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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.
