Our People

Annette Folwell's research interests center on first responders and how they manage stress in their professional and personal lives.

Laura Godfrey is an Associate Professor of English at North Idaho College and serves as a Writing Specialist for University of Idaho students in the Vandal Gateway Program.  She has many years of experience teaching both writing and literature classes for NIC and UI, and she has published multiple academic and personal essays in journals such as Western American Literature, The Hemingway Review, and Arizona Quarterly and in edited collections including Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World.  Her first book, Hemingway's Geographies (Palgrave), appeared in 2016, and her edited collection, Hemingway in the Digital Age (Kent State UP), was published in 2019. Her most recent book is A Year of Real and Literary Birds (Routledge, 2025).

Kalynn Hanley is an Instructor at the University of Idaho. She teaches for the American Language and Culture Program (ALCP) and the Vandal Gateway Program (VGP). She has been teaching English for ten years and has a Master’s in Teaching English as a Second Language from The Pennsylvania State University. She has lived and taught English in Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam and China.

Christian Perry is a nonfiction writer and instructor of English for the Vandal Gateway Program. They received an MFA in creative writing from University of Idaho. Christian’s writing centers animation, mushrooms, and Queer life & theory. Their classrooms center self-efficacy and community building as fundamental elements of learning.