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George Kennedy

George Kennedy

George Kennedy, professor emeritus at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, is also a coauthor of Telling the Story, Third Edition (2007) and Beyond the Inverted Pyramid (1993), as well as a former managing editor of the Columbia Missourian and a former bureau chief for the Miami Herald.

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X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy is an acclaimed poet, children’s author, college teacher, and textbook author. He has taught freshman composition at the University of Michigan; the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and Tufts University. Since 1966, more than 2 million students have treasured his introductory literature texts and The Bedford Reader, coedited with Dorothy M. Kennedy and Jane E. Aaron, now in its ninth edition.

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David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy

David M. Kennedy is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control and a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College. Kennedy has received two Webber Seavey awards from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, two Innovations in American Government awards from the Kennedy School of Government, and a Herman Goldstein Problem-Oriented Policing Award. His work has been used as a model or source for safety and drug intervention initiatives by the Clinton and Bush administrations, and by the Bureau of Justice. Kennedy lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Padraic Kenney

Padraic Kenney

Padraic Kenney (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of History at Indiana University, where he teaches courses on Eastern European and Polish history as well as on political protest and the experience of communism. His work as a writer and a teacher has been shaped by a desire to understand the dynamics of communist societies, in particular those of Eastern Europe. He has lived and researched in a number of countries, among them Poland, Ukraine, and South Africa. He is the author of many articles and books, including Wroclawskie zadymy (2007); The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe Since 1989 (2006); A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989 (2002); and Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950 (1997).

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Susan K. Kent

Susan K. Kent

Susan Kingsley Kent (Ph.D., Brandeis University) is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Specializing in British history, her scholarly works focus on gender, politics, empire, and the Great War. She is the author of Gender and History; Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931; Gender and Power in Britain, 1660-1990; Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain; Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914; The History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach; and, with Misty L. Bastian and Marc Matera, The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria.

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Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon is the author of Otherwise: New and Selected Poems and A Hundred White Daffodils. She lived with her husband, Donald Hall, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, until her death in 1995.

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Joseph Kerman

Joseph Kerman

Joseph Kerman and Gary Tomlinson are leading musicologists and music educators. Kerman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, served two terms as Chair of the Music Department, and Tomlinson has done the same at the University of Pennsylvania. Both are known as inspirational and wide-ranging teachers; between them, their course offerings encompass harmony and ear training, opera, world music, interdisciplinary studies, seminars in music history and criticism, and—many times—Introduction to Music for nonmajor students.

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R. Brandon Kershner

R. Brandon Kershner

R. Brandon Kershner is Alumni Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he teaches twentieth-century literature, cultural studies, and poetry writing.  In addition to numerous articles, he has published Dylan Thomas: The Poet and His Critics (1997); The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses  (2010);  and Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature (1989); the latter won the 1990 American Conference for Irish Studies award as the best work of literary criticism in the field.  He has also authored The Twentieth Century Novel: An Introduction, from Bedford/St. Martin’s (1997) and edited Joyce and Popular Culture (1990) and Cultural Studies of James Joyce (2003).  He has also edited the Bedford/St. Martin’s edition of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Second Edition, 2006).  He is a member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the James Joyce Quarterly and was recently reelected to the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation (1999-2004).

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Amy Kesselman

Amy Kesselman

Sandy Polishuk is an Instructor of Women's Studies at Portland State University.

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Thomas S. Kidd

Thomas S. Kidd

Thomas S. Kidd (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is associate professor of history at Baylor University and Senior Fellow at Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion. He has authored, among other books, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution and The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America.

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Stephen P. Kiernan

Stephen P. Kiernan

Stephen Kiernan is a writer and journalist for the Burlington Free Press. His numerous awards include the Gerald Loeb Award for Financial Journalism, the Associated Press Managing Editors' Freedom of Information Award, and the George Polk Award. He lives in Charlotte, Vermont.

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Andreas Killen

Andreas Killen

Andreas Killen is Assistant Professor of History at the City College of New York. He is the author of Berlin Electropolis, and his writing has appeared in Salon and the New York Times Magazine.

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Miles A. Kimball

Miles A. Kimball

Miles A. Kimball is an associate professor of English at Texas Tech, where he teaches Technical Communication. His scholarship includes work on visual design, visual literacy, and visual rhetoric; the history of technical communication, including the development of information graphics; online portfolios and other pedagogical tools, and cultural theory. He is the author of The Web Portfolio Guide (Longman, 2003).

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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Malcolm Kiniry

Malcolm Kiniry

Malcolm Kiniry is director of writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and has written articles on basic writing, writing across the curriculum, and curriculum development, as well as Renaissance studies. He taught in the UCLA Writing Program for seven years and is currently working on a language reader for composition courses.

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