Shared Futures

Marquette University

Christine L. Krueger
Director of Core of Common Studies
christine.krueger@marquette.edu

Dr. Christine L. Krueger, Director of the University Core of Common Studies and Associate Professor of English, oversees the on-going development, delivery and assessment of general education.  She has taught general education courses throughout her career at Marquette and has been involved in curriculum reform at departmental and university levels.  She has served on the University Strategic Planning Committee, the University Board of Undergraduate Studies, and is an elected representative to the Academic Senate.  In the English department, she has sat on the Executive Committee, Graduate Committee and Undergraduate Committee.  Additionally, she has been a McNair Educational Opportunity Program mentor, and received the Star Teaching Award by the National Residence Hall Honor Society.

Christine Krueger’s particular interest is in interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship.  She and Professor Shirley Wiegand of Marquette’s law school received the inaugural Way-Klingler Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching to develop collaborative courses in law and literature, which focus on advocacy for gender and racial justice.  She is the vice president of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, a pioneering interdisciplinary organization which comprises scholars in literature, history, philosophy, history of science, and art.  Her scholarship has addressed the relationships among literature, religion, law, and history in Britain in the long nineteenth century.  Her publications include The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time (Ohio University Press, 2002) and articles in literary, historical, legal and interdisciplinary journals.           

Krueger received her PhD in English from Princeton University and joined the Marquette faculty in 1985.  She has been a visiting Associate Professor at UCLA, and has held fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, American Philosophical Society, the Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.