Contact
| Dept: | English |
| Email: | kjg@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 245 Ross 527 Farm House Ln. Ames IA 50011-1054 |
| Phone: | 515-294-2180 |
| Office Hours: | T/Th 8-10:30; Monday 8-10; by appointment |
Bio
Courses I am Teaching
English 201: Intro. To Literature for non-English majors
English 225: Survey of British literature to 1800
English 302: Business Communications
Degrees
Ph.D. English, Kansas
M.A. English, Iowa State University
B.A. English, Covenant
Research Areas
modern-contemporary British literature; the literature of World War I; Trauma in Modern literature
Recent Publications
“The Beginning of Suffering: Assumptive Worlds and Trauma in Modern Literature.” (2013).
A Morning after War: C. S. Lewis & WWI (Peter Lang, 2005)
Current Research
Field of Nightmares: Traumatic Spaces within Modern Literature. (A study of spaces used within selected works from WWI and Modernism)
Outside of the University
I occasionally teach 3rd- and 4th-grade students in the Waukee School District about C. S. Lewis’s juvenilia and mature writings.