Kathryn Anne Wade

Bio

Kathryn Wade is a scholar in Liberal Studies and Motherhood Studies. She works as an Advising Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgetown University. Kathryn received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from Georgetown University, a master’s degree in cultural anthropology from George Washington University, and a doctoral degree in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University. Kathryn is inspired by enduring human questions of selfhood, and, as the mother of two, her current research focuses on literary moms and the motherhood experience. Kathryn lives in the District of Columbia with her spouse and two daughters.

Practicing Motherhood: Shifting the Paradigm from Good Mother to Existential Ways of Being