Kelli Larson

Kelli Larson is a Professor in the Department of English & Creative Writing at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas. She holds a PhD and MA in English Education from Michigan State University and a BA from Aquinas College. Her teaching emphasizes American literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, multicultural perspectives, and the American short story, including study abroad courses in Paris focused on modernist writers like Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes.

• PhD in English Education, Michigan State University
• MA in English Education, Michigan State University
• BA in English, Aquinas College

Her courses, such as *The American Short Story* and *Critical Thinking: Lit/Writing*, explore diverse literary traditions while fulfilling university requirements for writing, humanities integration, and social justice. She specializes in analyzing canonical and non-canonical texts to reveal cultural and historical narratives.