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Gavin Keulks

he/him

Director, Honors Program

88519 | keulksg@wou.edu
APSC 210

Why I chose WOU

At WOU since

09/16/1999

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Classes Taught

Course Title Location Days Times
HNR 351 HONORS THESIS DEVELOPMENT ONLINE CRS ---W--- 2000-2050
HNR 378 HONORS THESIS/SENIOR PROJECT ONLINE CRS ------- -
HNR 301 LANGUAGE IN PLACE BELL 336 --T-R-- 1000-1150
HNR 300 UFO'S: GOV'T ON RECORD BELL 332 -M-W--- 1400-1545
HNR 303 DANCE AND THE MOVING IMAGE OPE 202 -M-W--- 1200-1350

Professional experience

As Honors Program Director, I oversee all honors recruitment and retention initiatives and coordinate the interdisciplinary honors curriculum, among other duties. The program comprises the top 3% of WOU's undergraduate population. As a lit prof, I specialize in 20th-century English and Irish literature, especially fiction of the post-World War II period. I also teach classes in literary history, critical theory, and film. My scholarly projects are oriented to both general and specialized audiences, including books on Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis to essays on Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson, among others.  An 80,000 word novel, Flight, remains unpublished but was perhaps my most meaningful endeavor.  I am currently under contract as editor for the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis (forthcoming, 2026) and am working on a book about Irish traumatic spaces.

If you are seeking information related to the Honors Program and its classes, please visit our webpage at www.wou.edu/honors .  For more about my classes and scholarship please visit https://wou.edu/wp/keulksg/ . 

Awards and honors

Mario & Alma Pastega Award for Excellence in Scholarship, WOU, 2007
Faculty Advisor of the Year, WOU, 2015
Faculty Advisor of the Year, NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising, 2016




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