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  • Katherine Cottle

    • Katherine Cottle

    Assistant ProfessorWriting

    Katherine Cottle is an assistant professor of Writing at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD. She completed her doctorate in Professional Writing, with a specialization in American Literature, in 2015 at Morgan State University. Prior to her arrival at Goucher in 2013, she taught at Stevenson University, the University of Baltimore, and for Johns Hopkins University’s CTY Program. At Goucher College, she teaches various writing courses and for the Goucher Prison Education Partnership.

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    Research, Scholarship, Creative Work in Progress

    Scholarly Essay in Progress, for inclusion in the Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors Series (Lexington Books)

    Publications

    Books

    The Hidden Heart of Charm City (Nonfiction), AH/Loyola University MD, 2019

    I Remain Yours (Creative Nonfiction), AH/Loyola University MD, 2014

    Halfway (Memoir), AH/Loyola University MD, 2010

    My Father’s Speech (Poetry), AH/Loyola University, MD, 2008  

     

    Selected essays, fiction, and poetry included in the following publications: 

    The Baltimore Sun, The Broome Review, The Chesapeake Reader, The Cimarron Review, Dos Passos Review, Eclipse, The English Journal, Free State Review, The Greensboro Review, In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, Kalliope, Karamu, Little Patuxent Review, The Maryland Poetry Review, The Mochila Review, Mourning Sickness: Stories and Poems about Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss, Phi Kappa Phi Forum, The Pinch, Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems about Marriage, Poetry East, The Poetry Gymnasium, Puerto del Sol, Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, Red Clay Review, The River Oak Review, Rockhurst Review, Silk Road, Tar River Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal, Westerly, Willow Springs. 

     

    Scholarly book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles

    “Extended Family in Atinuke’s Anna Hibiscus Series,” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature (MSU), 2013. 

    “The Body as Prism: Trauma Captured and Reflected in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day,”Muses India: Dis(-)covering Indian Writing in English (McFarland & Co.), 2013. 

    “Another Instance of Our Thoughts Clicking: Visionary Connection in Zora Neale Hurston’s Letters to Langston Hughes,” Critical Insights: Zora Neale Hurston (Salem Press), 2013. 

    “Words and Illustrations of Change: The Story of Wangari Maathai (co-written with Meena G. Khorana),” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature (MSU), 2011

    Exhibits or Performances

    Recent readings include:

    PCA/ACA Conference (Las Vegas, 2017)

    The Maryland Writer’s Association (Maryland, 2017)

    Dublin Writers’ Conference (Dublin, 2017)

    The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore, 2017)

    Art and Lit Series (Baltimore, 2017)

    External Awards, Honors, Grants

    NEH Contributing Scholar, Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Medical History and the Digital Humanities, Washington, D.C. (National Endowment for the Humanities/National Library of Medicine-National Institutes of Health Collaboration) (2018-2019)

    NEH Summer Scholar (Delta State University, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, University of Pittsburgh) (2019-2022)

    Crosby Grant Recipient (2017)

    Winner, Phi Kappa Phi Poetry Contest, publication in Phi Kappa Phi Forum (2015);

    New Voices Award, Adele Holden Creative Writing Contest, MSU (2014);

    Finalist, Yale Series of Younger Poets, Yale University Press (2012);

    Winner, Phi Kappa Phi Fall Poetry Contest, publication in Phi Kappa Phi Forum (2012);

    Winner, Creative Writing Graduate Award, MSU (2010);

    Second place, Ford-Turpin Creative Writing Content, MSU (2010);

    Winner, Phi Kappa Phi Spring Poetry Contest, publication in Phi Kappa Phi Forum (2010). 

    Conference Papers & Panel Participation

    Presenter, Viral Networks: A Workshop in Medical History and the Digital Humanities (NEH/NLM Collaboration), Anatomical Reading of Correspondence: A Case Study of Epistolary Analysis Networks, Bethesda, Maryland (2018)

    Presenter, CEA Conference, Women/Women Connections: Creating Identities: Mapping a City's Desires from the Outside-In: Intimate Baltimore Correspondence Between Eleanor Roosevelt and her Journalist, Lorena Hickok, Denver, CO (2016)

    Presenter, PCA/ACA National Conference, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Research: Love in the Time of Archives: Identifying, Retrieving, and Connecting Intimate Correspondence through American Archives, New Orleans, LA (2015)

    Presenter, FWPCA/ACA Conference, Baltimore Sideshow, Las Vegas, Nevada (2017)

    Presenter, IJAS Conference, A City's Hidden Desires: Mapping Intimacy through Letters, Munich, Germany (2016); CEA Conference, Women/Women Connections: Creating Identities: Mapping a City's Desires from the Outside-In: Intimate Baltimore Correspondence Between Eleanor Roosevelt and her Journalist, Lorena Hickok, Denver, CO (2016)

    Presenter, MAPACA Conference, American Studies: “Orderly Chaos”: Mark Twain’s Baltimore Letters to Olivia Langdon Clemens, Philadelphia, PA (2015); Presenter, PCA/ACA National Conference, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Research: Love in the Time of Archives: Identifying, Retrieving, and Connecting Intimate Correspondence through American Archives, New Orleans, LA (2015)

    Presenter, CEA Conference, American Studies: Contradiction in the Love Letters of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt, Baltimore, MD (2014)

    Panel Chair/Presenter, MAPACA Conference, Disability Studies: Writing within Walls, F. Scott and Zelda’s Fitzgerald’s Correspondence in Baltimore, Atlantic Cit, NJ (2013)

    Presenter, MAPACA Conference, Urban Studies: Not Just Writing on the Wall- Academic versus Non-Academic Graffiti in Baltimore, Philadelphia, PA (2011). 

    Invited Talks

    Baltimore County Public Library, Book Club Selection of the Month Author Event (The Hidden Heart of Charm City), January 2021

    “Challenges of Creative Nonfiction” (Dublin Writers’ Conference, 2017) 

    “Poetry Gymnasium” (Maryland Writers’ Association, 2017) 

    Academic or Professional Associations

    SEIU 500 Bargaining Unit/Negotiations Committee Member

    AWP Association Member

    CEA Member

    PCA/ACA Member

    Phi Kappa Phi Member

    Phi Beta Kappa Member

    Golden Key Honour Society Member 

    Other Professional or Scholarly Activity

    Teacher Advisory Board, Teen Ink

    Recruited to be a Contributing Scholar for the Viral Networks Proposal/Grant, an interdisciplinary project which links innovative humanity-based mappings (as demonstrated in my epistolary mappings in “The Heart of Charm City”) with medical history researchers. The project will take place in the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2018, with bi-monthly online benchmarks for producing papers and webpages, in addition to meeting for a full conference in February of 2018 at NIH (The National Institute of Health).