Communications Coordinator

Biography

Katie Hodges-Kluck completed her PhD in history at UT in 2015 under the supervision of Dr. Jay Rubenstein.

Dr. Hodges-Kluck's research interests include: The Angevin Empire, medieval court culture, identity formation, memory studies, mythology and legend, chivalry and tournaments, Muslim-Christian relations, the Crusades, travel literature, intellectual movements, borderland studies, and travel narratives. Her dissertation, "The Matter of Jerusalem: The Holy Land in Angevin Court Culture and Identity, c. 1154-1216," examined how twelfth-century ideas about Jerusalem influenced the English identity of the Angevin court. She has also published on this topic. Her essay on the 12th century memory of Helena and Constantine received the Haskin Society's Denis Bethell Prize.

During her doctoral studies, Dr. Hodges-Kluck was the recipient of Marco's two major fellowships, the Anne Marie Van Hook Memorial Travel Fellowship and the Haslam Dissertation Fellowship, as well as the Humanities Center's Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Hodges-Kluck was a postdoctoral lecturer in the UT History Department during the 2015-16 academic year, and the Coordinator for Undergraduate Outreach at the UT Humanities Center. She is now the Program Coordinator and Research Associate for the Marco Institute.

Publications

• Katherine L. Hodges-Kluck, “Canterbury and Jerusalem, England and the Holy Land, c. 1150-1220,” Viator 49.1 (2018): 153-172
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• Katherine L. Hodges-Kluck, “Helena, Constantine, and the Angevin Desire for Jerusalem,” Haskins Society Journal 27 (2016): 129-48 (Recipient of the Haskins Society’s Denis Bethell Prize)
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• Brummett, Palmira and Katherine Thompson Newell, “A Young Man’s Fancy Turns to ‘Love’?: The Traveler’s Eye and the Narration of Women in Ottoman Space (or The European Male ‘Meets’ the Ottoman Female, 16th-18th Centuries),” The Journal of Ottoman Studies/Osmanlı Araştırmaları Dergisi 40, Part II: “Other Places: Ottomans Traveling, Seeing, Writing, Drawing the World— Essays in honor of Thomas D. Goodrich” (2012): 193-220
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