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Beazley Kanost holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of Rhode Island, and is currently adapting her dissertation, “Off the Hip: a Thermodynamics of the Cool,” for publication. Her essay “The Agitating Power of Civil Rights Cool in ‘Going to Meet the Man,’” appears in the critical anthology James Baldwin: Challenging Authors. She holds an MFA from Brown University and an MA in English from the University of Oklahoma, and in addition to teaching writing and Core 104 at ��������, she teaches film at the University of Rhode Island. 

I have 18 years' experience teaching at the college level, which includes:

• 4 years at the University of Oklahoma, teaching Composition and Technical Writing.
• 1 year teaching creative writing as a graduate teaching assistant at Brown University.
• 9 years teaching composition, creative writing, literature and Core 104 at �������� University.
• 4 years teaching composition at Wheaton College.
• 6 and a half years teaching literature, composition and introduction to film at the University of Rhode Island. 

I have also taught non-credit writing courses for adults through the Brown Learning Community and creative writing summer workshops for high school students at Brown University.  

I usually teach WTNG 100: Introduction to Academic Writing, WTNG 102: Expository Writing and CORE 104: Literature, Philosophy, and the Ascent of Ideas at �������� University. I

In the past I have also taught ENG 100: Introduction to Literature, WTNG 220: Critical Writing for the Professions, CW 100: Survey of Creative Writing, CW 220: Narrative in Writing the Short Story, and CW 360: Writers Reading Poetry Seminar.