{"id":39,"date":"2017-09-14T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-05-13T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:52:28","slug":"dr-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/2017\/09\/14\/dr-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Kimberly Adams Offers Insight into Victorian Literature at Etown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Kimberly V. Adams of the English department<\/a> has interests and hobbies that stretch beyond the Victorian literature for which she is known on campus.\u00a0 You might be surprised to learn that she also rows boats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live in Philadelphia when I\u2019m not teach\"Dr.ing here,\u201d she said.\u00a0 In addition to a home in Philadelphia, she has an apartment in Elizabethtown to make it easier to come to the College to teach. \u00a0\u201cWhat I like to do is urban. I like to go to art museums, I like to travel, and in season\u2014it\u2019s just beginning to be season\u2014I row boats on the Schuylkill River.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has also been overseas.\u00a0 Since her husband is Dutch, she often goes to the Netherlands to visit his family.<\/p>\n

Reading Victorian Literature at Elizabethtown College<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 favored literary period\u2014and primary research subject\u2014is the British Victorian era. Her research interests have resulted in a published book project, Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot<\/em>. This book highlights another of her research interests: feminist and gender studies.<\/p>\n

Among the classes that Adams teaches, British Authors: The Bront\u00ebs is a popular one that allows students to engage with some of the most fascinating novels of the Victorian period, including Jane Eyre<\/em>, Wuthering Heights<\/em>, and Villette<\/em>.\u00a0 Students work to identify and discuss the Gothic elements in each work.<\/p>\n

She also teaches Major British Writers which serves as an introductory course to British literature by taking samples from the Romantic up to the modern periods. She and Dr. Suzanne E. Webster alternate teaching the course each spring.<\/p>\n

Julia Raup-Collado, a sophomore English literature major, took Major British Writers with Adams. \u201cYou can really tell when a professor is passionate and knowledgeable about a subject—and I think that I personally respond well to that,\u201d Raup-Collado said, reflecting on Adams\u2019s teaching.<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019s research interests have led to a natural partnership with the women and gender studies program at Elizabethtown College. She has recently contributed to a new interdisciplinary course called Visualizing Women in 19th<\/sup> Century Western Art and Literature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy, very much, teaching the students here. I like the way they\u2019re serious about their work and their careers. I like the way the different majors give people different strengths,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Colleen Wells is a senior English professional writing major who hopes to publish a novel at some point in her life. She is passionate about all things Byronic hero and enjoys attempting to analyze T.S. Eliot\u2019s poetry for the thousandth time.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Kimberly V. Adams of the English department has interests and hobbies that stretch beyond the Victorian literature for which she is known on campus.\u00a0 You might be surprised to learn that she also rows boats. \u201cI live in Philadelphia when I\u2019m not teaching here,\u201d she said.\u00a0 In addition to a home in Philadelphia, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,18,3,19],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career","tag-dr-adams","tag-literature","tag-victorian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}