Kathryn Ready
Associate Professor
English
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Dr. Kathryn Ready has general interests in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, with a focus on intellectual and cultural history, and a particular interest in women writers, religion, sociability, and politics, as well as intersections between science and literature. She received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant for a monograph project on the Aikins, a famous literary and Dissenting family that includes Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Aikin, Arthur Aikin, and Lucy Aikin. She has published numerous articles on the Aikins as well as on other eighteenth-century writers and coedited a collection on Anglo-French sociability in the eighteenth century.
Research Interest
Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture; women’s literature; science and literature.
