Houston Baptist University is proud to announce the return of the Author Celebration on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.聽 The event will highlight the written works of HBU faculty and staff that have been published since the last Author Celebration was held in 2019.
The event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the MD Anderson Student Center on the HBU campus and is free and open to the public.聽 Guests can meet the authors in person, purchase their books and get books signed.
Featured authors represent a diverse set of fields that include fiction, theology, education, medicine, business, philosophy, history and literature.
Represented HBU authors will include contributors to HBU鈥檚 Student Literary Journal:
- Dr. Robert B. Sloan, HBU President:
- Dr. Louis Markos, Professor of English: , , ,
- Dr. Katie Alaniz, Assistant Professor of Education:
- Dr. Yongli Luo, Associate Professor of Finance: (Journal of Chinese Governance)
- Dr. Diana Severance, Director, Dunham Bible Museum:
- Dr. Michael Ward, Professor of Apologetics: , 鈥溾�� (An Unexpected Journal)
- Dr. Barbara Elliott, Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts: 鈥溾�� (Saint Austin Review)
- Dr. Ben Blackwell, Associate Professor of Theology & Dr.聽Randy Hatchett, Professor of Theology:
- Dr. Ben Blackwell, Associate Professor of Theology & Dr. Jason Maston, Associate Professor of Theology:
- Dr. Timothy Brookins, Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Languages:
- Dr. Bruce Gordon, Associate Professor of History & Philosophy of Science: , 鈥淚dealism and Science: The Quantum-Theoretic and Neuroscientific Foundations of Reality鈥� ), 鈥淗ow Does the Intelligibility of Nature Point to Design?鈥� and 鈥淒oes the Multiverse Refute Cosmic Design?鈥� (), 鈥� Scientific Explanations Are Not Limited to Natural Causes鈥� and 鈥淕ordon鈥檚 Response to Bishop鈥� )
- Dr. Timothy Ewest, Associate Professor of Management:
- Dr. Julianna Leachman, Assistant Professor of Literature: 鈥淭he Price of Restoration: Flannery O’Connor and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Realists鈥� ()
- Dr. Gary Hartenburg, Associate Professor of Philosophy:
- Dr. Nancy Brownlee, Assistant Professor of Nursing: 鈥淗istory and Physical and Peyronie’s Disease鈥� (), 鈥淐ircumcision in the Adult Male: Surgical Considerations鈥� ()
- Dr. Marie Mater, Associate Professor of Speech Communication: 鈥溾�� (Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine)
- Dr. Emily Stelzer, Associate Professor of Literature: 鈥溾�� (Religions), 鈥淓uphrasy, Rue, Polysemy, and Repairing the Ruins鈥� (),
- Dr. Encarna Bermejo, Professor of Spanish:
- Dr. Paul Sloan, Assistant Professor of Theology & Dr. Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins: ,
- Dr. Chris Hammons, Professor of Government: (With contributions from Dr. Tony Joseph, Dr. David J. Davis, Dr. John Tyler, and Dr. Collin Garbarino)
- Dr. David J. Davis, Associate Professor of History: 鈥淧recarious Identities: Studies in the Work of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell鈥� (Renaissance Quarterly 75.2), 鈥溾�� (Journal of Early Modern Christianity, vol. 8), “鈥� (The Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 71, issue 2), 鈥溾�� (The American Conservative), (Wall Street Journal)
- Dr. Phil Tallon, Associate Professor of Theology:
For additional information or questions, contact Angela Merkle at amerkle@HC.edu.