Kate Stewart

Professor of English
School of Arts and Humanities
University of Arkansas at Monticello
PO Box , UAM 3460
Monticello, AR 71656
• • • • • • • • • • •
E-mail
Office: MCB 119-A
870.460.1878
• • • • • • • • • •

Duties

Teaching classes in composition, world literature, and American literature; advising students - general studies and English majors.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Mississippi
• M.A., University of Mississippi
• B.A., University of Mississippi

Employment

• University of Arkansas at Monticello, 1988-present
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 1984-1987
• University of Mississippi, 1975-1982

Honors and Recognition

• Who's Who in South and Southwest
• Alpha Chi Teacher of the Year, 1991
• Sigma Tau Delta Service Award, 1997

Related Professional Service

• Board of Trustees, Erskine College, 1994-1996, 1998-2002

Teaching and Research Interests

American literature before 1900 with special emphasis on fiction; gothic literature; religion and literature; science and literature; film and fiction; fictional theory; bibliography.

Dr. Stewart's research interests are rooted deeply in Nineteenth Century American literature. Her work has been published in the texts Arthur Sherburne Hardy: Man of American Letters, Poe and His Times, and The Bibliography of United States Literature. Additionally, she has had several publications in Poe Studies, a journal dedicated to understanding the multidimensionality of Edgar Allan Poe.

Publications

Books and Book Sections

Arthur Sherburne Hardy: Man of American Letters. Preface by Louis J. Budd. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1986.

Mentioned in American Literature; reviewed favorably by Glenn O. Carey in American Literary Realism and by Thomas Daniel Young in University of Mississippi Studies in English.

Essays on Charles Hodge, Edward Palmer, and Joseph Palmer in Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.

Entry on Charles Brockden Brown in Biography of United States Literature. Ed. Kent P. Ljungquist. Columbia, SC: Manly, 1994.

"'The Raven' and 'The Bracelets': Another Source for Poe's Poem," in Poeand His Times. Ed. Benjamin F. Fisher IV. Baltimore: Edgar Allan PoeSociety, 1990.

Essays on Russell Baker and Sarah Kemble Knight in Encyclopedia of American Humorists. Ed. Stephen Gale. New York:Garland,1988.

Essays on Cincinnati Mirror and Baltimore Monument in American Humor Magazines and Comic Newspapers. Ed. Davis E. E. Sloane. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986. 

Articles

"Beauvoir College (Wilmar, AR): The Erskine of the West," The Associate Reformed Presbyterian, February, 1992.

"Little Benjamin' Goes West: Associate Reformed Presbyterians in Drew County," Drew County Historical Journal, December, 1990.

"The Supreme Madness: Revenge and the Bells in 'The Cask of Amontillado', "UMSE, 1987.

"An Early Imitative Ape: A Possible Source for 'The Murders in the RueMorgue'," Poe Studies, December, 1987.

"Another Source for 'The Black Cat'," Poe Studies, December, 1987. 

Scholarly Presentations (Representative List)

'Done Damned': Preachers in William Faulkner and Harold Frederic," Arkansas Philological Association, 1993.

"The New Nation and Its New Women; Identity and Independence," Mississippi Philological Association, 1993.

"Independent Vistas: Landscape as Identity," Arkansas Philological Association, 1992.

"Feisty Little Ladies: Perspectives on Aging in New England Regional Fiction, "Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992.

"Ishmael's Imperfect Resurrection," Arkansas Philological Association, 1991.