Contact Information
Southwestern University
Georgetown, TX 78626
(512) 863-1562 (office)
Office: Mood-Bridwell 210
kilfoylj@southwestern.edu
Jim Kilfoyle
Associate Professor of English
Areas of expertise
Eighteenth-century British literature, postcolonial literature, literary theoryEducation
MA, PhD, Brown University, 1994
AB, Wesleyan University, 1983
Positions
Associate Professor of English
Southwestern University
August 01, 1998 - present
Department Chair--English
Southwestern University
August 01, 2004 - present
Assistant Professor of English
Southwestern University
August 01, 1992 - July 01, 1998
Visiting Instructor
Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, CA)
August 01, 1991 - July 01, 1992
Teaching Philosophy
Helping students in the serious business of having fun with words.
Previous Courses
Among others:
College Writing,
Survey of English Literature I,
Personal Voice,
Literary Criticism/Literary Theory,
Postcolonial London,
Shakespeare,
Enlightenment Self-fashioning
Research
Sociability and forms of life-writing in the long eighteenth century (1660-1832). Secondary interest in Restoration and eighteenth-century drama.
