Philip Wedge

Phil Wedge is a Senior Lecturer and Program Associate in English and the Editor of Cottonwood Magazine and Press. He generally teaches courses in British Literature, Sport Literature, Freshman Honors, and, occasionally, Creative Writing. His research interests are primarily in 19th Century British Literature (Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy) and in Sport Literature. He received a John H. Daniels Research Fellowship from the National Sporting Library and Museum in 2013. His publications include a poetry chapbook, Slowly Along the Riverbeds (Coal City 1999); essays on sport literature, most recently, "Sassoon's Fox-Hunting Man: The Sporting Character in The Memoirs of George Sherston" (Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature); and poetry and reviews in American Scholar, Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature, Stone Country, Kansas Quarterly, Amelia, Wind, and High Plains Literary Review, among others.