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A native of Birmingham, Mark Baggett joined
the Samford faculty in 1987, working in both the Department of English
and the Cumberland School of Law. He served as prelaw advisor from
1990 until 2004 and continues to advise prelaw students.
In the Department of English, he has taught
American literature courses, as well as History of the Language
and The Novel. This fall (2004), he will teach Senior Thesis, Engl
410.01W. He also teaches UCCP (Cultural Perspectives 101 in the
fall and 102 in the spring), as well as the University's first-year
orientation course, Horizons. He has also taught the University's
Honors Seminar and Law of Mass Media in the Department of Journalism
and Mass Communication.
In the Cumberland School of Law, he teaches
in the first-year legal research and writing course, "Lawyering
and Legal Reasoning" and also teaches a seminar course in Advanced
Issues in Legal Writing.
Baggett has an undergraduate degree in Communication
from the University of Alabama and a Master's degree in English
from Alabama. In 1979, he received a J.D. degree from Alabama and
practiced law in Tuscaloosa for two years.
He received his Ph.D. in English from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in American literature
and language, writing his dissertation on Mark Twain: "Verbal
Humor in Nineteenth Century American Literature."
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