Dr. David Jolliffe
Hiking El Camino de Santiago
Thursday, February 21, 2019
After a 42-year teaching career, David Jolliffe retired in June 2018 as Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arkansas, where he was the initial occupant of the Brown Chair in English Literacy. To celebrate his retirement, David hiked the entire length of El Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain.
Having grown up in the Methodist Church, he became an Episcopalian after studying at Oxford during the fall of 1972. A lifelong singer, he became an Episcopal chorister in 1975 and has been singing in Episcopal Church choirs since then. He was the Senior Warden at St. Paul’s in 2017 and 2018. Jolliffe serves on the board of directors of the Prison Story Project and regularly performs a role in its play based on the writing of 11 Arkansas Death Row inmates, On The Row. He is the founder and executive producer of the Latinx Theatre Project, which allows young people from the region to experience their home cultures through theatre, music, and the visual arts. He is a co-founder of the Classical Edge Theatre Company, which for the past eight years has offered free, outdoor productions of William Shakespeare’s plays in Northwest Arkansas.