Dr. Jacky Dumas
Jacky Dumas obtained a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University in 2006 and has been teaching in the English Department at UMHB since the fall of 2007. Dr. Dumas teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition, British Literature, and Literary Genre. He has presented papers at the Pop Culture Association National Conference and the Conference on John Milton. A former high school Latin teacher and varsity athletics coach, Dr. Dumas has devoted his professional career to pedagogy. As a comparative classicist, he specializes in the implications of hubris in literature and society, metaphysical detective fiction, and satire. His article "Find the Key; Find the Prize - Lady Audley's Secret's Hidden Identities" has been accepted for Highly-Spiced Fictions: New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a forthcoming collection of essays. In the fall 2008, The McNeese Review published his article, "The Adaptation of Juvenal's Snarling Satire in Martin Marprelate's Epistle."
