Contact Information

Office: 4129 JFSB

Phone: 422-8920

E-mail: jay_fox@byu.edu

Website: http://english.byu.edu/foxlinks.html

Professor Jay Fox specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and in literature and film. He has taught a wide range of courses in American and British literature (sixty-four different ones to be exact) in over four decades at Purdue University, BYU Hawaii and BYU.

He has served in many administrative assignments: department chair, division chair, dean, and academic vice president at BYU Hawaii; center director, associate department chair, and department chair at BYU Provo. He teaches course development workshops for faculty in the College of Humanities.

In 1994 he received the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2005 he was named Nan Osmond Grass Professor of English. For eleven years he trained many student editors in his role as editor of Literature and Belief. Through his work as former director for the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature he has developed a strong interest in moral/religious literary criticism.

Another current research interest is the relationship of literature to psychology, and he frequently makes presentations on the depictions of mental illness in the media. He and his wife Dawn Webb are teacher trainers for the Family-to-Family Education program for the National Alliance on Mental Illness and are teachers in the Provider Education Program for mental health professionals. He is President Elect of NAMI Utah and serves on other community committees.

His composition interests are in writing about literature and in technical writing, a subject for which he has trained student interns; he has also worked for many years as a writing consultant to private and public corporations.

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