Courses Taught
ENGL 110 – Freshman Writing SeminarENGL 111 – Introduction to Literature
ENGL 301 – Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 354 – American Literature Since 1865
ENGL 377 – Shakespeare
Professional/Scholarly Presentations
Publications
Kern has published fiction and creative nonfiction in literary, popular, religious journals, including Passages North, The Wisconsin Academy Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, and Seventeen.
Kern has published fiction and creative nonfiction in literary, popular, religious journals, including Passages North, The Wisconsin Academy Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, and Seventeen.
Professional Involvement and Accomplishments
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dissertation Fellowship
Council of Wisconsin Writers Award for Short Fiction
The Milton Center Post-Graduate Fellowship for New Writers, Kansas
Council of Wisconsin Writers Award for Short Fiction
The Milton Center Post-Graduate Fellowship for New Writers, Kansas
Special Interests and Activities
Creative prose
Contemporary literature, including British and American literatures
The intersections of Christian theology and the beliefs expressed in literature, especially the tension between dualistic views of human nature and those which reflect the incarnational validation of both flesh and spirit.
Contemporary literature, including British and American literatures
The intersections of Christian theology and the beliefs expressed in literature, especially the tension between dualistic views of human nature and those which reflect the incarnational validation of both flesh and spirit.

