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Joyce Kelley
Professor of English | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Bio:
Joyce E. Kelley is Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery where she teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature, children’s literature, and poetry writing. She is the faculty sponsor of English Club and plays cello in the Montgomery Symphony.
Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Narrative Theory, Victorians, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Children’s Literature, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, Critical Insights: Walt Whitman, Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century, and in the collection Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing. Her books include a monograph on the women modernists and travel, Excursions into Modernism: Women Writers, Travel, and the Body (Ashgate, 2015), and an edited collection, Children’s Play in Literature: Investigating the Strengths and the Subversions of the Playing Child (Routledge, 2019).
Matthew Killmeier
Department Chair; Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Robert Klevay
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Robert Klevay received a BA in English and Classics from Hillsdale College. His MA and PHD are from the University of Delaware, where his dissertation research focused on Henry David Thoreau’s use of classical literature. At AUM, he has taught courses about American literature to 1865, World Literature, Greek and Roman Mythology, Film and Film Criticism, Travel Writing, and writers associated with the American Transcendentalist movement. He has published articles in the Concord Saunterer, the Thoreau Society Bulletin, American Literary Realism, Mississippi Quarterly, and Salem Press’s Critical Insights series.
Brett Lehman
Associate Professor | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
About Professor Lehman
My research addresses difficult and persistent issues like bullying and aggression in schools as well as educational inequality. I encourage my students to take an active role in developing creative solutions to social problems through blending their academic studies with experiential learning. Some course projects have included volunteering, campus community engagement, and guided research.
I encourage AUM students to view any course as a valuable part of their education, skill development, and personal development. While other priorities may have been encouraged in the past, college does not need to be a time to reduce one’s efforts or identity down to a test score, grade, diploma, or job title. When learning, skill development, and personal development are prioritized, good grades, graduation, and career opportunities will come. And you will enjoy the experience."
Brett Lehman
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Amy Lee Marie Locklear
Distinguished Senior Lecturer | College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Amy Lee M. Locklear, PhD, is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Honors Faculty in the Department of English and Philosophy. She specializes in digital writing and rhetoric, composition pedagogy, and learning sciences. Her research interests include teaching rhetoric in the composition classroom, cognitive science and education, digital writing spaces and rhetorical practices, and research writing. She has published a number of works related to the intersections of cognitive science and critical thinking and learning, especially in terms of writing pedagogy.
She teaches first year writing courses (English 0103, 1010, and 1020), as well as Advanced Writing (English 3050) and the first-year Seminars for the Honors Program (The Hero’s Journey Into Thinking – Honors 1757).
Dr. Locklear is originally from Virginia, and attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia for her B.A. in English Literature. From there she moved around the country as an Air Force spouse, ending up in Alabama in 2000. She earned her M.A. in English from Auburn University, specializing in rhetoric and literature, and recently earned her Doctorate from Old Dominion University in Digital Rhetoric and Composition. Her dissertation, “Concept Maps as Sites of Rhetorical Invention: Teaching the Creative Act of Synthesis as a Cognitive Process,” is based on interdisciplinary research on the brain, active learning, and writing pedagogy. Her other publications are pedagogical in focus, including writing and co-editing open-educational resources for first-year writing courses.
In addition to her teaching and research pursuits, Dr. Locklear is a fan of science fiction and dragons.
