Kate Faber Oestreich
Associate Professor
Contact Kate Faber Oestreich
843-349-6602 koestrei@coastal.eduEdwards 211
Fall 2018 Office Hours:
Monday/ Wednesday 10:55 - 11:50am;
Wednesday 1:00 - 3:10pm;
or by appointment
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 has co-authored with Jennifer Camden (University of Indianapolis) a book entitled,Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (2018). Her scholarship and scholarly reviews have appeared in the Victorians Institute Journal, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, The CEA Critic, ARIEL, and the edited collection Straight Writ Queer. Oestreich serves on Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s Board and co-chairs NCSA’s Web and Publicity committee.
Education
Ph.D. in English, August 2008 Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
M.A. in English, June 2003 Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.A. in English, minor: Women's Studies, cum laude, March 1997, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Research Areas
Her areas of specialization include English literature of the long nineteenth century; digital storytelling and adaptation; critical theory, especially those concerned with new media, feminism, cultural materialism, and sartorial semiotics.