Kathleen E. Urda, Department chair

Kathleen E. Urda is Chairperson and Professor of English at Bronx Community College, CUNY, where she has served as a faculty member since 2007. Dr. Urda is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, as well of Catholic literature and film, and her work has appeared in journals such as Philological Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Women’s Writing, and Logos, as well as in several edited collections. A proud native of South Bend, Indiana, Dr. Urda has happily made her home in New York City for many years and considers herself equally a Midwesterner and a New Yorker.

Selected Publications

“Adaptation in Strange Places: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder and the Narrative Form of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela,” Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices, edited by Sharon R. Harrow and Kirsten T. Saxton, 234 – 249. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020.

“Buried in Plain Sight: Jane Austen’s Gothic Critique of Interiority in Mansfield Park and Persuasion,” Women’s Writing vol. 27, no. 2 (2020): 134 –149. Published online November 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2017.1402988

“Deromanticizing Dead Women: Vera Caspary’s Laura and the Tradition of the Murderous Male Aesthete,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 60, no. 3 (2018): 293-315. https://muse-jhu-edu.bcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/article/702281.

“Escaping Type: Nonreferential Character and the Narrative Work of Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones,” Philological Quarterly, vol. 96, no.2, (Spring 2017): 219-238.

“Eros and Contemplation in Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, vol. 19, no.1 (Winter 2016): 130-147.

Personal Website

https://bcc-cuny.academia.edu/KathleenUrda