Martin Kennedy Foys
Department of English 13 Riggs Place Drew University South Orange, NJ 07079 Madison, NJ 07940 (443) 939-5492 [email protected]
Education and Employment
2010 – Associate Professor of English, Drew University, Madison, NJ
2008 - 2010 Visiting Associate Professor of English, Drew University, Madison, NJ
2005 - Associate Professor of English and Communication Arts, Hood College, Frederick MD
2002-2005 Assistant Professor of English and Communication Arts, Hood College, Frederick MD
2002 Assistant Professor of English, Florida State University London Study Centre, London, UK.
1998-2001 Assistant Professor of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1997- 1998 Researcher and Instructor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull, Kingston-upon- Hull, UK; duties included teaching medieval literature and culture, and consulting on the development of electronic editions of medieval texts and artifacts.
1994- 1998 Ph.D., specialization in Old and Middle English literature, Loyola University Chicago; Dissertation: "A Web of Linen: Image, Text and Hypertext in the Bayeux Tapestry." Director: Allen J. Frantzen. Readers: Karma Lochrie, Michael Masi. Qualifying examination fields: Old English, Middle English, Historical Linguistics. Degree date: May 1998
1990-1993 M.A., in English, concentration in medieval literature, Loyola University Chicago. Degree date: May, 1993
2002- 1986-1990 Drew University, Madison, NJ, B.A. 1990 in English literature (major) and Theatre Arts (minor)
Non-Academic Employment:
1995-1997 Sound Engineer, Morseland Music Room, Chicago, IL
1994-1995 Multimedia designer and programmer, Design Access, Chicago, IL
1991-1993 Video producer and scriptwriter, Loyola University Center for Instructional Design, (LUCID) Chicago, IL
Foys 2 Research
In-progress:
Collaborative Digital Media: Digital Mappaemundi (see below)
Book: The Nature of Anglo-Saxon Media
Monograph: The Twelfth-Century Afterlife of King Harold Godwinson
Journal: Editing issue of Post-Medieval, on the theme “Becoming Media” (vol. 3.1: 2012) with co- editor Jen Boyle, with on-line crowd/peer review experiment. Abstract for volume:
Books:
Virtually Anglo-Saxon: New Media, Old Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2007 (290pp).
• 2010 Reissued in paperback • 2008 Finalist for the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize (Honorable Mention) • 2008 Bela Kornitzer Book Award • 2008 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Book Publication Prize
Editions:
The Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry (Woodbridge/Leicester: Boydell & Brewer/SDE), 2003 [CD].
• 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title • 2005 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Edition Publication Prize
Edited Volumes:
The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer), with Dan Terkla and Karen Overbey, 2009 (300pp).
Collaborative Projects:
Digital Mappaemundi: Project to design a software architecture and database for digitally editing and cross-referencing medieval English mappaemundi to each other and classical and medieval geographic texts - with Asa Mittman (California State, Chico) and Shannon Bradshaw (Drew University). Currently funded by an Andrew W. Mellon grant for Scholarly Communication and an NEH Digital Humanities Start-up grant.
Essays:
"Digital Mappaemundi: Developing an Agile Mode for Studying Medieval Images." With Shannon Bradshaw, for the proceedings of the 3rd annual MARGOT conference, "The Digital Middle Ages: Teaching and Research, 2010" (4000 words, accepted).
“In Media Res: Media Matters in Anglo-Saxon England. A Handbook to Anglo-Saxon Studies (Critical Theory Handbooks), ed. Jacqueline A. Stodnick and Renée R. Trilling (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 7600 words, forthcoming, 2012.
Foys 3 "Vanishing Transliteracies in Beowulf and Samuel Pepys’ Diary” (with Whitney Trettien). Essays and Studies –‘Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts,’ ed. Elaine Treharne (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer), 2010, 75-120.
"New Media and the Nunburnholme Cross." Cross and Cruciform in the Anglo-Saxon World, ed. Karen Jolly, Sarah Keefer, and Catherine Karkov, (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press), 2010, 340- 368.
"Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry." The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations (2009, see above), 158-175.
“Digital Mappaemundi: Changing the Way We Work with Medieval World Maps” (with Asa Mittman). Peregrinations 2.3 (2009):
"The Reality of Media in Anglo-Saxon Studies." The Heroic Age; A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 11 (2008):
"An Unfinished Mappamundi from Late Eleventh-Century Worcester: CCCC 265 and the Evidence for a Family of Late Anglo-Saxon Maps." Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006): 271-284.
