About Lipscomb
Department of English
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Matt Hearn
Professor of English
Chair of the Department of English
- Composition
- Medieval Literature
Hearn has been associated with Lipscomb University since 1999. He holds the Ph.D. in literature from Duke University and completed his doctoral dissertation in Medieval English Romance.
John Parker
Professor of English
- Shakespeare
Parker has been associated with Lipscomb University since 1982. He holds the Ph.D. in English from The University of Tennessee, where he completed his dissertation on the "Life and Works of James Howell Street" (a Mississippi author of early 20th century).