Office Location: 233 Sanford
Office Phone: 828-262-2910
E-mail: kirkpatrick@appstate.edu

Teaching (Spring 2008):
ENG 3661: Advanced Poetry: Adventures in Form
ENG 4550: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing: Dramatic Monologue
ENG 5650: Gender Studies: Gender, Nature, and Literature

Office Hours (Spring 2008):
W   4-6
TR 3-3:30

Education:
Ph.D. Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
M.A. English, UNC at Chapel Hill
B.A. English, Winthrop University

Academic Specialties:
Poetry and Poetics
Irish Literature and Culture
Gender, Eco-critical and Literary Theory

Representative Publications:

1. Out of the Garden: Poems.  Bay City, MI: Mayapple Press, 2007.
2. "'Between Breath and No Breath': Witnessing Class Trauma in Paula Meehan's Dharmakaya," An Sionnach 1.2 (Fall 2005):  47-64.
3. Beyond Reason: Poems. San Antonio: Pecan Grove Press. 2004. (Awarded the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize by the NC Literary and Historical Association)
4. "Poetry Matters," NWSA Journal. 14:1 (Spring 2002): 185-195.
5. "The Limits of Bourgeois Feminism in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda," in Jane Austen and Mary Shelley and Their Sisters, ed. Laura Dabundo. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000, pp. 73-82.
6. (ed.) Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities. Tuscaloosa:
The University of Alabama Press, 2000.
7. (ed.) The Wild Irish Girl. By Lady Morgan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
8. The Body's Horizon: Poems. Chapel Hill: Signal Books, 1996. (Awarded the Brockman-Campbell Prize by the NC Poetry Society, selected by Alicia Ostriker)
9. "Going to Law Over That Jointure': Women and Property in Castle Rackrent." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 22:1 (July 1996): 21-29.
10. "Putting Down the Rebellion: Notes and Glosses on Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent."  Eire-Ireland: Journal of Irish Studies. 30.1 (1995): 77-90.
11. (ed.) Belinda. By Maria Edgeworth. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Poems in Another Chicago Magazine, Appalachian Journal, Calyx, Carolina Quarterly, Cortland Review, Epoch, Ekphrasis, The Florida Review, The Hollins Critic, Kalliope, The Recorder, Room of One's Own, Poem, Shenandoah, The South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sojourner, Sundog and other magazines.

General Interests:
We live in such a beautiful place, I find plenty to do at home.  As a breast cancer survivor, I'm a big advocate of local, organic food --if I'm not planning, planting, weeding, or harvesting our garden, I'm learning new ways to prepare slow food.  I enjoy hiking with our two Shetland sheepdogs, and I drive a diesel Mercedes fueled with biofuel.  I'm convinced that in this historical era one of the greatest powers we have as individuals is the power to consume sustainably by boycotting polluting, unethical companies and spending on organic, Fair Trade products.