A brief description:
I am an English professor, educational technologist, and e-learning specialist. I've taught widely across the undergraduate English curriculum (medieval and early modern; classical literature in translation; historical linguistics; literary theory and criticism; college writing). I have worked as a program officer and consultant for liberal arts colleges, focusing on study abroad, governance, and new technologies for higher education. Currently pursuing my Masters in Public Administration at Portland State University, focused on higher education policy and non-profit administration. I post tweets and occasional musings and speculations on the current state and future of higher education (look to the right!)
Some places I've worked:
- Great Lakes Colleges Association (1999-2001)
- Cal State Fullerton (Faculty Development Center - 2001-04)
- Pomona College (as a technologist, and later Visiting Assistant Professor of English - 2004-08)
- Portland State University (teaching in English and Extended Studies - 2008-11)
Selected recent classes at PSU and Pomona:
- Literature, audience, critic, 1500-1700: examining para-literary discourses of early print such as printer's prefaces, authorial biographies, and notes to the reader (Spring 11).
- Late Old English to Early Middle English: a crash course in the language and literature of late OE (like Aelfric) and early ME (like sermons) (Spring 11).
- Social Shakespeare: placing Shakespeare within his social network of literary and professional associates by reading WS along with Marlowe, Jonson, Fletcher, Greene, and others. (Fall 10)
- Theory, Terror, and Dystopia: introducing literary criticism and theory via selected readings in dystopian literature, and associated discourses. (Fall 07)
Selected recent publications:
- Beowulf, Beowulf (2007), and Millennial Masculinity, forthcoming at FilmStory.org
- Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf. Nadia Margolis and Albrecht Classen (eds.) War and Peace: New Perspectives in European History and Literature, 700-1800 (de Gruyter, 2011) 121-154.
- Border States: Parody, Sovereignty and Hybrid Idenity in The Carl of Carlisle, Arthuriana 19.2 (2009) 10-26.
- V.P. McCarren, Ashby Kinch, Sean Pollack, A Prolegomenon to the Stonyhurst 'Medulla' : An Edition of the Letter 'A', Bulletin du Cange (Archivium latinitatis medii aevi) 65 (2008) 45-116.
- Engendering Wyrd: encoding notional gender in the Old English poetic and philosophical vocabulary, Neophilologus 90 (2006) 643-661.
- "Not Rocket Science" published at Academic Commons.
Currently taking:
- PAP 607: Higher Education Policy (Lindsay Desrochers)
- PA 533: Public Policy: Origins and Processes (Erna Gelles)
- PA 552: Analytical Methods (II) (Eric Einspruch)
My full c.v. is available here.
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