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Teresa
Fernandez Arab, Lecturer ABD; M.A. in English, University of Kansas; B.A. in English and American literature, University of Santiago, Spain. Areas of interest: Late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century (literary and political) writing by women; Native American, Chicana, and Hawai’ian autoethnographic writing; twentieth-century American literature. Poetry reader for Cottonwood, Translator (into Spanish) of several scholarly articles and the book-length work, Crossfire. Philosophy and the Novel in Spain,1900-1934, by Professor Roberta Johnson. Published in Spain in May 1998 by Libertarias/Prodhufi Publishers. |
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| Melissa Bagley, Lecturer M.A. in Literature and Literary Criticism, University of Kansas Publications: "On Authorship: The Shape and Decoration of Days," published in July of 2006 in Under the Sun Areas of Research/Interest: Creative Nonfiction, Virginia Woolf's fictional works. |
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| Jennifer Floray Balke, GTA Doctoral student, M.A. in English and graduate certificate in Women's Studies KU Areas of Research/Interest: Medieval literature with a focus on women's spirituality and performativity of gender; Queer Theory; Popular and Cinematic 20th and 21st-century Medievalisms. |
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Rebecca Barrett-Fox, GTA Rebecca is a Ph.D. student in American Studies who specializes on the history of religion in America, particulary the development of Christian fundamentalism and its relation to family, gender, and sexuality. Her current projects include an upcoming article in Proteus titled "Remodeling the University of Destruction" and an upcoming article in Radical Teacher on the tunnel of oppression, as well as several other projects. In addition to English courses, Rebecca has also taught American Studies 100, Understanding America, and courses on the philosophy of religion. Rebecca's husband Jason is also in American Studies and the couple has a two year old son named Gus. |
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Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Lecturer Doctoral student, University of Kansas; M.A. (English), University of Kansas; B.A. (English), B.S. (Biology), Baker University Areas of Interest: Arthurian studies, Medieval and Renaissance language and literature; James Joyce; Victorian literature; drama. http://people.ku.edu/~kbovaird |
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| J. Gregory Brister, Lecturer
B.A., Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, M.A. St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN. Areas of Interest: Modernism, Pedagogy, Literary Theory, Best Sellers of the 20s and 30s. http://www.people.ku.edu/~brister/
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Doug Crawford-Parker,
Lecturer Doug has taught English 210 numerous times, along with other courses, including English 203 (Introduction to the Essay) and 360 (Workshop in Prose Style). He has also taught at Wichita State University and the Kansas City Art Institute. His primary areas of interest are the essay (and creative nonfiction in general), poetry, and American literature. He has a BA from Cornell University (in history), and M.F.A. from Wichita State University (in creative writing--poetry), an M.A. and Ph.D. from KU. He is particularly interested in the ways that the study of literature and the study of writing overlap and enrich one other in their understanding of the creation and interpretation of texts. |
| Daryl Lynn Dance, GTA B.A. Hampton University, M.A. Virginian Commonwealth University Areas of interest: Composition Studies, African American Literature, Linguistics |
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Adam Desnoyers, Lecturer M.F.A. Syracuse University. My work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Idaho Review, Lit, and Fence. |
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| Victoria Dorshorn, Lecturer
M.A. (Emporia State University)My poetry and poetry reviews have been published in The Connecticut Review, Flint Hills Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Word Journal. In 2006 I began publishing as Victoria Carroll. |
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Kendra Fullwood, GTA B.A., Shaw University, Raleigh, NC; M.A., University of Akron, Akron, OH. Ph.D. student; Interests: African American Literature and Rhetoric, As a Ph.D. student in English focusing on the African American preacher as a rhetorician, I am also especially concerned with helping 21st century students acquire multiple rhetorical strategies, which will allow them to navigate among various competing discourses; studying the African American preacher will be the model from which I can create my analysis because she/he has had to navigate discourses and social situations historically. |
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| Todd Giles, GTA M.A. (Texas Tech). Author of articles on Mark Twain (American Literary Realism, rpt. in Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Herman Melville (The Explicator and Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction), Salman Rushdie (The Explicator), Willa Cather (Willa Cather Newsletter and Review), William Carlos Williams (The Explicator), the collected correspondence of Florence Williams and Kay Boyle (William Carlos Williams Review), and a comprehensive William Carlos Williams bibliography, 1994-2004 (WCWR). Associate Editor / Book Review Editor W CWR and Co-editor of forthcoming William Carlos Williams Companion (with entries on Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller). Book reviews appearing in The Hemingway Review and American Literary Realism, as well as recent poetry in The Clark Street Review, The Red Wheelbarrow, and Lummox Journal. Work in progress: the unpublished correspondence of Williams and Horace Gregory. |
