Edward W. Huffstetler is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In that capacity he coordinates a variety of student academic issues as well as directs the general education curriculum and portfolio development program. Dr. Huffstetler came to Bridgewater in 1988 and was a professor in the English department until 2008. He received a B.A. from Coker College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from The University of Iowa.
Most of Dr. Huffstetler's recent scholarship has concentrated in the field of nineteenth-century American literature, American Indian literature, and children’s literature, areas in which he has written a number of articles for scholarly journals and presented numerous papers at conferences. His latest article, “Spirit Armies and Ghost Dancers: The Dialogic Nature of American Indian Resistance” appears in a recent edition of Studies in American Indian Literatures. He has also published a collection of American Indian stories entitled Tales of Native America (Michael Friedman Publishing, 1996).
Dr. Huffstetler also writes and publishes creatively. He has several short stories published in various magazines and journals, as well as a dozen or so poems. He has also published a novel entitled Künstler and the Terrible Monster (James Rock Publishing, 2007) and is currently working on a sequel tentatively entitled Künstler Learns the Hard Way.
Recipient of the Ben and Janice Wade Teaching award in 2006, Dr. Huffstetler currently teaches the freshmen skills course PDP 150: Personal Development and the Liberal Arts and English 243: Native American Literature and Culture. |
