Office/Office Hours

• office: 219 Ross
• office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 10-11 and 1-2; Fridays 10-11; or by appointment
• office phone: (515) 294-3286
• email: khickok@iastate.edu

Interests

• 19th-century British literature and culture
• women writers and women's literature
• multicultural American women's literature
• feminist and queer studies

Selected Publications

• Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women's Poetry. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• "Gay and Lesbian Literature and Studies," in the Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Johnnella Butler (Danbury, NY: Grolier, 2001), pp. 235-238.
• "'Burst Are the Prison Bars': Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic Reputation," in Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception, ed. Stephen Behrendt and Harriet Kramer Linkin (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), pp. 192–213.
• "'Intimate Egoism': Reading and Evaluating Noncanonical Poetry by Women," Victorian Poetry (special issue: Women Poets 1830–1894), 33 (Spring 1995), 13–30.
• "Dust Tracks on a Road: Phantom and Reality," in All About Zora: Views and Reviews by Colleagues and Scholars, ed. Alice Morgan Grant (Winter Park, FL: Four-G Publishers, 1991), pp. 109–115.

Affiliations

• National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
• National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA); Women’s Caucus, MLA
• Association for Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)

Degrees

• Ph.D. (1977) University of Maryland
• M.A. (1970) University of Southwestern Louisiana
• B.A. (1968) Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University

Awards

• Jerry Shakeshaft Master Teacher Award, ISU Liberal Arts & Sciences College, 2005
• PHORUM Faculty Award for outstanding commitment to doctoral students, 2003