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Angela L. Glover, GTA M.A. Univ. of NE Omaha-Advanced Writing Certificate; M.A. Museum Studies and Curriculum and Instruction Univ. of NE Lincoln. Publications:“Using Willa Cather’s My Antonia` as a Collection of Short Stories to Teach How to Write a First Person Narrative” Eureka Studies Teaching Short Fiction (Fall 2005), “Using Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’ To Teach the Process Of Revision” Eureka Studies Teaching Short Fiction (Fall 2004), "Motions"The Rectangle (Spring 2004), “Cherry Pie and Fried Chicken Gravy” Fine Lines (Winter 2004). Areas of Interest:Creative Writing, The Essay-Literary Nonfiction, Creative Writing/Composition Pedagogy, Late 20th Century American Literature, Psychoanalytical Theory-Keirsey's Temperament Theory. |
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Amy L. Hume, GTA
PhD
student in 20th-century literature, modern poetry. M.A. Ohio
University, Modern and Medieval literature, 2005. B.A.
Hanover College, English and Art History, 2003.
Publications: "Listening for the 'Sound of Water Over a
Rock': Heroism and the Role of the Reader in The Waste
Land." Yeats Eliot Review, 2006. Current projects: A
paper currently titled "Julian of Norwich and Eliot's Mystic
Writing Pad, a Model for Memory and Collaboration," and a
little something else on Carol Shields. Areas of interest:
Modernism; modern poetry; 20th-century British and American
Literature; Medieval Literature, particularly 14th-century
works; text/image studies; feminist/gender theory and the
body in literature.
ahume@ku.edu |
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| Jennie Joiner, GTA Ph.D. Student; M.A. University of Oregon; B.A. Georgia State University Area of study is primarily Anglo-American Modernism with a special interest in the literature of William Faulkner. |
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| Margaret Rayburn Kramar,
GTA B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., U of Iowa, Journalism, Ph.D. student in literature. Academic Interests: Victorians, J.M. Barrie, drama, memoir genre. Worked as a civil rights investigator for the Kansas Human Rights Commission. Certified to teach 7-12 secondary English. Currently sells brown eggs to Community Mercantile under Hidden Hollow Farm label. |
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| Ann Martinez, GTA Ph.D. student in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Prior education: BA and M.A. from San Diego State University Areas of interests: Arthurian literature, Medieval women writers, Old English poetry, and Elizabethan Drama. Hobby areas: The works of J.R.R. Tolkien and 19th century British Literature |
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Gaywyn Moore, GTA
Doctoral student (University of Kansas); M.A. in English (University of Kansas); B.A. in English and Psychology (Washington University, St. Louis) Areas of Research/Interest: Early Modern British Literature with an emphasis in drama. Current projects include researching connections between Katherine of Aragon and Mary Queen of Scotts in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and exploring images and myths of Medusa in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. |
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David Ohle,
Lecturer David Ohle received his M.A. at KU. He teaches screenwriting and fiction. He has also taught at the University of Texas, Austin, and the University of Missouri, Columbia. His first novel, Motorman, was published by Knopf in 1972 and reprinted by 3rd Bed in 2004 with an Introduction by Ben Marcus. Its sequel, The Age of Sinatra, was published by Soft Skull in 2004. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He edited the non-fiction book, Cows are Freaky When they Look at You: An Oral History of the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers (Watermark Press, 1991) and the forthcoming memoir, Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William Burroughs Jr. (from Soft Skull Press, September, 06) A third novel, The Pisstown Chaos, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2007. His novels have been reviewed online in Bookforum, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, Texas Observer, and elsewhere. He is a native of New Orleans. |
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Stephanie Scurto, GTA
Doctoral student (University of Kansas); M.A. in English (University of Kansas); B.A. in English (Indiana University). Areas of Interest: post-colonial studies, specifically Anglophone literature and literary theory of the Caribbean and Africa. |
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Sarah Sinning, GTA
I received my BA in English and Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I completed my honors research and thesis on the representations of the home and family in Charles Dickens' later novels. I am currently pursuing my M.A. in English Literature and my primary area of interest continues to be 19th-century British Literature with an emphasis on both Romantic poetry as well as the Victorian novel. |
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| Ben Storey, GTA
Ben Storey is a third year
MFA student (fiction) and a GTA for the department. This
semester he teaches English 102 and 351, as well as a
writing workshop at the Kansas City Art Institute. Ben's
fiction, while still developing, often deals with large
thematic issues, such as race relations, poverty, guilt,
and aging. Summer 2006, Ben was married to his beautiful
wife Caroline in Niagara Falls.
