Aletheia

Born: January 10, 1951

e-mail dtw@tfc.edu

EDUCATION:

• PhD in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1985;
  Dissertation Topic: The Depth of Rightful Doom: The English Reformers’ Concept of Justice and Book V of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
  
  
• M.Div.Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, 1976;
  Editor, The Scribe (student paper); Associate Editor, Trinity Journal;
  Magna Cum Laude.
  
  
• B.A. in English, Taylor University, Upland, Ind., 1973;
  Band, Orchestra, Marion, Indiana Philharmonic Orchestra; Summer missions trip to Honduras, Ecuador, and Colombia, 1971; Student Pastor, 1973;
  Magna Cum Laude.

EMPLOYMENT:

• Professor of English, Toccoa Falls College, Toccoa Falls, Georgia, 1988-present
• Chair, Humanities and Natural Sciences Department, 2009-present
• Director, School of Arts and Sciences, 1996-2008 
• Editor, faculty newsletter, 1989-96, 1999-present 
• Acting Director, School of General Studies, 1991;
• Interim Director, School of Communication, 1992-95;
• Editor of Self Studies for reaffirmation of accreditation with both the Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges, 1998, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1999.

• Lecturer at Large, Church Planting International, 2002-present  (e.g., travel to Uganda to train local pastors, summer 2002, 2003, etc.).
• Pastor and Church Planter, Trinity Fellowship (Evangelical Free Church of America), Toccoa, Georgia, 1992-2001.
• Visiting Lecturer and Tutor, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Keble College, Oxford, England, 1997; Mentor, 1994.
• Acting Music Director and Instructor of Bible, Smyrna Christian Academy, Smyrna, Georgia, 1987-88.

Pastor, First Evangelical Free Church, Marietta, Georgia, 1982-87;

• Speaker on "Footnotes to the Faith," daily 5-min. radio program on WFOM, Marietta, Georgia, 1984-87.
• Temporary Lecturer in English, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1980-82

DISSERTATION COMMITTEES:

Served as Outside Reader:

• Michael Spence, The Theology of Harlan Ellison's Fictional Worlds (Diss. Dallas Theological Seminary, 2001)
• Ruby Dunlap, Common Minds: A Study of Metaphors of Good and Evil across Language Groups (Diss. Tennessee State University, 2002).

COURSES TAUGHT:  

• ENG 113, Freshman Comp. I;  ENG 123, Freshman Comp. II; 
• ENG 213, World Lit.;  ENG 223, Eng. Lit. I; 
• ENG 313, History and Structure of the English Language; ENG 323, Renaissance Lit.;  ENG 333, Seventeenth Cent. Lit.; ENG 383, Advanced Composition; ENG 393, Grammar for Teachers;
• ENG 413, Medieval Lit.;  ENG 423, Shakespeare;  ENG 433, Senior Seminar (various topics, including Dante, C. S.  Lewis, Modern Brit. & American Poetry) 
• HUM 103, Western Thought and Culture 
• PHY  213, Intro. to Philosophy 
• PHY 453, Apologetics

AWARDS: 

• Toccoa Falls College Faculty Scholar of the Year, 1996, 2002, 2007.

CHURCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: 

• Ordained to the Christian ministry by The Evangelical Free Church of America; 
• Member, Board of Directors, S.E. District of the E.F.C.A., 1983-86
• Asst. Coach, Toccoa Little League, 1990-93
• Choir, Toccoa First Alliance Church, 1989-91, Director 1991
• Sunday School Teacher, University Church, Athens, GA., 2001-present

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

• Ministerial Association, Evangelical Free Church of America
• Evangelical Theological Society (S.E. Regional Vice Chairman, 1989-90, Chairman, 1990-91;  member of steering committees for the “Theology and Culture” and “Literature in the Bible” Study Groups, 2000-)
• Evangelical Philosophical Society (Vice President, 1994-95, President, 1995-96)
• S.E. Renaissance Conference
• Mythopoeic Society (Program Chair for Mythcon 2003)