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Hadara Bar-Nadav
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: Poetry, especially modern and postmodern poetry and poetics; African-American literature; interdisciplinary studies

barnadavh@umkc.edu
816.235.6033
121 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30, OBA


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John Cyril Barton
Assistant Professor
IPhD Coordinator
Areas of Specialization: American Literature, especially the 19th century; African American Literature; Legal and Cultural Studies; Rhetoric; Critical Theory
bartonjc@umkc.edu
816.235.5206
16E Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: W 2:30-3:45, OBA

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Virginia Blanton
Associate Professor
English Department Co-Chair
Areas of Specialization: Old and Middle English Languages and Literatures; Arthurian Legends; Medieval Romance; Hagiography and Religious Studies; Women's Studies
blantonv@umkc.edu
816.235.2766
16H Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

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Michelle Boisseau
Professor
Associate Editor of BkMk Press
Areas of Specialization: Poetry; Creative Writing; Modern and Contemporary Literature

boisseaum@umkc.edu
816.235.2561
16C Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: T 2:00-3:00, W 1:00-2:00

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Joan Dean
Curators' Teaching Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Specialization: Modern American, British, and Irish Literature; Drama; Shakespeare; Film
deanj@umkc.edu
816.235.2555
114 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30, OBA

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Stephen John Dilks
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Literature; Composition Theory and Practice; Modern and Postmodernism; Literary Theory; Samuel Beckett and James Joyce; Essayisms
dilkss@umkc.edu
816.235.2556
118 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: T 12:30-2:00, R 8:15-9:10 (Muddy's)

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Laurie Ellinghausen
Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Renaissance/Early Modern Liteature; Shakespeare; Class, Labor, and Social Hierarchy; Early Modern Women's Writing; Cultural Studies
ellinghausenl@umkc.edu
816.235.6032
16G Cockefair Hall
Office Hours:

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Jennifer Frangos
Assistant Professor
Associate Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture; history of sexuality; feminist theory, queer theory; cultural studies, Transatlantic studies
frangosj@umkc.edu
816.235.2559
120 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: W 12:00-3:00

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Jane Greer
Associate Professor
Areas of Specialization: Composition Studies; History of Literacy; Women & Girls and Print Culture
greerj@umkc.edu
816.235.2557
5201 Rockhill, Room 104
Office Hours: M 12:30-1:30, W 3:15-4:00

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Christie Hodgen
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: Fiction; Creative Writing; contemporary literature; history of the short story
hodgenc@umkc.edu
816.235.5974
112 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: F 10:00-12:00

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Sheila Honig
Full-time Lecturer
Areas of Specialization: Composition; Computer-Assisted Composition

honigs@umkc.edu
816.235.2564
109 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: TR 9-9:30, 1:45-2:45

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Pat Huyett
Full-time Lecturer
Areas of Specialization: Composition
huyettp@umkc.edu
816.235.2552 x1
16B Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: TR 9:30, 12:20-1:55

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Katie Kline
Lecturer
Director, Greater Kansas City Writing Project
Areas of Specialization: Composition
klinek@umkc.edu
816.235.2554
5201 Rockhill, Room 107
Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00, OBA

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Daniel Mahala
Associate Professor
Director of Composition
Areas of Specialization: Composition Theory; Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory
mahalad@umkc.edu
816.235.2763
5201 Rockhill, Room 106
Office Hours: MW 12:15-12:45, T 3:00-5:00, OBA

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Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Lecturer, PACE Program
Coordinator of Writing Assessment
Areas of Specialization: English Literature; Composition; American Literature; Introduction to Journalism; Reporting; Turning Life into Stories
bowenlm@umkc.edu
816.235.2563
111 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: TR 12:30-1:30, OBA

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Jennifer Phegley
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Areas of Specialization: Victorian Literature and Culture; Authorship, Reading, and Publishing in the 19th Century
phegleyj@umkc.edu
816.235.5973
16F Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: MW 3:15-4:45

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Michael Pritchett
Associate Professor
Director of Creative Writing
Areas of Specialization: Fiction Writing; Modern Novel; Introduction to Fiction
pritchettmi@umkc.edu
816.235.2765
16D Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: MW 12:00-2:00

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Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox
Professor
English Department Co-Chair
Areas of Specialization: Classics; Greek Rhetoric; Ancient Myth and Religion; Corpus Linguistics; Digital Libraries
rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu
816.235.2560
107 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: By appointment

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Anthony Sze-Fai Shiu
Assistant Professor
Areas of Specialization: American Literature, especially the 20th and 21st Centuries; Asian American Literature; African American Literature; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies
shiua@umkc.edu
816.235.5205
117 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: TR 1:00-2:00, OBA

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Robert Stewart
Assistant Research Professor
Editor of New Letters, New Letters on the Air, and Editor-in-Chief of BkMk Press
Areas of Specialization: Poetry Writing; Editing; Literary Journalism
stewartr@umkc.edu
816.235.2610
221 University House
Office Hours: By appointment

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Thomas Stroik
Professor
Areas of Specialization: Linguistic Theory; Philosophy of Language; History of the English Language; Linguistics and Literary Theory
stroikt@umkc.edu
816.235.2562
115 Cockefair Hall
Office Hours: TR 12:00-1:00

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Whitney Terrell
New Letters Writer-in-Residence
Director of the Writers at Work reading series
Areas of Specialization: Advanced Creative Writing, Prose Forms

terrellw@umkc.edu
816.235.1305
106 Cockefair Hall

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