Timothy Sutton

Timothy Sutton is a Professor and Writing Center Director at Samford University within the Howard College of Arts and Sciences, currently serving as interim chair of World Languages and Cultures. His academic career includes prior roles as instructor at Auburn University and assistant professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), where he coordinated the M.A. Program in English.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in English, University of Miami (2007)
• BA in English and Secondary Education, DePauw University (2001)

Sutton specializes in Literary Modernism with emphasis on Catholic intellectual history's influence on English literature. His research examines modernist authors like Ford Madox Ford, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, focusing on Irish literary connections and Aristotelian leisure theory. Current work analyzes leisure depictions in early 20th-century British fiction through philosophical frameworks.

His publication trajectory since 2010 reveals evolving engagement with religious themes in modernism, progressing from Catholic convert studies to leisure theory and eugenics discourse. This intellectual arc demonstrates consistent exploration of theology-philosophy-literature intersections within modernist aesthetics and politics.

Sutton directs the NSF-funded Writing Studio under the STEM Scholars program, mentoring students through writing initiatives while overseeing Core Writing curriculum development. His administrative leadership bridges humanities scholarship with cross-disciplinary STEM education support.

Academic service includes editing the James Joyce Literary Supplement and coordinating international Joyce conferences. He actively contributes public scholarship through Irish history lectures and participates in theological debates, reflecting his dual expertise in literature and Catholic intellectual tradition.