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Kim McMullen has been a member of the Kenyon English department since 1984, teaching courses in twentieth-century Irish literature, postmodern narrative, American modernism, American studies and James Joyce. Interested in the intersection of gender and nationality in contemporary Irish culture, she is currently completing a book entitled "Decolonizing Rosaleen: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationality in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film." Other research interests include the Irish literary heritage industry, the poetry of Eavan Boland and recent Irish fiction.
She has directed the English department's off-campus study program at the University of Exeter twice and was the recipient of the first Kenyon College Trustee Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1989 and of the 1989 Senior Cup. She has also won the Margaret Church Prize (for an article in Modern Fiction Studies) and the Senior Scholars Award from the Women's Caucus of the MMLA. She has served on many faculty committees over the years, most recently the Curricular Policy Committee and the 2002-03 Presidential Search Committee.
Education
1986 — Doctor of Philosophy from Duke University
1981 — Master of Arts from Stanford University
1976 — Bachelor of Arts from Denison University, Phi Beta Kappa