Dr. Natasha Kohl

Assistant Professor of English
Phone: ext. 2283
Email: kohln@centenarycollege.edu

Academic Accomplishments

• Ph.D  Fordham University, 2011
• BA University of New Mexico

Biography

Professor Kohl received her Ph.D in English from Fordham University.  She studies nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, specializing in race studies and education history.  Professor Kohl teaches a range of American literature courses at Centenary, including Survey of American literature, Ethnic American literature, and Literature to Film. She has taught two special topics courses, “Representing Race in American Literature and Culture” and “Inside (and Outside) the American Dream:  the Suburbs in American literature,” which reflect her scholarly interest in race and housing. She is currently revising an accepted article for MELUS on education in Frank Webb’s The Garies and their Friends and is working to revise her dissertation project, “Manipulation and Resistance: White Teachers and Black students in Nineteenth Century American Literature”, for publication. Professor Kohl pursues additional scholarly interests in pedagogy and the politics of race and class in the higher education classroom.  She serves as the faculty advisor for the campus’s NAACP chapter.