Katie Jo LaRiviere, PhD
Associate Dean for Propaedeutic Stage
Associate Professor of Literature
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Education
PhD: University of Oregon (2019)
MA: Montana State University (2012)
Certificate, College Teaching: Montana State University (2012)
BA: Seattle University (2008)
Courses taught
- Ancient Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Early Modern Literature
- Modern Literature
- 17th Century Metaphysical Poets
- Theoretical Issues in Literary Study
- Poetry and the Human Person
- Literature and Ethics
Research interests
- Medieval and Early Modern Literature
- Medieval Theology and Patristics
- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
- Theories of Selfhood and the Human Person, Personalism
- Critical Disability Studies
- Composition and First Year Writing Pedagogies
Select projects
- “Caregiving, disability and gender in academia in the time of COVID-19.” by Monica Schneider, Kathleen Muldoon, Katie Jo LaRiviere, Rachel Wagner, Abigail Hornstein, Leigh Graham, Stephanie Shepherd. ADVANCE Journal. (May 2021).
- “Play the Game but Refocus the Aim: Teaching WAW within Alternative Pedagogies.” Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing, ed. Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2019).
- “Lectio Divina and ‘Profitable’ Reading in Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions” in Philological Quarterly, 96.3 (2017) 323-48.
Professional associations
- Medieval Association of the Pacific, Councilor
- International Congress on Medieval Studies
- International Medieval Congress