Kathleen Woodward
Kathleen Woodward is an American academic. She is a Lockwood Professor in Humanities and in English at the University of Washington and has been the Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. Her areas of specialization include 20th-century American literature and culture; discourse of the emotions; technology and science studies; and age studies; digital humanities; and gender, women, and sexuality studies. She is working on risk in the context of globalization and population aging. Her writing talks about the invisibility status of older women and she advocates for an arena of visibility. Education Born Kathleen Middlekauff, Woodward attended Smith College where she received a B.A. in economics in 1966. She later attended the University of California, San Diego, where she earned a Ph.D. in literature in 1976. Career Woodward taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. She has received institutional grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1981 to 2000, she was the director of the Center for Twentieth Century Studies at the