Martin Distinguished Professor in English
Office: Thomas Hall 109B
Phone: (308) 865-8294
Email: benzelk@unk.edu
Areas of Specialization: Literary Criticism, 20th Century, American & British Fiction, Narrative Theory, Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's Studies
Education
1987: Ph.D, English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1971: M.A., University of Toledo, OH.
Major: English Literature
1969: B.Ed. (College & English Honors), University of Toledo, OH.
Major: Intensive English in Secondary Education
Awards and Honors
2008-10: Martin Distinguished Professor in English, UNK.
2005: Honor Roll, Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience, University of South Carolina.
2004: Fine Arts & Humanities, Faculty Mentor Award, UNK.
2003: Leland Holdt Award for Distinguished Faculty, UNK.
Productions
Carl Sandburg's Poetry and Songs: Prayers for the People, Nebraska Educational Television (NET late 2008).
Carl Sandburg's Poetry and Songs: Prayers for the People, Merryman Performing Arts Center, Kearney, NE (November 2007, April 2008).
(See The Sandburg Project and The Sandburg Project Workshop)
Books
Benzel, Kathryn N. and Ruth Hoberman, Eds. Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf s Short Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2004).
Benzel, Kathryn N. Charleston, a Voice in the House. Bloomsbury Heritage Series. (London: Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1998).
Benzel, Kathryn N., and Lauren P. DeLaVars, Eds. Images of the Self as Female: The Achievement of Women Artists in Re-Envisioning the Feminine Identity (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992). 289 pp. Preface by Kathryn N. Benzel.
Benzel, Kathryn N., and Michael A. Benzel. 45 Ideas for Teaching Writing (Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1985).
Benzel, Kathryn N., and Michael A. Benzel, Janne Goldbeck. (60%) The Little English Workbook, 2nd. Ed. (Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1984).
Benzel, Kathryn N., and Janne Goldbeck. The Little English Handbook (Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1981).
Articles
2007: Prayers for the People, Prairie Fire (Oct 2007).
2005: Reprint, Short Story Criticism Vol. 79 (SSC-79), "Woolf's Early Experimentation with Consciousness: 'Kew Gardens,' Typescript to Publication, 1917-1919," in Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries, Edited by Ann Ardis and Bonnie Kime Scott, Pace University Press. (Gale Publishers, 2005).
2004: Verbal Painting in Blue & Green and Monday or Tuesday in Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf s Short Fiction, Kathryn N. Benzel and Ruth Hoberman, Eds. (Palgrave Publishers, 2004).
2003: Modern In(ter)vention: Reading the Visual. Visual Resources, Vol. 19, No.4 (Fall 2003): 321-338.
Papers Delivered
2008:
- "Carl Sandburg s America Prayers for the People," Merryman Performing Arts Center, Kearney, NE.
2007:
- "Carl Sandburg's America: Prayers for the People," Red Cloud Opera House, NE; Theatre of the American West, Republican City, NE; Merryman Performing Arts Center, Kearney, NE.
2006:
- "Woolf s Short Fiction: Common Readers or Not" 2006 M/MLA, Chicago IL.
2003:
- "Ut picture poesis or not: Virginia Woolf's Walter Sickert" 13th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Smith College, Northampton, New Hampshire.
2002:
- "Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics: Seeing and Reading" 12th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA. (Unable to attend because of lack of travel funds.)
- "Modern In(ter)vention: Reading the Visual" presented at 2002 M/MLA Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
2001:
- "Virginia Woolf and Walter Sickert: Pen and Paintbrush" presented at 89th Annual College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
- "Flight of the Mind : Woolf's Monday or Tuesday" presented at 11th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales.