CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

PhD Univ. of California at Berkeley - December, 1977
MA Univ. of California at Berkeley - June, 1973
BA Univ. of California at Berkeley - March, 1970
 

Professional Experience

 1990-present Professor, with tenure, Univ. of Denver
 1984-1990  Associate Professor, with tenure, Univ. of Denver
 1980-1984  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Denver
 1978-1980  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder
 1977-1978  Associate, Univ. of California - Berkeley
 1976-1977  Teaching Assistant, Univ. of California - Berkeley

Publications (primarily after 1990)

Books

Poems and Prose from the Old English, co-authored with Burton Raffel (Yale UP, 1998)

The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta, trans. with Roberta L. Payne (Peter Lang Publishing, 1993)

New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, co-edited with Helen Damico
 Bloomington:  Indiana UP, 1990)

"Betwene Ernest and Game": The Literary Artistry of the "Confessio Amantis" (New York:    Lang, 1989

Speech, Song, and Poetic Craft: The Artistry of the Cynewulf Canon, (New York: Lang, 1984)

Guthlac of Croyland: A Study of Heroic Hagiography (Washington:  U P of America, 1981)

Articles

"Judith" and "Valkyies," in  Women and Gender in Medieval Europe"  An Encyclopedia.  Ed. Margaret Schaus..  New York :  Routledge, 2006, 436 and 811.

"Foreword," Four Levels of Meaning in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays:   A Study in Medieval Allegory, Jefferey H. Taylor, Lewiston:  Edwin Mellen Press, 2006, iii-iv.

“The Nowell Codex, Editorial Practice, and the Cruces of Beowulf,” In Geardagum, 26 (2006), 73-80.   
 
“In Memoriam:  Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.”  Old English Newsletter, 38 (2005), 7-8.

“Proteus in Latin:  Venacular Tradition and the Boniface Collection,” New Directions in Oral Theory, ed. Mark C. Amodio, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 287, Tempe, AZ, 2005, 107-24

Memorial for Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., St Mark’s Lion cxx (April 2005), 2-3

Entries on double monasteries, Egburg, frauenlie, and valkyries in Women in the Middle Ages:  An Encyclopedia.  Ed. Katharina M. Wilson and Nadia Margolis.  Westport:  Greenwoiod Press, 2004, 260-62, 286-87, 347-49, and 915-18,

"Subtractive Rectification and the Old English Riming Poem,"  In Geardagum 24 (2003), 57-66.

"Aelfric and Old English Poetry,"  In Geardagum 22 (2001), 1-18

"St Cuthbert," Ancient British Saints Symposium.  Ed. Lester Michael  Bundy.   Denver:  St. John Chrysotom Institute of Orthodox Studies, 2001,  32-37

"Old English Re-tellings of Judeo-Christian Stories,"  The St. Mark Lion, 126 (2001), 2-5

"St. Guthlac and St. Pega in the South English Legendary," 2000, http://www.umilta.net/guthlac.html

"Scop," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, NY:  Grove, 2001, vol. 22, article 40756.

"The Valkyrie Reflex in Havelock the Dane," Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic:  In Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr., ed. Loren C. Gruber, Lewiston:  Mellen, 2000, 317-35.

Entries on Apollonius of Tyre, Confessio Amantis, and Robert of Sicily, Medieval Folklore, ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Linodow, Santa Barbara:  ABC-CLIO, 2000, 32-34, 188-89, and 836-37.

"Saint Pega and Saint Guthlac, Hermits," 1999, http://www.umilta.net/pega.html

"Women Associated with Saint Boniface," 1999, http://www.umilta.net/boniface.html

"Women in Old English Literature" (with Helen Damico), Medieval England:  An Encyclopedia, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal, New York:  Garland, 1998, 816-18.

"Texts with Roots in Oral Tradition: Beowulf," Teaching Oral Tradition, ed. John M. Foley (New York: Modern Language Assn., 1998), pp. 351-58

"The Homiletic Tradition in Old English," In Geardagum 18 (1997): 1-13.

"Re-Vision: A Comparison of A Canticle for Leibowitz and the Novellas Originally Published," Extrapolation, 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1997): 135-49.

"Gender Roles," A Beowulf Handbook, ed. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles (Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1997), 311-24

"The Rise of the Middle Class in Middle English Literature," In Geardagum, 17 (1996): 51-57

"Old English Women, Old English Men: A Reconsideration of the `Minor' Characters," Old English Shorter Poems: Basic Readings, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 65-83

Entry on "Cynewulf and his School", The Dictionary of Literary Biography 146: Old and Middle English Literature, ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell, Bruccoli Clark Layman Inc., 1994

"Oral Tradition in the Middle English Romance: The Case of Robert of Cisyle," Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry, ed. Mark Amodio (New York: Garland, 1994)

"Formulaic Tradition and the Latin Waltharius Poesis," Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr., ed. Helen Damico and John Leyerle (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993), pp. 265-282

