Scott Dill

Job title

• Assistant Professor in English and Journalism
  English and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences

Highlight

The novelist Zadie Smith once wrote that literary style "is a writer's way of telling the truth" and Scott enjoys working with students to understand 'just what that truth is. Truth, it turns out,' is not an abstract idea or a piece of disembodied information. It can't be quantified or commodified. Truth is either something we seek out or something we avoid. Scott's classes seek to give students opportunties for meeting the kinds of truth only writers can tell us. Because it's our writers who have the most to reveal to us about how we experience the world, and why simple self-knowledge consistently eludes us. It's our writers who have worked the hardest to tell the truth. They're worth listening to.

Started at Bethel

2019

Education

• Wheaton College - B.A. in Philosophy, English, 2002
• University of North Carolina - M.A. in English and Comparative Literature, 2010
• University of North Carolina - Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, 2014

Biography

Scott Dill is joining the Department of English and Journalism. He received his MA and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his BA from Wheaton College. He is the author of a book on embodiment and late 20th century US literature, titled A Theology of Sense, and is currently working on book about how reader identification has been both an aesthetic and theological problem for writers. When he’s not on the couch reading, he’s usually out somewhere trying his best to keep up with his wife and three teenage sons, who are all slightly too enthusiastic endurance athletes.