I am certainly not the first to place inquiry at the center of academic activity. However, I do place special weight on the value of inquiry as being at the core of how I design and implement my instruction and research. In my teaching of literature and composition, this commitment means placing the cultivation of self-motivated student inquiry as being at the center of how every student accumulates knowledge and develops skill. In my research, this commitment means celebrating literature as being an exploration into not just what we can think and speak but also into what frustrates our efforts to know and to represent. To learn more about how, in practice, my inquiry-centered approach produces distinctive features within my teaching and research, please feel free to explore the pages below.