Please join us in welcoming four new Adjunct Faculty to the Humanities Program:

Joanna Cooper:

Milwaukee-- before moving to Asheville in September.  She has a PhD in American literature from Temple University, where her dissertation project was Gothic Impurity: Race, Sex, and the Uncanny in American Literature, 1895-1905.  Her scholarship focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century multi-ethnic American literature, the American gothic, and issues of gender and sexuality.  Joanna has many years of experience teaching writing, literature, Women’s Studies, and American Studies. Other interests include creative writing and visual arts.

Joanna will be teaching the HUM 324.003 section during the Spring 2007 semester.

Kathryn Hast lived Pennsylvania, New York, Boston and DC before finally landing both south and west. Asheville parallels the mountain town where she got her B.A., except that the attraction to Penn State's valley has more to do with the 107,282 seats of Beaver Stadium. She did not escape without zeal. When it's not football season, she pursues the purpose of her M.F.A., which was attained at Emerson College, with a basis of metafiction and the language of war. Her short stories have been published in a handful of literary rags that were all met with thunderous acclaim by the author. Regarding the act of writing, she believes creation is something you experience, not something you do. This adage also applies to her philosophy of education. In addition to teaching at UNCA, Kathryn also directs English and Creative Writing classes at A-B Tech and Warren Wilson.

Kathryn will be teaching the HUM 124.008 and 124.009 sections during the Spring 2007 semester.

Stephen Kirbach has lived in Asheville since 1989 thus setting some kind of personal record.  Since he doesn't hold authority in high regard, his decision to pursue a BA in Literature at the University of North Carolina Asheville appears retrospectively weird.  This is a person lost in a puzzle of his own making.  Perhaps this is why he based his MA thesis in English at Western Carolina University almost entirely upon Ralph Waldo Emerson's statement that "the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles."  Either way, he speaks from experience, though the quote comes from elsewhere.  Literature is anyway a bit of a riddle, don't you agree?

Stephen will be teaching the HUM 214.001 and 214.003 sections during the Spring 2007 semester.

Nicholas will be teaching the HUM 124.020 during the Spring 2007 semester.

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