Stephen Dilks

Stephen John Dilks was born in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire and attended the Fosse Way Primary School, St John's Secondary School in Cyprus, and the Robert Pattinson Comprehensive School. He earned a BA Honours degree in English Studies from Stirling University in Scotland and Masters and Doctoral degrees in English Language and Literature from the Rutgers Graduate School in New Brunswick, NJ. After teaching as a non-tenure track assistant professor at Rutgers in 1992-1995, he served as Director of Composition and Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. In 1997 he became Director of Writing across the Curriculum at the University of Missouri--Kansas City and in 2005 he co-founded and became the director of UMKC's Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching. He is currently an Associate Professor of English and Irish Literature. Dilks also serves as Director of Universal Design for Learning for an NSF project designed to connect faculty who teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at colleges across the KC metro. Dilks has published articles on Teaching/Learning and on Irish literature. He is co-author of Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past (Bedford, 2003). He coaches and plays indoor and outdoor soccer and runs roughly 20 miles a week.