Mary Baggett, PhD

• PhD, Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• MA, English, Longwood University
• MA, Theological Studies, Liberty University
• BS, in English, Liberty University

• Composition and Literature I
• Composition and Literature II
• Great Works of Literature I
• Great Works of Literature II
• Apologetics, Research and Writing
• Literary Criticism
• Short Fiction
• Science Fiction
• Detective Fiction
• Utopian Fiction
• Modern Poetry

Dr. Baggett’s primary teaching focus is American Literature, contemporary literature, genre fiction, and literary criticism.  She also teaches Research and Writing for HCU’s Apologetics program.

Dr. Baggettt has co-authored four books—At the Bend of the River Grand, The Morals of the Story, Telling Tales, and Ted Lasso and Philosophy —and a handful of articles on a variety of topics including educational practice, utopian literature, popular culture, and American literary figures such as Nella Larsen, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip K. Dick.  Dr. Baggett’s Morals of the Story was recognized for an Award of Merit in 2019’s Christianity Today’s Book Awards in the Apologetics/Evangelism category.

While at HCU, Dr. Baggett has served as the Online Coordinator for the School of Humanities. In 2024, she was recognized as the Piper Professor nominee for the College of Arts and Humanities. She currently serves as Senior Research Fellow for the Center of the Foundations of Ethics, and is a Bluestocking in Residence for the Society for Women of Letters.