Dr. Greg Garrett

Professor

Creative Writing

Religion and Culture

Carroll Science, room 208

(254) 710-6879

Greg_Garrett@baylor.edu

Website

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Education

Ph.D. Oklahoma State University

M.Div. Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest

Dr. Greg Garrett, Professor of English, teaches fiction- and screenwriting, literature, film and popular culture, and theology in the department. Dr. Garrett received his Ph.D. in English, with foci in creative writing, contemporary fiction, and film, from Oklahoma State University, and completed the M.Div. at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, where his emphases were theology and culture, homiletics, and Christian spirituality. He is a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Church, and regularly speaks, teaches, preaches, and leads retreats and workshops across the United States and overseas, including recent appearances at Villanova University, Washington National Cathedral, Wesley Seminary, and Gladstone's Library in Wales.

Dr. Garrett is the author of three dozen published short stories and over a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including the critically-acclaimed novels Free Bird (chosen by Publishers' Weekly and the Denver Rocky Mountain News as one of the best first novels of 2002), Cycling, and Shame, and the memoirs Crossing Myself and No Idea. He has also written a number of books on religion, politics, culture, and narrative, among them The Gospel According to Hollywood, Stories from the Edge: A Theology of Grief, We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2, One Fine Potion: The Literary Magic of Harry Potter ( a 2011 Best Theological Book by the Association of Theological Booksellers), The Other Jesus, and Faithful Citizenship.

A past winner of the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Prize for Fiction and a regional CASE gold medalist for nonfiction, Dr. Garrett is also a past Fellow of the Cathedral College at Washington National Cathedral. He was named the Outstanding Baylor Faculty Member for 1994 by the Baylor Student Congress, and received the university administration's outstanding professor award in 1996. Dr. Garrett was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2005 for his lifetime literary achievements, and has discussed his work with National Public Radio, BBC Radio, The Bob Edwards Show, CBS Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Interfaith Voices, msnbc.com, National Review, and in many other print, broadcast, and web media outlets.