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Kelly Wagers
Assistant Professor of English

Contact:
Worthington-Scranton Campus
212c Dawson Building
Dunmore, PA 18512

Educational History:

SUNY at Buffalo
Ph.D., English, June 2007
M.A., English, 2004
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
B.A., English, 1997

Research Interests:
American and Transatlantic Modernism
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
American StudiesAfrican American Literature
Literary and Cultural Theory
Rhetoric and Composition

Awards:
SUNY Presidential Fellowship, 2001-2006
Excellence in Teaching Award, nominee 2005
Sarah E. Wright Best Graduate Student Paper Award, “Angels in the Hills: Modernist Historiography and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills.” American Women Writers of Color Conference, 2004.
Phi Beta Kappa, 1997

Major Publications:
“Race, Nation, and (Re)Form in W.E.B. Du Bois’s Early Histories,” Arizona Quarterly, forthcoming 2007.