KJ Gilchrist

Contact

Dept:English
Email:kjg@iastate.edu
Office:245 Ross
527 Farm House Ln.
Ames IA
50011-1054
Phone:515-294-2180
Website:https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/kjg

Bio

KJ Gilchrist (Ph.D. Univ. of Kansas) specializes in British literature, Modernism (British and American), the First World War, trauma studies, and Postmodernism. His studies focus on the influences of war shaping modern and postmodern literature as expressions of trauma as well as recovery from trauma. His publications include articles and reviews on war literature and trauma, Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, and a monograph, A Morning after War: C. S. Lewis and WWI (2005). He teaches widely across the English department’s curriculum and serves as the department’s Associate Chair for Term Faculty.