David Lyle Jeffrey, PhD

Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey was distinguished professor of Literature and Humanities at Baylor University from 2000 until 2019. He was also a professor emeritus of English Literature at the University of Ottawa and a guest professor at Peking University (Beijing) and honorary professor at the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing). Jeffrey graduated from Wheaton College in 1965 and received his PhD from Princeton in 1968. He was first tenured (1973) at the University of Rochester. He was also Reckitt and Coleman visiting professor at the University of Hull (UK) in 1970-71. Subsequently, he became professor and chair of the Department of English at the University of Victoria and then professor and chair at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has been a visiting professor for graduate programs at Regent College, The University of Notre Dame, The Institute for Christian Studies (University of Toronto), Peking University, and adjunct professor of Art History at Augustine College.