ENGLISH PROFESSORS OF THE CONRAD GREBEL SCHOOL OF THE HUMANITIES
Walton Young Dr. Walton Young, senior professor of English, teaches creative writing (the short story and the novel), American literature survey courses, twentieth-century American literature, Southern literature, and Georgia literature. His novel A Gathering of Eagles, was published in 2011 and reprinted in 2013. His next novel, Days of Dust and Heat, was published in 2017. The sequel, Kinsman of the Gun, was published in 2019. His short story “To the Breath of the Night Wind” was a winner in the short story contest sponsored by the Dahlonega Literary Festival in 2005. It was published in Volume 1 of The Signature Series, Golden Short Stories. His short stories “To Hear the Call of the Bobwhite” and “Secret of the Cohullasee” were published in the O, Georgia! anthologies. His short story “Reggie” was published in the The GSU Review. In 2015, Dr. Young conducted a fiction-writing workshop at the Southern Literary Festival. In 2012, he was on a panel at the Dahlonega Literary Festival that discussed Appalachia in fact and fiction. His critical essay, “The Cup of Fury: The Preferred Title of Caroline Gordon’s None Shall Look Back was published in the Mississippi Quarterly. In addition, he has presented papers at conferences on the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, and William Dean Howells. Dr. Young received his PhD in English with a major concentration in creative writing (fiction) from the University of Georgia. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Tau Delta. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Sautee-Nacoochee.
Connie Nunley Constance Means Nunley is in her thirty-second year teaching English at Truett McConnell. She has been Degree Coordinator and has taught almost every English course ever offered at Truett. Her creative writing courses have included a comprehensive course followed by spinoff courses in poetry and drama. Before Truett, she was the Associate Editor of Foxfire Press and helped interview for, write and edit The Foxfire Book of Woodstove Cookery. She also produced the press’s pamphlet newsletter, Hands On. Thereafter, she was the editor of White County News for three and a half years, writing weekly news and feature articles and editorials. She is a native of Clayton, Georgia, and a graduate of Converse College with a double major in English and Studio Art. While there, she wrote for the newspaper and the literary journal and won awards for both her features and poetry. She received her Master of Arts in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she wrote feature articles for The Daily Tar Heel, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia while teaching at Truett McConnell. She lives with her husband, Bruce, in Hoschton, Georgia.
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