Ty Buckman

Director

Ty Buckman spent four years as Provost and Professor of English at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia prior to joining the Advanced Studies in Culture Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in 2021. Earlier, he was Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Provost at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he also spent eighteen years as an English professor. During his administrative career, Buckman has served as a strategic planning consultant to small college and state university campuses, an accreditation peer reviewer with the Higher Learning Commission for more than ten years, and an executive coach to several early-career academic leaders. He began his faculty leadership as Director of Faculty Development for seven years at Wittenberg University, redesigning and leading the new faculty orientation program and organizing teaching and advising workshops.

Although his recent scholarship focuses on the peculiar circumstances of private institutions of higher education in America, he has an abiding research and teaching interest in politics and religion in the early canon of British literature—especially the works of Edmund Spenser and John Milton—and the epic tradition. Buckman holds an MA and PhD in English Renaissance Literature from the University of Virginia.

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