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Athletic Administration
Athletic Administration
A member of
the U of L family
since 1966, Elaine
Wise is in her
eighth year as the
U of L Faculty
Athletics
Representative. As
the university’s liaison between academics and
athletics, she is responsible for the certification
of student-athlete eligibility to the Big East and
the NCAA. She serves on the NCAA Division I
AEC Cabinet and is Chair Elect of the Big East
FAR Council.
Chairperson of the Division of Humanities
and Assistant Professor of English and
Humanities, Wise has long been a member of the
Athletic Association’s Board of Directors,
serving as Secretary, as a member of all
committees, and as chair of the Committee on
Academic Performance.
A lifelong resident of Louisville, Wise
graduated from local Seneca High School, a
member of its first graduating class. She earned
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her bachelors degree in English from Agnes Scott
College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Following a stop at Indiana University,
Bloomington, where she earned a master’s degree
in English Literature on a Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship, she joined the U of L faculty as an
Instructor of English for three years. In 1969, she
resumed her graduate studies, but returned to U of
L in 1970 to join the faculty of the Freshman
Symposium, an interdisciplinary program for first
year students. In 1977, she was awarded tenure in
the Division of Humanities.
Wise has served as Chair of the Division of
Humanities since 1996, teaching courses in both
the English and Humanities programs. Chaucer,
Shakespeare, and Medieval/Renaissance Literature
and Culture are her areas of academic
specialization. In 1990, she was named the
University’s Distinguished Teaching Professor for
Undergraduate Instruction, in 1995, she earned the
Carnegie Foundation’s Kentucky Professor of the
Year Award, and in 2005, she received the
University of Louisville Trustees Award for her
service to students.
An on-campus leader throughout her many
years at U of L, Wise is a long time member of the
Faculty Senate, and serves as chair of its Library
Committee, as liaison to the Executive Committee,
and as a member of the Redbook and Bylaws
committees. She was the faculty liaison to Student
Senate and advisor to Mortar Board Senior Honor
Society for many years. In the community, she is
active with the Montpellier Committee of Sister
Cities of Louisville and serves on the Board of the
English Speaking Union.
She is also the Graduate Advisor for the
Humanities masters program and continues to
consult with educators on the coordination and
promotion of Arts and Humanities education in the
region and Commonwealth.
Elaine and her husband, Barry, have one
daughter, Amanda, a graduate of Wellesley College
and the U of L Brandeis School of Law, who
resides in Chicago with husband Greg and children
Matthew and Audrey; and a “Danish son,” Peter
Preisler, a graduate of the University of Kentucky
School of Architecture, who resides in Pasadena
with wife Melissa and children Sophia and
Jackson.