Faculty
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Dr. Susan E. Colón, in memoriam |
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Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly, UNSC Assistant Director and Associate Professor of
Literature
E-mail: Phillip_Donnelly@baylor.edu Office: (254) 710-7192 Webpage: http://www.baylor.edu/english/index.php?id=50142 Phillip Donnelly is Associate Professor of Literature in the Honors College, where he teaches in the Great Texts Program and the English Department. His research interests focus on the historical intersections between philosophy, theology, and imaginative literature, with particular attention to Renaissance literature and the reception of Classical traditions. The topics |
| of his published work range from St. Augustine and post-modern critical theory to the Renaissance poetry of George Herbert and John Milton. His book, Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant Toleration, is published by Cambridge University Press (2009). His current book project focuses on the engagement of Plato's Republic in Milton's Paradise Lost. | |
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Dr. Richard Russell, UNSC Assistant Director and Associate Professor of English
E-mail: Richard_Russell@baylor.edu Office: (254) 710-4815 A native of West Tennessee, Richard Rankin Russell holds the M. Phil. from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was a Rotary Scholar, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked under the esteemed Joyce scholar Weldon Thornton. His articles on modern and contemporary British and Irish writers have appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals, and he has edited a |
| collection of essays, published by Routledge, on London-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. His monograph on the novelist and short-story writer Bernard MacLaverty was published by Bucknell University Press in 2009, and his monograph on Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and the peace process in Northern Ireland is being published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2010. At Baylor, he won the Outstanding Professor Award for Distinctive Scholarship as a non-tenured faculty member in 2003-04; he has also been honored by Mortar Board multiple times as an outstanding Baylor professor and by Baylor's Phi Beta Kappa chapter for being the Baylor professor most instrumental in the academic achievement for graduating seniors' success. | |
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Dr. Alden Smith, UNSC Director; Professor of Classics; and Associate Dean of
the Honors College
E-mail: Alden_Smith@baylor.edu Office: (254) 710-3744 Webpage: http://www.baylor.edu/classics Alden Smith (Ph.D. Pennsylvania, 1990) studies ancient poets, focusing on Latin verse. He has written books on the Metamorphoses and the Aeneid, and is currently working on new book treating the entire Virgilian corpus. In addition to his own research, he has directed numerous Honors theses on topics ranging from C.S. Lewis to Greek epigraphy and works closely with students in planning their schedules and careers. |
Associated Faculty
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Dr. Douglas Henry, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Master, Brooks
Residential College E-mail: Douglas_Henry@baylor.edu Office: (254) 710-4860 Webpage: http://homepages.baylor.edu/douglas_henry/ Dr. Henry serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy and as Master of Brooks Residential College at Baylor University. He received his B.A. from Oklahoma Baptist University, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and has held previous teaching posts at Vanderbilt University, Grand Canyon University, and Malone College. Beyond specialized interests |
| in ancient philosophy, his research encompasses the history, philosophy, and theology of Christian higher education, and he has served on the boards or committees of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Baptist Association of Philosophy Teachers, and Christian Scholar's Review. He is the co-editor of three books: Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation(Eerdmans, 2003), Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community (Baker Academic, 2006), and The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education (Baylor University Press, 2007). | |
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Dr. Thomas S. Hibbs, Dean of the Honors College and Distinguished Professor of
Ethics and Culture
E-mail: Thomas_Hibbs@baylor.edu Office: 710-7689 Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. Hibbs has written two scholarly books on Aquinas, including Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas: An Interpretation of the Summa Contra Gentiles, and a book on popular culture entitled Shows About Nothing. Two other books scheduled for publication in 2007 include Aquinas, Ethics, and the Philosophy of |
| Religion: Metaphysics and Practice (Indiana University Press) and Arts of Darkness: American Noir and The Lost Code of Redemption (Spence Publications). Hibbs has recently published scholarly articles on MacIntyre and Aquinas (Review of Politics), on Anselm (Anselm Studies), and on Pascal (International Philosophical Quarterly). He also has written on film, culture, books and higher education in Books and Culture, Christianity Today, First Things, New Atlantis, The Dallas Morning News, The National Review, The Weekly Standard, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. | |
