• Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego
• MA in English Literature, Fordham University
• BA in English Literature, State University of New York, Plattsburgh

Areas of Research Interest

• Literary Modernism and the contemporary novel; cultural studies; Victorian studies; narrative theory; translation theory; cognitive poetics

Courses Taught

• Diasporic Literature
• Humanity Today: Between Science and Fiction
• Literary Theory
• Academic Writing and Research

Selected Publications

• Hart, K. (November, 2024). “Narrative Space and the Figure of the Refugee in the Early Life Writing of Ocean Vuong.” English Studies 105.7, 1123-1138. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2417490

• Hart, K. (September, 2023). “Adventures in Error: Social Science in the Sherlock Holmes Stories and Ulysses.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 49.2, 155-174. 10.6240/concentric.lit.202309_49(2).0008

• Hart, K. (July, 2023). “Memory and the Jungian Unconscious in J. G. Ballard’s Autobiographical Narratives.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2233440
• Hart, K. (July, 2023). “Criminal Bodies in Popular Victorian and Modernist Detective Fiction.” Victorian Popular Fictions, 5.1, 73-90. ISSN: 2632-4253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46911/WAYW2876
• Hart, K. (November, 2021). “Speaking the Unknowable: Speech Acts and Epistemology in Sophocles’ Antigone.”  Zzz Review.
• Hart, K. (Spring-Summer 2020). “Nondescript Specimens: Herbert Spencer’s Social Theory in Ulysses.”  James Joyce Quarterly 57, 3-4, 319-335.
• Hart, K. (July-December, 2018). “Graham Greene’s Aesthetics of Design, Sport, and Violence.”  Journal of Studies in the English Language, 13.2, 28-66.
• Hart, K. (2018). “Bakhtin, Dialogism, and a Literary Studies Approach to EFL.”  Proceedings of The International Conference on English Language Speaking.  The University of Social Sciences and Humanities Press: Ho Chi Minh City, 110-118.   
• Hart, K. (November, 2018). “Words Fail Us: Beckett, Leacock, and Johnson.” Irish Studies Review 26.4, 510-530.