Office: Pummill Hall
3-G
Phone: 417-836-5109
E-Mail: jsb749f@missouristate.edu
A graduate of Georgetown (B.A. '77) and Brown University (Ph.D. '83), Dr. Baumlin is a
Professor of English at Missouri State. His research interests include Renaissance and
seventeenth-century literature, the history of rhetoric, and critical theory. His
publications include John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse
(Columbia:
U of Missouri P, 1991), Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory,
co-edited with Tita French Baumlin (Dallas: SMU Press, 1994), and Rhetoric and Kairos:
Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis, co-edited with Phillip Sipiora (New York: SUNY,
2002), Post-Jungian Criticism: New Essays in Theory and Praxis (co-edited with Tita
French Baumlin and George H. Jensen) (SUNY, 2004), and Selected Essays of Jim W.
Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing (co-edited with Keith D.
Miller) (NCTE Press, 2004). He is
a recipient of the
National Excellence in English Award from the English-Speaking Union (1989), the
Missouri State Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship (1992), Missouri State
Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching (1999), and an Missouri State
University Faculty Recognition Award for Research (2002).
He divides his spare time among several hobbies, most notably tournament chess, choral
singing, and racquetball.
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