Professor John Hatcher, Ph.D.

John S. Hatcher is  Professor Emeritus in English literature at the University of South Florida in Tampa where he has taught for thirty-nine years and has served as Director of Graduate Studies for four years, specializing in medieval English literature and creative writing.
 
Dr. Hatcher has published twenty-one books, some of which are translated into Spanish, German, and French, and he has four books in various stages of completion. He has written thirteen chapters in books by others, has published seventy-four poems in refereed journals, twelve scholarly papers, has presented more than twenty-four scholarly papers, and has given more than a hundred talks on the Bahá'í Faith in various public forums.
 
Professor Hatcher has been invited to speak at such distinguished institutions as the University of Michigan, McGill University in Canada, at the University of Maryland, at Emory University, and at Oxford University. In 2006 he was awarded the highest accolade for work in Bahá'í Studies, the Hasan Balyuzi Lectureship at the 29th annual meeting of the North American Association for Studies on the Bahá'í Faith. He has served on the Executive Board of the Association for Bahá’í Studies, as associate editor of the Journal of Bahá’í Studies, and as officers on a variety of Bahá'í institutions and committees during his forty-seven years as a Bahá'í.
 
He presently lives on a small farm in Plant City, Florida, with his wife Lucia, secretary of the Hillsborough County Cluster ATC, and his son James, a student at Florida Southern College. He has three other children and six grandchildren.

Dr. John Hatcher

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