"The Virtual Reality of the Anglo-Saxon Mappamundi." Literature Compass 1 (2003): ME 016, 1-14.
"All's Well that Ends: Closure, Hypertext, and the Missing End of the Bayeux Tapestry." Exemplaria 15.2 (2003): 39-72.
"Hypertextile Scholarship." Documentary Editing 23.2 (2001): 34-43.
"Above the Word, Beyond the Page: The Past and Present Dilemma of the Bayeux Tapestry." Envoi 8.3 (1999): 87-104.
"A Hypertext Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess" (review essay) Envoi 7.2 (1998): 46- 54.
"Computer-Based Approaches to the Instruction and Experience of Art: A Hypertext Dialogue." Co- authored with James Caccamo and Trevor Bechtel, Proceedings of the School for the Visual Arts Tenth Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists (New York: School of the Visual Arts, 1997), 54-62.
Reviews:
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media, by Brantley L, Bryant et al. The Medieval Review (2011) < https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/13418/11.07.26.html>.
Creation, Migration & Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature by Fabienne L. Michelet. Speculum (2007).
The Bayeux Tapestry, by Lucien Musset. The Medieval Review (2006)
1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry, by Andrew Bridgeford. H-France vol. 6 (October, 2006), no. 124 < http://h-france.net/vol6reviews/foys.html>.
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for Saint Florent, by George Beech. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 (Woodridge: Boydell and Brewer), 2006, 179-180. Foys 4
Other:
White Paper, National Endowment for the Humanities: "Performance Report for the Digital Mappaemundi Project." With Shannon Bradshaw and Asa Mittman. Submitted December 15, 2010.
"On Being a Digital Medievalist." [invited guest column.] In The Middle. 19 Nov. 2010.
"Peer-to-Peer Networks." [invited guest column.] In The Middle. 29 Aug. 2010.
Yearly publication of Circolwyrde, surveying electronic resources for Anglo-Saxon scholarship in the Old English Newsletter, 1999-2003: "Circolwyrde 2003." OEN (Old English Newsletter) 37.1 (2003): 12-15. "Circolwyrde 2002." OEN 36.1 (2002): 11-16. "Circolwyrde 2001." OEN 35.1 (2001): 20-23. "Circolwyrde 2000." OEN 34.1 (2000): 15-18. "Circolwyrde 1999." OEN 33.1 (1999): 16-22.
"The Norman Conquest" (entry). The Tolkien Encyclopedia. Ed. Michael Drout (New York: Routledge), 2006.
"Cædmon" and "King Alfred the Great" (entries). The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer (New York: Continuum International Publishing Group), 2003.
“The On-line Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry.” (London: Osprey Publishing), active: 2000-2005.
Awards and Grants: Scholarly Communications grant ($50,000), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Open Scholarly Tools, 2011 Private grant, Digital Mappaemundi development ($7,000), Jay Walker, 2011 Bela Kornitzer Award for outstanding non-fiction book (Drew University), Virtually Anglo-Saxon, 2009 Digital Humanities Start-up grant ($49,000), National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Mappaemundi: A Resource for Editing Medieval Maps and Geographic Texts. Scholarly Communications grant ($16,000), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Use-Case Study of Interoperability and the Digital Mappaemundi Project, 2009-2010 Finalist, MLA’s First Book Competition, Virtually Anglo-Saxon, 2008 (Honorable Mention) International Society of Anglo-Saxonists’ Best Book Prize, Virtually Anglo-Saxon, 2007 SRI Grant ($5,000), XML Markup and Medieval Geographical Data, Hood College, 2006 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists’ Best Edition Prize, The Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition, 2005 Fellow-by-Courtesy, Johns Hopkins University, 2002-2008 NEH Summer Research Stipend: A Digital Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Cotton Map, 2005 Board of Associates Research Grant, A New Family of Early English Maps, Hood College, 2005 NEH Summer Institute: Anglo-Saxon England, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, for the Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition, 2004 SRI, The Nunburnholme Cross and Notions of Medieval Space, Hood College, 2003 University Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001 (awarded in first year of eligibility) Grant, Reading City Museum, Reading England, to oversee the digitization the Reading Embroidery, 2000 Foys 5 Planning Grant, Council on Research and Creativity, Florida State Univ., 2000 Research and Creativity Award, English Department, Florida State Univ., 2000, 2002 Matching Grant (CRC Planning), College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State Univ., 2000 First Year Assistant Professor Research Award, Council on Research and Creativity, Florida State, 1999 Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, Loyola University Chicago, 1997-1998 Technology Merit Award, Loyola University Chicago, 1997 University Teaching Fellow, Loyola University Chicago, 1993-94 Research and Teaching Assistant, Loyola University Chicago, 1990-93 Graduated magna cum laude, with Specialized Honors in English, Drew University, 1990
Invited Talks:
"By Bell, Book and Candle: Media Literacy in the Early Middle Ages." Hood College Humanities Colloquium, Frederick, MD, 13 October 2011.
