Kyra McKauffley is a junior at Rice University majoring in English. She is interested in researching American literature from the latter half of the twentieth century. She is also interested in literary theory and film and television studies. In her free time, she enjoys participating in student theater productions as an actor or a costume designer. She is also an editor for R2, Rice's literary magazine.

Humanities research Interests: American literature, postmodern literature, film and televison, psychoanalytic theory, Marxist theory, feminist theory, queer theory