Brief Description: since completing a Ph.D. in 1999, I have been working in e-learning and digital humanities while also teaching literature and writing. Currently, I am pursuing my Masters in Public Administration at Portland State University, focusing on education and non-profit administration.
EDUCATION
- M.P.A. Portland State University (in progress).
- Ph.D. English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1999.
- B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1991.
TEACHING
Portland State University (2008-present)
- Introduction to Literature
- Shakespeare's Early Poems and Plays
- Topics in Shakespeare
- Literature, Audience, Critic: 1500-1700
- Medieval Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- The Greek Myths
- British Literature I (survey from OE to Milton)
Pomona College, Claremont, California (2007-08)
- Beowulf: Text and Translations
- History of the English Language
- Medieval and Early Modern Women
- Literary Interpretation: Theory, Terror, Dystopia
- Arthurian Literature
Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California (2005-07)
- Shakespearean Subjects (graduate seminar MA Humanities Program)
- Literary Theory and Criticism
- Epic, Community, and Identity (graduate seminar MA Humanities Program)
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).
PUBLICATIONS
- "Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf" in 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. Download neophil_90-4.pdf
- "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 Creative and Scholarly Projects
- Richard Braithwait's Civil Chaucer, 1617-1665 (Article).
- Beowulf and the Giant-Kin (Novel for young readers).
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