Kate Marshall

Kate Marshall is the Founding Director of the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good. She relaunched the Institute in 2024, building on the work of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) in supporting liberal arts research in the College of Arts & Letters for 40 years. As Director of the Franco Institute, Marshall has continued the research support of ISLA and expanded the work of the Institute to foster large interdisciplinary projects in the liberal arts, built fellowship and residency programs, expanded training and faculty development for the College, and inaugurated a series of public programming events that reach the wider campus and local communities.

Marshall is a scholar of the novel, and the author of Novels by Aliens (2023), Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction (2013), and a recently-completed book on reading novellas in the age of attention, Time Enough at Last. She edited the Post45 book series at Stanford University Press for over 10 years with Loren Glass, publishing field-defining criticism on literature and culture after 1945. She is am also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, and received the Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair (2019) and the A. Bartlett Giamatti Award (2025) for her teaching there.