Dr. Kate Scarth
Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies
Associate Professor, Applied Communication, Leadership & Culture
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My Research
I am captivated by the intersection between place and story, and my research focuses more and more on the places I know well, especially in Atlantic Canada as well as literatures and culture in Canada more broadly. As the Chair of L.M. Montgomery Studies, I research and support others’ scholarly, community engagement, tourism, and heritage work on the celebrated Anne of Green Gables author. I connect this work to my original and ongoing scholarly love: the literary geographies and women’s writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially British Romanticism and writing by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and John Thelwall. While I am committed to historical literary studies, I also engage with innovations in the humanities and so digital humanities, public engagement, and interdisciplinary urban studies are core concerns of my scholarship.
My Teaching
I’m an Associate Professor in UPEI Faculty of Arts’ innovative program, Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture (ACLC). My classes instill the power and possibilities of the Liberal Arts in my students, especially in the suite of three “Putting Arts to Work” courses, and provide students with twenty-first-century skills like project management and marketing. With a PhD in English Literature, I have taught widely in literary studies, including introductions to literary theory and British Romanticism. In UPEI’s English department, I have taught “Writing by Women” (which covered the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth and had a final podcasting project) and “L.M. Montgomery” (we explored her life, contexts, works, and legacies).
Public Engagement
At UPEI, in the Montgomery community, and virtually through the digital humanities, I do extensive academic service and community outreach locally, nationally, and globally.
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