Columbia, SC, 1866
Photographed by George N. Barnard
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Olin Hall 233
Telephone: (509) 527-5416
Fax: 509-527-5039
Email: knightnm@whitman.edu
Nadine Knight received her A.B. in English, with a certificate in German, from Princeton University in 1999. She received her A.M. in English and American Literature from Harvard University in 2001 and her Ph.D. in 2007. She is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Before arriving at Whitman, she was a Derrick K. Gondwe visiting fellow at Gettysburg College as a member of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in 2006-2007, and a visiting scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the 2005 school year.
Her teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction and non-fiction, the American Civil War, American protest literature, travel narratives, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and new media studies.
Her current research focuses on literary representations of Sherman's March to the Sea, in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other research projects in the works are an examination of the African American experience of Sherman's March, as well as an article on the United States Colored Troops. Departing from the Civil War, she is developing an interest in the cultural memory of Lewis and Clark--Walla Walla is a great location to begin this research. She also has a chapter about the 2003 remake of
Battlestar Galactica forthcoming in a collection of critical essays, and hopes to someday write about the HBO series
The Wire.
