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English, Professional Communications, and Fine Arts Faculty
- John Whitehead
- Assistant Professor and Director of Fine Arts
- B.A., Eastern College
- M.A., Temple University
- 304-243-2353
- johnww@wju.edu
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- John Whitehead is Assistant Professor and Director of Fine Arts with a focus on film and visual studies, contemporary literature, and creative writing. A native of Philadelphia, he did his graduate work at Temple University, studying first Romantic poetry and then contemporary film with Tim Corrigan, a leading author of film textbooks. He wrote a creative thesis from which several short stories were subsequently published, including "The Sins of the Father," which won the 1987 Best Fiction award from The Other Side. He has subsequently published 20 short stories, more than a dozen of them in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He has written regularly on books and culture for scholarly journals such as Christianity and Literature and The Christian Scholar's Review and for major newspapers in California, West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. He has been at WJU since 1990, but rarely for more than a month or two at a time; recent study trips have taken him to John Ford country in the American Southwest and to major museums and archaeological sites in the Mediterranean, France, and the British Isles.
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