Shannon M. Stimpson is an assistant teaching professor in the English Department at Brigham Young University. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from BYU before pursuing a PhD in English with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition at Pennsylvania State University.
As a teaching professor, Stimpson’s interests include writing, rhetoric, and style—more specifically, she enjoys researching romantic-era literature, biography, and historiography. As a student, she found that BYU’s professional writing and communication coursework equipped her with lifelong skills in writing, listening, and speaking tools that now shape her own academic service.
On August 12, 2010, when she received her bachelor’s degree, Stimpson represented her graduating BYU class as a commencement speaker. In her remarks, she testified of divine guidance amidst life’s varied paths:
“We may be assured that our all-knowing Heavenly Father is likewise well aware of the stops, the right turns, the wrong turns, and the exits that await us. We can feel certain that as we turn to Him in full trust, laying before Him our innermost feelings and thoughts, He will lead us by His hand and ‘will take [us]’ and encircle us ‘about eternally in the arms of his love’ and direct our paths for our good.”
