Kate baldwin biography

Kate Baldwin is a scholar and teacher who specializes in comparative literary and cultural histories. Her first book, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, remaps black American modernism by addressing the involvement of African-American intellectuals with Soviet communism and a Russian intellectual heritage. Her most recent book, The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side (), examines the relationships between domestic space and cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. Looking at midcentury design, rulle, advertising, fashion, and literature, The Racial Imaginary shows how structures of feeling associated with U.S. domesticity were taken up, championed, reconstituted, and resisted in the Soviet Union during the s and s.

Baldwin’s past fellowships include the Pembroke at Brown University, a Mellon postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, and the Bunting Fellowship at Harva