Rate My Professor Katharine Schaab

Katharine Schaab is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Associate Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University. She teaches in the American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies programs. Her undergraduate courses include AMST 3740: American Popular Culture, GWST 1002: Love & Sex, GWST 3030: Gender in Popular Culture, GWST 3090: Transnational Feminism, ISD 1198: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, ISD 3001: Integrative Approaches to Social Justice and Inclusion, and ISD 4498: Senior Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies. Graduate courses include AMST 7000: American Studies Scholarship, AMST 7200: American Social Movements, AMST 7330: Identities and Social Groups, and AMST 7420: American Popular Culture. Schaab's research interests include dystopic literature, reproductive justice, intersectional feminisms, trauma and grief, learned resilience and nostalgia, interdisciplinary curriculum, high-impact practices and applied learning in the interdisciplinary classroom, radicalizing white femininity, misogyny in apocalyptic contexts, power-sharing and community building, metacognition in interdisciplinary student learning, denigration of women’s bodies and sexuality in post-IRCA border narratives, racialized nationalism in border narratives, and aging women of color and sexual desire.

Schaab earned a Ph.D. in American Culture Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Bowling Green State University, an M.A. in English from Northern Illinois University, an M.A. in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College, and a B.A. in English Literature and Spanish from Miami University. Her key publications include "Navigating trauma and grief: The power of learned resilience and nostalgia in Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" (MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 2025), "Interdisciplinary curriculum" in The Edward Elgar Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration (2024), "Stacked high-impact practices (HIPs) and applied learning in the interdisciplinary classroom" (Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023), "Orphan Black and radicalizing white femininity for the revolution" (The Journal of Popular Culture, 2022), "Misogyny survives the apocalypse: The collapse of reproductive justice in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Ling Ma’s Severance" (Women’s Studies, 2022), "From general to interdisciplinary studies: A multi-stage curriculum intervention" (Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021), "Upending the status quo: Power-sharing and community building in Schitt’s Creek" (Critical Studies in Television, 2020), and "The denigration of women’s bodies and sexuality in post-IRCA border narratives" (Feminist Formations, 2019).