Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Theological Studies
On faculty since 1980

Dr. Baumgaertner's C.V. (PDF format)

Ph.D. English, Emory University

M.A. English, Drake University

B.A. English, Emory University

Jill received a BA from Emory University , an MA from Drake University, and a PhD in Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century British Literature from Emory University.

She previously taught at Valparaiso University and joined the Wheaton faculty in 1980. She is the author of Finding Cuba (Chimney Hill Press, 2001), a collection of poems that explores her Cuban ancestry, and three poetry chapbooks: Leaving Eden (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1995), Namings (Franciscan University Press, 1999), and My Father's Bones (Finishing Line Press, 2006). She has also written a textbook/anthology, Poetry (Harcourt Brace, 1990); and Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring (Cornerstone Press, 1998).

She was a Fulbright fellow to Spain, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is the winner of the White Eagle Coffee Store Press's poetry chapbook contest, the Goodman Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Illinois Prize of the Rock River Poetry Contest, and the CCL Midwest Poetry Contest. She serves as poetry editor of The Christian Century and is past president of the Conference on Christianity and Literature .

• Modern Language Association
• Conference on Christianity and Literature
• Midwest MLA
• Academy of American Poets
• Associated Writing Programs
• Fulbright Association
• Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
• The Renaissance Society of America
• Poetry Society of America
• Society of Midland Authors

Books:

My Father’s Bones (Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2006).

Finding Cuba (Valparaiso, Indiana: Chimney Hill Press, 2001).

Namings (poetry chapbook) (Steubenville, Ohio: Franciscan University Press, 1998).

Flannery O'Connor: A Proper Scaring, 2nd Edition (Chicago: Cornerstone, 1998).

Leaving Eden (poetry chapbook) (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1995).

Poetry (textbook) (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1990).

Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring (Harold Shaw, 1988).

Edited Journal:

Guest Editor, 50th anniversary issue of Christianity and Literature devoted entirely to poetry, Spring 2001.

Selected poetry, Sundays and Seasons (Augsburg Fortress, 2005).

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