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Christopher Kempf is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program. He is the author of two poetry collections, 'Field Lost' (2021) and 'Late Empire Men' (2017), as well as the scholarly book 'Craft Class: Writing Workshop American Culture' published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2022. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Kempf's research interests encompass creative writing, poetry, creative nonfiction, American literature, modernism, labor studies, and writing studies. His scholarly work investigates the intersection of writing and labor, especially in the context of the creative writing workshop as a form of literary production. Kempf holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA from Cornell University. He continues to explore themes of national identity and memory in his writing, examining how aesthetics and curation play roles in the construction of public remembrance and cultural narratives.
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