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Katherine OstromAssociate Teaching Professor of Spanish and PortugueseFaculty Advisor, Casa Émory
Biography
Katherine Ostrom grew up in Minnesota and has lived and studied in Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, and Romania. She holds a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures and Cultures from the University of Minnesota.
Much of her research has centered on crime fiction by Latin American women writers. This subject has overlapped with film and television adaptations of literature, representation of LGBTQ and Black characters, and more recently pregnancy and abortion. She has published on the work of Claudia Piñeiro and Luisa Valenzuela of Argentina, Sonia Coutinho and Rubem Fonseca of Brazil, and Iris García Cuevas of México.
Dr. Ostrom has taught Spanish and Portuguese at Emory since 2011. She taught in the Iberian Studies summer program in 2015 and Brazilian Studies in 2018m and in 2023 she began directing the Argentine Studies summer program in Buenos Aires. In spring 2024 she created a new course on Spanish for Health Care. She loves chatting with students at the weekly Bate-Papo for Portuguese and Charlemos for Spanish.
Contact Information
Email
katherine.ostrom@emory.eduPhone
404-727-6435Office Location
S504 Callaway Center