Krista Roberts
Instructional Assistant Professor
English
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 422j
Office Hours
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1pm-3 & by appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Current Courses
128.006Gender In The Humanities
128.007Gender In The Humanities
Teaching Interests & Areas
Women's literature, archival studies, life narrative, WGSS studies
Research Interests & Areas
I use posthuman relationality to study 18th & 19th century illness writing in order to reclaim women's and nonhuman life narratives.
PhD English Studies
Illinois State University
Normal, IL
English Education
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez
Puerto Rico
English Literature
University of West Georgia
Georgia
Excellence in Writing Instruction for Specialized Faculty
Rhetoric Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2023
Diversity and Equity in Teaching Award
Department of English Studies, Illinois State University
2020
Book Review
Roberts, K. Tougaw, Jason. The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience. Yale UP, 2018. a|b: Auto|Biography Studies (2021)
Roberts, K. Book Review: Banerjee, Mita. Medical Humanities in American Studies: Life Writing, Narrative Medicine, and the Power of Autobiography. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018.
Conference Proceeding
Roberts, K. Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. U.S. Studies Online (2017)
Other
Roberts, K. Digital Archives, Text Encoding Initiative, and Relationality: Locating Digital Life Writing/ Writing to the Future. What's Next? The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.2 (2017)
Roberts, K. What's Next? The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.2 (2017)
Presentations
“Am I Supposed to be Pro- or Anti-Biotic?: Reading Multivitamin Supplements as Collaborative Histories”. Life-Writing: Imagining the Past, Present, and Future. International Auto/Biography Association World Conference. (2022)
"Early Career Narratives: The Art of the Overshare". Life Writing: Imagining the Past, Present, and Future. International Auto/Biography Association World Conference. (2022)
"Teaching Women in Literature with Medical Life Writing: A Critical Reflection". Teaching Life Writing: A Conference on Nonfiction and Pedagogy. (2020)
“A Forensic Methodology for Uncovering Life Writing in Digital Archives.”. Lives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World.. International Auto/Biography Across the Americas. (2019)
“Does a life writing approach matter to non-life writing scholars?; or, Concept Blending as an Interdisciplinary Model.”. Lives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World. International Auto/Biography Across the Americas. (2019)
The Serialization of Diet: Food, Medicine, and Nineteenth-Century Medical Manuals. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. (2018)
Domestic Medicine, Domestic Authority: Medical Manuals and The Co-Constructive Nature of Identity. 64th Annual Midwest Conference on British Studies. (2017)