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Research Interests / Recherches

Kimberly holds a BA in Modern Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, as well as a BA in French and English and an MA in English from the University of Geneva. She wrote her master's thesis on enfreakment in the American fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz, and some of its modern reinterpretations. Her PhD thesis will focus on allegories of race, gender, and sexuality and the debates that surround them in contemporary fantasy literature and film.

Publications

"Writing, Performing, Gendering the Wicked Witch of the West" in Writing American Women. Eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Agnieszka Soltysik. SPELL 23. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2009: 123-45.

Conference Papers / Présentations

"Making the 'Monstrous' Visible? The Question of Passing in Contemporary Fantastic Film and Television" at the joint AAAS and SANAS conference "The Visual Culture of Modernism" in Innsbruck, 12-14 November 2010.

"On District 9: The Alien as the Racial Other" at the seminar "Screening Cultural Diversity", part of the ESSE conference in Torino, Italy, 24-28 August, 2010.

"Sullied Blood, Semen, and Skin: Vampires and the Specter of Miscegenation" at the University of Hertfordshire conference "Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture" in Hatfield, England, 16-17 April, 2010.

"Writing, Performing, and Gendering the Wicked Witch of the West" at the SANAS Conference "Writing American Women: Text, Gender, Performance" at Crêt-Bérard, Switzerland, 14 November 2008.