Sophie Kerr Reimagined
05/22/2025
In fall 2024, for the first time, 59 years after Kerr’s death, Washington College offered a course on her work, taught by English professor Elizabeth Foley O’Connor. The course, Feminist Modernism(s): Editing Sophie Kerr, analyzed six of Kerr’s short stories over the semester and contextualized her writing within the literary landscape of her era—literary modernism, a period spanning from the late 1800s through 1939.
