Director
Tim Caron is a professor of English at CSULB. He has taught a wide range of courses in 19th- and 20th-century American literature, and his dissertation and subsequent book and research projects investigate the intersection of race and religion in writers from the American South. His current research and teaching interests include a project on William Faulkner, along with the intersection of religion and literature, particularly in the works of writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Cormac McCarthy.
Dr. Caron has been fortunate to interact with students in a number of innovative courses. In addition to teaching in the University Honors Program, he has taken a group of students on a travel-study class to New Orleans; lived and learned with CSULB students in London, England as part of the London Semester Program; team taught an interdisciplinary class on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; and swung a hammer in a righteous cause alongside CSULB students on two Alternative Spring Break trips to the great state of Louisiana. Dr. Caron is teaching courses in the honors program this year on the history and evolution of American comics and on contemporary graphic novels.
