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Dr. Alex Hunt is the Vincent/Haley Endowed Professor of Western Studies at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), affiliated with the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities and the Department of English, Philosophy & Modern Languages. He has been at WTAMU since 2002 and held his endowed professorship since 2012. Hunt earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon.
His research focuses on Western American literature, environmental studies, and borderlands narratives, with a particular interest in ecological storytelling, regional identity, and the intersection of literature with historical and cultural contexts. He has authored/co-authored over 20 journal articles and book chapters, including works on Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, and Rudolfo Anaya. Hunt also edited Postcolonial Green (2010) and co-edited The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx (2008). His current projects include a biography of Cornelia Wadsworth Ritchie Adair.
Hunt's teaching spans 20th-century US literature, environmental writing, and critical regionalism. He has been honored with the H. Bailey Carroll Award (Texas State Historical Association), the Ruth Leggett Jones Award (West Texas Historical Association), and the prestigious Texas A&M System Regents Professor title (2020). His work often bridges literature, history, and environmental ethics, reflecting his commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship.
