Degrees Held
B.A. 1990, Oberlin College
M.F.A. 1996, San Francisco State University
Ph.D. 2006, University of Pennsylvania
Academic Summary
Poet and critic Kathy Lou Schultz completed her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Fellow at the Center for Africana Studies. Among her other awards are the Authors’ and Editors’ Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society and the Michael Rubin Award for her first book of poetry, Re dress (SFSU). She has published poems in a wide variety of journals including Fence, Hambone, Electronic Poetry Review, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, her critical and creative work has been anthologized in a number of collections, including Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Press), Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry (Miami University Press), and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press). She is currently completing a critical study of Afro-Modernist poetry and poetics that considers Melvin Tolson, Amiri Baraka, Erica Hunt and others as part of a lineage of black modernist writing extending through the twentieth century. Sound files of Kathy Lou Schultz reading her poetry may be downloaded from PennSound.
Courses Taught
2202 Literary Heritage: African American Emphasis
3325 African American Literature through the Harlem Renaissance
3326 African American Literature since the Harlem Renaissance
3327 American Literature to 1890
4322 American Literature: Major Writers Since 1860
4372 Major African American Authors through the Harlem Renaissance
7327-8327 Studies in Form and Genre: African American Literature
7392-8392 Modern American Poetry
7467-8467 African American Literature, Beginnings to 1900
Major Publications
- Biting Midge (Belladonna, 2008)
- Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002)
- Genealogy (a+bend press, 1999)
- Re dress (San Francisco State University, 1994) *Winner of the Michael Rubin Poetry Award
- "On Myung Mi Kim." Efforts and Affections: Women Poets on Mentorship. Eds. Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker. University of Iowa Press, 2008.
- “Melvin B. Tolson.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, 2005.
- “Small Press, Big Wor(l)ds: African American Poetry from Publication to Archive.” Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Ed. Keith Tuma. Miami University Press, 2005.
- "Proceed Queerly: The Sentence As Compositional Unit." Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Ed. Mary Burger, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy, and Gail Scott. Coach House Press, 2004.
- "Rock and a Hard Place: Erica Hunt and the Poetics of African American Postmodernity," HOW2, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 2001
- "Talking Trash, Talking Class: What's a Working Class Poetic and Where Would I Find One?" Tripwire No. 1, February 1998
