Liam Corley has taught American literature at Cal Poly since 2005. He teaches primarily texts written before 1900, but occasionally poetry, veterans studies, and Asian American from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the Bible as Literature. In 2008-2009, he was deployed to Afghanistan as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve, and since that time he has published several essays, poems, and stories on the connections between literature, the university world, and military life. Most recently, he was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
