- kepitt@uwm.edu
- 414-251-5394
- Curtin Hall 524
Kristin Pitt
- Associate Professor, World Languages and Cultures
- Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Office Hours
Fall 2025:
Mondays, 11:30am-12:20pm, Women's Resource Center, UWM Student Union EG37
Wednesdays, 9:00am-9:50am, CRT 524
Wednesdays, 11:30am-12:20pm, CRT 787
Teaching Schedule
| Course Num | Title | Meets |
|---|---|---|
| SPANISH 225-001 | Understanding the Hispanic World: Women and War in Latin America | TR 10am-11:15am |
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary narrative in the Americas
- Discourses of the body
- Women's and Gender studies
- Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latine 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.