Brooks Lampe, PhD
Associate Professor of Language and Literature
Honors Teaching Fellow
Teaching and Research Interests
- Poetry Writing
- World Literature
- Literary Modernism
- Aesthetic Theory
Brooks teaches in the Department of English and Languages, where his work focuses on modern anglophone and global poetry, aesthetic theory, and poetry composition. He served as the writing program director (2016-2021) and associate director of the Academic Resource Center (2017-2020). Before coming to George Fox, he taught at the University of Delaware and The Catholic University of America.
Education
Brooks holds both a PhD (2014) and a master’s degree (2007) in English language and literature, and a certificate in the History and Teaching of Rhetoric, from The Catholic University of America. He earned a bachelor’s degree in literature from Patrick Henry College (2005).
Published Work
His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The Shore, Bombfire, and Eclectica Magazine. His debut poetry collection, Sesquipedalian Rain Chant, is forthcoming summer 2026. He is the poetry editor of Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal. His substack, Uut Poetry, explores the intersection of poetry, modernity, and the spiritual life.
Personal Interests
Brooks spends his time running, writing, reading, listening to music, nature and urban hiking, and playing with his golden doodle. He dabbles in painting and photography. As a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, Brooks loves to read books about Orthodox theology and the lives of the saints.