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Paul Schleifer

TITLE:Professor of English
LOCATION:Brower 200 B
EMAIL:
PHONE:864-644-5229
SWU P.O. BOX:1932
PROFILE:

Dr. Paul Schleifer has been teaching at Southern Wesleyan University since the Fall of 1995. He has directed theatrical productions, helped the men's soccer team and served on the Faculty Senate. He is a father and a grandfather. And he can talk about Beowulf, Shakespeare, or Donne for hours.

 

Education

  • Ph.D., English; University of Georgia
      Dissertation:  Love, Family, and Reality in Seven Plays
      by Thomas Middleton.
  • M.A., English; University of Georgia

 

Areas of Specialty/Interest

  • Renaissance English literature
  • Old and Middle English literature
  • Hard-boiled detective fiction
  • Speculative fiction
  • Theater