Kathryn Oliver Mills
Associate Professor of French and French Studies
Gailor 211
(931) 598-1222
kmills@sewanee.edu
French Language Courses
French 360: Explication de Textes
French 407: The 19th Century
Education:
University of Virginia: B.A. in Comparative Literature, 1984
Oxford University: B.A./M.A. in French Literature, 1987
Yale University: Ph.d. in French Literature, 1995
Profile:
An Echols Scholar and holder of the Honor Award Scholarship at the University of Virginia, Kathryn Oliver Mills studied French, German and English Literature for a B.A. in Comparative Literature. She then worked at a San Francisco corporate law-firm for a year before pursuing French Literature at St. John's College of Oxford University. After earning a B.A./M.A. in French Literature at St. John's she completed her studies for a Ph.d. at Yale University with a dissertation on Baudelaire's prose poetry vis à vis his poems in verse. Her primary interests lie in poetry, the stylistics of poetry and prose, nineteenth-century formal experimentation, and the problems of genre definition. Dr. Mills taught at the University of Texas Pan-American, Belmont University, and Vanderbilt University before starting at Sewanee in 1997. She has published articles on Baudelaire as well as reviews, and she is now researching the relationship between Baudelaire and Christianity.
