Division of Humanities & Social Sciences

Faculty

Gary Guinn
Distinguished Professor of English

Gary Guinn received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. He teaches a variety of courses in the English Department, including Honors Composition, World Literature, Honors Integrated Humanities, 19th-century British Literature, Irish Literature, Creative Writing Workshop in both poetry and fiction, and a few others. His favorite project has been to lead the six-week JBU summer study program in Northern Ireland. His fiction and poetry have been published in The Rockford Review, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Arkansas Literary Forum, The Bryant Literary Review, Carve Magazine, and a few other small magazines and anthologies. His novel, A Late Flooding Thaw, was published by Moon Lake Press in the spring of 2005. He is currently working on a second novel.

His favorite pastimes are walking, reading, playing a little golf, and traveling. He and his wife, Mary Ann, who is the JBU university nurse, have traveled extensively in Europe and to a lesser degree in Mexico and Central America. They have two grown sons, and two dogs, a Jack Russell Terrier named Trot and a Lab mix named Seamus, who have filled the empty nest admirably.