Kathryn Hume (born 1945) is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University. She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.

Education

Hume graduated from

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University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

Works

* ''The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics'', 1975 * ''Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature'', 1984 * ''Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow'', 1987 * ''Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos'', 1992 * ''American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960'', 2000 * ''Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs'', 2005, 2010 * ''Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel'', 2012 * ''The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960'', 2020

References

American academics of English literature Pennsylvania State University faculty 1945 births Living people Harvard University alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni {{US-academic-stub