Kelci Baughman McDowell

Reference Library Assistant

Contact:
Office: Gleeson 127
Phone: (415) 422-2236
email: kbaughmanmcdowell@usfca.edu

What I Do:
In addition to being a jack of all trades, I supervise the student workers in the Reference Department.

Bio:
I am originally from Los Angeles but have lived in San Francisco since 2001. I graduated from USF in 2005 with a B.A. in English and worked in the Reference Department of Gleeson Library as a student assistant all four years of undergrad. I have worked as the Gleeson Reference Assistant since Valentine's Day 2006. In between my two jobs at Gleeson Library, I worked at the Graduate Theological Union Library as a Circulation Assistant. I am currently enrolled in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at USF. Additionally, I am a poetry editor for the USF MFA online lit mag, Switchback.

Interests:
Reading poetry (Stéphane Mallarmé, Laurel Ann Bogen, Joshua Clover, Ted Berrigan, Alejandra Pizarnik, and many more!), the Russians (Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov), writing poetry, translations, book making, recruiting student workers with Facebook, graphic design, dada, surrealist games, and subculture.