English Faculty
B.A., M.A., Purdue University
Ph.D., University of Southern California
dsalwak@citruscollege.edu
(626) 914-8859

Dr. Dale Salwak is a professor of English at Citrus College, where he teaches literature of the Bible, Shakespeare, English literature, and various writing courses. He earned his bachelor of arts in English, with a minor in science and mathematics, from Purdue University and his master of arts and Ph.D. in English from the University of Southern California.

He is a published author of some 28 books, including Living with a Writer (2004), Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature (2008), Writers and Their Mothers (2018), The Life of the Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (2023), and studies of Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A.J. Cronin, Philip Larkin, Barbara Pym, Carl Sandburg, Anne Tyler, and John Wain, amongst others.

A Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Dr. Salwak has also received a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Salwak frequently contributes to the London Times Higher Education magazine and the Times Educational Supplement.

revised July 6, 2023