Muggli named Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor

Luther College professor of English Mark Muggli has been named the Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor.

The professorship is a two-year award to a member of the Luther faculty who honors the values and traditions of the humanities, engages significant issues in a humanities discipline, demonstrates the ability to nurture the intellectual life of students and provides academic leadership in the humanities.  

Luther College has also announced that Muggli has been selected to serve as the director for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest London program for spring 2013.

Muggli will direct the London portion of the ACM London and Florence program, providing students the opportunity to study the arts that have made the two cities central to the heritage of the West.  During the London portion of the program, students will focus on the theatre, literature and the history displayed in contemporary London.  

Muggli, a member of the Luther faculty since 1978, specializes his teaching and research interests in Shakespeare, theatre performance, Renaissance literature and creative non-fiction.