Dr. Katherine A. Hoffman
Dr. Katherine A. Hoffman
Professor
Chairperson
Department: English
Office: 115 Miller Hall
Phone: 375-2381
hoffman@roanoke.edu
Degrees:
B.A., Carleton College.
M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Courses:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Renaissance Literature, Women Writers, Major British Writers, Shakespeare, Humanities, Freshman Seminars, Utopian Literature, South Asian Literature.
Scholarly Activities:
Mid-Career Faculty Development, ongoing project.
Fulbright Lectureship, Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2006-2007.
“Book, Birds, Bananas: A Fulbrighter in Sri Lanka,” AAUW, Elderscholar, Kiwanis, Roanoke Faculty International Cluster, 2007-08.
“Transforming Small College Culture with a Faculty-Staff Learning Community,” interactive presentation. Professional and Organizational Development Network Conference, October 2005. With Mark Poore, Roanoke College.
“The Personal is Pedagogical,” interactive workshop. Attending to Early Modern Women Conference, University of Maryland Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, November 2003. With Suzanne Magnanini, University of Colorado at Boulder, Sharon D. Michalove, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, and Donna C. Woodford, Shenandoah University.
“Aemilia Lanyer and the Modern Student: Working the Patronage System,” Renaissance Society of America annual conference, April 2002.
“Renaissance Women Writers: the Woman’s Voice at the Dawn of the Modern Age,” Elderscholar lecture, April 2002.
“Renaissance Women Writers: Struggling into Discourse.” Hollins University Women’s Studies Lecture Series, April 2001.
Extracurricular:
Virginia American Association of University Women Educator of the Year, 2006.
Available as a Media resource for the following topics:
Sri Lankan politics, culture and literature
Renaiassance poetry and literature
Shakespeare
Queen Elizabeth I