Selected Works

Note: These works represent several stages of my research and writing career, published under the names Kathryn L. Brogdon, Kathryn Brogdon, and K.L. Sommer.

Books & Monographs

Selected Articles & Contributions

(Co-authored with Melville Holmes)

  • “A Grand Tour: Images of Italy” (Art Chowder)
  • “Norman Rockwell’s America: The Art of the Commonplace” (Art Chowder)
  • “The Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University” (Art Chowder)
  • “Reaching for the High Barre” (Art Chowder)
  • “Images About the American West” (American Art Review)
  • “Collector’s Eye” (Western Art & Architecture)

Academic & Archival Research

  • 19th-Century Browning literary criticism database & transcription project (Wedgstone Press, 2005-06)
  • “The Library-Museum: An Inquiry Into the Nature of a Hybridized Cultural Institution” (Thesis, Baylor University, 2002)
  • Southwest Spanish linguistic research (Hispanic Research Center, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995)

Works in Progress

  • Passport to the Davenport: A comprehensive examination of the architectural symbolism of a legacy hotel.

Essays & Cultural Commentary

Sideline Projects