Contact Information

Office: 3037 JFSB

Phone: 422-1242

E-mail: kerry_soper@byu.edu

Office Hours:
No office hours this semester--codirecting study abroad program at the London Centre this Fall

Courses Taught:
Hum 262 American Humanities 1876 to the present
Hum 250 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
Hum 202 Western Humanities from the Renaissance to the present
Hum 350 Interpretation of Literature and the Arts
Hum 440R American Culture in the 1950s and 1960s
Hum 440R Satire and Comedy in American Culture

Link to Vitae

Kerry Soper studied art as an undergraduate at Utah State University. He then attended Emory University where he pursued an MA and PhD in American Studies. In addition to teaching in the Humanities program at BYU, he publishes cartoons and short satiric pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education. His landscape paintings are shown at the Gallery Mar in Park City, Utah.

Degrees

PhD, Emory University,1998
MA, Emory University,1998
BFA, Utah State University,1992

Interests

American social & cultural history, satire & comedy, and popular visual arts (film, photography, illustration, comic strips). The history of landscape painting.