Katie is an associate professor of English at Fisk University in Nashville, TN. She is the author of Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 (LSU Press, 2019). She is the co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (2022) with Monica Miller and Todd Hagstette. Her work has appeared in collections such as the Cambridge History of the Literature of the U.S. South (2021) and Southern Comforts (LSU Press, 2020), as well as in journals such as PMLA, College Literature, the Southern Literary Journal, and Global South.