Faith Acker
Lecturer; Preceptor
Faith Acker holds a PhD in Renaissance Literature and teaches Latin and literature.
Faith Acker first joined Signum in 2011, serving as a preceptor for the inaugural course “The Great Tales: Tolkien and the Epic.” She received her PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of St Andrews in 2012 and has subsequently taught at the University of Sheffield, Pellissippi State Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Montgomery College, Southeastern Louisiana University, and (of course) Signum University. Faith’s monograph First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 1590-1790 (2020) is available from Routledge; her more recent research explores portrayals of servants and tradesmen in seventeenth-century poetical miscellanies. In her spare time, Faith enjoys reading, hiking, and cataloging books.
Upcoming Courses
| ID | Course Name | Duration | Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LITD 5306 | The Life and Times of the English Epic | 12 Weeks | August 30, 2021 |
Other Courses
| ID | Course Name | Duration | Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| LNGB 5302 | Elementary Latin II | 12 weeks | August 28, 2017 |
| LNGB 5301 | Elementary Latin I | 12 Weeks | May 8, 2017 |
| LITD 5305 | Shakespeare and the Middle Ages | 12 Weeks | January 16, 2017 |
Other Events
| ID | Event Name | Duration | Start Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signum Symposium: Phillip Pullman’s “The Secret Commonwealth” | 1 Hours | October 4, 2019 | |
| Signum Symposium: Spring 2019 Faculty Roundtable (Take 2) | 1 Hours | January 8, 2019 | |
| Signum Symposium: Spring 2019 Faculty Roundtable | 1 Hours | December 11, 2018 |
