Kim Shirkhani
Ph.D., English, University of Virginia
M.A., English, McGill University
B.A., English, University of California at Los Angeles
Course Director ENGL 120
Winner of the 2021 Fred Strebeigh and Linda Peterson Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Instructional Faculty
Selected Publications
- “There Are Words: Conveying Magnitude in Contemporary Writing,” Literary Imagination 26:2, July 2024.
- “Small Language and Big Men in Virginia Woolf,” Studies in the Novel. 43.1 (Spring 2011)
- “The Economy of Recognition in Howards End,” Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2 (2008)
Interests
Non-fiction prose; cultural history; etymology; creative writing; modern British literature; theories of class and identity; the novel
Courses
Undergraduate: ENG 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay; ENG 421: Cultural Critique/Style as Argument; ENGL 450: Daily Themes
updated October 2024