Kathleen L. Nichols

Kathleen L. Nichols is Professor Emerita of English at Pittsburg State University where, for over thirty-five years, she taught a wide variety of classes such as The Realistic Period in American Literature, Emily Dickinson, The Jazz Age in American Literature and Culture, American Gothic, and The Goddess in Myth and Literature. In 1978, she also co-founded and, for the next twenty-three years, directed the Women's Studies Program at PSU. Prior to that, she taught at Texas Tech University and the University of Nebraska--Lincoln where she also received her Ph.D. in 1975.

She has had articles, essays, and reviews published in American Women Writers; College English; Contemporary American Women Poets; Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual; Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies; Literary Encyclopedia; Kansas English; Midwest Quarterly; Notes on Modern American Literature; Perspectives on Contemporary Literature; Regionalism and the Female Imagination; Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; Theatre History Studies; and Women and Western American Literature, and has had articles on Anne Sexton reprinted in Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale (1988) and in Sexton: Selected Criticism (1988), on Willa Cather in Critical Essays on Willa Cather (1984), and on Ernest Hemingway in Contemporary Literary Criticism (1981).

Her recent projects include co-editing The Emerging 'New Woman': American Women's Short Stories 1865-1917 (2013) and editing a collection of Native American myths, narratives, and songs for Turning Points - Actual and Alternate Histories: Native America from Prehistory to First Contact (2007), and she published articles on Sylvia Plath in A Companion to American Gothic (2014) and on the novels of Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko in Goddesses in World Culture (2011).