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. Currently I am an adjunct professor at Portland State University.
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
- 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
Portland State University
- Shakespeare's Early Poems and Plays
- Topics in Shakespeare
- Chaucer
- Medieval Literature
- The Greek Myths
- British Literature I (survey from OE to Milton)
Pomona College, Claremont, California
- 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
- 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).
POSITIONS HELD
2008-present
- Assistant Adjunct Professor, English, Portland State University
2007-08
- Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Pomona College
2004-07
- Instructor and Academic Advisor, Mount Saint Mary's College MA Program in the Humanities
- Instructional Technologist, Pomona College, Information Technology Services
PUBLICATIONS
- "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 Projects
- "Histories of Violence: The Origins of War in Beowulf" will appear in Nadia Margolis and Albrecht Classen (eds.) War and Peace: New Perspectives in European History and Literature, 700-1800 (under contract from de Gruyter).
- Ancient and Ever-Living: Richard Brathwaite and the Humanist's Chaucer (Proposal for New Chaucer Society Congress 2010)
- Conflict and the Making of the Modern Beowulf (book proposal)
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