"What We Remember to Forget: Technology and Memory from Plato to Hamlet to Google. Caspersen School for Graduate Studies, Drew University, Madison, NJ 6 June 2011.
"Digitally Remediating the Humanities (by way of the Middle Ages)." Swarthmore College, 25 March, 2011.
"Seven Remediations for Digital Humanities." Coastal Carolina University Faculty Retreat (featured speaker). Coastal Carolina University, 28 January, 2011.
"The Hringing in my Eyes: Toward the Auditory Culture of Anglo-Saxon England." Colloquium for Early Literature and Cultures in English, New York University, 2 December 2010.
"Media Materiality in Old English Expression.” Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Columbia University, New York, NY, 13 April 2010.
"S/word: Runes, Weapons and Media Transliteracies in Beowulf.” Rutgers University, Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, 12 April 2010.
"Medieval Maps: Datascapes and the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship." University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 2 April 2010.
"Zombie King? Harold, Hereward and the Containment of Nostalgia in post-Conquest England." University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1 April 2010.
“Parker-on-the-Web and Digital Mappaemundi: a Use-Case Study in Interoperability.” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications Symposium, Paris, France, 15 January 2010.
“The Digital Mappaemundi Project: Connections, Collaboration, Consistency, Community.” Delaware Valley Medieval Association (Keynote), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2009.
"Transmedial Mappae: Digitally Editing Medieval Worlds as More than Words." Medieval Texts & Textual Meaning Symposium, Loyola University Chicago, IL, 8 November, 2008.
"Wanted Dead and Alive: How King Harold Died at the Battle of Hastings and Lived to Tell About It." West Virginia State University, Morgantown, WV, 20 September, 2007.
Foys 6 "You Can't Keep a Good King Down: The Death And Resurrection of Harold Godwinson, the Last Anglo-Saxon King." Louisiana State University, Monroe, LA, 7 February, 2007.
"Virtually Anglo-Saxon: The Technological Fixing of Early Medieval Expression." Seattle University, Seattle, WA, 15 November, 2006.
"Arrows, Eyes, and Royal Hermits: How Historiography Couldn't Kill Harold Godwinson, the Last Anglo- Saxon King." Drew University, Madison, NJ, 5 October, 2006.
“Unnecessary Evil: Chaucer and the Jewish Topography of London” Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE 13 August 13, 2006.
"Print Culture and the Bayeux Tapestry." Medieval Studies Lecture Series, Rice University, Houston, TX, 30 March, 2006.
"Remediation and Oscillation: Developing a New Vocabulary for Digital Editions." Roman de la Rose Digital Surrogates Project, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 28 March 2006.
“The State of the Bayeux Tapestry” NEH Summer Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 14 July, 2005.
“Virtually Anglo-Saxon: the Digital and Typographic Reality of Early Medieval England.” (plenary speaker), Getting Medieval on Film and New Media Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 11-12 March 2005.
“Pushing Rome Aside, Thoughts on the Oldest English Map of the World.” The “Afterlife of Antiquity Humanities Colloquium,” Hood College, Frederick, MD, 23 October 2003.
“Digitizing Medieval Discourse: Post-print Thoughts on Pre-print Worlds.” Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, 14 April, 2003.
“World Rule: Inscription and Theography in the Anglo-Saxon Map of the World.” Medieval Studies Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 5 December 2002.
Series of lectures on the Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry, Spring 2002: Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, 17 May 2002. University of Leicester, Leicester, England, 19 March 2002. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 12 March 2002. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, York, England, 6 March 2002.
"Docuversal/Docucentric: Epistemological Issues in Hypertext Editions of Medieval Texts." Department of English, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 19 March 2001.
"What Zizek Should Have Said About Kieslowski's 'Blue.'”’ Fall Colloquium Series, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 20 October 2000.
