Jacqueline Kari

Brittain Fellow

Member Of:
  • Writing and Communication Program
Office Phone: 404-385-3612
Office Location: 363 Skiles
Office Hours: T/TH 10:50 AM-12:20 PM
Related Links:
Email Address: jkari3@gatech.edu

Overview

Jacqueline Kari is a Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia, is completing a book-length ekphrastic response to Jay Defeo's mammoth 1966 painting, The Rose, and developing a collection of creative nonfiction essays and contemporary fairy tales called "The House That Jack Built." A poet and interdisciplinary artist, her creative work can be found at Annulet; The Georgia Review; Action, Yes; and elsewhere.

Education:
  • PhD, English: Creative Writing, University of Georgia
  • MFA, English: Creative Writing and Book Arts, Louisiana State University
  • MA, English: Creative Writing, Miami University
  • BA, English: Creative Writing and French
Areas of
Expertise:
  • Creative Writing
  • Visual Arts
  • Writing And Communication

Interests

Teaching Interests:
Ekphrasis, Multimodality, and Rhetorical Awareness: Visual Art Integration in First-Year Writing Adaptation; Paper Trails: Manufactured Traditions and Future Progress; Variation in Fairy Tales, Folktales, Traditional Ballads
Research Interests:
Visual Art and Ekphrasis; Creative Writing and Lyric Poetry; Adaptation and Variation in Fairy Tales, Folktales, Traditional Ballads; Book Arts; Modernist Poets; American Literature in the Long Twentieth Century; Digital Humanities; First-year writing.
Research Fields:
  • Communication
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
Issues:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

Courses

  • ENGL-1102: English Composition II

Publications

Creative Artifacts

Updated:  Jan 27th, 2026 at 1:20 PM