Full STE-A-M Ahead: Advancing the Arts and Humanities at the U.S. Naval Academy –
Speaker: Dr. William C. Corley,
Assoc. Professor of English,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Dr. Corley’s presentation is about his experience teaching literature at the Naval Academy from 2013 to 2016. His focus will demonstrate the ways in which literature facilitates the moral and leadership development of midshipmen at USNA and the ways that literature is part of lifelong learning. Dr. Corley has taught American literature at Cal Poly since 2005. He primarily teaches texts written before 1900, but poetry, veterans studies, and Asian American literature have been known to bring him into the 20th and 21th centuries. The importance of religion to American literature has made the study of literature and religion a larger component of his teaching and research, and he also teaches the Bible as Literature. In 2008-2009, he was deployed to Afghanistan as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and since that time has published several essays, poems, and stories on the connections between literature, the university world, and military life. He received his BA in rhetoric from UC Berkeley, an MA in English from San Jose State University, and a PhD in English from UC Riverside.
Introduction: Art Sutton
Fellowship: Beth Smith
Greeters: Pat Kelly, Art Parker