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Professor
CMU 206
616-2647 (voice mail)
Email: kw1@u.washington.edu
B.A., Smith College (economics), 1966
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1976
Twentieth-century American Literature and Culture, Discourses of the Emotions, Technology and Science Studies, Age Studies
Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, is Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a broad-based network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions devoted to fostering the development of campus-community partnerships. The author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980), Woodward is completing a book on the cultural politics of the emotions entitled Statistical Panic and Other New Feelings. She has published essays in the broad crossdisciplinary domains of technology and culture, aging, and the emotions in many journals, including New Literary History, Discourse, differences, and Cultural Critique, and is the editor of Figuring Age: Women-Bodies-Generations (1999) and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980). From 1986-1995 she coedited Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. She has received grants from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Brookdale Foundation and the International Longevity Center-U.S.A. From 1995-2001 she was Chair of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, an international organization of over 140 members. Woodward holds a B.A. in Economics from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego.
