DR. EARLE BRYANT

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979

Earle Bryant was born in Philadelphia, PA, and raised in both that city and New Orleans. ("I'm half West Philly and all Seventh Ward," he is fond of saying.) He is a former seminarian, having studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood in the Josephite Order. He received his B.A. degree in English from Xavier University and earned his master's and Ph.D. in English from Harvard University.

Dr. Bryant began teaching at UNO in 1978 and specializes in African American literature and English Renaissance literature. Although he teaches all three levels of freshman composition, he has a particular fondness for--and expertise in--teaching developmental English, a course he has taught continually for over 30 years. In addition, he regularly teaches business grammar/writing workshops to businesses and government agencies throughout the Greater New Orleans area for UNO's Metropolitan College.

During his many years at UNO, he has been the recipient of several teaching awards--the Amoco Award for Excellence in Teaching, for example, as well as the Metropolitan College's Professional Development Instructor of the Year. He has also been twice selected for inclusion in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and in 1997 he was awarded the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities' Humanitarian of the Year Award in recognition of his work in adult literacy as part of the LEH's Prime Time Family Reading Time program. Moreover, in 2001 he was honored as a Seraphia D. Leyda University Teaching Fellow, one of the most prestigious awards a professor can receive. Most recently, Dr, Bryant received the 2007 UNO Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In 1996 Dr. Bryant became the first coordinator of UNO's newly established Africana Studies program and a year later was appointed the university's first Africana Studies Endowed Professor.

As he sees it, teaching is not so much a job or a profession as it is a vocation, one that he loves passionately. ..almost as much as he does okra gumbo, erster (uh, oyster) po' boys, and the Zulu parade.

Phone Number:
(504) 280-3962

Email Dr. Bryant@
ebryant@uno.edu

Address: Liberal Arts Building 351

Office Hours:

MW 12:30-2:00pm; 4:30-5:00pm
TH 1:30-2:30

Courses for Fall 2009:

Engl 2071-001: African-American Literature I
MW 9:30-10:45am

Engl 2072-001: African-American Literature II
MW 11:00am-12:15pm

Engl 6090-001:
Special Studies in American Literature
MW 3:00-4:15pm