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. He has also led 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, fly fishing, 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 a Lab mix named Seamus.