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faculty spotlight
Joel Dodson, associate professor of English
EDUCATION: Dodson earned a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Wheaton College and a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature from the University of Notre Dame.
DODSON’S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: English Reformation literature, Tudor poetics, poverty and literature, politics and aesthetics, keyword studies and pedagogy.
ONE OF MANY ADDITIONAL CALLINGS: Dodson and Michael Skinner, associate professor of theatre, are co-coordinators of Southern’s minor in arts administration and cultural advocacy program.
FOSTERING STUDENT SUCCESS: Sam Egan, ’24, an English major who minored in Spanish and arts administration, completed a two-semester internship at Hilton C. Buley Library’s Special Collections and Archives. Working under Patrick Crowley who leads special collections, Egan cataloged and curated an exhibit of small and miniature children’s books from the 19th and early-20th centuries. Egan and Dodson (above left and center) are pictured at the exhibit, which ran through June 30.
