Kathryn R. Kent

Kathryn R. Kent is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Williams College. She is the author of Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity (Duke, 2003), as well as numerous articles, one of which, like a chapter in her book, deals specifically with queerness and its relation to the dominant values of the Girl Scouts. She is currently at work on two book-length projects, one on modern lesbian writing and one on sexuality and nationality in the contemporary Girl Scout movement.