COL Anthony Zupancic, Ph.D.

COL Tony Zupancic is an associate professor and director of the English division in the Department of English and World Languages. 

He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1997 and commissioned as an armor officer. In 2006, he earned a master’s degree in English from North Carolina State University and completed a doctorate in English at the University of Tennessee in 2015.

COL Zupancic has served at Fort Stewart, Georgia, in the 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, as a tank platoon leader and battalion adjutant, and at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in the 2nd Battalion, 81st Armor Regiment, as a company commander. He has also served as a contracting team leader at U.S. Southern Command and as deputy chief of contracting at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

COL Zupancic specializes in American literature and classical rhetoric. He teaches courses in literary methodologies, literary theory, American literature, classical literature, the novel and The Literature of Heroes and Heroism, among others. He published a monograph in 2003 that explores the relationship between rhetorical education and character development in the late republic and early Roman Empire, titled The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means. 

His current scholarly interest is in imperial subjectivities - how imperial subjects are created, maintained and radicalized.