Adjunct Professor, English, Rhetoric, and Writing
Department:
English Rhetoric and Writing
Phone: 706.368.5682
Location: Evans Hall 206F
Email: jvespa@berry.edu
Dr. Vespa considers himself a poetry teacher who works in the classroom as writing professor as well as on the air and onstage as Jack of Hearts.
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Utah, 2001
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M.A., English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1991
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B.S., Psychology and Philosophy, Illinois State University, 1985
Teaching Interests
- Literature of the British Isles
Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Modernist and Postmodernist Literature - Literature of the Americas
Antebellum and Postbellum Literature
Modernist and Postmodernist Literature - Rhetoric and Writing
Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Composition
Research Interests
- Literature of Sensibility and Romanticism
- The Wordsworth Circle
- Scholarship of Teaching