Kathryne Slate McDorman was born and educated in the Deep South, a fact that explains her numerous eccentricities. After a peripatetic career travelling between Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, she, quite reasonably, moved to Texas in 1977 to teach British History. At TCU she teaches the survey of English History, Tudor-Stuart, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century history, and has developed a course in the Women's Movement in England and America 1792-1972.

Dr. McDorman has taken TCU students to study abroad to Oxford University, the Universities of Edinburgh, Canterbury, Durham and East Anglia. Usually she brings them back as well. She has done research at the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and at the Millicent Garrett Fawcett archives in London. She has written, and continues to write, about the connections between fiction and history, the women's movement and the modern British detective novel.

For several years Dr. McDorman served as Director of the Honors Program where she revised the curriculum and instituted an Honors Abroad program in Scotland. Dr. McDorman received the Dean's Teaching Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1997 and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for the Social Science Division of AddRan College in 1998.

Dr. McDorman loses her mind on a regular basis and adopts another pet. She currently resides with an Irish Setter, a mutt, three cats, each of whom claim to be the secret heir to the throne of Patagonia, and at least seven tropical fish. When the moon is full, she drives a sports car. She has no hobbies.