Julianne E. Sandberg

Associate Professor of English at Samford University in Birmingham, AL

About Me

I am a teacher, writer, observer, and question-asker.

I have taught college students for nearly 15 years. At Samford University (AL), where I’m an Associate Professor of English, I teach lots of first-year writing courses (which I love) and also literature courses on a variety of topics and authors, including British literature, Shakespeare, and C.S. Lewis. Before coming to Samford, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College (IL).

I love thinking about writing and teaching writing because it sharpens the way I listen and communicate and reminds me that words are powerful agents of hope.

My scholarly interests center on early modern British literature (including Shakespeare, Herbert, Lanyer, and Milton), literary form (especially drama and poetry), Reformation history and eucharistic theology, and how all of these concerns intersected in messy and surprising ways to shape the embodied experience of medieval and early modern people.

I originally hail from Muncie, Indiana, but have also called Dallas and Chicago home. I currently live in Birmingham AL, a city whose rich and tangled history invites my listening (and sometimes my lament) and often surprises me in wonderful ways.

Beyond life on campus, I enjoy hiking, traveling, running, sipping tea, frequenting new restaurants, and reading all manner of books. I don’t (typically) read sixteenth-century poetry on the weekends, but I do enjoy a rousing Shakespeare performance and am always on the hunt for a stellar staging, whether musical, theatrical, artistic or comedic.