Renard Doneskey
Renard Doneskey, PhD
Department of English
Professor and Department Chair
(817) 202-6265
23 years
Ph.D. English, University of California, Riverside
M.A. English, Andrews University
B.A. English, Southwestern Adventist University
“The Politics of Literacy: The Need for a Developmental Reading Program at a Private Texas University, Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, Dallas, TX
“Using WordPress to Improve Student Writing”, Adventist English Association, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI
“How Not to Succeed in College,” The Southwesterner Online, Southwestern Adventist University
“Finding a Voice Through Other People’s Voices: Creative Writing Through Imitation”, College English Association, San Antonio, TX
A book chapter entitled, "That Pebble's Watery Echo: The Five Narrators of Absalom, Absalom." in Heir and Prototype: Original and Derived Characterizations in Faulkner. University of Central Arkansas Press, 1987.
College Composition and Communication
Educator of the Year, Southwestern Adventist University
Certificate of Merit, National Academic Advising Association
Dr. Renard Doneskey, along with his family love studying English studies. His wife Jayne teaches composition at SWAU. They are proud parents to their two adult children, Andre and Sasha. He has also worked at Hebei Teachers College in China and La Sierra University in California. Dr. Doneskey enjoys writing and is working on memoir essays. He enjoys reading and usually has two or three books "working" at the same time.
ENGL 121 : Freshman Composition
ENGL 220 : Research Writing
ENGL 232 : American Literature II
ENGL 335 : Essay and Opinion Writing
ENGL 342 : Composition Theory and Practice
ENGL 440 : Senior Project
ENGL 457 : Studies in 20th Century Literature
ENGL 464 : Advanced Grammar
EDRE 510 : Composition: Process and Application
Communication Director, Adventist English Association
Renard Doneskey, Ph.D., once received an interview from the CIA, but more information may only be shared in person. He loves to play the guitar, as well as compose music. Renard often writes music for the dramas he directs at Southwestern.
Outside the classroom, he enjoys watching documentaries on Netflix. Renard describes two documentaries he recently enjoyed as, "First, an excellent series on WWI based on the diaries of 14 people who lived through the war. Second, a documentary about Greenwich Village, New York in the 1960s, and the vast amount of folk music being produced by people in that area."