BA (Western), MA (Western), PhD (McGill)
Kait’s research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century Canadian fiction, especially the ways in which Canadian writers use literature to engage with philosophical ideas and interrogate contemporary cultural politics. Currently, she is working on two larger research projects: an introduction to feminism and Canadian literature (a collaboration with Andrea Beverley) and a literary history of the impostor syndrome.
Kait (she/her) first joined the King’s community as a Faculty Fellow in 2014 and has previously taught in the Contemporary Studies program. Since then, she has held a post-doctoral position in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University and is now an Associate Professor of English at Acadia University. She is excited to renew her connections to King’s as an Associate Fellow in Contemporary Studies.
Selected Publications
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“‘What was failure? What was success?’: Impostor Syndrome’s Literary Transformations.” Modern Fiction Studies, no. 70, vol. 3, Fall 2024, special issue on “Women Thinking in Public”
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The Contemporary Leonard Cohen: Response, Reappraisal, and Rediscovery, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023, edited with Joel Deshaye (Memorial)
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“Margaret Laurence’s Living Room War: Bringing Violence Home in The Fire-Dwellers.” American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, December 2022, pp. 402-421.
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“Sheila Watson as a Reader of Simone Weil: Decreation, Affliction, and Metaxu in The Double Hook.” The University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 4, Fall 2021, pp. 669-690. DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.90.4.01.
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“Action, Feeling, Form: The Aesthetics of Care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 44, no 1, Spring 2019, pp. 218-38. Winner of Herb Wyile Prize in Canadian Literature for best article published in 2019.
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“Difficult Compassion; Compassionate Modernism: Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel.” Canadian Literature, no. 225, Summer 2015, pp. 101-18. (Published April 2016).
