Denise Galloway Crews, Ph.D.
Bio
Dr. Denise Galloway Crews studied English, education, and history at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, then worked as an English teacher and tutor. She earned an M.A. In English from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, with a thesis on Jane Austen, and then a Ph.D. at Baylor University, where her dissertation focused on unlikely saint figures in British modernist literature of the early 20th century. She has taught in a classical great books program and at several universities. Dr. Crews now works as a Research and Instruction Librarian, helping students with research, and teaches courses in literature and composition. She is the librarian for the College of Arts & Sciences, the Honors College, and the School of Communication & the Arts, and she also leads the library book club and edits the library magazine. She lives with her wonderful family in Portsmouth.
Interests
- British Literature
- Literary History & Genre
- Jane Austen
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Teaching Research & Writing Skills
- Classical Education & Great Books
Publications, Presentations, & Fellowships
Inklings Project Fellow for 2025-2026, McGrath Center for Church Life at University of Notre Dame, to develop a course on “C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, & Popular Fiction”
“Jane Austen and the Book of Common Prayer” Southeastern Conference for Christianity & Literature, 2024, Regent University
“Medieval Memento Mori and Modern in Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Nine Tailors,” in C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, & Modern Technology, edited by Salway Khoddam, Mark R. Hall, and Jason Fisher, 2015.
“Terrorism and the Sublime in Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness” American Council for Irish Studies Conference, 2011, Savannah, Georgia
“Private Virtues and Public Importance: The Type of the Servant in Jane Austen’s Persuasion”
The 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, 2010, Texas A & M University
“Dorothy L. Sayers’ Reconciliation of Religion and Science in The Documents in the Case”
The C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society Conference, 2009, Calvin College
“The Eternal Pattern and Modern Chaos in Eliot’s Four Quartets and Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited”
The T. S. Eliot, Religion, & Culture Conference, 2008, Grand Valley State University
Courses Taught
- Shakespeare
- British Romantics
- Victorian Literature
- World Literature
- Milton & The 17th Century
- The 18th Century
- Research & Composition
- British Literature 1 & 2
- American Literature 1 & 2
- Classical Education Pedagogy