Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Warhol

Professor, publishing poet, and PTK advisor Daniel Warhol’s dual quest to enrich both literature and the education of his students

Photo by J. Jeffreys

Dan Warhol has been teaching at Sussex County Community College as an Instructor of English since the fall of 2020. He was hired as an adjunct faculty member and, in 2023, joined the full-time faculty of the college in a tenure-track position.

Originally from Sussex County, he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s in English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where he focused on literary criticism and late modernist novelists and poets. His Master’s thesis, “The Magic of a Strange Sky: Nature and the Mysticism of Memory in Beckett’s Trilogy,” is freely available through Google Scholar and Scholar’s Archive.

At SCCC, Dan is also the Faculty Advisor for the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, Director of the college’s Poetry Center, Editor of the poetry journal The Stillwater Review (which will be launching its 15th volume this June), and the college’s Writing Across the Disciplines liaison. As Poetry Center Director, he holds open hours in the space (which can be found in the library) from 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm every Friday. Creative writers are encouraged to stop by if they would like to workshop their creative prose or poetry, discuss poems and poets, or simply desire a space to write.

Dan is also a publishing poet. Before becoming editor of The Stillwater Review, his poetry was featured in two volumes of the journal. More recently, a poem, titled “Poems Approaching Symmetry”, appeared in the 2024 issue of This Broken Shore, an annual journal that highlights NJ poets. This volume is available on Amazon. He also has an untitled tanka poem forthcoming in the May 2025 issue of Blithe Spirit, the quarterly haiku and waka journal published by the British Haiku Society.