Kathleen Woodward
Kathleen Woodward is an American academic. She is a Lockwood Professor in Humanities and in English at the University of Washington and has been the Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. Her areas of specialization include 20th-century American literature and culture; discourse of the emotions; technology and science studies; and age studies; digital humanities; and gender, women, and sexuality studies. She is working on risk in the context of globalization and population aging. Her writing talks about the invisibility status of older women and she advocates for an arena of visibility. Education Born Kathleen Middlekauff, Woodward attended Smith College where she received a B.A. in economics in 1966. She later attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a Ph.D. in literature in 1976. Career Woodward taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. She has received institutional grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1981 to 2000, she was the director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also taught in the Department of English and interdisciplinary program in Modern Studies. From 1995 to 2001, she was also the president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and continues today to serve on its international advisory board. From 2000 to 2005, she served as chair of the national advisory board of Imagining America, a network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions who work to foster the development of campus-community partnerships. From 2003 to 2009, she served on the board of directors of the National Humanities Alliance. From 2009 to 2013, she served on the executive council of the Modern Language Association. She is currently a member of the steering committee of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and the Senate of the national organization of Phi Beta Kappa. Personal life Woodward married journalist Bob Woodward, her high school sweetheart, shortly after graduating from Smith in 1966. They divorced in 1969. Works Books Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) At Last, the Real Distinguished Thing: The Late Poems of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams (1980) Edited books Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (1999) The Myths of Information: Technology and Postindustrial Culture (1980) Memory and Desire: Aging--Literature--Psychoanalysis (1986) (co-editor) The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions (1980) (co-editor) Aging and the Elderly: Humanistic Perspectives in Gerontology (1978) (co-editor) Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Selected essays "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. "Tribute to the Older Woman: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Ageism". Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life, ed. Mike