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Chair, Humanities Unit; Program Director, English; Program Director, Humanities; Associate Professor
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Katharine G. Trostel is Associate Professor and Unit Chair of Humanities at Ursuline College. She is a teacher-scholar and the humanities unit chair dedicated to building Ursuline’s capacity in the public humanities and its connection to the Rust Belt region since 2018. Recent activities include securing a grant through the Teagle Foundation's "Cornerstone: Learning for Living" initiative for, “Rhetorics of the Rust Belt: Framing Cleveland through Transformative Texts", actively working on a Modern Language Association's Pathways Step Grant for the project "Towards a Rust Belt Humanities Ecosystem" in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College and the non-profit organization Teaching Cleveland, and organizing a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Higher Education Faculty in 2023 entitled, "Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Rust Belt: Co-Creating Regional Humanities Ecosystems." She is the editor-in-chief of a new academic journal, Rust Belt Studies, and co-director of the Rust Belt Humanities Lab at the College.