Dr. J. Mark Baggett
Associate Professor of English & Law
Office: N325 Divinity Hall
Phone: 205-726-2309 (English) and 726-4129 (Law)
E-mail: jmbagget@samford.edu
Mark Baggett joined the Samford faculty in 1987, working in both the Department of English and the Cumberland School of Law. He served as Prelaw Advisor from 1990 until 2004 and liaison to the London Studies program from 2007-08.
In the Department of English, he teaches American literature courses, as well as History of the Language and Senior Thesis, Engl 410.01W. He also teaches UCCA (Communication Arts) and UCCP (Cultural Perspectives). He has also taught the University's Honors Seminar and Law of Mass Media in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.
In the Cumberland School of Law, he teaches two sections of the first-year legal research and writing course, "Lawyering and Legal Reasoning" and also teaches a seminar course in Advanced Skills in Legal Writing.
He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in American literature and language, writing his dissertation on Mark Twain: "Verbal Humor in Nineteenth Century American Literature."
Baggett has an undergraduate degree in Communication from the University of Alabama and a Master's degree in English from Alabama. In 1979, he received a J.D. degree from Alabama and practiced law in Tuscaloosa for the Jones and Ellis law firm in Tuscaloosa. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar and is presently Of Counsel to the Birmingham law firm of Bradford Sears.
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