Colleen Warren

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 clwarren@taylor.edu

 765-998-5250

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Colleen Warren

Professor of English

I Serve in...

English & Modern Languages Department

Education

  • PhD, Twentieth Century American Literature, University of Florida
  • MA, American Literature, University of Florida
  • BA, English Education, Olivet Nazarene College

Specialties:

american literature critical theory annie dillard flannery oconnor

Career Accomplishments

  • Published three books, including a book of literary analysis, Annie Dillard and the Word Made Flesh: An Incarnational Theory of Language, in 2010.
  • Received NEA grant to study Faulkner in History
  • Full professor status at Taylor University, awarded three sabbaticals

Featured Work

The First Verb Cover

The First Verb: Cultivating Christian Creativity
Authors: Colleen Warren
Publisher: Wipf and Stock (2024)

Reentering Eden Cover

Reentering Eden: Christian Meditation in Nature
Authors: Colleen Warren
Publisher: Smyth and Helwys (2021)

Annie Dillard and the Word Made Flesh Cover


Annie Dillard and the Word Made Flesh: An Incarnational Theory of Language
Authors: Colleen Warren
Publisher: Lehigh University Press, 2010

Upcoming Book

  • Becoming Word Worthy: The Implications of Christ as the Word

Scholarly Articles

  • Review of Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New by Marshall Bruce Gentry. Women’s Studies, 2022
  • “Dear Regina: Flannery O’Connor’s Letters from Iowa: An Interview with Monica Miller.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2021/Spring 2022, Vol. 24, No. 2/Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 2-4.
  • “Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New—An Interview with Marshall Bruce Gentry.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2021/Spring 2022, Vol. 24, No. 2/Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 10-11.
  • Review of Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism by Christine Bieber Lake. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021, Vol. 33, No. 1-2, pp. 186-88.
  • Review of The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Amy Alznauer. Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Spring 2020, Vol. 23, No. 1, p.3.
  • “An Interview with Christine Flanagan.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Spring 2019, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 4-6.
  • --- and Jessica Hooten Wilson. “’Why Do the Heathen Rage?’ Manuscripts to Be Published.” Cheers! Flannery O’Connor Newsletter, Fall 2017, Vol. 20, No. 3-4, p. 5.
  • “Black Doubling in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Why Do the Heathen Rage?” Collected Essays on Flannery O’Connor. Ed. Bob Evans. Salem Press, 2016, pp. 190-206.
  • “Seeing Potential in the Heathen: Flannery O’Connor’s Unfinished Novel” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 13, 2015, pp. 105-122.
  • “(R)evolutions of Change: Female Alterability in ‘The Children’ and ‘At The Landing’” Southern Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, fall 1997, pp.51-63.
  • “A Filament Spinning Outward: Female Identity Reconceptualization in Porter’s Fiction.” Southern Studies, vol. 4, no.4, Winter 1993, pp. 377-90.
  • “A 'Hard Unwinking Angry Point of Light': Surviving the War in 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider.'” Proceedings: The Image of War, University of Southern Colorado Press, 1992.
  • “Wentworth in the Garden of Gomorrah: A Study of the Anima in Descent into Hell” Mythlore, vol. 13, no. 2, Winter 1986, pp. 41-44, 54.

Creative Nonfiction Pieces

  • “Tree Life.” Altarwork. Online, Fall 2016.
  • “Tent of Meeting.” Readers Ruminate, Ruminate, Spring 2016.
  • “Rooted.” The Word Journal Magazine, January 2016.
  • “Midwest Mimicking: Thoreau in Indiana.” Indiana Voice Journal, Winter 2015.
  • “Like Ice.” Readers Ruminate. Ruminate Magazine, vol. 36, Fall 2015, pp. 6-7.
  • “Shooting Stars.” Eunoia Review, March 2015.
  • “Catching Snowflakes.” Beautiful Things (online), River Teeth, February 2, 2015.
  • “The Number One Reason I Run.” Healthy Living (Stumble Bloggers), March 2015.

About

I have been a professor of American literature at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana for over 30 years. After all these years, the main reason I still love my job is because I see it as a ministry, my contribution to God's kingdom. I am able to combine my love for literature and writing with my love for God and day after day share with students the impact of words and The Word upon my life.

I have been married to my husband Jim for over 40 years, and I have four adult children, all of whom graduated from Taylor. I love to write from my Thoreavian cabin, which is nestled atop a ravine on our 17 acres. My hobbies include creating altered books, designing leather-covered notebooks, calligraphy, drawing, watercolor, lifting weights, hiking in nature, hammocking, spending time with my kids and grandchildren, and messing around with power tools. I blog erratically at 1womanwandering.wordpress.com, and this infrequent correspondence is my only social media presence I have, a choice that keeps me sane.