College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3484
Email: ckern@apu.edu
Office Location: Faculty Quad #9
Office Hours: Mon., 4:15-5 p.m.; Tues., 11-11:30 a.m. and 7-7:30 p.m.; also by appointment

Christine Kern received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and her B.A. from Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her professional interests include creative prose, contemporary literature, and American literature, although her favorite novel is Anna Karenina.

Ph.D. - English, University of Wisconsin
M.A. - English, University of Wisconsin
B.A. - English, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota

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.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dissertation Fellowship
Council of Wisconsin Writers Award for Short Fiction
The Milton Center Post-Graduate Fellowship for New Writers, Kansas

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.