James Hedges, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Department of English

Jim Hedges, PhD, 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

• PhD, English, University of California, Riverside
• MA, English, University of Washington
• BA, English, Seattle Pacific College

Academic Area

• School of Humanities 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