Andrew Kirk

Associate Professor of English
B.A. University of Washington 
M.A. University of Hawaii-Manoa 
Ph.D. University of California-Davis
406.657.1187
Morledge-Kimball Hall 202
kirka@rocky.edu

Biography

After earning a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Washington, and a lot of traveling, Andrew Kirk turned to English for his M.A. at the University of Hawaii, and focused on English literature for his Ph.D., which he received from the University of California, Davis. Although at Davis he specialized in English Renaissance drama, at Rocky Mountain College he teaches a range of British literature courses: from Beowulf, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Conrad to contemporary post colonial literature, as well as teaching courses in literary theory, travel literature, war literature, and composition. His publications include a book, The Mirror of Confusion, which analyzes the distorted reflection of French history in English Renaissance drama, and articles on "The Unfortunate Traveller" and on other topics in the literature of the Early Modern period. Primarily trained as a historicist in graduate school, he now just as often recurs to cultural, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist theories in his literary analysis and teaching.

When not studying and teaching literature, he spends his time backpacking in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, fly-fishing on the Bighorn River, or wandering around Southeast Asia: writing, hiking, photographing, diving, and, sometimes, teaching -- writing classes at Bangkok University in Thailand, and, once, an English class in a bamboo hut suspended over a lotus-filled drainage canal at Mandalay University in Myanmar, before continuing his journey down the Irrawady River to the ancient ruins of Bagan.

Dr. Kirk has taught at Rocky Mountain College since Fall of 1997.