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Miliann Kang’s areas of expertise include feminist ethnography and contemplative pedagogies in the feminist classroom.

Jeff Kasper is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator, specializing in public art, visual design, and social engagement.

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Gina Kaufmann is an associate professor and chair of the department of Theater at UMass Amherst. 

 Dr. Keene’s research interests center on early modern English gender and religious history. Her current book project, ‘Spiritual Fornication’: Sex, Celibacy, and the English Reformation, contends that sexuality was central to the English Reformation and to the establishment of the Church of England itself.  It examines crucial Protestant and Catholic debates about sexuality, vows, and clerical marriage from the 1520s through the reign of Elizabeth I. Allegations of Catholic clerical sexual impropriety served to justify Henry VIII’s decision to dissolve England’s monasteries by the late 1530s. The closure of the monasteries precipitated decades of debates and shifting royal policies about expectations of celibacy and marriage for Church of England clergy, former Catholic monastics, and – perhaps unexpectedly – university faculty and fellows at Cambridge and Oxford. English rulers’ preference for celibate, unmarried men to occupy positions of religious and educational influence served to legitimize the newly established Church of England and shaped English patriarchal visions of society and marriage. 

Professor Khalil specializes in Middle Eastern literature and literary theory

Kevin C. Klement has research interests in the history of analytic philosophy, formal and informal logic, and philosophical semantics.

Erinn E. Knyt is professor of music history.

Karen Kurczynski is a professor and the graduate program director in the history of art and architecture department.