 Profile
| A Professor of English literature at the University of Connecticut Hartford, Lisa Kingstone received her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She attended Barnard College for her undergraduate studies and Columbia University for her Master’s degree.
She possesses broad teaching experience across 19th and 20th century English literature, as well as trauma literature in 20th century writing with an interest in how many of these writers borrowed the form and function of dreams to express the horrors of war.
Joining the University of Connecticut, Hartford faculty in 2003 as an English Professor, she previously taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of San Francisco, and Chapel School in São Paulo, Brazil. Her course offerings have covered Shakespeare, Gothic literature, the short story, African American literature, and Modernism among others.
A professional writer and editor as well as an academic, Kingstone’s stories, essays, and feature articles have appeared in publications such as Connecticut Magazine, Hadassah Magazine, the Hartford Courant, and Publishers Weekly. From 2002 to 2004, she worked as a Book Reviewer for Publisher Weekly, and she has also profiled prominent American writers Jonathan Safran Foer, Lemony Snicket, Sherwin Nuland, Sam Pickering, and Brian Morton, among others.
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