Beth W. Capo
Associate Professor of English
B.A. Denison University; M.A., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Publications:
Book
"Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007.
Print Journal Articles (refereed)
“Midwestern History and Memory in Robinson’s Gilead.”
MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. 34 (2007): 79-86.
“’She is herself a poem’: Caresse Crosby, Feminine Identity, and Literary History.”
Legacy: Journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 23.1 (June 2006): 30-43.
“’Can This Marriage Be Saved?’: Birth Control and Marriage in Modern American
Literature.”
Modern Language Studies 34.1&2 (Spring/Fall 2004): 28-41.
“‘How Shall We Change the Law?’: Birth Control Rhetoric and the Modern American
Narrative.”
Literature and the Law. Rodopi Press Perspectives in Modern Literature. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. 2004. 119-144.
“Inserting the Diaphragm In(to) Modern Fiction: Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth, and the
Literature of Contraception.”
Journal of American Culture 26.1 (March 2003): 111-123.
“Black Female Absence and the Construction of Womanhood in Faulkner’s Light in
August.”
The Faulkner Journal 16.3 (November 2000): 7-31.
On-Line Journal Articles (refereed)
“Teaching Illinois.”
College English Association Forum 35.1 (Winter/Spring 2006).
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/351capo.htm Poetry“Marathon.”
My Life at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community through the Body. Edited by Jo Malin. SUNY Press, 2010.
I enjoy teaching 20th century American literature, women writers, and Gender & Women's Studies courses. Favorite writer is William Faulkner, but I love many writers and read voraciously. I am slowly overcoming my fear of poetry. Places I've traveled that have inspired me are Kyoto, Japan, where I lived for a year on Fulbright; Bath, England, where I studied abroad in college; and Barcelona, Spain. Hobbies include running, swimming, reading, and knitting.
Nicholas P. Capo
Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor of English
B.A., M.F.A. Pennsylvania State University
Cynthia A. Cochran Associate Professor of English
A.B., M.S., University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana; Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University
Naomi E. Hahn
A. Boyd Pixley Professor of Humanities - English
B.A. Augustana College; M.A., Ph.D. Purdue University
Betsy Hall Instructor in English
B.A., M.A. University of Illinois Springfield
Courses taught: 121, 130, 205, 208
Research interests: food rhetoric, writing assessment, writing about writing (WAW), first-year composition
Current IC involvement: IC Connections Academic Director, Student Life Committee
Other interest: traveling, gardening, reading, bicycling, Homer (!)
Jim L. Kerbaugh
Professor of English
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. North Texas State University
I have led 6 breakaways to England and Italy. The ones to Italy sparked an interest in art history, which I will use in the Senior Seminar, the topic for which is The Italian Renaissance. I also teach a course focused on Dante. Other courses include Chaucer, Studies in the English Renaissance, Classical Literature and Poetry Workshop. Over forty of my poems have been published and I will be performing a reading of my work in the Spring 2012 semester.
Robert C. Koepp
Frances McReynolds Smith Professor of International Understanding and Professor of English
B.A. St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sabbatical Leave: Spring 2013
Megan Milks 
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
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megan.milks@mail.ic.edu
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Temple University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
I write primarily fiction: my work has been included in the volumes
30 Under 30: An anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers; Wreckage of Reason; and Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire; as well as many journals. My short story, "Kill Marguerite" is available as a chapbook through Another New Calligraphy Press, and another chapbook, "Twins," is forthcoming from Birds of Lace Press this fall (2012). I am presently at work on a collection of short fiction and a novel.
My scholarship focuses on contemporary literature; queer and feminist theory and politics; and illness narratives. I am currently working on a co-edited volume devoted to queer and feminist perspectives on asexuality and on several essays related to narratives of mental illness.
I am excited to be teaching introductory and advanced creative writing at Illinois College this year. Other research/teaching interests include gender and women's studies; disability studies; film, particularly horror; comedy; and the grotesque.
Lisa J. Udel, Chair
Associate Professor of English
B.A. University of Michigan; M.A. Indiana University; Ph.D. University of Cincinnati