People
Faculty
Kay Sloan
Titles
- Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984.
- M.A., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979.
- B.A. with Highest Honors, Sociology, The University of California at Santa Cruz, 1974.
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing
- Contemporary American fiction
- Southern literature and culture
- Women and film
Research Interests
- Fiction writing
- Women and the cinema
- European dissident writers
Selected Publications
- Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano. University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
- The Birds are on Fire, collection of poetry. Finishing Line Press, 2005.
- The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, novel. The Permanent Press, 2004.
- Worry Beads, novel (Louisiana State University Press, 1991).
- Elvis Rising, anthology of short stories. Avon Books, 1993. Co-edited with Constance Pierce.
- The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
- Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899. Viking Press, 1982. Co-authored with William H. Goetzmann.
- “Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema.” (Video documentary) Funded by an Ohio Humanities Council Grant, 2003. This film has been shown widely at film festivals and universities across Europe and in the United States.
- “Sexual Warfare in the Silent Cinema,” American Quarterly.
- “A Cinema in Search of Itself: The Social Problem Film in Early Cinema,” Cineaste.
- Numerous short stories, essays, and poetry in such publications as Fiction Magazine, Paris Review, Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
Grants and Awards
- Ohio Arts Council Grant for fiction writing, 2003 and 2009
- Ohioana Book Award for Fiction
- ACLS Grant for Film Scholarship
- Ohio Humanities Council Grant for Filmmaking
- Fulbright-Hayes Grant for study of dissident writers in Prague
- New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize
Work in Progress
Professor Sloan is currently at work on short stories and a new novel.