Kathryn Shevelow is a professor at the University of California, San Diego, United States. She is a specialist in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.^[1] In 1999, she won the Earl Warren College Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2005 she received UCSD's Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award.^[1] She grew up in southwestern Ohio and earned her doctorate from UCSD.^[1]

In 2008, Shevelow authored a history of animal protection, titled For the Love of Animals.^[2]

Works

• Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical (Routledge, 1990)
• Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress’s Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London’s Wild and Wicked Theatrical World (Henry Holt, 2005)
• For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animals Protection Movement (Henry Holt, 2008)