Faculty & Facilities

LETU Literature and Language Arts faculty bring a Christian worldview to the study of language, literature, speaking, and writing. Their mission is to help students master the oral and written communication skills necessary for success in college, career, and life activities. 

	Jim Watson — Department Chair, Professor of English Ed.D., East Texas State University (1981). Major — The College Teaching of English. Dissertation: "A Reader's Guide to C.S. Lewis: His Fiction."
	Annie Olson — Writing Program Director, Associate Professor of English Ph.D., Texas Woman's University (2003). Major field — Rhetoric; Secondary field — Medieval and Renaissance British Literature. Dissertation: "MOO: A Site For Facilitating a Bakhtinian Aesthetics of Invention."
	Martin Batts — Professor of English Ph.D., University of Dallas (1983). Major — Literature; Minor — Philosophy.
	Randy Compton — Associate Professor of English  Ph.D., University of North Texas (1994). Major — English. Dissertation: "Richard Wilbur and the Poetry of Apocalyptic Interstices"
	Arturo Morales — Assistant Professor of Spanish M.A., Mississippi State University (1999). Ph.D. candidate, Mississippi State University.
	Ignacio G. Palacios, Ph.D.  — Associate Professor of English Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2001). Major — English, specializing in rhetoric and linguistics.
	Karl Payton — Associate Professor of Communication Studies M.A., Western Kentucky University (1994).  Major — Organizational Communication.  Ed.D., Texas A&M University Commerce; research interest:  Predictors of Communication Apprehension
	Fredna Stuckey — Associate Professor of English M.A., Texas A&M University at Commerce (1971). Major — English.

Facilities

Heath-Hardwick Hall is the home of the Literature and Language Arts Department on campus. The offices of all Literature and Language Arts professors are conveniently located on one side of the Heath-Hardwick building, giving students easy access to professors should they require assistance.

Heath-Hardwick Hall shares a building with Longview hall, home of the Business department. A virtual tour of the Heath-Hardwick/Longview Hall building can be viewed on the campus map.

The classrooms in Heath-Hardwick range from smaller, secluded classrooms that facilitate discussion in classes with fewer students, to large classrooms with theater-style seating built to comfortably accommodate classes with a higher number of students.