Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
Phone: (239)590-7157
E-Mail: jwisdom@fgcu.edu
Office: RH - 210

Ph.D., Florida State University, 1987

Teaching and Research interests: 20th Century Literature and Culture of the U.S. and the Caribbean

Other interests: Literature of the Sea; Literature and Vernacular Music

Professor Wisdom's teaching and research interests focus on the 20th Century literature and culture of the U. S. and the Caribbean.   Much of his recent scholarship has focused on pedagogical issues in the undergraduate literature classroom.  Currently, he is working on an examination of William Faulkner's uneasy status as a loyal dissenter in South and a related project that presents strategies for using Faulkner's experiences and novels to help undergraduates appreciate the impact of literary narratives on contemporary politics.  When not professing, he spends as much time as possible on or under the water.

Selected Scholarship
With Henry, D., and M. Roca,  "Classic Rockers meet the MTV Generation: Senior Faculty in the Freshman Classroom." Presented at the 18th International Conference on the Freshman Year Experience, Southampton, England, July 2005.

 "'The Buried Garden': Finding Nature in the Undergraduate Classroom."  Presented at the National Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Eugene, Oregon, June 2005.

"Compounding Double-Consciousness: Race and Region in the Southern Literature Classroom." Presented at the 2003 meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, October 2003.