UW Simpson Center: Kathleen Woodward biography

Kathleen Woodward

Recent Essays

“The future of the humanities- in the present & in public,” Daedalus Vol. 138 Winter 2009: 110-123
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“Performing Age, Performing Gender,” NWSA Journal 18.1 (2006): 162-189.
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“A Feeling for the Cyborg,” Data made flesh: embodying information, eds. Robert Mitchell and Phillip Thurtle (New York: Routledge, 2004): 181-197.
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“Against Wisdom: The Social Politics of Anger and Aging,” Cultural Critique 51 (Spring, 2002): 186-218. Download pdf (11,654 KB)

“Calculating Compassion,” Indiana Law Journal 77.2 (2002): 223-45.
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“Traumatic Shame: Toni Morrison, Televisual Culture, and the Cultural Politics of the Emotions,” Cultural Critique 46 (Fall, 2002): 210-40.
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“Statistical Panic,” differences 11.2 (1999): 177-203.
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“Telling Stories, Aging, Reminiscence and the Life Review” Doreen B. Townsend Center Occasional Papers 9 (Doreen B Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 1997)
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“Anger…and Anger: From Freud to Feminism,” Freud and the Passions, ed. John O'Neill (University Park: Pennsylvania UP, 1996): 73-95.
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“Tribute to the Older Woman: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Ageism,” Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life, ed. Mike Featherstone and Andrew Werrick (London: Routledge, 1995): 79-96.
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“Late Theory, Late Style: Loss and Renewal in Freud and Barthes,” Aging & Gender in Literature: Studies in Creativity, ed. Anne Wyatt-Brown and Janice Rossen (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993): 82-101.
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Kathleen Woodward

Director

Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

Kathleen Woodward, Professor of English, has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions (2009), 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). She has published essays in the broad crossdisciplinary domains of the emotions, women and aging, and technology and culture in American Literary History, Discourse, differences, Generations, Indiana Law Journal, SubStance, Journal of Women’s History, Women’s Review of Books, South Atlantic Review, Studies in the Novel, and Cultural Critique. She is also the editor of Figuring Age: Women—Bodies—Generations (1999) and The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980) as well as the coeditor of Memory and Desire: Aging—Literature—Psychoanalysis (1986), The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (1980), and Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978). From 1986-1995 she coedited Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Woodward has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts and is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the International Longevity Center—U.S.A. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and a member of the Steering Committee of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). She served on the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance from 2003-2009 and from 2000-2005 was 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. From 1995-2001 she was President of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, an international organization of over 150 members, and she continues to serve on its International Advisory Board. Woodward was Director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1981 to 2000, where she taught in the Department of English and the interdisciplinary graduate program in Modern Studies. She has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Smith College and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at San Diego.

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