English Professors
 Dr. George F. BagbyElliott Professor of English Morton Hall 025 | (434) 223-6247 gbagby@hsc.edu Critic Harold Bloom reported that, for more than twenty-five years, he read Wallace Stevens’ poetry every day—-simply “to help me live my life.” That is why we read literature. |
 Dr. Evan R. DavisAssociate Professor of English Morton Hall 115 | (434) 223-6245 edavis@hsc.edu "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." attributed to Oscar Wilde |
 Dr. Elizabeth J. DeisElliott Professor of Rhetoric and Humanities Atkinson 305 | (434) 223-6118 edeis@hsc.edu "Only connect." E.M. Forster |
 Dr. Lowell T. FryeElliott Professor of Rhetoric and Humanities Morton Hall 016 | (434) 223-6215 lfrye@hsc.edu "[Writing] is a mysterious and complicated business, bringing together muscles and brain, memory and desire, and a rhythm of motions and subconscious impulses...."--Richard Marius |
 Dr. Sarah B. HardyProfessor of English Morton Hall 111 | (434) 223-6239 shardy@hsc.edu "You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith." William Faulkner |
 Dr. Steele NowlinAssistant Professor of English Morton Hall 033 | (434) 223-7262 snowlin@hsc.edu "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne...." Geoffrey Chaucer |
 Nathaniel D. PerryAssistant Professor of English and Editor of The Poetry Review Morton Hall 015 | (434) 223-6315 nperry@hsc.edu "in seed and land we find an anchor, and in language we weigh out our courage" |
 Dr. Susan P. RobbinsAdjunct Associate Professor Morton Hall 024 | (434) 223-6109 srobbins@hsc.edu "Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like." (Mary Crawford in MANSFIELD PARK by Jane Austen) |
 Nathaniel Amos RothschildVisiting Assistant Professor Morton Hall 116 | (434) 223-6401 narothschild@hsc.edu |
 Dr. Cristine M. VarholyAssociate Professor of English Morton Hall 116 | (434) 223-6401 cvarholy@hsc.edu Through literature, we can discover the culture of a distant place and time as we examine issues equally relevant to ourselves and our world. |
 Dr. Katherine J. WeeseElliott Professor of English Morton Hall 020 | (434) 223-6254 kweese@hsc.edu "The study of literature deepens readers’ sympathies with others; broadens, vicariously, the range of one’s experience; and hones critical thinking skills." |