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Knox College Faculty

They’re scholars, performers, scientists, and working artists. But above all, they’re teachers.

Majors & Minors First-Year Preceptorial

For every professor at Knox, there are 11 students, our classes average 14 students, and our institutional ethos is that we're all capable of contributing to the project of moving the world forward. What does that mean for you? It means you will be heard, you will be seen, your professors will know your name, and you'll know theirs. And that's just the start.

What comes next is this: Your professors will know you as a whole person, see you in shows or at the Gizmo or at a poetry reading. They'll invite you to join (or start) research projects, they'll encourage you to apply for fellowships or internships or study abroad, they'll help you think through (and create your own) options. They'll cook meals at their house and invite the entire class for dinner. They'll provide unusually thorough, thoughtful recommendations (because they know you so well) for graduate school and future employers. They'll be lifelong colleagues, friends, and sources of inspiration. Yes, they're that good; and yes, they matter that much.

A Knox faculty members smiles and holds a. Japanese text book while standing in front of a chalkboard. A smiling student looking across the classroom is in the foreground.

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

Not only will you be taught by leading scholars in their fields, your professors will know your name, you'll know theirs, and that's just the start.

96%

of Faculty have their Ph.D.

14

Average Class Size

11:1

Student-Faculty Ratio

Watch Our Faculty in Action

“You get a lot of time to get your hands dirty. We do a lot of dissections.” Nicholas Gidmark, Associate Professor of Biology

Look inside Nick’s skeletal anatomy lab
Professor Nicholas Gidmark talks with students over a laboratory table.

Recent Publications

One of the reasons are professors are excellent teachers is because they are students, too. Here are the most recent publications from Knox faculty.

Knox Professors Share What Inspires Them

  • Robin Ragan

    Many larger state schools have programs in literary translation, but they are not typically taught to undergraduates. Many of our students are already bilingual heritage speakers who are interested in practical application for their skills.

    Robin Ragan

    Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish)

    Meet Professor Ragan
  • Professor of Philosophy Brandon Polite

    Philosophy is awesome! Art is awesome! Talking about both together is super awesome!

    Brandon Polite '03

    Professor & Chair of Philosophy

    Check out Professor Polite's Book on Taylor Swift
  • Professor of English Gina Franco

    If you're writing poems, you're creating the narrative of your life, you know, you're explaining stuff to yourself, and you want to know that you're choosing well what you make into a monument. Every poem is a monument in the narrative that you're making.

    Gina Franco

    Professor of English

    Meet Professor Franco