Kristin Kelly is an English professor at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, GA. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in English from Georgia State University. Her primary research interest is the literature of the Vietnam War and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She currently is offering a new composition class entitled The Combat Experience in American Literature. In late 2009, Kristin received a grant to begin work on an interview collection entitled Listen: Combat Veterans Speak. This project collects interviews from combat veterans of the current wars to be published in both print and electronic form. She has published in The South Atlantic Review and Green Leaves: The Journal of the Barbara Pym Society. She lives in Gainesville with her husband and two children. Dr. Kelly will present a paper entitled: Searching for Mercy Street: Tim O ‘Brien ‘s Norman Bowker and the Literature of PTSD. Her talk will be on Saturday.