Catherine Keohane

Biography

Catherine Keohane is the Director of Faculty Development in the Office for Faculty Excellence (OFE). She has a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. She supports faculty of all ranks in their career development. Catherine oversees OFE’s support of faculty research and writing. She works with faculty to support both student and faculty belonging, and is the OFE lead on Strong Student Campaign communications.

Her composition textbook, Intersections: A Thematic Reader for Writers, co-authored with Emily Isaacs, is published by Bedford/ St. Martin’s. She has published articles in ELH, Writing Program Administration, Studies in the Novel, and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and has presented papers at conferences including POD, MLA, CCCC, and ASECS. She is currently working on a book-length project about charity and gift exchange in eighteenth-century British literature. She began working at Montclair in 2001, teaching in the First-Year Writing Program. She previously served as Director for Writing Placement in the First-Year Writing Program.

She is an executive board member for To Improve the Academy, and she is also the President of the Burney Society (North America): https://burney-society.org/

​Make an appointment with her: https://montclair-faculty-excellence.libcal.com/appointments/.


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Education

• BA, Columbia University
• MA, Rutgers University
• PhD, Rutgers University