Scott K. Simpkins, Denton, professor of English since 1989, died Sept. 19. Before joining UNT, he was an assistant professor at South Dakota State University. He was the author of Literary Semiotics: A Critical Approach, published in 2001, and edited several volumes of the annual publication, Semiotics. From 1993 to 2003, he edited Studies in the Novel, a journal published by the UNT Department of English. His research focused on literary theory, composition, English romantic literature, modernism and semiotics. He was a lecturer in the Semiotics Institute Online since 1996. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, a master’s in English from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a doctorate in English from the University of Tulsa.
Scott K. Simpkins, Denton, professor of English since 1989, died Sept. 19. Before joining UNT, he was an assistant professor at South Dakota State University. He was the author of Literary Semiotics: A Critical Approach, published in 2001, and edited several volumes of the annual publication, Semiotics. From 1993 to 2003, he edited Studies in the Novel, a journal published by the UNT Department of English. His research focused on literary theory, composition, English romantic literature, modernism and semiotics. He was a lecturer in the Semiotics Institute Online since 1996. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, a master’s in English from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and a doctorate in English from the University of Tulsa.
