"He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’" Luke 10:27
Dr. David Splawn loves teaching. While he spent a number of years of his life pursuing a variety of occupations including youth minister, missionary, aid worker, professor, entrepreneur, barista, and photographer - the common thread that weaves all those things together is his role as a teacher. Beyond the university, he has taught in a variety of contexts - an Islamic university in Indonesia, at private and state schools in Texas, as a barista trainer in a small coffee shop, and as an ESL teacher in Kenya. Dr. Splawn cannot imagine doing anything else but teaching. His research is dedicated to the particular way that the cinema, as literary texts, invites and assumes a religious-experience-seeking viewer who will gain spontaneous pleasure from film that is akin to a moment of worship. Dr. Splawn earned his PhD in 2014 at Texas Tech University and is pursuing ways to read films and write about films in order to contribute his own unique perspective to the great cinema discussion. Currently, he is working on revisiting his book-length dissertation for publication and concocting a few article-length projects for presentation. Most importantly, he is married to an amazing woman who is a local entrepreneur and mother to their five children, two girls and three boys. Dr. Splawn hopes to see you in class very soon, where you will kindly allow him to teach you something new.