Kate Faber Oestreich is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, adaptation studies, and the ways multimodal and digital forms reshape reading and teaching practices. She is co-author, with Jennifer Camden, of Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (2018), and her articles appear in Adaptation, Brontë Studies, South Atlantic Review, Victorians Institute Journal, Nineteenth Century Studies, and several edited collections. Her recent work examines how immersive and interactive environments—from YouTube adaptations to collaborative digital editions—extend and transform nineteenth-century texts.

She is Pedagogy Consultant for the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE), where she has co-led international workshops on COVE Editions and Studio and developed resources for integrating annotation, timelines, and mapping into humanities courses.

Her professional service includes roles as Executive Secretary for the North American Victorian Studies Association, Deputy Associate Director (Digital) for the Centre of Nineteenth-Century Studies International, and board member of INCSA, INCS, and NCSA. Through this work and her leadership with COVE, she has helped to develop and sustain the field’s digital and organizational infrastructure, from collaborative teaching platforms to membership and communication systems.