Other Faculty

Tina Blue

3099 Wescoe Hall
785.864.7526
tblue@ku.edu

M.A. (Kansas)

No information available.

Elizabeth Campbell

3024 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2539
eac@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Kansas)

No information available.

Brian Daldorph

Assistant Professor

1090 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2604
briandal@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Illinois)

"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.

Robert Elliott

Lecturer/Assistant to the Chair

3127 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2528
relliott@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Cornell)

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.

Iain Ellis

Full Time Lecturer

2027 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2553
iellis@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Bowling Green State University)

"Alternative Rock Cultures" columnist for PopMatters.
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.

Stephen Evans

Full Time Lecturer

3119 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2604
write-on@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Kansas)

Stephen'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.

Stephen Johnson

Full Time Lecturer

1084 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2555
goat@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Wichita State)

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

Mary Klayder

University Honors Lecturer

3019 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2582
mklayder@ku.edu

Ph.D., M.A.(Kansas)

Mary Klayder has a special interest in creative non-fiction, particularly memoir and travel writing.  She is also interested in British literature, especially 20th century London, comparative British and American literature, and Post-Colonial Studies.  She works extensively with the Honors Program and regularly directs study abroad programs to the U.K. and Costa Rica.  She won the 2009 H.O.P.E. Award, the 2008 Outstanding Woman Educator Award, the J. Michael Young Advising Award and is a 6-time recipient of the Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award.

Sonya Lancaster

Associate Director of Freshman-Sophomore English

3001 J Wescoe Hall
785.864.2515
sonyal@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Kansas)

"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.

Chris McKitterick

Lecturer

3040 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2509
cmckit@ku.edu

M.A. (Kansas)

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. His first novel, Transcendence, will appear in 2010 from Hadley Rille Books. 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.

KU's Technical Writing website: http://www.ku.edu/~techcomm
Chris' website: http://www.sff.net/people/mckitterick/
CSSF website: http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/

Chris McKitterick's Curriculum Vitae

MJ McLendon

Assistant Professor

3024 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2539
mjm@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Kansas)

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.

Doug Crawford-Parker

Full Time Lecturer

3037 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2541
dcrawpar@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Kansas)

Doug’s primary areas of interest are the essay (and creative non-fiction 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.  In 2007, he won the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for poetry.  As both teacher and writer, Doug is particularly interested in the ways that the study of rhetoric can encompass both the study of literature and nonliterary writing to enrich one other our understanding of the creation and interpretation of texts of all kinds.  In addition to 101 and 102, Doug teaches English 210 (Introduction to Poetry), along with English 203 (Introduction to the Essay), 355 (Nonfiction Writing I), and 360 (Workshop in Prose Style).

Philip Wedge

Assistant Professor

3025 Wescoe Hall
785.864.3777
pwedge@ku.edu

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 Whitehead

Lecturer

2030 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2573
kevinw@ku.edu

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).