Ann Reckling
Visiting Assistant Professor
MFA 1998, University of Iowa
Email: acr@jbntelco.com
Office: English/Counseling Services Bldg. 122-B
Phone: (785) 532-2145
Fields of interest:
Modern and Contemporary Drama; Irish Literature and Film; Playwriting; Screenwriting; Poetry; Feminism; Television Comedy.
Ann Reckling holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is a former fiction
editor of The Iowa Review. As a screenwriter she has written for the MTM television series St. Elsewhere and was a story editor at Paramount Studios.
In her teaching Ann explores Modernism’s influence on drama, Marxist readings of Irish
literature and film, formal components of screenwriting and poetry, and feminist investigations
of iconic television characters.