Kathryn Hume


Kathryn Hume is an academic writer on medieval literature, 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 Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.

Works

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