George Gibson, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department
Dr. George Cinclair Gibson, PhD is an Instructor of English in the Department of English and World Languages. Dr. Gibson has a BA in English from University of New Orleans and a PhD from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Dr. Gibson regularly teaches English 1020, Critical Reading and Argumentative Writing, with an emphasis on the Classical traditions in Formal Argument. Dr. Gibson also teaches English 2310, British and Irish Literature, with an emphasis on the Arthurian Tradition and the archaic lore in Modern short stories. Dr. Gibson is also a member of the Honors English faculty and teaches several Honors English courses: English 1027, The Katabasis, Journey to the Otherworld in Virgil, Dante and Conrad, and English 2107, Ancient Traditions in Modern Stories. Dr. Gibson is the author of Wake Rites: The Ancient Irish Rituals of Finnegans Wake, a book length study of James Joyce’s enigmatic novel, Finnegans Wake, and its basis in ancient Irish ritual.
Area of Expertise
Dr. Gibson’s main areas of study, for his PhD and beyond, are the archaic and esoteric traditions within British and Irish Literature. These traditions include Greek Mythology, Greco Roman Platonism, Celtic Mythology and Druidic Shamanism, and Germanic Mythology.