Office Hours:
Wednesday: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m
Tuesday & Thursday: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Other times by appointment or via zoom
Fall 2022
Eng 225-000A / Short Story
Eng 302-000A / Literary Theory
Eng 305-000A / Practicum in Composition
Eng 311-049Y / Creative Non-Fiction
Eng 335-000A / Non-Western Literature
Spring 2023
Eng 201-000A / Advanced English Composition
Eng 201-000B / Advanced English Composition
Eng 327-000A / American Lit II
Dr. Charles Hicks joined Peru State College English Faculty from Texas Christian University
in 2018, and was previously a Lecturer/Undergraduate Advisor with the University of
Texas at Arlington. Also at Arlington, he was an Assistant Director of First Year
English. Dr. Hicks has published articles and presented papers as well as moderated
panels. He has taught courses including Introductory Composition, Rhetoric and Composition
and American Literature. Dr. Hicks has academy and departmental experience on campus
as well as having professional memberships. His research interests include American
Literature and Horror Fiction. Dr. Hicks received his BA in Creative Writing from
Texas Tech University. His MA in English is from University of Texas-Permian Basin
and he received his Ph.D. in English are from the University of Texas-Arlington.
Dr. Hicks’ scholarly work focuses primarily on representations of motherhood in science-fiction
and horror film and literature. His articles have appeared in Hypatia, Journal of
the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, and Journal of Feminist
Scholarship.
Hicks, Charles. 2018. “The Maternal Assemblage: Adoptive Maternity as Contagion and
Collective Transcendence.” Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 14: 25-39.
Hicks, Charles. 2016. “If the Exosuit Fits: Becoming the Alien Queen in Alien and Aliens.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, 7: 25-34.
Hicks, Charles. 2016. “The Perverse Mother: Maternal Masochism in Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby.” Hypatia, 32: 296-311.
Hicks, Charles. 2013. “Children of a Posthumanist Realism: Alfonso Cuarón's Posthuman
Adaption of P.D. James’ The Children of Men.” Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature, 3: 86-104.
Hicks, Charles. 2010. “Authenticity and the Absurd in Post-9/11 Literature: An Existential
Reading of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.” [Inter]sections, 2: 17-25.