Dr. Keaton Lamle

Senior Lecturer of English

klamle@kennesaw.edu 
Office: EB 236

Keaton Lamle’s creative non-fiction on art, language, and culture has appeared in The Guardian, Bitter Southerner, and Paste Magazine, and his feature stories about food and advertising culture have been shortlisted by Longreads and The Best American Food Writing.
 
Holding a doctorate in rhetoric and composition from Georgia State University, Dr. Lamle’s scholarship covers the intersection between religious rhetoric and political demagoguery and has appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and College Composition and Communication.
 
Since 2018, Dr. Lamle has led the M.A.P.W. study abroad course in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, where writers focus on crafting narratives about the foodways of this uniquely indigenous lynchpin of global cuisine, which gave the world corn, squash, beans, agaves, and avocados. This program— Kennesaw State’s longest running study abroad opportunity— takes students into small pre-hispanic villages and across the mountains, valleys, and cloud forests of Oaxaca to explore one of the world’s oldest surviving pre-colonial artisan cultures in one of the most ecologically diverse places on the planet.

• Concentration Area(s)
  • Applied Writing
  • Creative Writing
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 6410 Feature Writing
  • PRWR 6520 Creative Nonfiction Writing I
  • PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Oaxaca Travel Writing
  • PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Food and Travel Feature Writing
• Select Publications
  • 2017: 46,000 Fans A Game: Atlanta United’s Strange Success Far From Soccer’s Heartland. The Guardian. Print, Web. August 21, 2017.
    
    
  • 2017: Hot, Sticky, Sweet: Krispy Kreme, Dunkin’ Donuts, And Regional Identity In The Age Of Automation. The Bitter Southerner. February 2017.
    
    
  • 2016: Kevin Durant’s Exit Hurts An Oklahoma Mourning Much More Than Basketball. The Guardian. Print, Web. July 7, 2016.
    
    
  • 2016: Strange Bedfellows: How Donald Trump And The Religious Right Found Love At The Weirdo Table. Paste Magazine. July 29, 2016.
    
    
  • 2023: Book Review
    “Review: Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About An Explosive Topic.” College Composition and Communication. (Accepted, In Press). Expected 2024.
    
    
  • 2022: Co-Authored Chapter in Edited Collection
    “Presence as Participation: Reflections on COVID-19’s Impact on a Graduate Seminar at an Urban Research University” Go Online! Reconfiguring Writing Courses for the New, Virtual World. (Peter Lang Publishing, In Press, 2022)
    (Michael Harker, Keaton Lamle, and Rachel Woods)
    
    
  • 2021: Book Review
    “Review: Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Fall 2021.