Glen Brewster

Department Chair & Professor

Glen Brewster is the Chair of the Department of English from 2022-2027, having served previously from 2003-2010. He was the Director of the Westfield State University Honors Program from 2011-2019. His specialties are British Romanticism, literary theory and criticism, and film. He has taught a wide range of courses for the department, including Introduction to Shakespeare, Development of the Novel, and first-year composition. He is an advisor to several student organizations, including the Westfield Voice newspaper, Persona literary journal, and the Film Club. He has been a faculty advisor for the campus chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, since its founding in 1998, and was Vice-President, President, and Immediate Past President and a member of the national Sigma Tau Delta Executive Board from 2010 to 2024.

• Ph.D. in English, Duke University, 1994

• International Graduate Summer School, Exeter College, Oxford University, 1981

• M.A. in English, University of Tennessee, 1980

• B.A. in English and Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 1978 (summa cum laude)