Assistant Professor Karen Leona Anderson's poem "Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents," originally published in Seneca Review, has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2012 Best American Poetry.
Program Information
Ben Click, Chair
Professor of English
240-895-4253
baclick@smcm.edu
Office staff: 240-895-4225
Faculty Spotlight
Professor of English Jeffrey Hammond's new book, Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties, is being published by University of Iowa Press this fall.
Student Spotlight
Melanie Kokolios's short story "Schadenfreude" has been published in Carve's Spring 2011 online issue and will appear in print in their 2011 anthology at the start of 2012.
Professor and Chair of English
Montgomery Hall 07
240-895-4253
baclick@smcm.edu
Ben Click began teaching (and learning from) students in 1981. Since that time he has taught a variety of courses in writing, rhetoric, literature, and humor. As the director of the St. Mary's College Writing Center, Ben is interested in how students develop as writers, particularly in how one-on-one and small-group conversation with other writers can enhance that development. His research explores how humor in fiction constructs and promotes social identities and ideologies, and how rhetorical training of particular authors contributed to popular humor writing in the 19th century. He received a B.A. and M.A. in English from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Ph.D. in English from Penn State University. He enjoys playing and listening to blues, and watching and reading about baseball. But mostly he enjoys the laughter and company of his wife and two daughters.
