Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Joseph Kidney
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioJoseph Kidney is a Lecturer for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE). He received a PhD in English Literature from Stanford University in 2024. An early modernist, his work looks at sixteenth-century literature, particularly drama, against the backdrop of the European and English Reformations. His dissertation examined the sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory projects of Reformation and Renaissance as they drastically reshaped intellectual culture and gave rise to new forms of vernacular literature. In this project and elsewhere, he has a particular interest in classical reception, rhetorical theory, early modern humanism, Renaissance comedy, and the cultural transformations regarding attitudes to the dead.
His academic publications include work on the dramatists Nicholas Udall, William Shakespeare, and John Webster, drawing on early modern thought ranging from theology to proto-scientific treatises. Other work supplements these historicist approaches with twentieth- and twenty-first-century methodologies derived from queer theory, considerations of metatheatre, and genre theory. He has also published on pedagogy, articulating strategies for teaching old plays in modern classrooms. He has taught, as instructor of record, classes on Shakespeare and on Renaissance Literature, and served as a teaching assistant for literary surveys from Beowulf to Jane Austen, as well as for Poetry and Poetics. He has worked as an assistant editor for the Stanford Global Shakespeare Encyclopedia and as a Graduate Coordinator for Stanford's Renaissances working group.
Outside of academia, he works as a poet. He is the author of Devotional Forensics (icehouse poetry), winner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize and a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, and TriQuarterly. He won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Poetry and the Poem of the Year award from Arc Poetry Magazine. He has been supported by the Banff Centre, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Civitella Ranieri. -
Valerie Kinsey
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Writing and Critical Thinking Instruction; Institutional Rhetorics; Rhetorics of Race and Gender; Creative Writing; Philosophy and Rhetoric; Historiography; American History and Literature
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Brody Kladis
Fall 2026 Tech 80 Course Support Specialist, Continuing Studies
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioUndergraduate student in Mechanical Enigneering
Engineering Project Lead & Robotics Course Instructor at Evodyne Robotics
Stanford Student Robotics - Battlebots Team Lead & Team Founder
About me:
Hello, I am Brody Kladis is an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering. I have worked in industry at Axon and at Evodyne Robotics on projects relating to public safety, UAV technology, robotics, manufacturing processes, and more. Some of my past experiences include FIRST Robotics Competition, The Luminosity Lab, and Stanford SSI. Man of my most exciting work comes from my personal projects and can be found on my portfolio website linked below.
Profile Links:
Project Portfolio: https://brody-kladis.su.domains/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brody-kladis/
Handshake: https://stanford.joinhandshake.com/profiles/brody-kladis -
E. Lia Kleinbock
SLE Lecturer, Structured Liberal Education
BioE. Lia Kleinbock is a Lecturer in the Program in Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a first-year residential humanities program at Stanford University.
Dr. Kleinbock's research puts modernist cultural production in the German, Soviet, and Anglophone spheres in conversation with the history of the human sciences and the intersecting traditions of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science. Their current book project, growing out of their dissertation, looks at how modernist artists and intellectuals (e.g. Aleksandr Bogdanov, John Dewey, Bertolt Brecht, and Wilfred R. Bion) theorized and depicted processes of teaching and learning. Dr. Kleinbock's broader interests include poetry and poetics, experimental cinema, theater, pre-Freudian histories of the unconscious, and aesthetic and theoretical treatments of impersonality. They are also an occasional theater practitioner and director, with training in clown, commedia dell'arte, and Lecoq-style physical theater.
