Katherine Harris

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First name: Katherine
Middle Name: D.
Last name: Harris
Job title: Tenured Assistant Professor
Website: http://triproftri.wordpress.com
Brief Bio: Researcher, mad triathlete, cook.
Full Bio: Katherine D. Harris (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris), a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, San José State University, specializes in Romantic-Era and 19th-century British literature, women’s authorship, the literary annual, 19th-century history print culture and history of the book, textuality, editorial theory, Digital Humanities, and pedagogy. Her work ranges from pedagogical articles on using digital tools in the classroom to traditional scholarship on a “popular” literary form in 19th-century England. She chronicled her teaching adventures in the March 2011 blog, A Day in the Life of Digital Humanities, along with 200 other participants (http://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/%7Edayofdh2011/katherineharris/2011/03/12/he...) which also turned into an article about the successes and failures of teaching with digital tools, “TechnoRomanticism in the Undergraduate Classroom: Using ‘Cool’ Digital Tools to Read Romantic-Era Literature” (Journal of Victorian Culture April 2011). For the MLA 2012 in Seattle, Harris organized and will chair an electronic-roundtable of digital pedagogy (http://triproftri.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/acceptance-of-pedagogy-dh-mla...). In her scholarly adventures, Harris’ research on 19th-century British literary annuals resulted in “Feminizing the Textual Body: Women and their Literary Annuals in Nineteenth-Century Britain” (Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America 99:4) and “Borrowing, Altering and Perfecting the Literary Annual Form – or What It is Not: Emblems, Almanacs, Pocket-books, Albums, Scrapbooks and Gifts Books” (Poetess Archive Journal 1:1, http://paj.muohio.edu/paj/index.php/paj/article/view/23), two articles that are part of a larger work on the literary history of annuals (http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/FMNWork/FMN_Proposal.pdf). She edits an online resource for the study of literary annuals, The Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/anthologies/FMN/Index.htm), most of which has been re-coded into TEI and incorporated into the Poetess Archive Database (http://unixgen.muohio.edu/%7Epoetess/) edited by Laura Mandell. Harris’ most current work is an edited collection of Gothic short stories from the 1820s’ most popular annuals, forthcoming with Zittaw Press (Fall 2011).