Kate Baldwin
Associate Professor of American Studies
University Hall 20
Telephone: 847-467-1345
Fax: 847-467-2733
E-mail: k-baldwin@northwestern.edu
Kate Baldwin is a 20th-century Americanist who specializes in comparative theories of gender, race and ethnicity. Her work focuses on intersections between the mappings of identity and social history in a global context. Her first book, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-63 (Duke UP 2002), remaps black American modernism by addressing the involvement of African American intellectuals with Soviet communism and a Russian intellectual heritage.
Past fellowships include the Pembroke at Brown University, a Mellon post- doc at Johns Hopkins University, and the Bunting Fellowship at Harvard University. She has published articles in Cultural Critique, Diaspora, Modern Fiction Studies, Novel, and differences, and is working on a book titled Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Soviet and American Women during the Cold War, as well as a translation into English of the 1925 Russian text based on Claude McKay's lost English manuscript of Sudom Lincha/Trial by Lynching.
Her essay "The Recurring Condition of Nella Larsen's Passing " will appear in the Norton Critical Edition of Nella Larsen's Passing in 2007.