"The Aesthetics of Andreas: The Contexts of Oral Tradition and Patristic Latin Poetry," De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir, ed. John Miles Foley (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 388-410

Entry on Leobgytha, An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, ed. Katharina M. Wilson (New York: Garland, 1991), pp. 721-22

"Cynewulf's Autonomous Women: A Reconsideration of Elene and Juliana," in New Readings, 1990, ed. Damico and Olsen, pp. 222-32

"Introduction," co-edited with Helen Damico, in New Readings, 1990, ed. Damico and Olsen, pp. 1-26

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Assn.
Mediaeval Academy of America
Philological Assn. of the Pacific Coast
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assn.
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn.
The John Gower Society
The New Chaucer Society
Western Conference of British Studies

Awards

Mortar Board "Top Professor," Spring, 1997
Award for Exemplary Teaching at a Methodist-related Institution of Higher Education, 1993
Phi Betta Kappa Honorary Member, 1991
Methodist Scholar/Teacher Award, 1989
 

Lectures and Panel Discussion

 “Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, and Akita Kurosawa,” Seventh Annual Colloquium in Comparative Literature, April 22, 2006

“Telling Classical Tales:  Orpheus, Orfeo, and Orphée,” Bede and Beyond, April 25, 2006

“Paying Attention:  A Reconsideration of Beowulf,” English Department Giving Attention Conference, October 9, 2005

"Dark Shadows and Gothic Tradition,” ELL Conference, April 29, 2005
 
“Judith and Inanna:  Shadows of the Goddess,” English Department Works in Progress, November 5, 2004

“The Ides, the Goddess, and Female Identity in Anglo-Saxon England,” RMMLA, October 2, 2004

"Subtractive Rectification in the Old English Riming Poem," RMMRA, April 4, 2003

"Old English Re-tellings of Judeo-Christian Stories," Symposium on Saints of Old Britain, September 29, 2001

"Oral Tradition in the South English Legendary," RMMRA, May 25, 2001

"Re-telling Classical Tales:  Orpheus, Sir Orpheo, Orphee," Colloquium on Comparative Literature, University of Denver, May 4, 2001

"St Guthlac in the South English Legendary," Western Conference on British Studies, October 21, 2000

"St Cuthbert," Symposium on Early British Saints, September 16, 2000

"Reading Literary Translations Comparatively:  The Importance of Interpretive Translations," RMMLA, October, 1999

The Old English Homiletic Tradition," C. S. Lewis Society, February 3, 1998, and Bede and Beyond, February 24, 1998

"Oral Tradition and Written Texts: The Puzzle of the Middle English Romance," November 7, 1996, The Humanities Institute, University of Denver

Discussion of Havelock the Dane, C. U. Boulder Medieval Colloquium, July 17, 1996

"C. S. Lewis as a Science Fiction Writer," C. S. Lewis Society, January 18, 1996

Symposia on Medieval Women's Literature, Women's Library Association, October 13, 1992, and January 19 and March 9, 1993

"The Middle Ages Aren't What They Used to Be: Reading Medieval Literature in the 90's," Phi Betta Kappa Lecture, October 30, 1991

Panel Discussion on Teaching the Humanities in the Core Curriculum, AAC Conference on Cultural Legacies, October 8, 1990

"Medieval Women Writers: The Lost Tradition," Conference for AP English Teachers, April 20, 1990
 

Courses Taught

Graduate Level: Old English; Beowulf; Middle English Literature Exclusive of Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales; Chaucer's Early Works; Advanced Studies: Medieval Literature; Seminars: Medieval Women Writers, Medieval Romance, Middle English Dream Vision; Structure of the English Language; History of the English Language; Structure and History of the English Language; Tutorials: Middle English Romance; Middle Scots Poetry; Advanced Old English; Introductory Old Norse; Old Norse Readings; Readings in Egil's Saga; Middle High German; The Continental Backgrounds of Middle English Literature; Research in Science Fiction; Writing for Publication

Undergraduate Level: English Literature I, Beowulf to Spenser; Shakespeare, Representative Plays; Literary Images of Women's Lives; Fantasy and Science Fiction; Modern English Literature; Freshman Co-ordinated Humanities Program: Greek and Roman Literature and Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Arts and Humanities Core: Community, the Individual, and the Quest for the Good Life, The Sources of Civilization: The Making of the European Middle Ages, The Tree of Tales:  Chaucer and his Analogues; Honors Seminars: Modern Beginnings, Saints and Sinners: Life and Literature in the Middle Ages; Tutorials: Arthurian Romance; Studies in Germanic Legend; Studies on Women in Medieval Literature; Introductory Old Norse; J. R. R. Tolkien; C. S. Lewis and Ray Bradbury; Adolescent Literature; World Masterpieces; The Tree of Tales:  the Canterbury Tales and its Analogues

Languages

Latin
Old Norse
French (including Old French)
German (including Old and Middle High German, Old Saxon, and Gothic)
 

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