Dr. William V. Davis

Professor

Writer-in-Residence

Modern Poetry

Twentieth-Century British and American Literature

Carroll Science, room 207

(254) 710-6878

William_Davis@baylor.edu

Education

A.B. Ohio University

M.A. Ohio University

M. Div. The Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Ph.D. Ohio University

William V. Davis, Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, holds the Ph.D. from Ohio University. His teaching and research interests include Twentieth-Century British and American Literature. He has published criticism, poetry, and short fiction in a wide variety of periodicals and journals. In addition to scores of articles and essays in scholarly books and periodicals and hundreds of poems and short stories, Davis has published the following books:

Poetry

* Landscape and Journey, 2009 (Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize
     and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry)

* Winter Light, 1990

* The Dark Hours, 1984 (Winner of the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize)

* One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, 1980 (Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize)

Criticism

* R. S. Thomas: Poetry and Theology, 2007

* Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, 1994

* Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R. S. Thomas, 1993

* Critical Essays on Robert Bly, 1992

* Understanding Robert Bly, 1988

* Theodore Roethke: A Bibliography Contributing Editor, 1973

* George Whitefield's Journals, 1737-1741 Editor, 1969