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Our faculty prize having the time and freedom to give full due to big ideas (yours included). From your very first class, you’ll know your professors believe heart and soul in helping you become a careful reader, an analytical thinker, and an able writer. Full Bio In my classes, I therefore try to fill my students’ lives with as much goodness, truth and beauty as I can. Dr. Daniel Coupland Full Bio "I think literature,...