Kathryn Hume (born 1945)[1] is an academic writer on medieval literature (Old English, Middle English, Old Icelandic), on fantasy, and on contemporary fiction.

Hume is Edwin Erle Sparks Emerita Professor of English, Penn State University.

[2] She won the IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1988.

Hume graduated from Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania.

[3] This biography of an American academic is a stub.