256.765.4893

UNA Box 5050

110 Willingham Hall

Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the MA in English Program

Alabama State Coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

Email: kowensmurphy@una.edu

Research & Teaching fields:

American literature, theories of lyric and narrative, prison literature, Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

Publications:

• Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.  
• "So We Went to Prison . . ." with Yaschica Williams and Christopher W. Purser.  Chronicle of Higher Education.   https://www.chronicle.com/article/So-We-Went-to-Prison-/241468

Courses taught:

• American Literature through Walt Whitman
• American Literature Walt Whitman to the present
• Civil War Literature
• Poetry at the Margins
• Literary Criticism
• Prison Literature in the U.S.

Read more about our collaborative work with Limestone Correctional Facility:

https://www.una.edu/blog/socialinclusion/social-inclusion-from-the-inside-out.html