Manipulating Masculinity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

(Cover painting by WWII combat artist Reuben Kadish; courtesy of the U.S. Army)

With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University, Kathy Phillips has published four books and twenty articles including Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature (2006), This Isn't a Picture I'm Holding: Kuan Yin (2004), Virginia Woolf against Empire (1994), and Dying Gods in Twentieth-Century Literature (1990); and "Between the Third Sex and the Third Reich: Brecht's Early Plays," "Jane Harrison and Modernism," and "Exorcising Faustus from Africa: Wole Soyinka's The Road ."

Areas of Interest
20th-century literature, literature of war, gender studies, post-colonial literature

Education
BA, Dickinson College
PhD, Brown

Awards
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in Teaching Award 1990