Oklahoma Baptist University
Megan Sever, Public Relations  
    Monday, September 8, 2008


Charles Swadley

Assistant Professor of English and Spanish
OBU Box 61204
500 W. University
  Shawnee, OK  74804
charles.swadley@okbu.edu

Owens Hall 201
405.878.2209


Charles Swadley is currently working on a PhD in English at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. At OBU, Mr. Swadley teaches first- and second-year Spanish classes, Freshman English, and Modern Grammar. In 2001, he received the Roy and Florena Hadsell Award for Research from the University of Oklahoma’s English Department. He is also a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Educational Background:
B.A., University of North Texas
M.A., University of North Texas

Courses Taught:
ENGL 1153: English Composition: Exposition & Argument
ENGL 1163: English Composition and Classical Literature
ENGL 4243: Modern Grammar
SPAN 1313: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture I
SPAN 1323: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture II
SPAN 2313: Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture I
SPAN 2213: Spanish Conversation Skills
SPAN 2223: Spanish Reading Skills


Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:

"Friendly Persuasion: Philia in Aristotle's Civic Rhetoric"
Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture
October 2007

"Aptitude and Aspiration: Isocratic Paideia and the Problem of Physis"
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
May 2005

"Fernández Retamar's Cuban Caliban"
American Comparative Literature Association
March 2005




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Oct. 14
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Oct. 15
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Oct. 16 - 17
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Oct. 31
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