Dr. Timothy K. Nixon
Professor of English; Chair of the Department of English, History, and Modern Languages
Office: Knutti 201A
Phone: 304-876-5365
E-Mail: tnixon@shepherd.edu
Areas of Specialization
American Literature, Multi-Ethnic American Literature, World Literature, and LGBTQ+/Queer Studies.
Dr. Timothy Nixon currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of English, History, and Modern Languages. He teaches courses in American and world literature and writing. Dr. Nixon received a Ph.D. in English from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and an M.A. from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has published essays on the works of Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Arturo Islas, Sarah Orne Jewett, Randall Kenan, Klaus Mann, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Walker Percy, Gertrude Stein, and Eudora Welty and has contributed entries to encyclopedias of African-American and Hispanic literatures. He has presented at quite a few national and international conferences. Dr. Nixon’s book-length project, Selected Short Works by Klaus Mann, was released in 2016.