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VITA Office: 314 Dow Science West Education: Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1975; major area, Old and Middle English Language and Literature; minor areas, British Literature of the Renaissance, of the Restoration and 18th Century, and of the Victorian Period. Thesis: “Dicta Salamonis.” An Edition of a Scots Paraphrase of Ecclesiastes. Advisor: Walter Scheps. M.A. University of Maine (Orono), 1969; area, British and American Literature. Thesis: A Study of Sea Imagery in Old English Poetry. Advisor: Cecil Reynolds A.B. Bowdoin College, 1960; major, English; minor French. Teaching: 1975-present. Assistant, then associate, then professor (1984) of English, Saginaw Valley State University. 1969-1975. Graduate teaching assistant and lecturer in English composition and literature, The Ohio State University. 1967-1969. Graduate teaching assistant in English composition and literature, University of Maine (Orono). 1963-1967. High school English teacher, Lewiston (Maine) High School. Courses taught at SVSU: English composition (all levels); Survey of British Literature; The English Language; J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis; Introduction to Literary Interpretation; Introduction to Old English; Chaucer; Renaissance Literature (British); Milton; Neoclassic Literature (British); Victorian Literature (British); Classic Literary Texts. Publications: Saginaw Valley State University: The Early and Formative Years, 1963-1989. University Center, MI: SVSU, 1998. Commissioned by the SVSU Foundation, this history provides an overview of the University during the presidencies of Dr. Samuel D. Marble and Dr. Jack M. Ryder. “Heike Monogatari and Beowulf: A Comparative Study.” Bulletin of Shikoku Women’s University (Japan). 9 (1990): 105-113. With Jean Brown. “Literacy Expectations for Michigan High School Students.” Michigan English Teacher. 38.3 (1988): 2-5. Editor. Theodore Roethke Memorial Issue. Green River Review. 14.2 (1983). Selected Conference Presentations: “Illnesses in the Summoner’s Tale.” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. 24-26 May 2001. “’. . . swich it is to be reccheless . . . and truste on flaterye’: the Glossing Vice in Chaucer and Dante.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 10 March 2000. “Narrative Lacunae in the Lais of Marie de France.” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies. 6-7 May 1999. “Chaucer’s Allusions to Water: Aqueous Iconography or Literary Throwaways?” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 12-13 March 1999. “The Siege of Jerusalem and The Jewes Tragedy: An Intertextual Reading.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 21-22 March 1999. “Saintly but Not Sainted: Chaucer’s Custance.” Illinois Medieval Association. 22 February 1997. “Richard and the East: Islam in Coeur de Lion.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 1-2 March 1996. “Coeur de Lion: Reality, Romance, and Audience.” Medieval Association of the Midwest. 29-30 September 1995. “Rewriting Chaucer and Whole Language.” 2nd Annual Thumb/Saginaw Valley Spring English Language Arts Conference. 8 April 1995. “Disjunction between Chaucer’s Narrative and the Parson’s Sermonizing: A Structural Analysis.” 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies. 5-8 May 1994. “Beowulf and Modern Monsters: New Bogies in the Dark.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 11-12 March 1994. “The Winter of Their Discontent: Images of Cold and Ice in The Inferno and in Gawain and the Green Knight. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Lettters. 5 March 1993. “’She koude muchel of wandrynge by the wey’: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale as Pilgrimage within Pilgrimage.” Medieval Association of the Midwest. 26 September 1992. “The Elegiac Voice in Beowulf and in Heike Monogatari.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 9 March 1990. “Ecological Awareness in Tudor-Stuart England: An Approach to Pastoral Literature.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 4 March 1988. “The Aging Leader in Epic and Romance: Hrothgar, Una’s Parent, and Their Like.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 27 February 1987. “Villains and Science: The Canon’s Legacy.” Medieval Association of the Midwest. 27 September 1986. “Tolkien’s Twice Told Tales: Echoes of Beowulf in ‘The King of the Golden Hall.’” Sixteenth Annual Interdisciplinary CAES Conference (Ball State University). 19 October 1985. “Iacob and Iosep: Within a Dramatic Tradition.” Medieval Association of the Midwest. 28 September 1985. “MS. Harley 2269.” Fifteenth Annual Interdisciplinary CAES Conference (Ball State University). 26 October 1984. “Chaucer and St. Cecilia: Mystical Vision in the Second Nun’s Tale.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 23 March 1984. “Chaucer’s Science: Its Rhetorical Place in the Canterbury Tales.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 31 March 1980. “Testing for Patterns in Freshman Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. 31 March 1978. “Dicta Salamonis: An Illustration of Fifteenth-Century Bible Translation.” Ohio Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 7 October 1977. International Experience: Exchange visit. University of Mysore. Mysore, India. 13-15 February 2002. Exchange professor. Shikoku Women’s University. Tokushima, Japan. January-August 1989. Unofficial return visit to SWU. May 1990. Professional Offices: President. Michigan Council of Teachers of English. 1990-1991. President. SVSU Faculty Association. 1989-1991. Additional Professional Activity: Participant. NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers. Yale University. Summer 1982. Topic: Science and Mathematics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Participant. Seminar on Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC). Michigan Technological University. 19-30 June 2000. Administrative: Chair. SVSU English Department. 1998-2000. Honors: Recipient. House Family Award for Teacher Impact (SVSU). 1991. SVSU Professional Continuing Achievement Award. 1991. Memberships: Modern Language Association; Michigan Council of Teachers of English; National Council of Teachers of English; Phi Kappa Phi Honorary. |