Charles Wuest
Director for Programming
Research Associate Professor of English
| Office Location |
DH G02 |
| Phone |
214-768-6704 |
Education
Ph.D. Southern Methodist UniversityM.F.A. University of Florida
B.A. University of Houston
Charles Wuest is the Director for Programming and Research Associate Professor in Southern Methodist University’s English Department. Previously he was Chair of Language, Literature, and Culture and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Averett University, where he also was Director of the Honors Program. He also taught for several years as Professor of English and Lead Faculty at Lone Star College. His areas of interest include medieval literature (especially Middle English), poetry, and pedagogy. He has essays published in Papers on Language and Literature, Studies in Philology, and Arthuriana.
His poems have appeared in various journals, including Folio, Stickman Review, Subtropics, Southword, Verse, Poetry Quarterly, and The Toad Suck Review. His poetry manuscript was cited as a finalist by Robert Pinsky for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, and he was nominated by Subtropics for Best New Poets in 2015. He was a participant in an NEH Summer Seminar on Chaucer, and he was awarded an Artist Residency Grant at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. At Averett University he received both a Service-Learning Fellowship and a Bonner Program Faculty Fellowship for the creative-writing course that he developed in partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Danville, VA. In addition to creative-writing workshops, he has taught a variety of courses, including composition, introduction to literature, and medieval literature.
His poems have appeared in various journals, including Folio, Stickman Review, Subtropics, Southword, Verse, Poetry Quarterly, and The Toad Suck Review. His poetry manuscript was cited as a finalist by Robert Pinsky for the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, and he was nominated by Subtropics for Best New Poets in 2015. He was a participant in an NEH Summer Seminar on Chaucer, and he was awarded an Artist Residency Grant at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. At Averett University he received both a Service-Learning Fellowship and a Bonner Program Faculty Fellowship for the creative-writing course that he developed in partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Danville, VA. In addition to creative-writing workshops, he has taught a variety of courses, including composition, introduction to literature, and medieval literature.
