Carol Kay, former faculty member

Carol Kay, an interdisciplinary scholar of the 18th century who taught at Washington University from 1983 to 1988, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 1998, in Pittsburgh. She was 51.

Kay was an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she had taught since 1989. She also had taught at Princeton University, Amherst College and New York University.

She was the author of "Political Constructions" (1988), an authoritative volume on 18th-century fiction and politics.