Background

Dr. Clint Bryan serves as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, overseeing the academic disciplines that form the core of the undergraduate curriculum at Northwest University—subjects that university students have studied as the Liberal Arts for centuries. Prior to this role, Clint served as an associate professor of English at Northwest University for eight years.

Clint’s research has focused on the intersection of contemporary preaching and digital rhetoric, as well as on the written genres that people applying for academic positions struggle to master (e.g., letters of recommendation, teaching statements, and research statements).

He has recently contributed to chapters in anthologies published by the Modern Language Association (Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition, 2023) and The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion (2023). His first co-authored textbook, Writing Letters of Recommendation: Evaluative Discourse in Academic Settings (University of Michigan Press) will be released late fall of 2023. (His research has also appeared in the academic linguistics journals Culture and Religion and Text & Talk.

He has been an ordained Assemblies of God minister since 1992, serving in a variety of pastorates throughout the Midwest and mid-South. Clint and his wife Sally lead the care team at their local church as volunteers.