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 Photo of Bruce and Joan Edwards at Lake Manyara, Tanzania. (Courtesy of Michael Edwards, 2005)
I have been a faculty member and administrator at BGSU since 1981. I am currently serving as Professor of English and Africana Studies and Associate Dean for Distance Learning & International Programs. My Ph.D. is from the University of Texas at Austin (1981).I have had the privilege of serving as a Fulbright Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya (1999-2000), teaching at Daystar University and doing research on 1st generation African college students. I frequently travel to East Africa and have been successful in helping to produce several grants linking BGSU programs to other African nations, includingTunisia and Tanzania. Currently, I serving as the administrator overseeing the development of distance education at BGSU. Our websites help faculty and students find their way in the burgeoning field of e-learning. Thanks to my unit, ideal, we now have over 200 courses available for online delivery; this encompasses three undergraduate degree completion programs, and a growing number of masters and graduate certificate programs. You may find my most recent curriculum vita/resume here.
Images of Kenya
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I frequently lecture and have widely published on the life and work of C. S. Lewis--in addition to wide ranging work on the topics of world rhetorics, African literature and culture, computer- mediated writing, Southern U. S. Women Writers (e.g., Flannery O'Connor) and distance education. My most recent publication is the four volume reference set: C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, Legacy from Praeger Press, 2007. I have directed dozens of doctoral dissertations, masters theses, and senior theses on a wide range of topics that include writers such as C. S. Lewis, St. Teresa de Avila, Walker Percy, Garrison Keillor, and Martin Buber; as well as discourse theory topics like museum theory, the epistemology of Karl Popper, Dorothy L. Sayer's "lost tools of learning," and rhetorical traditions in Kenya.
I have served as faculty advisor to the student group, Fellowship of Christian Graduate Students, since 1990.
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Africana studies: the literature, cultural history, art and music of both indigenous, continental Africa and the African diaspora.
The life and works of Anglo-Irish writer C. S. Lewis. I maintain a well-regarded web site on him and his friends known as the Inklings.
 C. S. Lewis
The converging fields of discourse studies, computer-mediated writing and instruction, and web-based (e-learning) delivery of curricula. I have been schooled in the tagmemic theories of the late Kenneth L. Pike and regard him (and C. S. Lewis) as my intellectual mentors on these topics and many others.
The creative work of my three sons and only daughter previewed and sampled on the fascinating website known as Pseudobook.
The integration of Christian faith and learning within the university setting in a postmodern climate in which all forms of knowledge creation, validation, and dissemination are under scrutiny.
Baseball. The American Pastime.
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Pseudobook Review
Major League Baseball
Houston Astros
Cleveland Indians
San Diego Padres
San Diego Chargers
C. S. Lewis & the Inklings
Africa Links
Arts and Letters Daily
Land Rovers
Roger Ebert
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