Dr. Donald L. Deardorff II joined the Cedarville University faculty in 1996 and was granted tenure and promotion in 2002. He taught courses in American literature and criticism, and oversaw the Senior Seminar in English. He published several articles on literature and men's studies and was a frequent presenter at meetings of the American Literature Association, the American Culture Association, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature. His books include Sports: A Reference Guide and Critical Commentary (2000), The Hero and Anti-Hero in the American Football Novel: Changing Conceptions of Masculinity From The Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century (2006), and The Image of God in the Human Body: Essays on Christianity and Sports (2009). Dr. Deardorff passed away on October 2021.