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

Before coming to Bethel, Scott taught at Case Western Reserve University and worked as a technical writer in the energy efficiency and medical device industries. Having written for a living, he knows that writing can be a great way to get a paycheck in a variety of fields. He is the author of A Theology of Sense and several articles on religion and literature.