{"id":279,"date":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/facultystaff\/andreakastontange\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:31:31","slug":"andreakastontange","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/andreakastontange\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Kaston Tange"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrea Kaston Tange has been fascinated with Victorian fiction since, as a ten-year-old, she was duly impressed by Jane Eyre daring to take on her Aunt Reed\u2013and winning. Her research has focused in various ways on questions of identity in the period: from the relationship between domestic architecture and middle-class-ness (Architectural Identities: Literature, Domesticity, and the Victorian Middle Classes<\/em>, University of Toronto Press, 2010) to explorations of how the consolidation of the British empire required the active participation of children and impacted their lives (Children and Empire<\/em>\u00a0series, Routledge Press, 2012). Her current book-length project,\u00a0Imagined Encounters: Palimpsests of Victorian Travel<\/em>, examines how illustrating journalists, colonial settlers, and tourists, understood and represented themselves and others as they traveled the globe. Her most recently developed courses have focused on race in the Victorian period and include archival and digital projects that give students experience with many facets of research, writing, and editorial work.<\/p>\n

In addition to her nineteenth-century research, she has become increasingly interested in broader questions of public understandings of the value of the humanities\u2013including public intellectual work, digital humanities efforts, and debates about humanities careers, higher education funding, and what, exactly, the humanities are good for. To this end, she continues to amass a\u00a0<\/span>searchable collection of articles<\/a>\u00a0about the\u00a0<\/span>\u201cState of the Humanities<\/a>,” which informs her senior seminars and provides an openly-available resource on the topic. Her interest in intersections of digital work, pedagogy, and archival research have brought her to her current position as Director of Digital Liberal Arts at Macalester. Other national service includes serving on and\u00a0<\/span>chairing the Modern Language Association (MLA<\/span>) Committee on\u00a0Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities; having been on the Executive Committee, and President of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA); and serving currently as a member of the Advisory Board to the Midwest Victorian Studies Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a professor at Eastern Michigan University for fifteen years before joining the faculty at Macalester. She has served as President of the MMLA (2013-2014) and Editor of the\u00a0Journal of Narrative Theory<\/em>\u00a0(2013-2015).<\/p>\n

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