Katie Livingston
Stanford University
Department of English
450 Serra Mall, 460-201 kliving@stanford.edu
Stanford, CA 94305
Education
Stanford University, Stanford, CA Ph.D. candidate, English Stanford University, Stanford, CAMaster of Arts, English, March 2025
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Bachelor of Arts Major in English with High Honors, May 2021, GPA: 3.84/4.00
Research Areas
American Literature 1840-1940, Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, Local Color/Regionalism, The Short Story, Magazine Studies, Novel Studies, Material Culture.
Publications
2025 “Backward Desires: Unearthing Plot in Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs” J19 (under review)
2026 “In Defense of Destructive Scanning: When Destroying Books is an Act of Preservation” Interventions, Stanford Humanities Center (forthcoming)
2026 “Encoding Abortion: What Literatures of the Comstock Era Can Tell Us About a Post-Roe America.” Interventions, Stanford Humanities Center (forthcoming)
2024 “Preserving Cookbooks.” Vanishing Culture Report. Edited by Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, Juliya Ziskina, Internet Archive, 2024
Teaching
Instructor of Record
Fall 20206 “English 101 – English Composition 1” Menlo College
Fall 20206 “English 102 – English Composition 2” Menlo College
Spring 2025 “WISE Women Without Men: Experiments in American Literature from 1890-1940”
Designed and taught a writing-intensive seminar on feminist and queer theory and American Literature from 1890-1940. Students learned advanced research and writing skills, conducted archival research, and submitted a final, full-length research paper.
Course Assistant, Stanford University
Spring 2026 “Contemporary American Short Stories,” Gavin Jones and Jenn Trahan
Contributed to course design and content. Delivered weekly lectures on the course’s critical readings. Led weekly in-class activities. Led entirety of short story workshop class.
Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
Fall 2023 “Narrative and Narrative Theory,” Michaela Bronstein
Spring 2023 “Medieval Violence,” Max Ashton
Spring 2022 “Secret Lives of the Short Story,” Gavin Jones and Tom Kealey
Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University
Spring 2021 “New World Poetics,” Matthew Garrett, Spring 2021
Spring 19-21 Writing Certificate Program: Assistant Coordinator and TA, Anne Greene
Fall 2020 “American Literature, 1865—1945,” Sean McCann
Other Teaching Experience
Summer 2026 “Everyday Use: Domestic Objects in the Work of Black Women Authors of the 20th Century
Volunteering to design and teach a summer course at Hope House, Redwood City. The course will focus on Black women authors of the 20th century, particularly texts that explore the “everyday” domestic setting as a site of artistic and intellectual productivity.
Spring 2026 “Lit Mag”
Designed and taught a course at Stanford County Jail #3 with the Stanford Jail and Prison Education Program. The course teaches students how to design a literary magazine.
Fall 2024 “English 1A,” Faculty Diversity Internship, West Valley Community College
Shadowed Professor Christina Stevenson and assisted with her English 1A course through guest lecture and supporting students in their writing.
Summer 2025 “Writing ‘Any Time’: American Women Writers and the Short Story,” Hope House
Volunteered to design and teach a summer course at Hope House, Redwood City.
The course focused on American women’s influence on the short story as a genre.
Fall 2019 Young Adult Literature Student Forum, Wesleyan University, Fall 2019
Developed and taught a curriculum on the history of Young Adult literature and its representations of political ideology.
Undergraduate Advising
| 2025 | Stanford-CUNY Summer Research Program Mentor. Mentored and tutored four students in the Stanford-CUNY Summer Research Program in developing research and writing skills at the graduate level. |
| 2024-26 | Honors in the Arts Graduate Mentor. Advise students in the HIA program through the Stanford Arts Institutes. |
| 2024-25 | Undergraduate Thesis Mentor. Advised a student in the English department on their undergraduate thesis. |
Guest Lectures, Talks, and Podcasts
July 6 Podcast: Future Knoweldge, “The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie Livingston”
May 2026 Talk: Internet Archive Book Launch: Gave an in-person talk at the Internet Archive on the importance of preserving fragile cultural objects, such as cookbooks, at the Internet Archive’s book launch for Vanishing Culture and the launch of the Internet Archive Press.
May 2026 Talk: “Professionalizing Towards a Teaching Career” Gave a talk for the graduate students’ pedagogy committee on the steps one can take to become a better teacher and prepare for a teaching career.
May 2026 Panel: “Critical Creative Creative Work” Hosted and led a panel on the intersection of critical and creative work, featuring two English PhDs and two Stegnar Fellows.
Jan 2025 Podcast: “Ian Watt Lecture: Judith Butler, Lukacs On Kafka and Mann,” Interviewed Butler for The Center for the Study of the Novel Podcast
Dec 2024 Book Talk: Vanishing Culture, Presented for The Internet Archive with Luca Messarra and Chris Freeland.
Nov 2024 Guest Lecture: “English 1A,” Gave a guest lecture on library and research skills to Christina Stevenson’s English 1A class at West Valley Community College.
Nov 2023 Guest Lecture, “Narrative and Narrative Theory,” Delivered a guest lecture on James Baldwin’s “A Letter to My Nephew.”
May 2023 Guest Lecture, “Medieval Violence,” Delivered a lecture and led class discussion on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
May 2024 Panel: “The Short Story” Sat on a panel with other graduate students and Stagner Fellows to discuss teaching and writing the short story.
Conference Papers
May 2026 “Constructions of Race and Reproduction in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland and The Forerunner” Presented for the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society at the American Literature Association Conference
May 2026 “Teaching Studnets Who Are Having a Difficult Time” Presented for the Margaret Fuller Society at the American Literature Association Conference
Nov 2025 “Sincere Masquerade: Masculinity and Queerness in the Works of Willa Cather,” Presented for The Society for the Study of American Women Authors
Apr 2025 “Sterile Desires: Locating Plot in Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs,” Presented for FGSS Graduate Student Conference
Writing and Editing
Editor, Not Like the Rest: A New Literary Magazine in conjunction with the Stanford Jail & Prison Education Project
Editor, Stanford Arcade Colloquies: Queer Transpacifics, Black and Brown Intimacies Across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and Photography and the Archive in South Africa
Opinion Editor/Staff Writer, Wesleyan Argus, May 2019 – May 2021
Sports Editor/Staff Writer, Cameron Collegian, Lawton, OK September 2017 – December 2018
Summer Editorial Intern, Oklahoma Living Magazine, Oklahoma City, OK June 2018 – August 2018
Fellowships, grants, & awards
Tom Killefer Dissertation Fellow (for dissertations related to LGBT+ issues), Fall 2025-Present
Digital Public Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Fall 2025-Present
Preparing Future Teaching Professors Fellow, Stanford VPGE, Winter 2025
Winchester Fellow, Wesleyan University, May 2023
Olin Fellow, Wesleyan University, April 2019
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