Dr. Catherine Waitinas

Education

Degree	Major Emphasis	Institution	Year
Ph.D.	English	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A.	English	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A/M.A	dual degree in English	St. Bonaventure University
	Study Abroad	Oxford University (Somerville College)

 

Director of CP English Department Study Abroad Program

“Scotland and England: Literature” Edinburgh, the Lake District, and the Yorkshire Moors
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Selected Courses

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman and James Baldwin
Literary Mesmerism
Literary Spaces: Text, Archive, Landscape
Early U.S. Women Writers
Transatlantic Romanticism
20th and 21st-Century Women Writers
Early through Civil War U.S. Literature

 

 

Selected Publications

Editor, with Maire Mullens. The Routledge Companion to Walt Whitman. Routledge Publishing, forthcoming.

 

“Mapping the Literature of Radical Empathy in Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Whitman’s Democratic Vistas.” Teaching the American Essay: Modern Language Association, MLA Options for Teaching Series, ed. Stephanie Redekop. MLA Press, forthcoming.

 

“I am the teacher of athletes: Every Atom #102.” Every Atom: Reflections on Whitman at 200, ed. Brian Clements. North American Review 9 Sept. 2019.

 

“Great Audiences ‘Absorb, Adopt it’: Walt Whitman’s ‘The Old Bowery.’” The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 36:2/3 (Winter/Spring 2019): 128-54.

 

“Putting Students ‘In Whitman's Hand.’” Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Ed. Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain. University of Illinois Press, 2018. 153-66. “Flipping Whitman: Students as Teachers.” With Sarah Wishnewsky. TALTP 10:1 (Fall 2018).

 

“‘Animal Magnetism’: The ‘Cotemporary’ Roots of Whitman’s ‘Is Mesmerism True?’” The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 34 (2016): 5-68.

 

“What Does It Mean to ‘Open’ Education?: Perspectives on Using OER from the Field at a U.S. Public University.” With L. Vanasupa, L. Schlemer, A. Wiley, D. Ospina, P. Schwartz, D. Wilhelm, and K. Hall. Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education, ed. Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss. New York: International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, 2016. 199-219.

 

“Tarot as ‘Secret Tradition’ in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins.’” Tarot in Culture, ed. Emily E. Auger. Clifford, ON: Valleyhome, 2014. 369-409.

 

“Gay and Godly: Coming to Jesus in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain.” The James Dickey Review 29:1 (Fall/Winter 2012), 22-34. Special Issue: American Masculinities.

 

“‘A Noiseless Patient Spider’: Whitman, Wikis, and the Web.” TALTP 2:4 (Spring 2009), 47–74.

 

“The Search for Identity, 1970–Present.” American Passages: A Literary Survey, ed. Laura K. Arnold et al. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting and Annenberg/CPB, 2003. 758–808.