Dr. Nick Serra is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Division of Liberal Arts.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 1989, an M.A. in English from Drake University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University (S.U.N.Y. Binghamton) in 1996. 

An Iowa native, Dr. Serra teaches the Sophomore Writing sequence at UIU, as well as the British literature courses in the English major.  His main areas of interest are the poetry of William Butler Yeats, high modernism, and the Western esoteric tradition.

His publications include "Similarities in Difference: A Key to Yeats's System" (Thelema, September 1998), "Crowley, Continuity, and Qabalah" (Yeats-Eliot Review 15:3), and "Examining Yeats's Colon: The Magical and Philosophical Progression of Ideas in 'Among School Children'" (Yeats-Eliot Review 23:1). 

Dr. Serra is a frequent attendee at both national and international literary conferences, most recently presenting "Subversive Invocations: The Anti-Apotheosis of 'Easter, 1916'" at the University of Sunderland's annual Irish Studies Conference in Sunderland, England.