Wyeth Burgess
Professor Burgess began teaching writing and tutoring in the Writing Center at Belmont in 2001. She has wanted to teach English since reading Wordsworth in 11th grade English. Her trial by fire came while a peer tutor in the first Writing Center at Hollins College, where her honors thesis on the fiction of Eudora Welty laid the groundwork for her dissertation. Because she believes in dancing with the one that brung ya, she included work on her old friend Wordsworth in her M.A. program.
While teaching senior high and college English in Atlanta, Professor Burgess pursued a doctoral program in American Studies at Emory University's Institute of Liberal Arts. She focused on 20th-century Southern writers and the myth of the Southern woman. She was awarded a Brittain Teaching Fellowship at Georgia Tech for the 1992 and 1993 academic years, and her Ph.D. from Emory in 1997.
Dr. Burgess's life as an academic gypsy informs her First Year Writing and Writing Affiliate classes here at Belmont. She is devoted to fountain pens and chalkboards but has begun to enjoy technology in the classroom. When not behind on grading papers, she enjoys activities with her husband and three children--walking in the woods, browsing bookstores, dragging them to museums, cooking to appease the natives, and watching movies. Her academic interests include interdisciplinary teaching, children's literature, and myth studies.
Email: Wyeth Burgess
Phone: 615.460.6988
Office: WHB 211
