Darren Lawson, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Dean, School of Fine Arts
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Educational Background: B.A. in Public Speaking, BJU; M.A. in Platform Arts, BJU; Ph.D. in Organizational Communication, University of Kansas

Courses Taught: Organizational Communication; Communication and Training and Development; Nonverbal Communication

Additional Duties/Activities: Producer, Living Gallery; Producer, University Productions; Classic Players (Jaques, Oliver, As You Like It; Caliban, The Tempest; Le Bret, Ragueneau, Cyrano de Bergerac; Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet; Demetrius, Nick Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Feste, Twelfth Night; Leontes, The Winter's Tale; Macduff, Macbeth; King Henry, Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession); University Opera Association Director (Andrea Chenier, 2004; The Elixir of Love, 2005; Mefistofele, 2006; Simeon, 2006; Rigoletto, 2007)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Organizational Communication Consultant; Member, National Communication Association; Member, International Communication Association; Member, American Society for Training & Development; Research Presentations at ICA Conventions, NCA Conventions, and Midwest Basic Course Directors Conference; Who's Who in America (2004); Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Kansas (1996); Department Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas (1995); Distinguished Technical Communication Award, South Carolina Society for Technical Communication (1993)

Lonnie Polson, B.A., M.A., M.S., Ed.D.
Chairman, Division of Speech Communication
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.S. in Education, BJU; Ed.D., BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation; Acting; Advanced Acting; Oral Reading of the Scriptures; Advanced Stage Directing; Speech and Vocal Skills; Public Speaking; Small Group Communication; Interviewing; Oral Communication for the Professions

Additional Duties/Activities: Head, Department of Speech Education; Student Teacher Observer; Academic Advisor; Communication Studies Internship Supervisor; Classic Players (King Lear; Iago, Othello, Othello; Benedick, Much Ado about Nothing; Claudius, Laertes, Hamlet; Caliban, The Tempest; Brutus, Julius Caesar; Prince Hal, Henry IV; Andrew Aguecheek, Twelfth Night); Unusual Films (Sheffey, The Printing); Classic Players Director (The Tempest, 1989, 1996; Richard II, 1992; Henry V, 2000); Vespers Coordinator; Vespers Director

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Communication Consultant; Guest Lecturer, American Management Program; Seminar Speaker; Member, National Communication Association

Jeanine Aumiller, B.A., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Address, BJU; M.A. in Rhetoric and Public Address, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Oral Communication for the Professions; Public Speaking

Additional Duties/Activities: Faculty Advisor, Inter-Society Debate Association; Assistant Coach, Intercollegiate Debate Team

Charlotte Burke, B.S., M.A., Ph.D.
Head, Department of Communication Studies
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; Ph.D. in Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University

Courses Taught: Organizational Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Conflict Management; Special Topics in Communication

Additional Duties/Activities: Classic Players (Juliet, Romeo and Juliet; Viola, Twelfth Night)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Communication Consultant; Member, National Communication Association; Research Presentations at NCA Conventions

David Burke, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Head, Department of Interpretative Speech
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Platform Arts, BJU; Ph.D. in Speech Communication/Theater, Southern Illinois University

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation; Performance of Narrative and Drama; Performance of Poetry in Historical Perspectives; Contemporary Performance of Narrative; Staging Literature

Additional Duties/Activities: Academic Advisor; Classic Players (Romeo, Romeo and Juliet; Richard II; Edgar, King Lear; Brutus, Julius Caesar; Hamlet, Laertes, Hamlet; Iago, Othello); Unusual Films (Dmitri, The Printing); Classic Players Director (Twelfth Night, 1998; Great Expectations, 2000); Vesper Director; Scriptwriter, Director, Drama Team; Scriptwriter, Living Gallery

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Film and Video Performances; Promotional Scripts for Christian Ministries; Screenplay Razor's Edge, Harvest Productions; Member, National Communication Association; Member, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society; Best Short Play, SIU, 1992, 1993; Honorable Mention Long Play, SIU, 1993; Voice and Speech Coach; Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001

Rachel Fisher, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Dramatic Production, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Drama with Children

Additional Duties/Activities: Director, Vespers; Classic Players (Celia, As You Like It); ShowForth Director (A Winter's Secret, Church History in First Person); HomeSat Productions Director (A Dark Night, Two Crooks, Fire Safety)

Corretta Grass, B.A., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU

Courses Taught: Speech and Vocal Skills; Voice and Diction

Additional Duties/Activities: Vespers Director; Classic Players (Olivia, Twelfth Night; Desdemona, Othello; Gertrude, Hamlet; Portia, Merchant of Venice; Hero, Much Ado about Nothing; Paulina, A Winter's Tale)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Voice and Speech Coach

Doris Harris, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Platform Arts, BJU; Western Michigan University

Courses Taught: Storytelling; Playwriting; Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation; Classroom Communication

Additional Duties/Activities: Vespers Director; Classic Players (Maria, Twelfth Night; Lady Capulet, Nurse, Romeo and Juliet)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001; Author of over 600 published short stories, plays, and articles; Member, Authors' Guild

DeWitt Jones, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Public Address, Louisiana State University

Courses Taught: Principles of Communication; Oral Communication for the Professions; Debate; Introduction to Graduate Studies; Seminar in Public Address; Theories of Communication

Additional Duties/Activities: Coach, Intercollegiate Debate Team; Academic Advisor; Classic Players (Richard III; Brutus, Julius Caesar; Claudius, Hamlet)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Member, Southern Communication Association; Executive Secretary, National Education Debate Association

