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William C. Horne
Professor Emeritus
Email: wchorne@salisbury.edu
Professor Emeritus at SU, Bill
Horne retired in September of 2005 after thirty one years teaching
English and seven years previous to that at University of Michigan-Flint
and University of Pennsylvania. He will now be
offering English 347 (Nature in Literature) and English 348 (Wilderness in
Literature) on a regular rotation as an adjunct faculty. Whenever possible, Wilderness in
Literature will be a travel course.
In
the fall of 1973, Horne began teaching at SU with a specialty in
Restoration and eighteenth century literature and satire. In thirty
one years with the English Department, he regularly taught the Major British
Authors surveys, and over the years has offered courses in poetry,
drama, the novel, science fiction, and Milton, and in Elizabethan and
Jacobean, gothic, and American literature. In the eighties, his
outdoor experience and concern for the environment led him to offer Wilderness in Literature;
from the nineties on, this was alternated each spring with Nature in
Literature. For many years Graduate
Director in English, Horne has published a
book on Restoration and
eighteenth-century marriage poetry, edited an anthology of the same, and
has numerous articles on satire from this era, particularly on
Hudibras.
In the past fifteen years, his publications have focused on the Arctic
and the Antarctic; he has canoed and hiked in five different locations
in the North American Arctic. From 1981 to 2003,
Horne was advisor of the
Salisbury
University Outdoor Club, one of SU's
most popular and longstanding student organizations. He also served for a
total of twenty years as a faculty advisor in the in SU's award winning
Orientation in the
Wilderness in Algonquin Provincial Park, his last trip in 2004. Since
then, he has returned to Algonquin Park four times with SU Algonquin alumni.
An Appalachian Trail section hiker beginning in 1975, he completed the
last pieces of 2173-mile trail before entering Johns Hopkins
for spine surgery in the fall of 2003. Recovered from surgery, he continues
to be active in the outdoors, especially in sea kayaking. Horne has NOLS
and Outward Bound training. Currently,
he is active in SU's University Chorale and Wind
Ensemble. His wife, Susan, and he have been married since 1963 and
they have two children and four grandchildren. Positions Held
EducationDissertation: Violence in Hudibras: 'Hard Words,' Wit, and the Rump
Areas of Interest
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