Michael Caldwell

Office: AL-634 | Email: [email protected]

Michael Caldwell has taught in the Humanities and Religious Studies departments for the past five years.  In addition to staffing general education and upper division courses in both departments, he has written several popular new courses.  He has taught for the MALAS program in the past and currently teaches several courses for Weber Honors College.

Dr. Caldwell is currently working with Johns Hopkins University Press to bring out his book on teaching—Teaching Bad:  How and Why Teachers Go Wrong in the Classroom and What They, Their Colleagues and Students Can Do About It.  He has a number of other research interests and is working on articles on diverse subjects:  from an obscure variant manuscript of the eighteenth-century poet John Gay to an exploration of double consciousness in Jordan Peele's film Get Out. 

He holds a Ph.D. in British Literature from the University of Chicago and did his undergraduate work in Humanities at Valparaiso University.  When not grading, reading or writing, he can often be found somewhere in front of a screen watching a movie or listening to music.  He is the host for the past six years of the Jazz Bastards podcast (free bi-weekly on iTunes) and together with his co-host he is working on a collection of essays on jazz.