Kathy Pfeiffer

Dr. Kathleen Pfeiffer has been Professor of English at Oakland University since 1997 and has taught numerous courses in American literature and culture. She has published two books and several critical essays, academic work that often focuses on the boundaries that define personal identity. Race passing, interracial friendship, the search to know and understand another, the desire for self-invention, for self-creation – these are the themes that have driven her scholarly agenda. As a creative writer, Kathleen is working on a memoir of step-motherhood, a book that that is not simply a personal story, but one that asks larger, more resonant questions about how any of us find ourselves in the books we read.

• In the Beginning
• Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank