Faculty

Kim Anderson

Assistant Professor of English

Education

  • Ph.D., English Literature (British and Commonwealth), Florida State University, 2012–18
  • M.A., English Language and Literature/Letters, DePaul University, 2009–11
  • B.A., English Language and Literature/Letters, double-minor in Spanish and Classical Studies, St. Norbert College, 2005–09

Courses

  • Core:
    • British Literature I
    • College Composition
  • English Major:
    • Modern Usage and Grammar

Teaching Positions & Professional Experience

  • Faculty, Southern Virginia University, 2026–present
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Virginia Military Institute, 2020–26
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wittenberg University, 2018–20
  • Manager, Midtown Reader LLC, 2016–18
  • Graduate Assistant, Florida State University, 2012–17
  • Clerk, Women & Children First, 2009–12
  • Adjunct English Instructor, DePaul University, 2011–12
  • Graduate Assistant, DePaul University, 2010–11

Scholarship & Creative Work

  • “Nature and Nurture: Les Deux Amanz and Marie de France’s Deconstruction of Aristotelian Rational/Material Binaries,” Medieval Ecocriticisms vol. 3, 2024
  • “Yonec’s Mother: Rereading the Signs of the Maternal Body,” Le Cygne: Journal of the International Marie de France Society, 2017
  • President, DePaul English Graduate Student Association, 2009–11
  • “Becoming the Sibylline Astrologer: Invention, Inheritance, and Identity in Christine de Pizan’s “Le livre du chemin de longue étude,” Medieval Feminist Forum vol. 60, no. 3
  • “Guildeluëc and the Virgin Mary: Legitimizing the Abbess as Holy Mother”

Awards, Leadership & Service

  • Outstanding Teaching Award, Wittenberg University, 2020
  • Senate Ethics Award, Florida State University, 2015
  • First place in Critical American Literature and Film category, St. Norbert College, 2009

Memberships

  • Modern Language Association, 2017–present
  • Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2015–present
  • Medieval Academy of America, 2015–present
  • Southeastern Medieval Association, 2014–present
  • UFF-FSU-GAU, Department Representative, Treasurer, President, 2012–17