Kristin Pitt
Associate Professor
WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES AND FRENCH, ITALIAN & COMP LITERATURE
Curtin Hall 524
Pronouns she/her/hers
Fall 2022 Office Hours
Held in person Mondays from 1-1:50pm, in person, Curtin 524, and
Tuesdays, virtual, on Zoom, https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/96965027571
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
Research Interests
Modern and contemporary narrative in the Americas
Discourses of the body
Women’s studies
Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latin@ 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.