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| Masami Sugimori, GTA Doctoral student (KU) M.A. (University of Virginia) B. of Integrated Human Studies (Kyoto University) Areas of interest: American Literature, Literary Theory, Faulkner Studies |
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Alicia Sutliff, GTA
Ph.D. Student, M.A. Ohio University, Athens, OH, B.A. Concordia College, Moorhead, MN I study Renaissance drama, particularly Shakespeare. My main area of interest is in Shakespeare on film, where at present I'm intrigued by the correlation between early modern drama, especially Shakespeare, and teen film adaptations. I am also interested in feminist theory and gender theory, as well as film adaptation and reception theories. My conference presentations and working articles discuss audience reception theory of Shakespeare's plays on screen, along with Shakespeare-the-author's presence in teen film adaptations. |
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Susan Thomas, GTA
Ph.D. student in 20th Century American Queer
Multicultural Literature, MA from North Dakota State
University, Fargo, ND; BA from Minnesota State
University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN. Besides working with
queer multicultural authors, I am also interested in the
role of the slayer/woman warrior throughout literary
history, from Judith to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Tim
Thurman, Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, Western Civilization
A.B. Duke University (Religion), M.A. Kansas University (English), M.S. Kansas University (Computer Science, Ed.M. Boston University (Education), Ph.D. U.S. International University, San Diego (Clinical Psychology) Primary interests: teaching poetry and fiction |
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Carey R. Voeller, GTA
Degree: M.A., Univ. of Montana, 2002,
BA, Portland State
University, 2000, Ph.D.
student.
Publications:
"'He only looked sad the same way I felt:' The Textual
Confessions of Hemingway's Hunters." The Hemingway
Review 25.1 (Fall 2005); (forthcoming) " 'I have not told half we suffered': The Genre
of Suppresed Textual Mourning in Overland Trail Women's
Diaries and Letters." Legacy 23.2 (December 2006);
Poems published in The 114th Meridian and Anthology
9.6 Area of research / interest: 19th century American literature--particularly gender, mourning and the Cult of Sentimentality, disability and disfigurement; early national American literature; early 20th century American literature. |
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Kevin Whitehead, Lecturer M.A.-Syracuse University. Kevin is a music journalist specializing in jazz and European improvised music. He is the author of New Dutch Swing (1998) and editor of Bimhuis 25: Stories of Twenty-five Years at the Bimhuis (1999), and his articles and essays have appeared in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006, The Cartoon Music Book (2002), Jazz: The First Century (2000), Mixtery: a Festschrift for Anthony Braxton (1995), and Down Beat: 60 Years of Jazz (1995). Whitehead is jazz critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and jazz columnist for eMusic.com, and was an editorial advisor and contributor to New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2001). kevinw@ku.edu |
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Nathaniel Williams,
GTA B.A. (Communication), Truman State University, M.A. (English) Truman State University Areas of Interest: 19th Century American Literature, Modernism (Highbrow and Pulp), Magic Realism, Science Fiction, The Short Story, Technical Writing. natew59@ku.edu |
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Sarah L. Young, Lecturer Earned her BA Summa Cum Laude in English and German at Baker University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas. She is a Lecturer at the University of Kansas teaching composition and literature and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English teaching literature and critical thinking at Baker University. Her research interests include early twentieth-century American authors, women’s travel narratives, twentieth-century drama, and the work of Willa Cather. She teaches a directed study of Willa Cather, and classes in composition and drama for University of Kansas Continuing Education Independent Study. She is the author of several entries in the Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film and numerous reviews of musical and theatre events. She is also an active performer on stage in concert, musical theatre, and opera. |
