Dr. Alex Engebretson

Senior Lecturer

Interests

20th Century American Literature

Contact

Alexander_Engebretson@baylor.edu
Carroll Science, room 415
(254) 710-6907
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. City University of New York
M.A. California State University at Fullerton
B.A. Azusa Pacific University

Bio

Alex Engebretson's research interests include the postwar American novel, U.S. intellectual history, and intersections of theology, church history, and literature.  His scholarship includes work on such authors as Marilynne Robinson, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and David Foster Wallace.  His articles have appeared in MidAmerica, Southwestern American Literature, and Western American Literature Journal.  His monograph, Understanding Marilynne Robinson, was published by The University of South Carolina Press (2017).  Two forthcoming essays will appear in the edited collections Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts (Routledge Press 2019) and Marilynne Robinson (University of Manchester Press 2019).