Elizabeth (Betty) Campbell received a Teachers' Certificate from
Sydney
Teachers' College in 1965, B.A. (1982) and Ph.D (1991) from K.U.
She taught
part time at JCCC and K.U. until 1995, when she was hired by K.U.
as a
full-time lecturer. She regularly teaches composition and
fiction writing. She is currently working on a book about the Martin Miller
murder case.
"Take the crooked footpath down/the stream-cut valley,/Nanven it's called./Startle a fox/which slips into ferns..." (from the poem "Outcast"). Brian Daldorph teaches creative writing, literature, and writing classes in the English department. He has also taught in Japan, Senegal, and England. His two books of poems, The Holocaust and Hiroshima: Poems, and Outcasts, were both published by Mid-America Press. He edits Coal City Review. His poems, stories, articles, and reviews have been widely published. From "Outcast": On cold nights he wraps himself in his great white beard/and seals gather round him/to keep Jack O'Bones warm.
Teaching areas include twentieth-century British and Irish drama, Shakespeare, Irish Renaissance, Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, the modern comedy of ideas, the history play, introductions to world drama and theatre history. Administrative duties related to job searches, promotion and tenure, internal communications, hospitality, alumni relations, department committees, publicity.
"Alternative Rock Cultures" columnist for PopMatters (located at
popmatters.com).
Essays (2006-2004) include: "Bubblegum Pops the
(counter-culture)"; "Lonnie Donegan and the Birth of British
Rock"; "The Redcoats are Coming! The British Invasion of SXSW
2006"; "Wild Wanda Jackson"; "Chuck Berry: A-Merry-Can-Rebel";
"Cab Calloway: Original Rapper"; "Laughin' Louis Armstrong: The
Trickster"; "Messin' With Texas: Some Sights and Sounds from
SXSW"; "Mike Skinner's Blues: Traversing The Streets of Anglo-America";
"Growing Up With John Peel: A Memoir"; "Send in the Clowns:
Subversive Rock Humorists"; "Bloodshot Records and the New
Traditionalism"; "G.B.V.--R.I.P: For the Love of Rock."
Subversive Rock Humorists, to be published by Soft Skull
Press, August 2007.
Steve's dissertation addressed aspects of Erasmian satire in three plays by Ben Jonson. Though he remains interested in Renaissance literature—at present he is at work on an edition of Elizabethan minor epics—Dr. Evans also has published articles and reviews in the fields of American Indian and gay literatures. Twice winner of the department's award for Outstanding Instructor, since 1990 Dr. Evans has taught a wide variety of introductory and upper-division courses, including Technical Writing and Advanced Composition, Shakespeare, American Indian literature, and virtually all of the Freshman-Sophomore English courses, including special topics and Honors courses. Steve's website.
My poems have appeared in Puerto del Sol, Coal City Review, Mikrokosmos, The Kansas City Star, and Physics of Context: a handbook for outlaws, exiles, and secret admirers. I am on the poetry staff for KU's literary journal Cottonwood
Special interest in British literature, particularly 20th century London, comparative American and British literature, and Post-Colonial Studies as well as creative non-fiction, particularly travel writing. Extensive work with the Honors Program and in the development of study abroad programs. Winner of the J. Michael Young CLAS Advising Award as well as five-time recipient of the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award.
"Too Many Cooks: Contested Authority in the Kitchen" The Southern Literary Journal 38.2 (Spring 2006) 113-30. Interests include pedagogy, American literature, women's literature, writing program administration.
Undergrad work in English, astronomy, and psychology. Technical communications and science fiction. A longtime technical writer, developmental editor, and documentation manager, Chris also has numerous fiction, poetry, essay, nonfiction, and other miscellaneous publications, primarily in the science-fiction magazines and scholarly journals. He has taught astronomy and fiction writing, has directed observatory and planetarium programs, has built nearly a hundred telescopes, and has become an expert on restoring automobiles. Chris chairs the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for best short science-fiction), serves as a juror for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (for best science-fiction novel), is Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and acts as KU's Technical Communication Liaison.
B.A. Luther College (1979), M.A. University of Northern Iowa (1983), PhD KU (1991). Teaching experience at KU, Baker University, and Avila University. MJ teaches Holocaust literature and American literature. She is a member of Holocaust Education Academic RoundTable (H.E.A.R.T.), Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, and leads a Holocaust literature book discussion monthly at the Jewish Community Center.
Slowly Along the Riverbeds, poetry chapbook, Coal City Review (1999); The Literature of Sports, Continuing Education, Univ. of Kansas (1993, revised 2006); "The Sport of Birding in the novels of Ann Cleeves," Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature (2006). Areas of interest: Thomas Hardy and Victorian Architecture, Literature of Sports, Creative Writing. Essays, poetry and reviews in American Scholar, Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature, Stone Country, Kansas Quarterly, Amelia, Wind, and High Plains Literary Review, among others. Poetry Editor of Cottonwood Magazine and Press since 1984
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).
