Eric Sterling earned his PhD in English (Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature), with a minor in Drama and Theatre, at Indiana University. He has taught at AUM for 32 years. Dr. Sterling was the AUM English student advisor for 28 years and is Director of the Master of Liberal Arts (MLA) graduate program.

Dr. Sterling has won the following awards:

• AUM Ida Belle Young Endowed Professorship Award
• AUM Distinguished Research Professor Award
• AUM Distinguished Teaching Professor Award
• AUM Distinguished Faculty Service Award
• AUM Alumni Association Professor Award
• AUM Alumni Association Service Award
• College English Association’s Robert E. Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award (national award)
• University of Wyoming’s Amy and Eric Burger Essays in Theatre Award (national)
• Association of College English Teachers of Alabama’s Eugene Current-Garcia Award
• Association of College English Teachers of Alabama’s Calvert Scholarship Award (twice)
• Association of College English Teachers of Alabama’s Woodall Pedagogy Award (five times)

Dr. Sterling has published four books and more than 100 refereed articles in academic journals. His four books are entitled:

• Life in the Ghettos during the Holocaust
• The Movement towards Subversion in Renaissance History
• Play Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Dialogue.
• The Seventeenth Century Handbook

Dr. Sterling lives in Alabama with his wife. They have two children and three grandchildren.