Biography Research Interests Composition pedagogy, audio/multimodal composition, andragogy, intersections between creative nonfiction/memoir and women’s rhetorics, popular culture studies, and religious rhetorics Degrees and Institutions Courses Taught Introductory composition courses (ENGL 100 face-to-face and online); themed courses focused on community/place, online writing, and food; creative nonfiction courses; Advanced Composition (ENGL 400); Race, Sex, and Texts (ENGL …
Interests 19th to 21st century African American literature, African diaspora literatures and cultures, transnational Black Studies, comparative slavery studies, race, gender, visual and popular culture, poetry, drama, the novel Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications Book: Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora. LSU Press, June 2022. Selected Articles and Book Chapters: …
Biography Degrees and Institutions Publications and Awards Ron Kuka has published short stories in the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, Toyon, and Pavement. His teaching has been recognized with the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching. Recent Books
Biography Eileen Lagman is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English. Her research focuses on ethnographic studies of literacy learning with additional interest in histories of Asian migration, labor economics, and emotion studies. Her current book project Virtual Nationhood: Learning and Loss in Migrant Literacy examines the effects of “brain drain …
Biography Research Interests Mental health and wellbeing; cultural sociology and sociology of culture; writing and wellness; disability Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison M.S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin–Madison B.A., Sociology, Boston College Recent Publications Letak, Abigail M. 2024. “From self-care to social-self care: toward a sociology of wellbeing.” Sociological Spectrum, 45(1): 53–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2024.2429499 …
Biography Research Interests Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics, Creative Nonfiction, Hip-Hop, Poetry & Performance, Writing & Social Justice, Community-Based Creative Practice, Chicago Literature Degrees and Institutions MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), University of Michigan BA, English (Creative Writing) and African American Diaspora Studies, Vanderbilt University Recent Publications Finna, One World/Random House (2020) Wild Hundreds, University of …
Biography Erika Meitner is the author of six books of poems, including Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry series winner; Copia (BOA Editions, 2014); and Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA Editions, 2018), which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics …
Biography Research Interests Postcolonial studies; modernism; South Asian diaspora; early modern drama & travel writing; detective fiction; the science & material culture of empire Degrees and Institutions Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2019 M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2004 B.A., Kalamazoo College, 2002 Courses Taught Engl. 242 – Revolution & Tradition in British & Postcolonial Lit. Engl. …