Dr. Kate Schaab, Associate Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr. Kate Schaab is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Chair (ISD). She teaches in the American Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies programs. Dr. Schaab's research focuses on dystopian literature, reproductive justice, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Her recent work has appeared in The Journal of Popular Cultural, Women’s Studies, Critical Studies in Television, and the Handbook of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Administration.

Email: kschaab@kennesaw.edu 

 

MAST Courses Taught:  

  • AMST 7000: American Studies Scholarship  
  • AMST 7200: American Social Movements 
  • AMST 7330: Identities and Social Groups  
  • AMST 7420: American Popular Culture

Select Publications:  

  • Schaab, K. (2026). Cruelty, reproductive injustice, and communities of fate in Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks. Extrapolation, 67(1), 57-72. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2026.5
  • Schaab, K. (2025). Navigating trauma and grief: The power of learned resilience and nostalgia in Meg Elison’s The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 7(2), 2- 17.   
     
  • Schaab, K. (2024). Interdisciplinary curriculum. In R. Szostak (Ed.), The Edward Elgar handbook of interdisciplinary teaching and administration. Edward Elgar Publishing. 
     
  • Schaab, K. (2022). Misogyny survives the apocalypse: The collapse of reproductive justice in Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Ling Ma’s Severance. Women’s Studies, 51(1), 1-17.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2021.2005598

  • Schaab, K. (2020). Upending the status quo: Power-sharing and community building in Schitt’s Creek. Critical Studies in Television, 15(2), 148-161.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602020916449