Kimberly Drake,
Professor of Writing; Chair, Department of Writing and Rhetoric; Adviser in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Tracks; Director of the Writing Program; 51猎奇入口 Academy Faculty Liaison
Phone: 78372
Academic History
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley. Graduate coursework in Composition Theory
B.A. with High Honors, English, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Focus
- Protest writing and rhetoric
- American literature and culture
- Disability literature
- Prison writing
- Short story and experimental fiction writing
- Punk rock literature and subcultures
- Writing pedagogy
- Feminist theory, disability theory, queer theory, theories of race and class
Interests
soccer, hiking, dogs, food, alternative lifestyles
Courses Taught
- Critical Analysis: Writing for Social Change.
- Arts + Culture Review.
- Protest Writing and Rhetoric.
- Core I: Histories of the Present. Lectures: 鈥淩esisting Institutions: Representation and Social Justice in Susan Nussbaum鈥檚 Good Kings Bad Kings; 鈥溾楾errible Memory鈥: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥; 鈥淩epresentations of Slavery: Frederick Douglass鈥 Narrative鈥; 鈥溾楽he Was Different鈥: Identity, Representation, and the Color Line in Nella Larsen鈥檚 Fiction鈥; 鈥淗ow to Read a 鈥榃orld Made of Stories鈥: Leslie Marmon Silko鈥檚 Ceremony鈥; 鈥淔ree-for-all: Hobo Literature, Punk Rock, and Critiques of Consumerism in Evasion.鈥
- Core II: Constructions of (Dis)Ability; 20th Century Protest Movements in Words and Music; The Cultural Politics of Punk and Hip-Hop; Tragedy, Trauma, and Terror; Tragedy and National Narratives.
- Core III: Anarchist Movements and Culture; The Feminist Politics of Subcultures.
Selected Research and Publications
- Critical Insights: Literature of Fear, Paranoia, and Terror. Volume Editor and Contributor ("The Brain Has Corridors," "Fear and 'Paranoia' in/about Richard Wright's Novels"). NY: Grey House Press. Spring 2017.
- Critical Insights: The Slave Narrative. Volume Editor and Contributor (鈥淥n the Slave Narrative,鈥 鈥淩ewriting the American Self,鈥 鈥溾楾errible Memory鈥: Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥). NY: Grey House Press, April 2014.
- Critical Insights: Literature of Protest. Volume Editor and Contributor (鈥淥n the Literature of Protest,鈥 鈥淣ella Larsen and Langston Hughes: Modernist Protest in the Harlem Renaissance,鈥 and 鈥淭he Meaning of Rape in Richard Wright鈥檚 Native Son鈥). NY: Salem Press, April 2013.
- Stinging for their Suppers: How Women in Prison Nourish Their Bodies and Souls. Coeditor and Contributor (鈥淭he Crossroads Workshop鈥). Lulu Press, March 2013.
- Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- 鈥淲omen on the Go: Blues, Conjure, and Other Alternatives to Domesticity in Ann Petry鈥檚 The Street and The Narrows.鈥 Reprinted in Children鈥檚 Literature Review, special issue on Ann Lane Petry. March 17, 2017. Originally printed in Arizona Quarterly 54.1 (Spring 1998); reprinted in A Critical Collection of Essays on Ann Petry, ed. Hazel Ervin, Greenwood Press, July 2005.
- 鈥淕enderqueering Language at a 鈥榃omen鈥檚鈥 College.鈥 The Writing Instructor special issue, 鈥淨ueer and Now.鈥 March 2015.
- Judge, the Writing Prize, an international student competition sponsored by The Atlantic and the College Board. One of twenty judges nationwide. March 2016.
- Consultant and reviewer, AP English Composition Curriculum. February-April, 2015.
Awards and Honors
- 51猎奇入口 Research Grants (2017-18, 2015-16, 2012-13, 2009-10).
- Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Teaching 2014-2015. $5000.
- Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges Grant. Faculty Development Workshop in Critical Disability Studies and Universal Design for Learning. Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
- Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Teaching 2012-2013. $5000.
- Professor of the Year 2012-2013, a student-selected award.
- Mary W. Johnson Award for Faculty Achievement in Scholarship 2010-2011. $5000.