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 '93 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
