English Department

Fall 2025 Office Hours: TR 9:00-10:30 AM and 12:30-1:30 PM, W 12-1 PM, and by appointment. 

Christopher Wixson (he/him) teaches advanced courses in Modernist and contemporary fiction and drama, Shakespeare, script analysis and playwriting, and general education courses in writing and literature. He is the author of Bernard Shaw: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020) as well as Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising: Prophet Motives (2018), Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward: Conversation Pieces (2025), and Bernard Shaw and St. John Hankin: Happy Endings (2025), all with Palgrave Macmillan. He contributed a chapter to George Bernard Shaw in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and, in addition to book reviews and Shaw Festival house programme essays, he has published more than twenty articles in various journals, including Modern Drama, Studies in English Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, Comparative Drama, ELT, The Irish Times, The Shavian, Notes on Contemporary Literature, The Harold Pinter Review, SHAW, and American Drama. Since 2017, he has served as General Editor of SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, a bi-annual scholarly journal published through Penn State University Press. Currently, he is at work on a book about Shaw and interwar British health movements, and his adaptation of Shaw's last full-length play Buoyant Billions received its first reading at the International Shaw Society Symposium in July 2020. An affiliate faculty member in the department of Theatre, Dr. Wixson often serves as production dramaturg, most recently for Seminar, Next to Normal, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Mountaintop, Circle Mirror Transformation, Dead Man's Cell Phone, and The Wolves. He has staged plays by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Christopher Durang, Sarah Kane, Harold Pinter, Sarah Ruhl, William Shakespeare, and John Webster. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Honors Faculty Award.