Karen Gindele
Associate Professor of English
Education
PhD Brown University, 1992
Karen Gindele received her A.B. in English Literature from Vassar College in 1981 and her Ph.D. in English from Brown University in 1992; she arrived at IU South Bend in 1994 after a long but safe journey. Her fields of specialization are nineteenth-century English fiction and literary and cultural theory. She has taught many of the English and western literature and theory courses in the undergraduate and graduate English programs as well as courses in the Women’s Studies and Honors programs. Her scholarly areas of interest are comedy theory and affect, especially the relations between thought and feeling. She loves the work of Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and thinks Jane Austen the most brilliant woman ever, even if she didn’t write novels of nine hundred pages with dense networks of metaphors on which you can spend quality time. Ms. Gindele likes to think that everything happened in the nineteenth-century, which, itself like a good Victorian novel, infinitely unfolds.
