Charles Wuest is the Director for Programming in Southern Methodist University’s English Department. Previously he was Chair of Language, Literature, and Culture and an Associate Professor of English at Averett University. He was also Professor of English and Lead Faculty at Lone Star College. He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from Southern Methodist University and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Florida. His areas of interest include medieval literature (especially Middle English), poetry, translation studies, and pedagogy. He has articles published in Papers on Language and Literature, Studies in Philology, and Arthuriana.

His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including Folio, Stickman Review, Subtropics, Southword, Verse, Poetry Quarterly, and The Toad Suck Review.

He can be reached at charles.wuest@gmail.com or at cwuest@smu.edu.