Biography:

I've been on the English department faculty since 1995, but it's really a department that I've grown up in, quite literally, since my father began teaching here in 1977.  As a "P.K." (professor's kid), later a graduate student, and now a faculty member, I've seen the department from a variety of perspectives.  And I've enjoyed each of these stages.

My specialty area is rhetoric and composition, so I teach primarily writing classes, including general education writing courses, Introduction to Rhetoric (part of the English major core), and graduate courses on teaching composition.

In 2002, I received my PhD in English from Ball State University.  My dissertation, Influence and Collaboration in the Work of Fred Newton Scott, examines a pivotal figure in composition theory and pedagogy from the early 20th century, and I continue to pursue scholarship focused on the history of composition, both theory and practice.  Currently, I'm developing an article that reassesses the collaborative authorship of early 20th century "compositionists" Joseph Villiers Denney and Fred Newton Scott.

In addition to my work in the English department, for the past five years I've served as editor of Focus: The Andrews University Magazine (the university's alumni magazine). During that time, I've had the pleasure of helping develop some of our department's best student writers with opportunities to publish their work.

I'm also beginning my third season as Head Coach of the Andrews University Women's Basketball Team, which competes in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. 

My wife, Brynja Davis, teaches in the department of speech-language pathology and audiology at Andrews, and we have two children, Bryndis and Leif

Current Research or Professional Activities:

"The Long and Winding Mode(s)" Pedagogy (Fall 2005) 5.3; "Biologic Living and Rhetorical Pathology: The Case of John Harvey Kellogg and Fred Newton Scott" Michigan Academician (Fall 2004) 36.3 (actual publishing date: May 2006.) Currently developing an article that reassesses the collaborative authorship of early 20th century "compositionists" Joseph Villiers Denney and Fred Newton Scott.