Kathryn Hume

Kathryn Hume (born 1945) is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction. Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University. She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988. Education Hume graduated from Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.

Works The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and its Critics, 1975 Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, 1984 Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow, 1987 Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, 1992 American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960, 2000 Surviving your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs, 2005, 2010 Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel, 2012 The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960, 2020