Dr. Kurt Hochenauer teaches the department's modern British literature courses. He teaches a course on the Beat Movement with a focus on American authors Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. He teaches the online courses Advanced Composition and Blogs: New Independent Media.

He has published academic articles on a wide range of authors, including Henry James, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and William Shakespeare. He has published articles related to writing pedagogy. He has published short fiction and poetry and presented numerous papers at academic conferences and read fiction and poetry at public readings.

A former journalist, Dr. Hochenauer has published over 600 newspaper articles, and he continues to be a contributor to the Oklahoma Gazette. His populist blog, Okie Funk: Notes From The Outback, critiques current political issues and has been featured on national sites such as Salon.com. (Get a free download here of an ebook featuring posts from the blog from May 2004 to May 2006.)