Contact Information

Office: 4137 JFSB

Phone: 422-3203

Email: steven_walker@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

ENGL 292
MW 12:05-1:20
101 JFSB

ENGL 350
W 5:10-7:40
B099 JFSB

ENGL 350
W 5:00-7:30
SLC


Student Consultations:
4137 JFSB MW 1:30-2:30

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Steve Walker specializes in Victorian and Modem British literature. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on The Lord of the Rings. His interest in the fantasy literature of J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, with his work with the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, has turned his attention increasingly toward moral criticism. Since his publication in 1984 of Seven Ways of Looking at Susanna, his major research has focused on the Bible as literature. Currently he is publishing articles toward a book on humor in the Bible. Professor Walker was for seven years graduate coordinator and for five associate chair of the department. Now in his fifth decade at BYU, he regularly teaches the Bible as literature and later British literature. His teaching approach invites substantial contributions from students in class discussion and even in shaping the format of courses and exams. He has been Honors Professor of the Year, Teacher of the Year in the department fourteen times, and was awarded a Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, honored as the inaugural Brigham Young University Alumni Professor in 1992, and later named Nan Osmond Grass Professor. He lives in Spanish Fork with his wife, Mary, contemplating the changes of seasons on the golf course.

Degrees: PhD, Harvard, 1973

Interests:

Victorian, Modern, Bible