Aurora University Honors Program - Meet the Director

Daniel Hipp, Director of the Honors Program, has been a member of Aurora University’s English Program since joining the AU faculty in 2000. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois and an M.A. in English from Villanova University, and in 1998, he received his Ph. D. in English from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. While teaching at Aurora University, Hipp has served as the faculty advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, AU’s English Honor Society; has been a First-Year Advisor for the last four years; participated in the Foundations of Excellence project for first year programs and currently serves as vice-chair of the Faculty Senate.

Hipp has taught classes in composition, poetry, British literature, comparative literature, the history of the English language, and interdisciplinary studies. He has given several presentations on British and American poets including Wilfred Owen and Elizabeth Bishop, and he has authored a book titled "The Poetry of Shell Shock" (McFarland, 2005) studying British soldier-poets of the First World War. During the fall of 2005, Hipp will teach an Honors Seminar titled “American Journeys,” which will investigate American travel narratives as explorations of American values and identity, and in the spring, he will teach an Honors section of the freshman level course, “Culture, Diversity, and Expression.”

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