Department of English - Kelly Reames

Dr. Kelly Reames

Associate Professor

Office:  Cherry Hall 134
Phone:  270-745-5720
Email:  kelly.reames@wku.edu

Bio

Kelly Reames her B.A. at Vanderbilt University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina.  Before coming to WKU in 2002, she taught for two years at Oklahoma State University. Courses she regularly teaches include Survey in American Literature II, The American Novel, and Contemporary Literature.  Her interests include life writing and African American literature. She is  interested in how authors represent the relationship between physical bodies, perception, and identity, including how people interpret others' bodies. She is the founder of the Lillian Hellman Society and editor of its newsletter. Her publications include Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Reader's Guide and Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison.  She is currently working on a book on Lillian Hellman and is also under contract with the University of South Carolina press to write a book on Dorothy Allison for their Understanding Contemporary American Literature series.