After graduating from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky in 1973, Rowlette taught Senior English and Latin and coached indoor and outdoor track and cross country at Liberty High School in Bedford, Virginia for seven years.  In 1979 he received a M.Ed. from Lynchburg College and taught part-time at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Virginia.  He came to Liberty Baptist College in 1980 and attained the rank of Associate Professor of English in 1994.  In 2002 he became the Director of Liberty University Summer Programs.  He is also the Director of the National Civil War Chaplains Research Center and Museum and the Co-Chair of the Liberty University Civil War Seminar. 

 

In addition to his roles at Liberty University, Rowlette has been a faculty reader for Educational Testing Service since 1992, reading both Advance Placement essays in English Literature and the Graduate Management Aptitude Test.  A Civil War reenactor, he is a private in the 105^th Pennsylvania, Company C and an associate member of Company “C,” 2^nd Regiment, US Sharpshooters.  He is also Vice-Commander of the Taylor-Wilson Sons of Union Veterans Camp and secretary of the Central Virginia Civil War Council.

 

His wife, Ann, is Lead Teacher for Informational Technology at Liberty University.

 

Kenny and Ann are the parents of two daughters, Delanie Leigh Stephenson and Karen Suzanne Beatty,  who graduated from LU.  They are also the proud grandparents of three grandchildren:  Katie Elizabeth Stephenson, Curtis Alexander Stephenson, Jr., and Ty Rowlette Beatty.

M.Ed. (English Education), Lynchburg College, 1979

B.A. (English), Berea College, 1973

(course work completed for doctorate at the University of Virginia)

English 101, Grammar and Composition

English 102, Composition and Literature

English 201, American Literature I

English 202, American Literature II

English 400, The South and the Cinema

English 401, Technical Writing

English 406, The Literature of the Civil War

English 497, Mark Twain Seminar