Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Christopher Kamrath
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Citizenship and Political Dissent, Media History, Cultural Memory, andWriting technologies
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Hayden Kantor
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFood and agriculture; ethnographic writing; rhetorics of capitalism; ethics of care; culture and history of India and South Asia
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Nora Kassner
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNora Kassner's current book project, Hard to Place: Homosexuality, Foster Care, and the Remaking of the American Family, places gay and lesbian foster parents at the heart of the transformation of American family policy in the late twentieth century. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, gay and lesbian foster parents won the right to care for 'homosexual' teens, then children with HIV-AIDS, and then laid the groundwork for the legalization of gay parenthood across the United States.
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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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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. -
Elaine Lai
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioElaine Lai is a Lecturer for Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) who has spent over a decade of her life working and studying in Nepal, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, and China, where she made many lifelong friends.
Elaine is a scholar of Buddhism, trained in the languages of Tibetan, Chinese, and Sanskrit. She specializes in a tradition known as the Great Perfection in Tibet. Elaine’s recent research explores the relationship between Buddhist literature and time, specifically, how form and content interplay to cultivate more compassionate temporal relationalities. Elaine is committed to making the study of Buddhism accessible to a wider audience through technology and the arts. As a part of her dissertation, she created an intertextual heatmap to trace the citational history of a scripture throughout an important corpus of Great Perfection literature. Elaine also created a virtual reality (VR) experience to present Great Perfection history in a novel way.
At Stanford, Elaine has co-taught different courses in Religious Studies and guest lectured in Asian American Studies. In 2022, Elaine is proud to have created and taught the course “Queering Buddhism: Gender, Sexuality, and Liberatory Praxis.” This course sought to investigate the possibilities and constraints to “queering” or transforming any institution, and how the fields of queer studies and feminist studies might constructively and ethically be in conversation with Buddhist theories of liberation. In her pedagogy, Elaine emphasizes the importance of reciprocity, respect, and co-creation. Elaine is a firm believer that the process of how we engage in dialogue is as important, if not more important, than what the ultimate outcome of our conversations might be.
In Elaine’s free time, she writes screenplays (film and TV), spanning the genres of comedy, sci-fi, animation, historical drama, and more. -
Helen Lie
Advanced Lecturer, Oral Communication
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Communication Pedagogy; Visual Communication; Presentation Skills
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Richard McGrail
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEthnographic research describes the daily lives of children in California's foster care system who live in therapeutic residential group homes. Research questions how relationships of trust and attachement are formed between children and their adult caregivers, as well as among the children themselves.
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Sangeeta Mediratta
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioSangeeta Mediratta teaches classes on rhetoric and writing, literature and film. Her PWR classes currently focus on maps, borders, networks, objects, and objectification. She loves learning about and helping her students develop their research interests and projects and takes great joy in fostering strong class communities centered around writing and research.
She completed her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in English Literature. Her dissertation :Bazaars, Cannibals, and Sepoys: Sensationalism and Transnational Cultures of Empire" studied at the ways texts, objects, and spectacles in the U.S. and Britain drew upon imperial stories and objects to critique contemporary social formations. She has also written on world cinema, popular culture, disability studies, as well as gender and race studies.
Her current research focuses on the materiality of writing and on how students use culture as a way to build campus communities. She is also interested in empathy as a mode of living, connecting, writing, and being. -
Kevin C. Moore
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioKevin C. Moore is an Advanced Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), and the Coordinator of PWR's Notation in Science Communication. He holds a PhD in English from UCLA (2013). Prior to arriving at Stanford, he taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2013-2019). His research interests include science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison, and writer's block. Dr. Moore's work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Arts, ContraSTS, Writing on the Edge, African American Review, Composition Studies, MAKE, Souciant, and the Santa Barbara Independent, as well as collections such as Trigger Warnings: Teaching through Trauma (Lever Press 2026), Ralph Ellison in Context (Cambridge University Press 2021), and Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering (Springer 2017). He also writes fiction and creative nonfiction.
Dr. Moore is a co-author of the forthcoming textbook Communicating Science in Public (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis) with Stanford colleagues Megan Shields Formato, Sarah Peterson Pittock, Emily Polk, and Cassie Wright. -
Gabrielle Moyer
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Poetics of Art History; The Relation of Ethics and Aesthetics; Analytic Philosophy; Essayism
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Michelle Katherine Oing
Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioMichelle Oing is a scholar of medieval and early modern European art, with a focus on sculpture, pilgrimage, and puppetry (PhD, Yale University). Recent and forthcoming scholarly articles examine sacred puppets, carnival performances, and theatrical representations of miraculous images in the late medieval period. She has held teaching positions in art history at Yale University, Pomona College, and Stanford University.
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Eldon Pei
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecialisation: world cinema; documentary film; post-war visual cultures; East and Southeast Asian studies; propaganda; media, technology and society; critical theory; postcolonialism
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Emily Polk
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Facilitation and Mobilization of Social Movements in the Digital and Public Spheres; Communication of Community-Led Responses to Climate Change; the Role and Impact of Scholar Activism; Participatory Research; Rhetoric of Sustainability and Environmental Humanities; Rhetoric of Global and Local Development
