Charles SwadleyAssociate Professor of English and SpanishOwens Hall 201 405.878.2209 OBU Box 61204 500 W. University Shawnee, OK 74804 |
Charles Swadley holds degrees in Spanish, ESL, and Composition-Rhetoric, a variety of fields reflecting his abiding interest in language. At OBU, Dr. 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
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Dissertation: Remembering Memory: Reconfiguring the Fourth Canon of Classical Rhetoric
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
