Kathryn Margaret Walls née Meek is a New Zealand scholar of English literature, and is an emeritus professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in English literature from the Middle Ages to present day.
She was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake a PhD at the University of Toronto.
[1] She was Head of the School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies from 2020 until her retirement, and served on the University Council as staff representative.
[1] Walls is an executive editor of a Spenser series for the Manchester University Press, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge.
In her retirement, she planned to work on the influence of the scientific revolution on the poetry of Alexander Pope.