Graduate Assistants:

 

Carl Lehnen
Kathy Skwarczek

Office: English 100
Office Phone: 333-2581

 
Office: English 100
Office Phone: 333-2581

Carl Lehnen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois. He received his BA in English from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri in 2004 and his MA in English from the University of Illinois in 2006. He teaches courses on Victorian literature, British literature from Romanticism to the present, and rhetoric and composition. He is currently working on a dissertation that examines the relationships among sexuality, space, and genre in Victorian narratives about Italy. When he's not perusing the latest scholarly journals, he enjoys cooking, spending time in coffee shops, and seeing live music.

Kathy Skwarczek is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Illinois. She received her BA degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 2004 and her MA in English from the University of Illinois in 2007. She studies twentieth century British fiction and teaches courses on cinema studies, British literature from Romanticism to the present, and rhetoric and composition.  When she’s feeling homesick she goes to Chicago for the weekend.  She also likes to ride bikes (the pedaling kind) and watch movies.