Ken Monteith grew up on a small dairy farm on the border of Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut. His family has been farming for six generations; however, the family also has a history of writers, activists, ministers, carpenters, nurses, educators, musicians, artists, sales people, and assorted hell-raisers. All these influences combined to make Dr. Monteith pursue a career in Literature. Dr. Monteith is distantly related to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eli Whitney, and Jonathan Edwards (He of the "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon); however, his literary and teaching interests are primarily Modern American and British Literature, Modern Poetry, Post-Colonial Literature, anything to do with Irish Studies, and Occultism. Dr. Monteith began teaching at LaGuardia in the Fall of 2006 and has taught Basic Writing 099, Composition 101 and Writing Through Literature 102. Dr. Monteith has published on poetry, literary hoaxes, and the occult. His book Yeats and Theosophy was published by Routledge Press, 2007.

Dr. Monteith also likes a good joke, but despite what it says on "Ratemyprofessor.com," one need not laugh at his jokes to pass one of his courses. One only needs to do the work, and do the work well.