Krista Quesenberry
Associate Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Pennsylvania State University (2016)
- Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University (2016)
Dual-title dissertation: “Reading at the Intersection of Modernist, Feminist, & Lifewriting Studies” - M.A. in English, Pennsylvania State University (2012)
- B.A. in English, Ball State University (2006)
Honors thesis: “To study or not to study : a critical look at study abroad”
Courses
- Pleiad Practicum sequence
- Professional Writing
- Multimedia Journalism
- Science, Technical, and Medical Writing
- Writing in the Non-Profit Sector
- Advanced Editing
- LGBTQ+ Literature
- Write Your Résumé;
- OUCH! Comics and Medicine
- Honors: Race in Media
- College Writing
Areas of Interest
Krista’s teaching and research engages with professional writing, American literature, comics about medicine, and feminist, LGBTQ+, and disability studies.
Publications
- “‘A Widely Applicable Model’: Teaching Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of
Decay Across Institutions,” with Sarah Boykin Hardy, Elizabeth Starr, Cindie
Aaen Maagaard, Shena McAuliffe, and Erin McConnell. In Journal of Medical
Humanities, 7 February 2023, doi 10.1007/s10912-022-09780-z (link). - “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,” with Katie Warczak. In American Literary
Scholarship: An Annual—2020, ed. David Nordloh. Duke UP. September 2022. - “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.” In American Literary Scholarship: An
Annual—2019, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Duke UP (September 2021). 149–174.
ISSN: 00659142 (link). - “Mother of a Queen.” In Reading Hemingway’s Winner Take Nothing, eds. Susan
Vandagriff and Mark Cirino. Kent State UP (June 2021). 124–139. ISBN: 978-
1606354230 (link). - “Object Studies and Keepsakes, Artifacts, and Ephemera.” In The New Hemingway
Studies, eds. Suzanne del Gizzo and Kirk Curnutt. Cambridge UP (September
2020). 63–79. ISBN: 978-1108494847 (link). - “Disability Studies: Disrupting Representation, Representing Disruption.” In More
Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, eds. Matt Smith, Randy
Duncan, and Matthew Brown. Routledge (October 2019). 61–74. ISBN: 978-
0415885553 (link). - “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway,” with Michael Von Cannon. In American
Literary Scholarship: An Annual—2017, ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Duke UP
(September 2019). 183–204. ISSN 0065-9142 (link). - “From the Hemingway Letters Project.”In The Hemingway Review 37.2 (Spring 2018):
138–148. DOI: 10.1353/hem.2018.0010 (link). - “Intersectional and Non-Human Self-Representation in Women’s Autobiographical
Comics.” In Freaked and Othered Bodies, eds. Lauranne Poharec and Aidan
Diamond. Special issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 8.5 (September
2017): 417–32 (link). - “Life Writing and Graphic Narratives,” with Susan Squier. In Body Language: Illness,
Disability, and Life Writing, ed. G. Thomas Couser. Special issue of Life Writing
13.1 (2016): 63–85 (link); reprinted in Routledge’s Special Issues as Books series,
ISBN: 978-1138693081.
Awards
- National & International
Hemingway Society Lewis-Reynolds-Smith Founders Fellowship (2023)
Dorothy Foehr Huck Research Award, Penn State Special Collections (2023)
Hemingway Research Grant, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (2016)
Jim & Nancy Hinkle Travel Grant, Ernest Hemingway Society (2012, 2014, 2016)
Graduate Student Travel Grant, Modernist Studies Association (2015)
University of Michigan graduate travel support for IABA conference (2015) - Albion College
New Teacher of the Year award (2024)
Bonus, in recognition for annual achievement (2024)
Albion College Excellence award (2023)
Joyce G. Ferguson Faculty Development Fund for Excellence in Teaching (2023)
Faculty Development Committee Small and Large Grants (2020, 2022, 2023)
Student-Faculty Research Grant, Faculty Development Committee (2019)
Provost’s Travel Awards (2019–2024) - Pennsylvania State University
Oldsey Endowment for American Literary Studies grant (2014, 2015, 2018)
Superior Teaching and Research (STAR) Award, College of Liberal Arts (2016)
Research Assistant, Hemingway Letters Project (2011–2014, 2016)
Fellow, Institute for Arts & Humanities (2016)
Fellow, Rock Ethics Institute (2015)
Milton B. Dolinger Fellowship in the WWII Era, College of Liberal Arts (2015)
Ph.D. Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of English (2015)
George and Barbara Kelly Graduate Fund grant (2015)
Constance Shehan Graduate Support in Women’s Studies grant (2014)
University Office of Global Programs Graduate Travel Grant (2014)
Center for American Literary Studies archival research support (2013)
Philip Young Memorial Endowment in American Literature travel grant (2012)