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Associate Professor of English
Gabriel Haley is an associate professor of English at Concordia University, Nebraska, with research and teaching emphases in medieval and renaissance literatures, world literatures, and poetry. He has held teaching positions at the University of Virginia, Concordia College New York, and the Evanjelické Lýceum in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has published on the English and Latin poems of Charles d’Orléans, on the influence of the phenomenologist Rudolf Otto on the educational theories of C. S. Lewis, and on the role of Dante’s poetry in the television series Mad Men. His ongoing research project, tentatively titled “Secularized Contemplation,” considers late medieval efforts to fashion a contemplative poetics outside of an ordered religious life.
Dr. Haley is the advisor of Concordia's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honors society. Sigma Tau’s creative writing journal, Potpourri, is available for sale online.
Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.A., University of Virginia
B.A., Hillsdale College
Selected publications
Dr. Gabriel Haley's Academic Programs
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English
Concordia’s English major promotes careful reading, encourages critical thinking and models Christian scholarship and thoughtful discussion processes. Ideally, our students will develop a desire to read more and appreciate the role of literature in exploring themselves, the human condition, and Christ’s response to humanity and to our students in particular.
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Classical Liberal Arts
The interdisciplinary classical liberal arts minor from Concordia University, Nebraska offers a traditional and rigorous engagement with premodern languages and cultures. At Concordia, this course of study encourages the classical pursuit of what is good, true and beautiful, considered within the light of Christian revelation. Course options for the classical liberal arts minor include Latin, Greek, philosophy, history, literature and early Christian theology. A minor in classical liberal arts educates students in foundational sources, and it serves as a stepping stone for life-long learning.