Kate Grover
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: Tisch Learning Center 305
Telephone: 518-580-5025
Email: kgrover@skidmore.edu
Kate Grover is a Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies. She earned her
Ph.D. in American Studies, with a concentration in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, from
the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her research and teaching interests lie
at the intersections of Feminist Theory, Film and Media Studies, and American Cultural
History.
A lifelong music fan, Kate uses her teaching, scholarship, and service to interrogate
issues of identity and equity in American popular music. A firm believer that music
is for everyone, Kate was a primary researcher for the Smithsonian Museum of American
History initiative, 鈥淧ass the Mic! Exploring the Power of Women in Music.鈥� She has
also been a regular volunteer with Girls Rock Camps in Austin, Texas and Washington,
D.C. Her current manuscript project examines women musicians鈥� activism against sexism
in the American music industry from the 鈥渓ong Sixties鈥� to the present. Arguing that
women musicians created diverse, yet distinct feminist practices in response to their
marginalization in the industry, this project historicizes women musicians鈥� feminisms
within and alongside contemporary activist movements. Kate鈥檚 other writing on American
music and pop culture has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,
the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Not Even Past, and Quarterly Horse: A [Brief]
Journal of American Studies.
In her teaching, Kate introduces students to interdisciplinary scholarly approaches
to help them develop a broad toolkit for investigating both the historical past and
their everyday lives. Some of her undergraduate courses include: 鈥淚ntroduction to
American Studies: Rock Music and Culture,鈥� 鈥淨ueer Space: From Bookstores to Ballroom,鈥�
鈥淧opular Music and Feminism,鈥� and 鈥淎 League of Their Own: Gender and Sports in Popular
Culture.鈥