Associate Professor of English and Literature tcarlisle@simpsonuniversity.edu

Profile:

A specialist in American Literature, Dr. Tim Carlisle teaches a two-semester survey in this area, as well as classes on American poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema. He has taught courses in composition, literature, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Restoration & Eighteenth-century, both at Simpson and elsewhere, including Gonzaga University and Washington State University. Dr. Carlisle has delivered papers on the novels of Walker Percy and his use of the ideas of Gabriel Marcel. In fall of 2007, he reviewed Walker Percy’s Search for Community, by John F. Desmond, for Studies in Modern Fiction.

Instrumental in the formation of Simpson's Writing Center, while on sabbatical during the fall of 2004, he researched and has written on the subject of plagiarism, attempting to formulate an ethical, collaborative approach to composition instruction. Currently, Dr. Carlisle serves as the chair for the English Department.

Educational Background:

Ph.D. Washington State University

M.A., Niagara University

B.A., Westmont University

Associate Professor of English blarsen@simpsonuniversity.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Scotland

M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

B.A., Whitworth College

Assistant Professor of English mphilippian@simpsonuniversity.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D. candidate, Purdue University

M.A., Purdue University

B.A., California State University, Chico

Assistant Professor of English Assistant Professor of Communication Adjunct Instructor, ASPIRE khuster@simpsonuniversity.edu

Educational Background:

Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

M.A., Alliant International University

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Adjunct Instructor of English cmurray@simpsonuniversity.edu

Educational Background:

M.A., Wheaton College

B.A., California State University, Hayward

Assistant Professor of English arose@simpsonuniversity.edu

Profile:

I met with President Mark Lee Friday, February 4, 1977, joined the faculty and began teaching the following Tuesday, February 8, at the Simpson College campus in San Francisco, living in the men's dorm during the week for the first year-and-a-half, and going home to be with my wife, Judy, and two small daughters, Julie and Sally, on the weekends. I felt rescued and surrounded by love on the old campus, but was sure that the honeymoon feeling would fade away. It never did. After thirty-one years of teaching at what is now Simpson University, I still feel surrounded by love. My daughters have grown up and graduated from Simpson (1993). Sally and her husband, Joel, have just finished their furlough year serving as Overseas Workers in Residence here in Redding. Judy taught fifth grade at the Christian Academy in Pacifica and clerked in the Christian Bookstore in Redding until it closed last summer.

My classes currently include Principles of College Writing II, complete with the study of and at trip to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see the Shakespearean play under production that semester; Seminar in English Grammar, the theory and practice of sentence diagramming; Children's Literature, including your favorite fairy tales and what Bruno Bettelheim has to say about them; and Interpretive Reading, with all the expression and excitement that one rightly owes to both the author of the piece and to the audience. My classes tend to be challenging in a light-hearted sort of way.

Arranging adventures centers on coordinating discount tickets for theatrical productions and sometimes seating a certain "he" in close proximity to a certain "her" with or without either ones particular awareness. Two or three such generated couples are now happily married. I also arrange to have and even more beautiful Christmas tree in the library just after Thanksgiving each November.

Educational Background:

M.A., California State University, Chico

B.A., California State University, Chico

Adjunct Instructor of English Adjunct Instructor of Communication dphillips@simpsonuniversity.edu

Educational Background:

M.A., Sam Houston State University

B.A., Sam Houston State University