Kathryn Koo  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D English, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
• M.A. English, University of California, Davis, 1997
• A.B. English and Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University, 1992

Fellowships:

• Gilder Lehrman Fellowship - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (2007)
• Robert L. Middlekauff Fellowship - Huntington Library (2007)
• Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship - American Antiquarian Society (2005)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Keeping Watch over Boston: Race, Anxiety, and the Rise of a Colonial City.
  Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  (2007)
• Reconsidering Slavery: Cotton Mather and the Trials of Slave Ownership.
  Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
  (2006)
• Cotton Mather, the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon, and the Making of Puritan Slavery.
  Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
  (2004)
• William Apess, Historical Trauma, and the Geography of New England.
  Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association
  (2004)
• Reflections on the Pequot War: Puritan History as Personal Narrative.
  Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association
  (2001)
• Perversity and Influence: "In Prison" with Edgar Allan Poe and Elizabeth Bishop.
  International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
  (1999)
• The Politics of Space: Domestic Spheres and Female Bodies in Beecher and Stowe's American Woman's Home and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  First International MELUS Conference
  (1997)

Invited Lectures

• Conformity and Difference: William Apess's A Son of the Forest and the Conversion Narrative Form.
  Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany
  (2004)

Publications:

• Koo, Kathryn. 2008. Slave Life in Colonial America, Colonial America: Perspectives in American Social History, ABC-Clio
• Koo, Kathryn. April 2007. Strangers in the House of God: Cotton Mather, Onesimus, and an Experiment in Christian Slaveholding, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 117, issue 1, pg.143-175