Catherine Mainland
Department of English
Bio
Catherine Mainland studied German in her native Scotland before moving to North Carolina in 2001. She received her MA and PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2003 and 2006, then a second MA in English Literature from NC State in 2008. She teaches a range of American and Western World Literature survey courses and ENG 305: Women and Literature. She also teaches regularly in the NC State Honors and Scholars Program, and she is on the advisory board of the MALS program, for which she develops and teaches graduate seminars.
Given her diverse research background, she considers herself a generalist. She has published and presented on Kate Chopin, Georg Hermann, Mary Shelley and ETA Hoffmann, and literature pedagogy. Her recent conference presentations examined domestic colonialism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and male hysteria in the works of Hawthorne, which is part of her broader research project in American and World literature.
In her spare time, Dr. Mainland writes fiction, reads in English, German, and Dutch. If no-one else is available, she’ll also talk about fiction to her cat, who enjoys this immensely. Her other hobbies include traveling, playing chess, practicing banjo, and eating.