Kimberly Coates, Ph.D.
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Kimberly Coates is a writer and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and an advanced certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Stony Brook University. Her research interests include literature and literary theory, feminist theory, and queer studies.
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Answered a Question in The Outcasts of Poker Flat
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Answered a Question in Kim Addonizio
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Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in The Dead
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Answered a Question in H. E. Bates
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Answered a Question in The Fall of the House of Usher
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Answered a Question in The Metamorphosis
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Answered a Question in Literature
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Answered a Question in Anna Quindlen
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Answered a Question in There There
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Answered a Question in There There
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Answered a Question in My Antonia
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