Russell Weaver, Ph.D.
Professor of English
310 Center for the Humanities of Bixler Hall
Department(s)
College
Area of Specialty
Romantic and Victorian British literature, Greek literature and 19th century Russian novels
Biography
- Joined Ashland University in 1986
- Teaches courses in Romantic and Victorian British literature, Greek literature and 19th century Russian Novel (War and Peace and The Brothers Karamazov)
- Holds writer’s seminars on Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Melville/Conrad, Austen and Hemingway
- Published Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied Hermeneutics, The Moral World of Billy Budd and Teaching English at Ridgeview in 2015
- Has directed the Ashland University Philosophy Reading Group for more than 30 years
Education
- Ph.D. and M.A. – University of Chicago
- B.A. – Tulane University