Christopher Baker received his PhD from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught at Armstrong since 1994.
Prior to that, he was Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont,
Texas. In 1988-89 he held an American Council on Education Fellowship
and from 1994-98 served as chair of Armstrong's Languages, Literature,
and Dramatic Arts department. He directs the department's internship program
and is advisor for Calliope, the campus literary magazine. A member of
several professional organizations, he has served on the boards of the
South Central Renaissance Conference and the Southern Comparative Literature
Association, and has been President of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood
Home Foundation. A specialist in English Renaissance literature, he edited
Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1600 - 1720: A Biographical Dictionary
(Greenwood, 2002). He was English program chair for the 2003 meeting of the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. He has published 46 articles and
reference entries, delivered over 30 conference papers, and is a frequent
book reviewer for scholarly journals.
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