Jesse Lee Kercheval

Sally Mead Hands Professor of English
608-263-3756
jlkerche@.wisc.edu
http://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jlkerche/web/

Degrees and Institutions

M.F.A., University of Iowa

Research Interests

Writing fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.

Selected Publications

The Alice Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), Film History as Train Wreck (Center for Book Arts, 2006), Chartreuse (Hollyridge Press, 2005), Dog Angel, University of Pittsburgh Press (2004); The Museum of Happiness, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003); Building Fiction (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) World as Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999); Space (Algonquin Books, 1998); The Dogeater, University of Missouri Press (1987), winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction. Her stories and poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Chicago Review, Poetry London, The Georgia Review, and others.

Personal Statement

I am as committed to teaching as I am to writing.