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 World War II POW Journals of Claudio Carano. University of Arkansas Press, forthcoming 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.
- “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
- Ohioana Book Award for Fiction
- ACLS Grant for Film Scholarship
- Ohio Humanities Council Grant for Filmmaking
- Ohio Arts Council Grant for fiction writing
- 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.