Alan Jacobs, Ph.D.

Clyde S. Kilby Chair Professor of English
On Faculty since 1984

Office: Blanchard Hall 307
Phone: (630)752-5784
Email:

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1987

B.A., University of Alabama, 1980

Courses Taught Regularly

  • ENGL 201 - Non-Western Literature: African Literature
  • ENGL 215 - Classical and Early British Literature
  • ENGL 364 - Modern British Literature
  • ENGL 434 - Modern Literary Theory
  • ENGL 436 - History of Literary Criticism
  • ENGL 494 - Senior Seminar

Teaching and Scholarly Interests

Modern British and British Commonwealth literature; hermeneutics; literary theory and the history of criticism; Christian theology and literature; philosophy and literature.

Publications

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