Brian Yothers
University of Texas at El Paso
Professor
El Paso TX
Brian Yothers is the Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is also the PI on the Andrew W. Mellon-funded partnership The Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP. He is the author or editor of nine books, and he is Associate Editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. He was a 2014 winner of the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. He is especially interested in how University/Community College partnerships can feed into public programming that can raise the profile of the Humanities in our communities.
