Dr. Ronald Kates
Professor, Advisor, Writing Minor and Supervisor of Engl 3990, Independent Writing Program and Engl 4000, Writing Internship

Office: PH 342; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2595

A native of Chicago, Dr. Kates teaches courses in general studies English, sports and literature, and renaissance literature. He is the English Department's "Beta Geek."

See Publications

Conference Presentations

• "D'oh-topia: Springfield as Unifying Element in The Simpsons." Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Vancouver: October 19-21, 2000.+
• "Teaching Baseball, Teaching Race: Wilson's Fences and Fuller's A Soldier's Play" The Malaga Conference on American Theatre, Malaga University, Spain: May 22-24, 2000."
• A Collaborative Research and Discussion Exercise for a CAI Environment." The Mid-South Instructional Technology Conference, MTSU: April 9-11, 2000.
• "From Shoemaker to 'Emperor': Rowland Lacy's Creation of a New Society in The Shoemaker's Holiday." The Tennessee Philological Association meeting, Cookeville: February 25-26, 2000.
• "New Urbanism Meets Cinematic Fantasyland: The Truman Show and New Utopias." Society for Utopian Studies Conference, San Antonio:  November 12-13, 2000. 
• "White Trash in the College Classroom: Banks's Trailerpark and the Springeresque Reaction." Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Society Meeting, Philadelphia: November 5-6, 2000.
• "Russell Banks and the Church of Fenway: Wade Whitehouse, Bob Dubois, and Their Respective Red Sox Epiphanies.
• " Conference on Baseball and Literature, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana: April 9, 1999.
• "Hopelessness and Bravado in Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love and Russell Banks's Success Stories." The Madison Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 20, 1999.
• "Twentysomethings in the 90s: Film Noir Meets Marlovian Tragedy." The Virginia Humanities Council Meeting, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia: March 19-20, 1999.
• "What Color Collar Does a Teacher Wear?" Louisiana Philological Society Meeting, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana: March 12-13,1999.
• "What Really Matters: Confronting Death in the Classroom." Missouri Philological Association, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri: February 26-27, 1999.
• "Interpretative Art Worlds Collide: The Aronlfini Portrait and The Shoemaker's Holiday." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Conference, West Virginia University: April 10-11, 1998.
• "Technology, Tape Recorders, and the Commuter Student: Bypassing the Red Pen." The Georgia-South Carolina College English Association Conference, Clemson University: February 9-10, 1995.
•  "'Cause It's My Right: The Awakening Reconsidered Through Lucinda Williams' Music." The Kate Chopin Conference, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana: April 7, 1995.