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James Hedges, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
Email: [email protected]
Jim Hedges, Ph.D., spent more than 30 years at Azusa Pacific University. Hedges taught some 20 courses in English, communication, and journalism; advised the student newspaper for five years; and developed the children’s literature course and taught it to hundreds of students training to be teachers. Ongoing research includes work being done at the Huntington Library on a novel on Shakespeare’s England and the cathedral schools, and a series of essays on reading some of the “great” poems often assigned in literature courses in high school and college.
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of California, Riverside
- M.A., English, University of Washington
- B.A., English, Seattle Pacific College
Academic Area
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Expertise
- Katherine Paterson
- Children’s Literature
- Harry Potter and the Christian Reaction
- Teaching Values Through Literature
Courses Taught
- ENGL 377 – Shakespeare
ENGL 434 – Children's Literature
ENGL 488 – Significant Authors