Janie McCauley, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Educational Background: B.A., Tennessee Temple University; M.A., Clemson University; Ph.D., Miami University of Ohio; twice appointed National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Princeton University

Courses Taught: Theater History; Dramaturgy

Additional Duties/Activities: Director, SMART (Sharing Masterworks of Art) Program; Editor, SMART Guides for Secondary Schools; Co-director, European Musical Mission Team

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Performing Arts educator and critic who has published over 250 concert and theater reviews and programs in the U. S., Great Britain, Europe, and Asia; More than 25 articles in professional literary journals including Hamlet Studies, Magill's Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, The Shaw Review, and The George Herbert Journal; Member, Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society; Regular contributor to Shakespeare Bulletin; Presentations at three international Shakespeare congresses

Kris Miller, B.A., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.S.P. in Speech Pathology, Central Michigan University

Courses Taught: Normal Language Development, Speech and Language Disorders, Phonetics, Selected Topics in Speech-Language Pathology

Additional Duties/Activities: Certification and Membership in ASHA; Licensed in State of South Carolina

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Certificate in Clinical Competence, American Speech-Language Hearing Association; Member, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers' Society; Participant, Piedmont Speech and Hearing Consortium

Bill Moose, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Classroom Communication; Teaching Speech

Additional Duties/Activities: Coordinator, Freshman Speech Program; Vespers Director; Classic Players (Touchstone, As You Like It; Fool, King Lear; Sir Andrew Auguecheek, Feste, Twelfth Night; Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet; Grumeo, Taming of the Shrew; Costard, Love's Labor's Lost; Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Dromeo of Ephesus, Comedy of Errors)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000; Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002; Workshop and Conference Speaker; South Carolina Speech Communication Association Teacher of the Year, 1973

Sharon Murry, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation

Additional Duties/Activities: Performer, Trilogy; Assistant Director, Love's Labor Lost; Assistant Coach, Intercollegiate Debate Team

Erin Naler, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Dramatic Productions, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Classroom Communication; Oral Communication for the Professions; Introduction to Dramatic Productions; Stage Directing

Additional Duties/Activities: Director, Vespers; Coach, Musical Ministry Team

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999

Anne Nolan, B.A., M.F.A.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.F.A. in Interpretative Speech and Voice, BJU

Courses Taught: Stage Movement; Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation; Speech and Vocal Skills

Additional Duties/Activities: Recitalist, Trilogy; Classic Players (Ariel, The Tempest); Vespers Director

Dave Schwingle, B.A., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Speech; Creative Writing; Fundamentals of Speech; Classroom Communication; Acting

Additional Duties/Activities: Classic Players (Player Prologue, Hamlet; Marullus, Lepidus, Julius Caesar; Sebastian, Twelfth Night; Young Pip, Great Expectations; Fluellen, Henry V; Antipholus of Syracuse, Comedy of Errors)

Linda St. John, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Speech Education, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU

Courses Taught: Fundamentals of Oral Interpretation; Oral Interpretation of Poetry; Speech and Vocal Skills

Additional Duties/Activities: Classic Players (Cordelia, King Lear; Hermione, A Winter's Tale; Adriana, Comedy of Errors); Vespers Director

Professional Activities, Memberships, Awards: Seminar and Special Occasions Speaker

Jeff Stegall, B.S., M.A.
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Educational Background: B.S. in Fine Arts and Bible, Free Will Baptist Bible College, Nashville, Tennessee; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; National Shakespeare Conservatory, New York City

Courses Taught: Acting; Directing; Costume Design; Scene Design

Additional Duties/Activities: Classic Players (Richard II; Cassius, Julius Caesar; Caliban, The Tempest; Touchstone, As You Like It; Christian, Cyrano de Bergerac; Malvolio, Twelfth Night); Classic Players Director (A Winter's Tale, 1993; Hamlet, 1997; Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession, 1999); University Opera Association Director (Tosca, 1994; Elixer of Love, 1995; The Barber of Seville, 1999); Classic Players Designer (A Winter's Tale, 1993; Hamlet, 1997; Henry IV: The Shadow of Succession, 1999); Vespers Director; Drama Team Director

Professional Activities, Memberships, Awards: Director, Designer; Narrations for Christian Recordings; Best Costume Show, Stone Soup Theatre Company, 1990

Gary Weier, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Educational Background: B.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; M.A. in Interpretative Speech, BJU; Ph.D. in Rhetorical Studies/Public Affairs and Issue Management, Purdue University

Courses Taught: Introduction to Mass Communication; Media Management; Public Speaking; Oral Communication for the Professions; Communication in Politics; Modern Rhetoric; Persuasion

Additional Duties/Activities: Head, Department of Rhetoric and Public Address; Faculty Advisor, Inter-Society Debate Association; Academic Advisor; Classic Players (Marc Antony, Julius Caesar; Trinculo, The Tempest; Kent, King Lear; Bolingbroke, Richard II; Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Laertes, Hamlet)

Professional Activities, Memberships, Honors: Political Campaign Consultant; Marketing Communication Consultant; Political Analyst, WYFF-TV; Campaigns and Elections Training Seminar; C-SPAN Seminar for Professors; Member, C-SPAN in the Classroom; Member, National Communication Association; Research Presentations at NCA Conventions; Member, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society; Alan H. Monroe Graduate Scholar; Finalist, Bruce Kendall Award for Excellence in Teaching; C-SPAN Faculty Development Grant, 1996, 1997; Division of Speech Communication Excellence in Teaching Award, 1999