Rhonda Zimlich Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature
Rhonda Zimlich is the author of Raising Panic, winner of the Steel Toe Books 2023 Award for prose. She teaches writing at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in Washington, DC. She writes about intergenerational trau…
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Andrew Bertaina Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature
Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection, The Body Is A Temporary Gathering Place (Autofocus 2024), the book length essay, Ethan Hawke & Me (Barrelhouse, 2025), and the short-story collec…
Kyle Dargan Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Kyle Dargan is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works a…
Stephanie Grant Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Stephanie Grant is an author of fiction and creative nonfiction. She has written two novels, The Passion of Alice (Houghton Mifflin 1995) and Map of Ireland (Scribner 2008) and sever…
David Keplinger Professor CAS | Literature
A professor of Literature at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ since 2007, David Keplinger is the recipient of the 2022 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, most re…
Patricia Park Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Patricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2015), winner of an American Library Association award, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, N…
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels: Wench and Balm. *USA Today* called Wench "deeply moving" and "beautifully written." *People* called it "a devastatingly bea…
Rachel Snyder Professor CAS | Literature
Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of the nonfiction books Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade and No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About D…
Selected Faculty Books
- Anagnorisis: Poems
by Kyle Dargan
by Patricia Park
by Rachel Louise Snyder
by David Keplinger- by Dolen Perkins-Valdez: 2011 First Novelist Award from the ALA Black Caucus
by Stephanie Grant- Ìýby Rhonda Zimlich