Alumnus Update: Jordan Burr

After graduating from UMKC with his MA in English literature in 2011, Jordan Burr was accepted to the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas (advice to prospective Ph.D. applicants: apply early and to a ton of programs)! At KU, Burr was awarded a JoAnn Klemmer Research Assistantship, which allowed him to work closely with…

Johnson’s Recent Publications

Andrew Johnson (MFA 2013) recently published his essay “Sleeping In” in MAKE (Issue 14), his essay “Mezuzah” in Saint Katherine’s Review (Vol. 3 No. 3/4), his essays “Late Migration,” “Stuck,” and “Extinction” in Passages North (Issue 35), and his essays “Perhaps One Day This Will All Make Sense,” “Hypothetical Conversation,” and “Tangled Up” in Crazyhorse…

Metzger Presents at Medieval Conference

Cheryl Metzger (MA 2013) presented her paper “A Woman’s Handbook to Power: Christine de Pizan’s Scholastic Argument in Le Livre des Trois Vertus” at the “Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” Conference on April 4th and 5th in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina and King’s…