Department of Liberal Arts & Humanities Faculty


Dr. Keith Callis

     Professor of English & Chair of the Honors Program

Contact Information

     Arts and Sciences D207
     Phone:(901) 320.9700 ext 2004
     E-mail: callis@crichton.edu

Education

     B.A., Lambuth College
     M.A., Wheaton College
     P.h.D.,Vanderbilt University

Teaching Interests

      Literary Criticism
     English Literature: Major Authors

Research/Scholarly Interests

     Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
     Academic Encounter and Social Emergence
           in Higher Education

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

     NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English
     Conference on Christianity and Literature

Miscellaneous

     Favorite Quotation

"Weep no more, woful Shepherds weep no more,
For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watry floar,
So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore,
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky:
So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,
Through the dear might of him that walk'd the waves
Where other groves, and other streams along,
With Nectar pure his oozy Lock's he laves,
And hears the unexpressive nuptiall Song,
In the blest Kingdoms meek of joy and love."

-"Lycidas": Milton


 

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