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      • The Bible as Literature: A New Introduction
      • Keepers of the Marsh
      • Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830-1865
      • Trailing Clouds of Glory
      • At the Garden's Dark Edge: Selected Poems of Anthony Thwaite
      • The Fair Day
      • The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us About Life, Love, and Identity
      • Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
      • Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
      • Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
      • Before the Dreadful Daylight Starts: An Anthology of Norfolk Poetry
      • Contraflow: Lines on Englishness, 1922-2022
      • 102 Days of Lying About Lauren
      • Bastille Day
      • The Interpretation of Owls
      • Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America
      • Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature
      • James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality
      • Literacy in a Long Blues Note
      • Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
      • Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture
      • A Fire to Light Our Tongues
      • Hollow Palaces
      • Haunted Property
      • American Literary Cultures
      • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
      • Modernism in the Green
      • A Long, Long Way
      • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
      • The Courage to See
      • The Evil Twins of American Television
      • Harvest Bells
      • Letters of a Long Name
      • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
      • Reforming Women
      • Thomas Hoccleve
      • Mark Twain Under Fire
      • Building Natures
      • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
      • Living with the Living Dead
      • The Life Group
      • Then Winter
      • Building Jerusalem
      • The Divine Face in Four Writers
      • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
      • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
      • Housework and Gender in American Television
      • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
      • Entertaining Judgment
      • Seamus Heaney's Regions
      • Elegy on Kinderklavier
      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
      • The Tulip-Flame
      • The Glyph and the Gramophone
      • The Prodigal
      • Beyond the Pulpit
      • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
      • Sylvia Plath's Fiction
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Department of English
One Bear Place, #97404
Waco, TX 76798-7404

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Office Manager: Ms. Lois Avey

Administrative Associate: Ms. Marilee Rafferty

Faculty Contacts

Department Chair: Dr. Michael-John DePalma

Graduate Program Director: Dr. Julia Daniel

Managing Director of the Writing Center: Dr. Kara Poe Alexander

Interim First-Year Writing Director: Dr. Kristen Pond 

Core Curriculum Literature Program Director: Dr. Maura Jortner 

Interim Undergraduate Program Director for Linguistics: Dr. Melisa Dracos

Interim Undergraduate Program Director for Professional Writing & Rhetoric: Dr. Lisa Shaver

Undergraduate Program Director for Literature & Creative Writing: Dr. Ginger Hanchey

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Petitions for enrollment waivers or waitlists, contact our Office Manager: Ms. Lois Avey

Transfer credit and course equivalency, contact our Administrative Associate: Ms. Marilee Rafferty

Undergraduate scholarship applications, contact our Student Scholarships Committee chair: Dr. Luke Ferretter

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      • The Bible as Literature: A New Introduction
      • Keepers of the Marsh
      • Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830-1865
      • Trailing Clouds of Glory
      • At the Garden's Dark Edge: Selected Poems of Anthony Thwaite
      • The Fair Day
      • The Gospel According to James Baldwin: What America's Great Prophet Can Teach Us About Life, Love, and Identity
      • Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
      • Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England
      • Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
      • Before the Dreadful Daylight Starts: An Anthology of Norfolk Poetry
      • Contraflow: Lines on Englishness, 1922-2022
      • 102 Days of Lying About Lauren
      • Bastille Day
      • The Interpretation of Owls
      • Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America
      • Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature
      • James Joyce and Samaritan Hospitality
      • Literacy in a Long Blues Note
      • Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
      • Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture
      • A Fire to Light Our Tongues
      • Hollow Palaces
      • Haunted Property
      • American Literary Cultures
      • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
      • Modernism in the Green
      • A Long, Long Way
      • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
      • The Courage to See
      • The Evil Twins of American Television
      • Harvest Bells
      • Letters of a Long Name
      • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
      • Reforming Women
      • Thomas Hoccleve
      • Mark Twain Under Fire
      • Building Natures
      • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
      • Living with the Living Dead
      • The Life Group
      • Then Winter
      • Building Jerusalem
      • The Divine Face in Four Writers
      • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
      • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
      • Housework and Gender in American Television
      • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
      • Entertaining Judgment
      • Seamus Heaney's Regions
      • Elegy on Kinderklavier
      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
      • The Tulip-Flame
      • The Glyph and the Gramophone
      • The Prodigal
      • Beyond the Pulpit
      • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
      • Sylvia Plath's Fiction
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