Dr. B. Cole Bennett, Assistant Professor, Director of the University Writing Center; BBA, Harding University, 1989; MATEW, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1996; PhD, University of Southern Mississippi, 2002. Rhetoric and Composition.
Dr. Laura Carroll, Assistant Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1996; MA, Marquette University, 1998; PhD, Texas A&M University, 2002. Critical Theory and Rhetoric.
Dr. Kyle Dickson, Assistant Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1993; MA, Baylor University, 1996; PhD, Baylor University, 2002. Eighteenth Century.
Albert Haley, Assistant Professor, Writer in Residence; BA (economics), Yale University, 1976; MFA, University of Houston, 1993. Fiction writing, poetry writing.
Dr. Preston F. Harper, Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1959; MA, University of Texas, 1962; PhD, Texas Christian University, 1972. American literature.
Dr. Dana McMichael, Assistant Professor; BA, Oklahoma Christian College, 1983; MA, Wake Forest University, 1996; PhD, Oklahoma State University, 2002. American literature.
Dr. David B. Merrell, Professor, Director of Curriculum and Advisement; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1964; MA, University of Arkansas, 1966; PhD, Texas A&M University, 1979. American literature, popular culture, film.
Dr. William J. Rankin, Assistant Professor, Graduate Advisor; BA (English), BA (French), Harding University, 1987; MA, University of California-Riverside, 1989; PhD, University of Minnesota, 2001. Medieval literature, literary theory.
Dr. Nancy W. Shankle, Professor, Chair, former Scholar in Residence at the Adams Center for Teaching Excellence; BA, East Texas State University, 1977; MA, East Texas State University, 1979; PhD, Texas A&M University, 1990. Rhetoric and composition theory, business and professional writing, American literature.
Dr. G. W. "Bill" Walton, Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1963; MA, University of Arkansas,1964; PhD, Texas Tech University, 1976. Seventeenth-century British literature.
Dr. Stephen R. Weathers, Assistant Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1986; MA, Abilene Christian University, 1987; PhD, University of Florida, 1999. Nineteenth-century British, fiction writing.
Dr. Chris Willerton, Professor, Director of the Honors Program; BA, Texas Christian University, 1969; MA, University of North Carolina, 1970; PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century British, world literature, literary hypertext.
Dr. Debbie J. Williams, Assistant Professor; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1980; MA, Texas Tech University, 1982; PhD, Purdue University, 1996. Rhetoric and Composition.
Professors Emeriti
Dr. Gay Barton, Assistant Professor, 2000-2004 James W. Culp Distinguished Professor of English; BA, Abilene Christian University, 1968; MA, Abilene Christian University, 1990; PhD, Baylor University, 1999. Native-American literature.
Dr. Richard A. Cox, Professor; BS, Lamar University, 1960; BA, University of Texas, 1963; MA, Duke University, 1964; PhD, University of Texas, 1976. Eighteenth-century British literature, World literature, the novel.
