Katherine Bergevin
Katherine Bergevin is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, specializing in anglophone literatures of the Atlantic world. She holds a graduate certificate in feminist scholarship from Columbia's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Katherine Bergevin
Doctoral Candidate, English and Comparative Literature
Katherine Bergevin is a PhD Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, specializing in anglophone literatures of the Atlantic world. She holds a graduate certificate in feminist scholarship from Columbia's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
Her dissertation examines the emergence in the long eighteenth century of recognizably modern representations of pregnancy and the foetus, in dialogue with the expansion of the penitentiary; ultimately demonstrating that descriptions of pregnancy, gestation, and childbirth comprised a vital thread within the emergence of modern structures of carceral discipline.
She has taught a variety of courses at Columbia, including Literature Humanities, University Writing, and the senior undergraduate seminar “Jane Austen and the Enlightenment Mind.”
Katherine holds a BA in English and History from the University of Toronto, where she also completed an MA in English supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada as a 2012 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Fellow. She is the current Rapporteur for the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture.
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