; and “Strange Fascination”: Walt Whitman, Imperialism, and the South.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 29.2-3 (2012).
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, University of North Georgia Press; “Mary, Martha, and Suzy: Totalitarian Political Ideology and Women in Lillian Smith’s The Journey” in Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith; “Leaving Herself Out and Putting Herself In: Revision Strategies in Mary Chesnut’s Revised Civil War Diary” in the South Atlantic Review, and “The ‘All Et Up’ and the Down to Earth: Lee Smith’s Adaptation of Wuthering Heights” in the Appalachian Journal.
Work Experience
Dr. Kurant taught at Wilmington College before coming to the University of North Georgia in 2005.