Kaitlin Tonti
Lecturer of English
ktonti@albright.edu
PhD, Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
MA, English Literature, Seton Hall University
BA, English, Seton Hall University
AA, English, Brookdale Community College
Biography
Kaitlin Tonti is an Instructor of English with ten years experience in teaching writing, literature, and upper level undergraduate courses in seventeenth and eighteenth-century literatures. Kait’s expertise is in early American literature with a focus in women’s life-writing, including letters and diaries, and poetry. She is currently working on an article and book proposal about eighteenth-century Quaker Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin and the rhetoric of gradual abolition poetry. Her current publications include “Milcah Martha Moore’s Commonplace Book and the Early American Editorial Function,” in Women’s Studies, and “A Biography for Aaron Burr’s Mom: Reading Between the Silence in the Correspondence of Edward Esther Burr and Sarah Prince” in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Kait enjoys exploring new ways of using life-writing in the first year writing classroom. She believes that all writing is a form of activism and outlet for understanding identity and culture.
Areas of Expertise
- Early American literature
- Women’s literature
- Lifewriting
- Materiality
- Pop culture
- First year writing
Scholarship
“A Biography for Aaron Burr’s Mom: Reading Between the Silence in the Correspondence of Edward Esther Burr and Sarah Prince.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Expected 2022.
“Milcah Martha Moore’s Commonplace Book and the Early American Editorial Function.” Women’s Studies Special Edition: Early American Women Unbound. 2021.
“Rewriting the Narrative: Hamilton and the Reclaiming of Archived Voices.”
The Hamilton Phenomenon. Ed. Chloe Northrop. 2021.
“American Literature Time Machine: Toward a Democratic Canon in the Undergraduate Survey Course.” Co-authored with Dr. Todd. Thompson. Teaching American Literature, vol.8, no.4. 2017.
“At the Cost of Truth: Hannah Lawrence Schieffelin and the Gradual Abolition Debate.” Modern Language Association. Washington D.C. 2022.
“At the Neighborhood Intersection of Equity, Division, and Diversity.” Roundtable. New
Jersey English College Association. South Orange, NJ. 2022.
“Performative Fan Fiction in the Time of Covid-19.” Panel Organizer and Chair. Northeastern
Modern Language Association. Baltimore, MD. 2022.