John Stevenson
John Stevenson, Dean of the Graduate School, has also been a Professor of English since 1982. His emphasis is in British Literature of the eighteenth century, and many of his publications on the subject have garnered national and international recognition. His is the former Chair of the English Department, and the former Interim Director of the Program for Writing ad Rhetoric. Stevenson also served as chair of the Flagship 2030 Task Force on Graduate Education in 2008. He was appointed to his current position in March, 2011.