She is the author of Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative and Modernity (Routledge) and Kelly Reichardt (University of Illinois). Currently, Katherine is working on a book about stardom and questions of identity in the 1920s and 1930s. Additionally, Katherine writes popularly about mindfulness, writing, and popular culture and has appeared in Dilettante Army, Harpers Bazaar, Headspace, OZY and Salmagundi.