Katherine Kinney, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

(951) 827-5301
katherine.kinney@ucr.edu

Katherine Kinney (B.A. University of Washington; M.A., Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) teaches American and African American literature and film.  She is currently Chair of the English Department. In addition to a range of twentieth century American literature courses, Professor Kinney has taught classes on James Baldwin, "Hollywood in the 1960s" and the Borders of the American Novel. She is the author of Friendly Fire: American Identity and the Literature of the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2000).  She has published widely on the cultural impact of war in articles such as "Foreign Affairs: Women, War, and the Pacific" in Post-National American Studies (ed. John Carlos Rowe for the University of California Press); “Hanoi Jane and Other Treasons: Editing Women Out of the Sixties” in Women’s Studies; “The X-Files and the Borders of the Post-Cold War World,”Journal of Film and Video; "Black Soldiers in Liberal Hollywood" In War, Literature, and the Arts ; "Making Capital: War, Labor, and Whitman in Washington, D.C.," in Breaking Bounds: A Whitman Centennial Volume (ed. Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman for Oxford) and "Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato" in American Literary History.  Kinney is currently working on a book on Marlon Brando’s significance in post WWII American culture entitled Brando’s Promise: Hollywood in Changing Times (1945-1975). She is the Associate Editor of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association.