Kristin Pitt

Associate Professor, Global Studies (Comparative Literature Program)
Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003

Office Hours

Fall 2024:
Mondays, 10:30-11:20am, Women's Resource Center, UWM Student Union EG37
Mondays, 11:30am-12:20pm, CRT 524
Tuesdays, 11:30am-12:20pm, CRT 787

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary narrative in the Americas
Discourses of the body
Women's and Gender studies
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx studies

Selected Publications

Pitt, Kristin E. “The Vulnerable Harvest: Farm Workers, Food, and Immigration in the Contemporary United States” Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 41.2 (2016): 13-36.

Pitt, Kristin E. Review of Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century, eds. Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick 51.1 Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'histoire. 2016: 179-181

Pitt, Kristin E. “Discovery and Conquest Through a Poststructural and Postcolonial Lens: Clarice Lispector's A maca no escuro” Luso-Brazilian Review, Luso-Brazilian Review 50.1 (2013): 184-200.

Pitt, Kristin E. “Review of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández” Letras Femeninas 38.2. (2012): 274-276.

Pitt, Kristin E. Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas Palgrave Macmillan. 2010: 224

Pitt, Kristin E. “Denaturalizing the Plantation: Sexuality and (Re)production in the Short Fiction of Reinaldo Arenas” Forces of Nature: Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture Ed. Hyner, Bernadette H., and Stearns, Precious M. (2009): 132-152.

Pitt, Kristin E. “Resisting Colony and Nation: Challenging History in Maryse Conde's Moi, Tituba, sorciere... noire de Salem” Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 27.1 (2007): 9-19.