Eric C. Walker
Faculty Senate President
Prof. Walker is President of the Faculty Senate at Florida State University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1984. An Associate Professor in the English Department, he was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor in 1996 and has received numerous other teaching awards at FSU. Prof. Walker served as Associate Chair of the English Department from 2006-09 and from 1988-93 and served as Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences from 2004-06.
Dr. Walker specializes in 18th and 19th century British literature and is the author of numerous journal articles and the book Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism, published by Stanford University Press in 2009. He is a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina and holds advanced degrees from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland (M.Litt.), where his study was funded by the St. Andrews Society of New York, and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D.), where he was the recipient of the Earl Hartsell Award for Excellence in Teaching. His current work is in adoption studies, for a book on Romanticism and Adoption.