Jane Kuenz

  • Interim Dean
Jane Kuenz
207-780-5164

228 Deering Ave. Portland, Maine

Education

  • PhD, English, Duke University
  • MA, English, Duke University
  • MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama
  • BA, English and Political Science, Spring Hill College

Research Interests

American literature, African-American literature, cultural studies

Jane Kuenz joined the Department of English at the University of Southern Maine in 1995. A past Chair of the English Department, then Associate Dean of the School of Business, she now serves as Interim Dean for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences . Her published research on American literature, African-American literature and cultural studies includes Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas and Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World and essays in Modernism/Modernity, Cultural Critique, Yale Journal of Criticism, African American Review, South Atlantic Quarterly.

Jane Kuenz
207-780-5164

228 Deering Ave. Portland, Maine

Education

  • PhD, English, Duke University
  • MA, English, Duke University
  • MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama
  • BA, English and Political Science, Spring Hill College

Research Interests

American literature, African-American literature, cultural studies