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Andrew Kunka
Phone: 803-938-3718
Room: 108 Arts and Letters Building
Division of Arts and Letters
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Associate Professor
English
Andrew Kunka has been a member of the USC Sumter English department since 2001. He received his Ph.D in Twentieth Century British Literature from Purdue University in 2001. His dissertation, "The Inward Scream": Shell-Shock Narratives in Twentieth-Century British Culture, examines the role of shell shock in British narratives of the First World War. He received an M.A. in English from Marquette University and a B.A. in English from Moorhead State University in Minnesota (now known as Minnesota State University Moorhead).
He has taught English 101 (Composition), English 102 (Composition and Literature), English 282 (Fiction), English 283 (Themes in British Writing), English 287 (American Literature), English 288 and 289 (British Literature I and II), Film 240 (Introduction to Film Studies), and English 413 (Modern British Literature). He has also taught courses on detective fiction and on postmodern British literature.
Dr. Kunka's research interests include First World War literature, 19th and 20th century British novels, graphic novels, popular culture, and film, especially film noir, war movies, and horror films.
He is co-editor of May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern with Dr. Michele K. Troy (Ashgate Press, 2006), a collection of scholarly essays on the popular 19th- and 20th-century British novelist. He has also written an essay entitled "The Evolution of Mourning in Siegfried Sassoon's War Writing," for a collection on Modernism and Mourning from Bucknell University Press (2007). In addition, he has published essays on the novelist Ford Madox Ford, First World War literature, and war movies; has presented papers on both film and literature at many international, national, and regional conferences; and has written book reviews for Modern Fiction Studies, The Journal of British Studies, and MELUS. Based on his interest in film, he founded and continues to coordinate USC Sumter's annual Summer Film Series. He is also an occasional movie reviewer for the Florence Morning News.
He lives in Florence with his wife, Jennifer, who is an associate professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Francis Marion University. They have two cats: Dodger and Gilbert.
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