Lecturers and GTAs

Andy Anderegg, GTA

M.F.A. student, B.A. University of Oklahoma. Areas of Interest: fiction, creative non-fiction.

Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Lecturer

Rebecca is a Ph.D. student in American Studies who specializes on the history of religion in America, particularly 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.

Jason Barrett-Fox, Lecturer

Ph.D. Student in English with a special emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition. His work has appeared, among other places, in the Rhetoric Review, American Journal of Semiotics, Women in American History, the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, and the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy.  He is also a Visiting Lecturer in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

Kara Bollinger, GTA

M.A. student in Rhetoric & Composition, B.A. in English from Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. Areas of interest: Rhetoric & Composition, Writing Centers, Composition Pedagogy, Composition Pedagogy. Non-English hobbies: Cooking & baking, gardening, running, photography, attempting to keep up with bands that play good music.

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/

Tamera S. Britton, Lecturer

Doctoral student (Poetry with a creative dissertation), KU; M.A.T.W. (M.A. in the Teaching of Writing), California State University, Humboldt; B.A. (English & Museum Studies), California State University, Humboldt aka (Beloved) Humboldt State.

Editing/Writing Background:  Associate Editor & Acquisitions/Rare Book Specialist, The American Classics Library, (Gryphon Editions, Inc., Subsidiary of Macmillan Books); Independent Copyright/Contracts Liaison, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Managing Editor, Birmingham Poetry Review; and Poetry Editor, Toyon.  Author of ancillaries/introductions to American Literary Renaissance ACL volumes (above):  Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau, et al.  Poems published in numerous Midwestern, Southern, and West Coast venues.  Chapbooks include Redivivus (forthcoming), TAH Poems, and The Last Five Months of Libra.

Current Research/Interests:  The Lyric Poem (Dramatic and Prosaic Forms), Poetry of Witness, Creative Writing Pedagogy (Poetry and Creative non-fiction [esp. “forbidden texts”]), Memory Studies, Monologics, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Utopias/Dystopias.

Daryl Lynn Dance, GTA

B.A. Hampton University, M.A. Virginian Commonwealth University. Areas of interest: Composition Studies, African American Literature, Linguistics.

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.

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.

Katie Egging, Lecturer

Doctoral student, M.A. in English (Emporia State University), B.A. in English and Spanish (Emporia State University). Areas of Research/Interest: African American drama and performance, 20th-Century American Literature, and feminist and gender theory. 

Teresa Fernandez, Lecturer

Ph.D. and 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.

Todd Giles, Lecturer

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.

Amy L. Hume, GTA

Ph.D. 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

Megan Kaminski, Lecturer

M.A. Creative Writing, University of California, Davis.  B.A. University of Virginia. Megan Kaminski is the author of the chapbook Across Soft Ruins (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Denver Quarterly, Phoebe, Third Coast, 6x6, Coconut and other fine journals. http://people.ku.edu/~kaminski/

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.

Louise Krug, GTA

Louise is a doctoral student (fiction with a creative dissertation) who has her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Kansas.

Meghan Kuckelman, GTA

M.A. University of Texas at Dallas.  B.A. University of Dallas. Areas of interest: American and British Modernism, American Postmodernism, Gertrude Stein.

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, Old English poetry, and Shakespeare.Hobby areas: The works of J.R.R. Tolkien and 19th century British Literature.

Gaywyn Moore, Lecturer

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.

Iris Moulton, GTA

MFA candidate at University of Kansas. BA in English, University of Utah, BA in Anthropology, University of Utah. Areas of Interest: Creative writing (poetry, short fiction, creative-non fiction). 20th century American literature. Literary magazines. Areas of interest in Anthropology: death rituals, mummification, women in Islam.  

Jennifer Nish, GTA

M.A. student (Composition and Rhetoric). B.A. from University of Nebraska at Lincoln (English and Psychology). Areas of interest:  feminist theory, alternative rhetorics, gender and multicultural studies.

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.

Mark Petterson, GTA

MFA student, fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction.

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.

Masami Sugimori, Lecturer

Doctoral student (KU). M.A. (University of Virginia). B. of Integrated Human Studies (Kyoto University)
Areas of interest: American Literature, Literary Theory, Faulkner Studies

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.

Jana Tigchelaar, GTA

Doctoral student, University of Kansas; M.A. (English), Ohio University; B.A. (English and art), Trinity Christian College. Areas of interest: 19th and early 20th century American literature; immigrant narratives, letters and diaries; Midwestern and Great Plains literature; female subjectivity and identity.

Katie Wetzel, MA

BA in English Literature (University of Kansas) Area of Interest:  19th-century British Literature with an emphasis on the Victorian Novel.

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

Nathaniel Williams, GTA

Doctoral Student (University of Kansas), M.A. in English (Truman State University ), B.A. in Communication (Truman State University). Areas of Interest: 19th century American literature--particularly portrayals of technology and religion, early 20th century literature, popular music in literature, science fiction, technical writing.  Recent short fiction accepted by the Footprints anthology and Fantasy Magazine.  Recent review and pedagogical articles have appeared in SFRA Review.