Derek Alwes

After a nontraditional undergraduate career that included extended periods of non-academic employment as newspaper reporter and steelworker, among other things, Professor Alwes earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Massachusetts in 1990.  He taught at Clark University in Worcester, MA, for six years before coming to Newark in 1996.  In 2003 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure and in 2004 became coordinator of the English program. He is author of a book entitled Sons and Authors in Elizabethan England and has published several scholarly articles on Renaissance and modern literature. He lives with his wife, two daughters, six cats and two dogs in a litttle house among woods and cornfields and above a large pond.

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