Humanities Faculty
CORE FACULTY
Maya Angelou
Holder of over thirty honorary degrees, an Inaugural Poet, and Reynolds Professor of American Studies. Her most famous work is the memoir I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Dr. Angelou has achieved acclaim in fields as wide-ranging as acting, musical recording, and film direction.
Linda Nielsen
Professor of Education/Interdisciplinary Humanities and an international authority on father-daughter relationships and shared parenting after divorce. She is the author of numerous articles and several books including Adolescence: A Contemporary View and Fathers & Daughters: Contemporary Research and Issues. She works with legislators and advocacy groups around the world on revising custody laws and regularly provides advice on father-daughter relationships through the national media. Visit her website for more information: http://users.wfu.edu/
David P. Phillips
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and a core faculty member in the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Please visit Dr. Phillips’ personal page for more information.
Ron Von Burg
Assistant Professor of Communication and a core faculty member in Interdisciplinary Humanities. His research includes the rhetoric of classical thought, religion, science, and science fiction. Dr. Von Burg contributes notably to scholarship on the rhetoric of contemporary argument intersecting religious and scientific views. He is also a scholar of science fiction film.
Brian Warren
Dr. Warren is lecturer in Classical Languages and a core faculty member in Interdisciplinary Humanities. He teaches courses in Latin as well as in translated study of classical and medieval philosophical works.
Thomas O. Phillips
Dr. Phillips is director of Interdisciplinary Humanities and director of the Wake Forest Scholars Program. He teaches courses in Literature and Ethics, Literature in Translation, Novel to Film, and Novels and Family.
AFFILIATE FACULTY
José Luis Venegas
José Luis Venegas is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Interdisciplinary Humanities. His teaching and research focus on Comparative Literature and Transatlantic Studies, with an emphasis on modern and contemporary Spanish and Spanish American narrative. He is the author of Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction (Oxford: Legenda, 2010) and Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, forthcoming). He has also published comparative studies and articles on modern and contemporary Hispanic literature and culture in MLN, Hispanic Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Symposium, among other venues. Visit: http://romancelanguages.wfu.