Rate My Professor Katie Kornacki

Dr. Kornacki teaches courses including American Literature, African American Literature, Women in Literature, Literature and the Environment, American Images in Literature, Literature of the Romantic Movement, The American Novel, and Coming of Age Literature. She incorporates experiential learning through field trips, such as visits to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a walking tour of Harlem for her African American Literature class in spring 2019, and outdoor excursions for Literature and the Environment. In 2017, she was selected as a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar for the institute 'Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller' in Concord, Massachusetts. Her dissertation is titled 'Margaret Fuller’s Conversations: Self and Other in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Intellectual Culture.' She founded and co-edits the Margaret Fuller Society’s newsletter, Conversations, and serves on its board. In 2024, she guest-edited a special issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory titled 'Intersectional Feminism.' She presented a paper entitled “'The Morning Star of Margaret Fuller': The Woman’s Club Movement and the Legacy of Fuller’s Conversations” and appeared on BBC World Service’s 'The Forum' discussing Margaret Fuller in 2022. She also presented on Frederick Douglass's connection to the women's rights movement.