Kate Nesbit
Title: Assistant Professor of English
Department: Language, Literature, and Communication
Office Location: Jordan Hall 212
Phone: 641-628-5321
Email: nesbitk@central.edu
Degrees
B.A. from Saint Olaf College
M.A. from University of Iowa
Ph.D. from University of Iowa
About Kate Nesbit
Kate Nesbit joined the English department at Central College in 2019. She teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century British and world literature, as well as sound and media studies. Nesbit’s research focuses on the politics of listening and the voice, and her scholarship has been published in “ELH,” “Victorian Poetry,” “European Romantic Review,” “Studies in the Novel” and the “Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies.”
She is currently working on a book project about listening to reading aloud and the rise of the novel in 19th-century England.
For more on Nesbit’s scholarship and teaching, see her professional website, visit www.katenesbit.com.
