Chad Engbers,
Assistant Professor, English
616-526-8516
cengbers@calvin.edu
Office: LN 103 (directions)
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
Professor Engbers graduated from Calvin College in 1993 with a degree in English. He went on to earn a master of arts in English Reformation and Renaissance literature from The Catholic University of America in 1995. He returned to Calvin to teach in the English department in 2001, and two years later received his Ph.D in English literature from The Catholic University of America.
Academic Interests/Areas of Specialization
Early modern penitential literature, Emblem books, Mikhail Bakhtin, C.G. Jung
Recent Activities
Professor Engbers published an article on integrating faith and learning in the world literature classroom in a collection of essays forthcoming from Abilene Christian University Press, The Word in the English Classroom: Best Practices of Faith Integration. He also recently contributed chapters on Frederick Buechner's Godric, Olga Grushin's The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus in two volumes of The Emmaus Readers. Professor Engbers serves as webmaster for the English department.
Hobbies
Playing guitar and mandolin, losing at chess, running
Favorite Books
King Lear by Shakespeare and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Additional information
Read about Professor Engbers's 2008 interim course "Talking Pictures"
Repentance in the Countess of Pembrooke's Psalms of David, Minds in the Making
Brave New Words: Statement of Faith and Learning, Minds in the Making
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