Kate Faber Oestreich

Contact Kate Faber Oestreich

843-349-6602 koestrei@coastal.edu

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Tuesday/Wednesday 10:30am - 11:00am

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I know only one thing about the technologies that await us in the future – we will find ways to tell stories with them.” – Jason Ohler

Biography

Kate Faber Oestreich (pronounced A-Strike) is Associate Professor of English and the Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Writing Program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina (USA). She and Jennifer Camden co-authored a book entitled, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (2018). Her scholarly articles have been published in Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, College English Association Critic, Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorians Institute Journal, and the edited collections Neo-Victorian Madness and Straight Writ Queer. Oestreich serves as Co-Director of Digital Communications for both the Centre of Nineteenth-Century Studies International and the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and is an Ex-Officio Board Member for the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.

Education 

Ph.D., The Ohio State University 
M.A., The Ohio State University 
B.A., The Ohio State University 

Research Areas

Her areas of specialization include British literature of the long nineteenth century, multimodal writing, adaptation and film, digital storytelling, and critical theory, especially those concerning new media, feminism, and cultural materialism.