Laura J. Kuhlman
Curriculum Vitae

Department of English
University of Iowa
356 English-Philosophy Building
Iowa City, IA 52242

Education
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2017
Department of English, 20th and 21st century American Literature
Teaching Certificate, University of Iowa Center for the Book, Spring 2016
M.A. en passant, University of Iowa, 2014
English Literature
B.A., Ball State University, 2011
Summa cum laude, Honors College Graduate
Majors in English Literature and German, Minor in Creative Writing

Honors and Awards
University of Iowa
Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2017
Three Minute Thesis Finalist, November 2016
Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Summer Fellowship, May 2015
English Department, Post-Comprehensive Exam Research Fellowship, Spring 2015

Ball State University
Presidential Scholarship, 2007-2011
Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, 2008-2011

Teaching Experience
University of Iowa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, 2017-2018
Literature, Culture, and Women: Women Writers of the Beat Movement (1 Section)
Topics in Popular Culture: Reading Women’s Literature and the Domestic Sphere
from Early Modern England to Postmodern America (1 Section)
The Interpretation of Literature: The End of the World as We Know It (1 Section)

Interpretation of Literature Instructor, Department of English, 2014-2016
The End of the World as We Know It (2 Sections)
All in the Family: Family Secrets, Histories, and Legacies (2 Sections)
Love, Loss, and Time Travel (1 Section)
Love in a Time of Identity Crisis (1 Section)

Rhetoric Instructor, Department of Rhetoric, 2012- 2014
Rhetoric 1030 (7 Sections, including an accelerated summer course)

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 2011- 2012
ENGL 2010: Foundations of the English Major (2 Sections)

Ball State University
Undergraduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, 2008-2011
History 150: The West in the World (6 Sections)

Teaching Interests
20th and 21st century American literature, rhetoric, composition, gender studies, pedagogical theory, poetry, apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, book history, book studies, and book arts

Publications
Book project in progress, The Beat Goes On: Women Writers of the Beat Generation

Articles
“Faulkner’s Corpse Bride: Revenging the Ravaged and Queering the Funeral.” Submitted and under review.
“Lit in the Living Room: Women Writing and Publishing ‘Beat.’” Submitted and under review.
“‘I HAVE GOT PLENTY OF NOTHING:’ Brenda Frazer’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs, Beat
Motherhood, and the Poetics of Loss,” in progress.

Conference Papers
“A Road of Her Own: Jan Kerouac’s Trilogy.” Presented paper. American Literature
Association, May 2017.
“The Literary Movement in the Living Room.” Presented paper. Post45 Graduate Student
Symposium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, February 2016.
“I Have Got Plenty of Nothing:” Brenda Frazer’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs, Beat Motherhood, and the Poetics of Loss.” Presented paper. American Literature Association, May 2014.
“Same Beat, Different Song: Reading Hettie Jones and a Feminist Beat Aesthetic.” Presented paper. Jakobsen Conference, University of Iowa, April 2013.
“Hettie Jones and Bonnie Bremser: Beat Femininity Filling the Void of ‘Missing Men.’”
Presented paper. Craft, Critique, and Culture Conference, University of Iowa, March
2013.

Relevant Experience

Mentoring Experience
University of Iowa
Professional Development Program Co-Leader, Department of Rhetoric, Fall 2013

Service
Graduate Advisory Council Member, Department of Rhetoric, 2012-2014

Editorial Experience
Editing a novel for local author and poet Chuck Miller

Book Binding Exhibitions
Eye on Art Gallery, Handmade Journal and Book Show, Carmel, Indiana, October 2011
Gordy’s Fine Art and Framing, Downtown Muncie Arts Walk, Muncie, Indiana, October 2011

Technological Expertise
Trained to teach in TILE classrooms
Proficient in Adobe InDesign
Proficient in Adobe Illustrator

Languages
Fluent in German
Studying French

Memberships
Modern Language Association
Beat Studies Association