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Katherine Cooper Wyma
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of English
kwyma@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 231-5522
Faculty Office Building #6
Academic Background
Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma lives in Anderson, South Carolina, with her husband and two young children. She loves books and reading, and is experimenting with Gluten Free cooking. Her current book project examines C.S. Lewis’s and J.R.R Tolkien’s theological anthropological framework and applies it to the Digital World. She loves teaching and interacting with her students and is excited about the start of the new interdisciplinary Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor!
BA in Counseling, Bob Jones University
MA in English, Bob Jones University
Ph.D in English Literature, University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
Fast Facts
Anderson offers a unique environment where innovation in the classroom is welcome. Students desire challenges and engagement with the whole person, and the faculty provide that for them.
Being an English major is not a dead-end. Learning how to read, write, communicate, and understand the human condition is a benefit for any vocation.
Participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute:“A Literature of Their Own? Women Writing: Venice, London, Madrid, Paris 1550-1700” Selected for the Folger Shakespeare Library Late Spring Institute: “The Voice of Conscience, 1375-1613”
Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, AI and Pedagogy
“‘My Cruel Conscience with Sharpned Knife’: Conscience as Vessel and Vivisector in Jacob’s Well and A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner.” Exemplaria 24.1-2 (2012): 12-27. https://doi.org/10.1179/1041257311Z.0000000002
“Poetry of the Penitent Heart” Her.meneutics. Christianity Today. http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2014/march/poetry-of-penitent-heart.html
Review of The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500- 1700, edited by Margaret P. Hannay, Michael G. Brennan, and Mary Ellen Lamb, 2 vols. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Fall 2016, 700. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44815698
“Teaching in and beyond covid: Creating community through shared experience.” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, 1 Dec. 2022, pp. 1059–1062, https://doi.org/10.1086/scj5304010.
“Do I Always Have To Smile?: C.S. Lewis And “Shiny Happy People.” The Anxious Bench. 1 Aug. 2023, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2023/08/do-i- always-have-to-smile-c-s-lewis-and-shiny-happy-people/
“C.S. Lewis, Trauma, and the World Wars.” The Inklings Variety Hour. 23 April 2024, https://inklingshour.podbean.com/e/cs-lewis-trauma-and-the-world-wars/.
“Exvangelicals and Mystery Plays,” The Anxious Bench. 1 July 2024, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2024/07/exvangelicals-and-mystery-plays/
“Your Spotify Wrapped Podcast Won’t Help Your Loneliness.” Christ and Pop Culture. 13 Jan. 2025, Wyma Portfolio/5https://christandpopculture.com/spotify-wrapped-podcast- loneliness/
