Assistant Director
Kent Wicker's focus in the program is academics, which includes providing student academic support, maintaining academic standards, serving on master's project committees and developing policies and procedures. With Donna Zapf, he created the GLS Core Course in interdisciplinary studies; he also serves as GLS Writing Consultant. Dr. Wicker has served on the board of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and led several workshop sessions at the annual convention. He holds a BS in International Relations from Georgetown and a PhD in English from Duke, and has worked both inside and outside academia as a writer and editor. His academic interests include class, gender and place in American and post-colonial literatures, and the historical development of the novel. He lives with his wife near the Eno River, where he hikes, bikes and involuntarily feeds a growing herd of deer.