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English Department

English, Department & Faculty

The undergraduate program in literature considers poetic approaches to truth in the Western tradition by cultivating the study of lyric, narrative, creative, and rhetorical arts. Students explore how the best of the poets – broadly understood – envision nature and human experience, and how to express such insights with clarity, precision, and elegance.

A tradition of thought extending back to Milton, Sidney and Aristotle holds that literature imparts wisdom.

With respect to the kind of wisdom that governs human conduct, poetry promotes a grasp of reality superior to other ways of knowing in its combination of immediacy, lucidity, practicality, sensitivity to refinements, capacity to shape the affections, and adequacy to the whole.

This conviction guides literary study at every level of the curriculum pursued at the University of Dallas. The program in literature provides a course of study in those authors who best exemplify the capacity of imagination to grasp truth. Teachers and students seek to learn what the best of the poets understand of nature and human experience.

In this mutual learning enterprise, students and teachers are related as beginning and advanced students of their common masters, the major imaginative writers.

Where have recent UD English graduates attended graduate school? 

  • Master's, Education, Columbia University
  • Doctorate, Veterinary Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine 
  • Master's, Philosophy, University of Dallas
  • Doctorate, Law, St. Louis University 
  • Master's, Literacy Studies, University of Stavanger 
  • Doctorate, English, Catholic University of America
  • Doctorate, JD, UNT Dallas College of Law
  • Master's, Education, Notre Dame University 
  • Master's, MBA, University of Dallas
  • Master's, English, Boston College
 

Where have recent UD English graduates been hired?

  • News Reporter, Times News
  • Chorus Member, Winspear Opera House
  • Copywriter, HeiProDigital 
  • Research and Policy Analyst, Drinker Biddle Reath 
  • English Teacher, Oakcrest School 
  • Paralegal, SIMS Lawfirm
  • Drill Sergeant, U.S Army 
  • Freelance Writer, Alabama Senator
  • Success Coach, The Learning House
  • Development Writer, AdjusterPro

 

English Faculty

Debra Romanick Baldwin, PhD

Debra Romanick Baldwin, PhD

Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-4051

Email: dbaldwin@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #364

Office Hours: On sabbatical AY2024-25

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Sarah Berry, PhD

Assistant Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-5246

Email: sberry@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #360

Office Hours: TR 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Brett Bourbon, PhD

Brett Bourbon, PhD

Professor, English

Phone: (972) 265-5829

Email: bourbon@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #368

Office Hours: MW 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. / T 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Bainard Cowan, PhD

Bainard Cowan, PhD

Professor of Literature, Louise Cowan Chair

Email: bcowan@udallas.edu

Office: Anselm #219

Office Hours: By Appointment

Scott Crider, PhD

Scott Crider, PhD

Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-5218

Email: crider@udallas.edu

Office: SB Hall #207

Office Hours: On Sabbatical

Kathryn Davis, PhD

Kathryn Davis, PhD

Associate Professor, English

Phone: (972) 265-5845

Email: kedavis@udallas.edu

Office Hours: In Rome Spring 2025

Robert Scott Dupree, PhD

Robert Dupree (Scott), PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, English

Phone: (972) 721-5311

Email: rdupree@udallas.edu

Office: Catherine Hall #225

Office Hours: By Appointment

Fr. Stephen

Fr. Stephen Gregg, O.Cist., PhD

Affiliate Assistant Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-5343

Email: fr-stephen@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #318

Eileen Gregory, PhD

Eileen Gregory, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emerita, English

Email: eileen@udallas.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

Theresa Kenney, PhD

Theresa Kenney, PhD

Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-4069

Email: tereska@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #308

Office Hours: TR 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. / F 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Susan Matassa, Ph.D.

Susan Matassa, PhD

Affiliate Assistant Professor of English

Phone: (972) 721-4087

Email: sematassa@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #314

Zachary McCoy, Ph.D.

Zachary McCoy, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Email: zsmccoy@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #362

Andrew Moran, PhD

Andrew Moran, PhD

Associate Professor, Chair, English

Phone: (972) 721-4115

Email: amoran@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #236

Office Hours: MTWRF 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Andrew Osborn, PhD

Andrew Osborn, PhD

Associate Professor of English; Director of IPS-Literature Doctoral Program & Graduate Programs in English; Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal

Gregory Roper, PhD

Gregory Roper (Greg), PhD

Associate Professor of English and Dean of Students

Phone: (972) 265-5747

Email: roper@udallas.edu

Office: Haggar University Center, 2nd Floor

Office Hours: By Appt. / Contact Anna Sales (ASales@udallas.edu)

Kevin Saylor, PhD

Kevin Saylor, PhD

Affiliate Faculty, English

Email: ksaylor@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #208

Office Hours: MWF 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. & 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. and By Appointment

Steven Stryer, D.Phil.

Steven Stryer, PhD

Associate Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-4080

Email: stryer@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #316

Office Hours: MF 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. or By Appointment

Bernadette Waterman Ward, PhD

Bernadette Waterman Ward, PhD

Professor of English, Undergraduate Director of English

Phone: (972) 721-5339

Email: bward@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building 306

Office Hours: MWF 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. or By Appointment

Gerard Wegemer, PhD

Gerard Wegemer, PhD

Professor of English

Phone: (972) 721-5327

Email: wegemer@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #310

Office Hours: MW 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Michael West, PhD

Michael West, PhD

Assistant Professor, English

Phone: (972) 721-5213

Email: mwest@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #366

Office Hours: MWR 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.