Barnard College Creative Writing Program
Kate Aspengren
Adjunct Assistant Professor
B.A., The University of Iowa
M.F.A., The University of Iowa, Playwrights Workshop
Phone: 319.399.8302
Email: kaspengr@coe.edu
Kate Aspengren's plays include Flyer, Rule of Nines, Too Fast to Fall, Adrift, and Blue Yonder. Her work has been published by Samuel French, Inc. and has been produced throughout the United States and Canada, including productions by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The New American Comedy Festival, Three Graces Theatre Company and Six Figures Theatre Company. She teaches annually in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and holds a yearly residency at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware.
Gina Hausknecht
John William King Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Coordinator, Film Studies
B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Phone: 319.399.8417
Email: ghauskne@coe.edu
Dr. Hausknecht teaches early modern British literature, including Shakespeare, British Renaissance poetry and Milton. She also teaches courses on non-fiction graphic narrative and on incarceration. She has published and presented on Shakespeare, Milton, 17th century literature and culture, pedagogy and higher education, graphic novel memoir and gender studies. She teaches and volunteers with Liberal Arts Beyond Bars, the University of Iowa's college-in-prison program. Her ongoing research on the textual history of stage directions in editions of Shakespeare is reflected in the interactive online learning tool All the World's a Stage Direction.
Margaret LeMay
B.A., Barnard College
M.F.A., University of Iowa
Email: mlemay@coe.edu
Margaret LeMay teaches creative writing. Her poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, the Asian Pacific American Journal, Better, The Cortland Review, Little Village, Transom, and elsewhere. Her poem "The Heart Wakes Into" served as title and six movement subtitles for a piano quintet commissioned by and performed at the Library of Congress in 2014. Her work has been shortlisted for the Discovery/the Boston Review Poetry Prize and the Four Way Books Levis Prize. Professor LeMay's writing interests include short hybrid forms, poetry, and the lyric essay.
LaTanya McQueen
Assistant Professor
B.F. A., Emerson College
M.F.A., Emerson College
Ph.D., University of Missouri
Phone: 319.399.8591
Email: lmcqueen@coe.edu
LaTanya McQueen is the author of the essay collection AND IT BEGINS LIKE THIS. Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in TriQuarterly, West Branch, Pleaides, New Ohio Review, The Arkansas International, The Florida Review, Bennington Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, Fourteen Hills, The North American Review, Ninth Letter, New Orleans Review, Indiana Review, and other journals. She received her MFA from Emerson College, her PhD from the University of Missouri, and was the 2017-2018 Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College.
Amber Shaw
Associate Professor, Chair
National Fellowship Advisor
B.A., Rhodes College
M.A., Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Phone: 319.399.8058
Email: ashaw@coe.edu
Dr. Shaw studies nineteenth-century American and Victorian literature and is particularly interested in the history of the novel, material culture, and gender studies. She teaches courses at Coe on early and nineteenth-century American literature, nineteenth-century fiction, American women writers, the Black Atlantic, and transnationalism across the long nineteenth century. Her recent essays appear in The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review and Crossings in Text and Textile (UPNE 2015). Dr. Shaw is also the faculty advisor for students and faculty who apply for Fulbright, Goldwater, Truman, Rhodes and Marshall Fellowships
Melissa Sodeman
Associate Professor
B.A., University of Washington, Seattle
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 319.399.8696
Email: msodeman@coe.edu
Melissa Sodeman teaches courses on eighteenth-century and Romantic literature at Coe. Other interests include women writers, the history of the novel, book history, and (increasingly) environmental literature. Her book, Sentimental Memorials: Women and the Novel in Literary History, was published by Stanford University Press in 2015, and her essays have appeared in SEL, ELH, and Modern Philology. Her current research, which grows out of her interest in the intertwined histories of books and affect, investigates how books mediated an intensifying love of nature in the later eighteenth century.
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
Charles Aukema
Professor of English, Emeritus
A.B., Calvin College
M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Email: caukema@coe.edu
In addition to teaching creative writing, Professor Aukema taught computer applications in writing. These applications included writing hypertext fiction. He is the founder of The Coe Review, the college's nationally known literary magazine.
Robert D. Drexler
Whipple Professor of English, Emeritus
B.A., Amherst College
M.A., University of Iowa
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Email: rdrexler@coe.edu
Author of two poetry chapbooks, Dr. Drexler was the director of the ACM Japan studies Program, director of the India Studies Program at Puna, and a Fulbright Lecturer at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. His primary areas of focus are Early Modern British, Medieval English, 20th Century British, Irish and Asian Literature.
Terry Heller
Howard Hall Professor of English, Emeritus
A.B., North Central College
A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dr. Heller is author of The Delights of Terror and The Turn of the Screw: Bewildered Vision, and editor of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction. He has written reference articles, short fiction, and literary journal essays. He is the manager of the on-line archive, the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project.
Gordon Mennenga
Professor of English
B.A., University of Northern Iowa
M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Email: gmenneng@coe.edu
Professor Mennenga is a fiction writer whose short story, "Peepers" won a Nelson Algren Award. He has written monologues for Garrison Keilor and a film based on a monologue was released in 1999. Professor Mennenga teaches film and creative writing and is the academic advisor for Coe's nationally circulated magazine, the Coe Review. His academic interests include hip hop music and popular culture.
Ann Struthers
National Fellowship Advisor (retired)
B.A., Morningside College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Email: astruthe@coe.edu
Dr. Struthers is the author of two chapbooks and two collections of poetry. She has published numerous book reviews, articles in literature reference books, academic essays and short fiction and was Writer in Residence at Coe for many years. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Syria and in Sri Lanka, and was the faculty advisor for students and faculty who apply for Fulbright, Goldwater, Truman, Rhodes and Marshall Fellowships.
Barnard College Creative Writing Program
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