Fan Casting Katherine March in Under the Same Roof

University literature professor (Victorian & modernist studies) She is a scholar whose professional life is built on interpretation, analysis, and emotional distance. She is widely respected in her department for her precision in textual criticism and her ability to deconstruct themes of repression, desire, and morality in literature—but privately, she has built her own life around the same repression she studies. In her personal history, She has experienced long-term emotional isolation. Past relationships were brief, intellectually imbalanced, or quietly dissolved under her inability to fully surrender emotionally. After a recent professional setback (a stalled tenure-track advancement and a strained departure from a long-term partner), she relocates to the Nunez property seeking silence, structure, and control.