Dr. Jerry Ball, Ph.D., Assistant Chair, Professor of English

Contact Information:
Phone: 870.972.2161
Office: Wilson Hall 221E
Email: jball@astate.edu

 

 

 

Education:
B.A. English, 1971, ASU
M. A. English, 1980, ASU
Ph.D. English-Medieval, 1986, University of TN-Knoxville

Specialties:
Medieval, Arthurian Literature, Language History, Restoration/18th
Century, Early Christian Literature, Grammar

Courses Regularly Taught
The English Language
Comparative Modern Grammars
Introduction to Linguistics
The Bible as Literature
Introduction to Literature of the Western World
English Composition I
English Composition II

Research:
Assistant Editor and Contributor, Random House Historical Dictionary of
American Slang, Vol.1 (1994 ); Vol.2 (1997); Vol. 3 (2007 as
The Oxford Historical Dictionary of American Slang).

Author, "The Despised Version: Hobbes's Translation of Homer," (1996).

Author, "Guy Endore's The Werewolf of Paris: The Definitive Werewolf Novel?"
(1995).

Current Project:
18th Century English Views of Sappho, Joseph of Arimathea and the
Grail, Lost Music: The Decline of Metrics in Modern Poetry

Honors/Awards:
ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996)