Curriculum Vitae
Brief Description: since completing a Ph.D. in 1999, I have been working in academic computing and digital humanities while teaching literature and writing part time. In 2007 I am working as a Visiting Professor at Pomona College's English Department. Beginning in Fall of '08 I will be a technologist at Reed College.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1999.
- Dissertation: 'Thy Body is Like a Boke': New English Audiences and Late Medieval Passion Literature. Advisor: Theresa Tinkle
- M.A. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1995.
- B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1991.
- Selected to attend the National Humanities Center Summer Literary Institute on "Chaucer: Past, Present and Future" - 2008
TEACHING
Pomona College, Claremont, California
Beowulf: Text and Translations
History of the English Language
Medieval and Early Modern Women
Literary Interpretation: Theory, Terror, Dystopia
Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles
Shakespearean Subjects (graduate seminar MA Humanities Program)
Literary Theory and Criticism
Epic, Community, and Identity (graduate seminar MA Humanities Program)
Cypress College, Cypress, California
English 60 Preparation for College Writing
California State University at Fullerton
Summer 2003: University 100 Introduction to University Study
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Various writing and composition courses: Introductory, Advanced, and Computer-Mediated.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Old- and Middle English Language and Literature, Religious Writing and Discourse, Women’s Writing in the Later Middle Ages, Literature of Heresy and Dissent, History of the English Language, Western Epic (Homer, Virgil) and Classical Texts in translation, Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture, Literary Theory, English Composition and Essay Writing (all levels).
POSITIONS HELD
2007-08
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Pomona College
2004-2007
Instructor and Academic Advisor, Mount Saint Mary's College MA Program in the Humanities
Instructional Technologist, Pomona College, Information Technology Services
PUBLICATIONS
"Engendering Wyrd: encoding notional gender in the Old English poetic and philosophical vocabulary" Neophilologus 90 (2006), 643-661. Download neophil_90-4.pdf
V.P. McCarren, Ashby Kinch, Sean Pollack, "A Prolegomenon to the Stonyhurst “Medulla” : An Edition of the Letter “A“", Forthcoming in Bulletin du Cange (Archivium latinitatis medii aevi) volume 65 (2008), 45-116.
"Not Rocket Science" published at Academic Commons.
"Scholar in the blogosphere: Interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick" published at nitle.org.
“The Future of Ideas, Fair Use, and Creativity: A Genuine ‘Tragedy of the Commons.’” Interview with Lawrence Lessig originally published at nitle.org.
Current Projects
"A History of Violence: Hrothgar's Hilt and the Origins of War in Beowulf" will appear in Albrecht Classen (ed.) War and Peace in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era, under contract from de Gruyter.
"Border States: Parody and Sovereignty in 'The Carl of Carlyle'" - presented at ACMRS February 16 08. Invited to submit for publication in conference proceedings, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to be published by Brepols.
Histories of Violence: Conflict and the Making of the Modern Beowulf (book proposal)
There's more on my Research Log
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