Eric Ashley Hairston
Associate Dean for Academic Advising, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Interim Chair of the Classics Department at Wake Forest University.
Dr. Eric Ashley Hairston is the Associate Dean for Academic Advising, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Interim Chair of the Classics Department at Wake Forest University. He received his B.A. in English and Politics from Wake Forest, his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Virginia, and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.
His research areas include American Literature and Classical Literature, especially classical influences on African American and Southern writers, as well as the interdisciplinary study of law and humanities. His book, The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West (University of Tennessee Press, 2014), was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and the inaugural book of the Press’s Classicism in American Culture Series.