Dr. Michael Howarth
Dr. Michael Howarth was appointed Director of the Honors Program in 2012. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from James Madison University along with a minor in Secondary Education and a minor in Film Studies. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska at Anchorage. And he received his Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
As a Professor of English, his primary teaching areas include children's literature, young adult literature, film studies, American literature to 1900, creative writing, and nineteenth-century British literature. He also serves on the advisory board for Mise-en-scene: The Journal of Film and Visual Narration and is a member of the editorial board for Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy.
Dr. Howarth has published numerous short stories, articles, and essays. He is also the author of Under the Bed, Creeping: Psychoanalyzing the Gothic in Children’s Literature (2014); Movies to See before You Graduate from High School (2019); and the young adult novel Fair Weather Ninjas (2016). His newest novel A Still and Awful Red was published in 2021.