Rate My Professor Corey Zwikstra

Corey Zwikstra is the Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Washburn University in the College of Arts and Sciences. He began his tenure at Washburn University as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2010, promoted to Associate Professor in the Fall of 2014. Before joining Washburn, Zwikstra served as a Lecturer in the Fall of 2008 and then as an Assistant Professor from Spring 2009 to Spring 2010 at Temple University. Earlier, from 2001 to 2005, he worked as a part-time Instructor at the University of Notre Dame while pursuing his graduate degrees. Zwikstra earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta, Master of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.

Zwikstra's research specializations include Medievalism, Old English Poetry, Middle English literature particularly Chaucer, the Exeter Book, Cynewulf, Old Norse Language and Literature, Book History, Authorship, Stylistics, Genre and Canon, and English Linguistics. Among his key publications is the article “Frod and the Aging Mind in Old English Poetry,” published in Studies in Philology, volume 108 (2011), pages 133-164. He also authored a review of Della Hooke's book Trees in Anglo-Saxon England: Literature, Lore and Landscape, forthcoming in Western Folklore in Summer or Fall 2012. Zwikstra has been recognized with Certificates of Teaching and Learning for the periods 2016-2017 and 2021-2022. In terms of career appointments and service, he has been a member of the Literature Emphasis Committee since 2011, English Department Bunge Scholarship Committee since 2011, English Department Scholarship Committee since 2011, elected Humanities Division representative on the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee since 2011, Humanities Division representative on the Bachelor of Integrated Studies Committee since 2012, First-Year Experience Committee since 2011, Scholarly and Creative Writing to Excel review committee since 2011, and served as an Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of English and Germanic Philology in 2011. His scholarly presentations include “Sapientia ex Grammatica: The Learning of Wisdom through Grammar in Anglo-Saxon England” at the 35th Mid-America Medieval Association conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in February 2011, and “The Elegy in the Riddle: An Intertextual Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 4” at the 44th International Congress of Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2009. Zwikstra teaches courses such as EN 310: English Grammar/Linguistics and EN 345: Shakespeare.