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Kate Stanley is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. She earned her PhD from Columbia University in 2013, her MA from the University of British Columbia in 2004, and her BA Hons from Queen's University in 2002. Her research and teaching focus on American literature from the nineteenth century to the present, particularly the relationships among literature, philosophy, especially pragmatism, and the role of aesthetic experience in humanities education within the context of climate change. Dr. Stanley's book, 'Practices of Surprise: American Literature and Emerson' (Cambridge, 2018), examines how major modernist writers and pragmatist philosophers utilize the experience of surprise as an aesthetic tool for engaging readers. She has co-edited works including 'William James Literary Studies' and contributed essays to notable journals such as PMLA and Modernism/modernity. Currently, she is working on a SSHRC-supported project that employs pragmatist pedagogical methods to address the climate crisis in humanities classrooms.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.