Dr. Kevin Griffith is a professor of English at Capital University and professor of Legal Writing at Capital Law School. He is the author of three books of poetry: Someone Had to Live (1994), Paradise Refunded (1999), and Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange (2008). He is also the author of 101 Kinds of Irony (2012), a collection of fiction, and the editor of The Common Courage Reader: Essays for an Informed Democracy (2001). 

He has received three Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry, the most recent one in 2014. He and his son achieved worldwide fame in late 2014 with the release of www.Brickjest.com, a website featuring their recreation of David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest in Legos. Stories about the website have been featured in dozens of major newspapers and magazines throughout the world.

Dr. Griffith has published more than a dozen short stories in such magazines as Hotel Amerika, Spectrum, The Mid-American Review, The Coachella Review, and others.

He works with students to help them prepare to present their creative/critical work at conferences such as the National Undergraduate Literature Conference. He also has worked with former student Ian Golding to produced a national magazine of fiction called The Interrobang, and has organized a poetry reading series that features a poet of national reputation paired with a student reader.

Winner of the Praestantia Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Cotterman Award for Excellence in Advising.

Basic Writing
Creative Writing
Critical Writing for English Majors
Poetry Writing
Fiction Writing
The English Language
Humanities
Supplemental Writing (Law School)

Ph.D. in English, The Ohio State University

Dr. Sergey Rybas has been part of Capital University’s professional writing program since 2008. His research areas include power, subjectivity and identity issues in computer-mediated communication; performances of online community; multimodal teaching and learning; and epistemologies of the information age. He has also been involved in projects exploring politics, practices and performances of nationality and nationalism and has specifically focused on issues of national identification and difference in Eastern Europe and the former USSR. 

Seeing the application of his research to a broad spectrum of disciplines in humanities and social sciences, he advocates critical cultural literacy as a primary goal of an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on problems related to production, dissemination and interpretation of knowledge.

New Media and Writing
Writing in the Professions
Technical Writing and Editing
Writing for the Web
Senior Seminar in English
College Reading and Writing

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, Bowling Green State University

Dr. David Summers has been teaching the classics and literature to Capital University students since 1997. He has served as director of General Education and as assistant dean of the School of Humanities in the College. In 2007, he was honored with Capital's most prestigious faculty award — the Praestantia Award, for excellence in teaching. He also has led travel groups from Capital to England, Italy and Greece.

Dr. Summers is a Seattle native who spent his undergraduate years in Oregon and Corban University, and then trained at the University of Washington to he a high school social studies teacher. He later pursued graduate studies in medieval and Renaissance literature at the University of Washington, completing a master's degree and doctorate there. Before joining the Capital faculty, Dr. Summers held tenure-track positions at Whitworth College and Seattle Pacific University. He also is credited with passage of General Education curricular reform at Capital, and he participated in the Council of Independent Colleges Summer Seminar at the Hellenic Studies Center: Herodotus' Histories.

Humanities — Antiquity to the Renaissance
British Literature Survey: Anglo-Saxon to Augustan
Classical Mythology
Shakespeare
Classical Literature
Medieval Literature — Dante and Chaucer
Renaissance Literature
Eliot and Auden
Yeats and Joyce

Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Washington
Master of Arts in English Literature, University of Washington
Secondary Certificate in Social Studies (History), University of Washington
Bachelor of Science in Humanities and Religious Studies, Corban University

"Eliot's Dantean Pilgrimage" in Dante, T. S. Eliot and the European Tradition, edited by Paul Douglass, Cambridge Scholars Press (forthcoming 2011)

"The Unattended Moment: Selfhood and the Experience of the Transcendent in Four Quartets" in Ecstasy and Understanding: Religious Awareness in English Poetry, edited by Adrian Grafe and Andrew Harrison. Continuum Press: London, 2008.