About the Director

Leonard G. Schulze

Augustine Institute's founding director Leonard G. Schulze is a professor of English and Communication and Digital Media at Carthage. He teaches courses in Human Symbolic Activity, Rhetoric and Persuasion, Communication and Community, and cinema studies. He also serves as Chair of the Division of Fine Arts, which comprises the Departments of Art, Communication and Digital Media, Music, and Theatre.

In the Department of English, Professor Schulze has a special interest in the History and Structure of the English Language. He is also active in the core courses and Carthage Symposium courses of the College's general education curriculum.

Before joining the Carthage faculty in 2004, Dr. Schulze served as executive director of the Division for Higher Education and Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has taught German, English, philosophy, European and American literature, American studies, and communication studies at Yale University; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the University of Texas at Austin; Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet in Wuerzburg, Germany; and Texas Lutheran University, where he served as chair of the department of English and Communication, director of international education, vice president for academic affairs, and dean of the university.

Dozens of his articles and reviews have appeared in annual editions of The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Biography, as well as in periodicals such as Studies in Romanticism, SubStance, Intersections, and the Journal of Lutheran Ethics. He is co-editor (with Walter Wetzels) of a volume of essays on historiography and literature (Literature and History, 1983). His interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship have been shaped by a lifelong interest in human beings as symbol-using creatures.

He earned his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Yale University, and completed additional studies at Alliance Francaise in Paris and the University of Zurich.

Dr. Schulze is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is former chair of the National Conference of Academic Deans and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He and his family reside in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., and are members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Kenosha.

Contact Dr. Schulze by e-mail or at (262) 551-2120.