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Creative Nonfiction
Professor G. Douglas Atkins
Ph.D (Virginia). Recipient of various fellowships and grants and author of such books as Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading (Choice “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year”), Geoffrey Hartman; Estranging the Familiar (Choice “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year”); Tracing the Essay; Reading Essays; co-editor of such books as Writing and Reading Differently and Contemporary Literary Theory; former series editor, Creative Nonfiction (U of Illinois Press); Kenyon Review prize for literary excellence in nonfiction prose. Burlington-Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching, Grier Award for outstanding teaching; Kemper Fellowship for outstanding teaching. Forthcoming books on E.B. White, T.S. Eliot, and the practice of literary criticism.
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3109 Wescoe Hall 864-2609
gdatkins@ku.edu |
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Poetry
Professor William J. Harris
Ph.D. (Stanford). American Literature, African American Literature, jazz studies, American poetry and creative writing. Author of The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic, Hey Fella Would You Mind Holding This Piano a Moment, and In My Own Dark Way. Editor of The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader and Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of African American Literary Tradition. Awards and fellowships, College of the Liberal Art Outstanding Teacher Award (Penn State) and Andres W. Mellon Fellowship (Harvard University). Advisory Editor of The African American Review. |
3106 Wescoe Hall 864-2534
wjh8@ku.edu |
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Poetry
Assoc. Professor Kenneth Irby
A.M. (Harvard), M.L.S., (California, Berkeley). Author of numerous books of poetry, including Call Steps and Antiphonal and Fall to Fall and Ridge to Ridge: Poems 1990-2000; contributions to various anthologies; articles and reviews on contemporary poetry. Visiting Professor and Fulbright travel grant, Univ. of Copenhagen. Awards from the Fund for Poetry and the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry.
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klirby@ku.edu |
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Poetry
Professor Michael L. Johnson
Ph.D. (Rice). Author of articles on poetics, popular culture, modern poetry; books on New Journalism, technology and humanism, education, Western American culture; books of poetry and poetic translations. Most recently, published From Hell to Jackson Hole: A Poetic History of the American West. Current Director of the Freshman-Sophomore English Program. |
3081 Wescoe Hall 864-2507
newwestr@ku.edu |
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Playwriting
Professor Paul Stephen Lim
M.A. (Kansas). Playwriting, contemporary drama. Author of a collection of short stories and 12 plays, among them Conpersonas; Woeman; Homerica; Flesh, Flash and Frank Harris; Mother Tongue, Figures in Clay, and Report to the River. Winner of 1976 KCACTF original scripts competition. Productions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Awarded a Kennedy Center gold medallion in1996 for his work with student playwrights in the American College Theatre Festival. Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor (2001-2003). Kemper Teaching Fellowship (2002). Chancellors Club Teaching Professorship (2005-present).
Artistic Director, English Alternative Theatre (1989-present)
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3138 Wescoe Hall 864-3642
plim@ku.edu |
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Fiction
Assoc. Professor Tom Lorenz
M.F.A. (Bowling Green). Novelist and screenwriter. Author of two novels, several short stories, screenplays for motion pictures and television. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel of 1980, awarded to Guys Like Us by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Current Associate Chair of the English Department and editor of Cottonwood Review.
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3102 Wescoe Hall 864-2516
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Fiction
Associate Professor Laura Moriarty
M.A. (University of Kansas). Author of two novels. Elle Magazine's Best Novel of the Year for The Rest of Her Life (2007). Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy (2000-2001). Winner of the Carlin Graduate Teaching Award.
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2023 Wescoe hall 864-2558
lauramo@ku.edu |
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Fiction
Assoc. Professor Chester Sullivan
Ph.D. (Texas Christian). Creative writing. Author of Alligator Gar (1974), a novel; Sullivan's Hollow (1978), a regional history; Answered Prayers (1992), a novel; and numerous short stories, poems, and reviews. |
2037 Wescoe Hall 864-3287
csull@ku.edu |
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Fiction
Assis. Professor Deb Olin Unferth
MFA (Syracuse). Fiction Writing, Contemporary and Modern Literature. Author of the novel Vacation (McSweeney’s 2008) and the story collection Minor Robberies (McSweeney's 2007) and stories published in Harper's, Conjunctions, Boston Review, NOON, the anthology New Sudden Fiction, and other publications. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. |
2032 Wescoe Hall 864-2569
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