Dr. Brent Gibson
Brent Gibson obtained a Ph.D. from Baylor University in 1999 and has been teaching in the English Department at UMHB since the fall of that year. Dr. Gibson teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition, American Literature, British Literature, Literary Theory, and Literary Genre. He also teaches an upper-level interdisciplinary Honors Seminar each fall at UMHB. Dr. Gibson regularly presents papers at the Southwest Region of the Conference on Christianity and Literature and is currently the Vice President of that organization. He also has served as Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Conference of College Teachers of English and is currently serving on the Executive Council of that organization. Dr. Gibson has published a book entitled An Annotated Bibliography of Walt Whitman, 1976-1985 (Mellen Press), and has published three articles in the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia. He has published an article on Cold Mountain in the journal Christianity and Literature and an article on Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer in Southern Quarterly.