"Anglo-Saxon Riddles and the Riddle of Study." University of Birmingham, England, 3 March, 2000.
“SEAFARER, a Hypertext Approach to Teaching Medieval Culture.” D’Arcy Gallery of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Chicago, 15 October, 1995.
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Conference Presentations
"Hearing the Bell in Ango-Saxon England." International Society for Anglo-Saxonists, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 4 August 2011.
"Digital Mappaemundi and the Agile Cartography." MAPPINGS session, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK , 13 July 2011.
"Mapping Medieval Cities - From Symbol to Survey: A Round Table Discussion." MAPPINGS session, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK , 13 July 2011.
"Rectifying the Real: Digital Incunabula and Cartographic Study." The Language of Maps Colloquium, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK, 25 June 2011.
“Digital Mappaemundi Annotation Tools: Development post-digitizing for Interoperability, Annotation & Collaboration” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 15 May 2010.
"Ephemeral Rings: Anglo-Saxon Bells and Immaterial Media." Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, University of Texas, Austin, 6 November 2010.
" The Scholarly Object: Input and Output" [Roundtable]. Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, University of Texas, Austin, 4 November 2010.
"The Digital Mappaemundi Resource" (with Shannon Bradshaw) MARGOT Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY, 28 June 2010.
“The Transliteracies of Beowulf.” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 15 May 2010.
“Interoperability, Intermediate Data, and Scholarly Siloing in Current Digital Manuscript Resources.” Medieval Academy of America, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 20 March 2010.
“The Origin of Haroldian Nostalgia in Post-Conquest England.” Haskins Society, Boston College, Boston, MA, 7 November 2009.
“Of Yrlande mid scyphere: The Irish Sea Raids of King Harold’s Sons, and the Redoubling of History.” International Society for Anglo-Saxonists, St. Johns University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, 30 July 2009.
Response: “Anglo-Saxon Matter and Materialities” session. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 2009.
“Weaponized Media and the 'Book' of Beowulf." Media in Transition 6, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 25 April, 2009.
"Harold's Death by Arrow: A Twelfth-Century Event" The Bayeux Tapestry @ the British Museum, British Museum, London, UK, 16 July 2008.
"Wanted Dead or Alive: Redacting Harold Godwinson in William of Malmesbury and the Vita Haroldi" Writing England: Books 1100-1200, University of Leicester, UK, 6 July 2007.
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"The Cotton Map: Sourcing an Anglo-Saxon Worldview" 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 12 May 2007.
"The Whole World On My Laptop: Developing a Digital Syntax for Medieval Mappaemundi." Modern Language Association (MLA), Philadelphia, PA, 28, December, 2006.
"The Death of Harold in the Bayeux Tapestry: No Arrow. Period." International Medieval Conference (IMC), University of Leeds, England, 11 July, 2006.
“Print Culture and the Fixing of Old English Literature” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, GA, 6, November 2005
“A New Anglo-Saxon Map of the World: The Inscription of Faith” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2005.
“An Anglo-Scandinavian Cross-shaft and the Revision of Space” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2004.
“Crosses, Maps and Textiles: Digital Editions Beyond the Screen.” New Technologies, Old Texts, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 8 July 2003.
“Reconstructing the Nunburnholme Cross: History, Theory and Digital Praxis.” Cross and Crucifix in Anglo-Saxon England. King Alfred’s College, Winchester, UK, 4 July 2003.
“The World Writ Small: The Inscriptions of the Cottonian Mappamundi” 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 2003.
“Virtual Geographies and the Anglo-Saxon Mappamundi.” 28th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 28 September, 2002.
“The Missing End of the Bayeux Tapestry: Print, Closure and Hypertext.” Manchester Centre for Anglo- Saxon Studies – Conference on Harold II Godwinesson and the Bayeux Tapestry, Manchester, England, 5 April 2002.
“The Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry (Project Report).” International Society for Anglo-Saxonists, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 8 August, 2001.
"Hypertextile Scholarship." The Annual Meeting of the Association of Documentary Editing, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 6 October 2000.
"Anselm's Hypertext?" 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May, 2000.
"A Record of War: Re-Assessing the Bayeux Tapestry." The Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, Albany State University, Albany, GA, 15 April, 2000.
"Freten Words, Memory and Violence in Chaucer's ‘Anelida and Arcite.’" Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Knoxville, TN, 14 October 1999.
"Technology and Pedagogy in the Medieval Classroom - A Workshop." International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England 12 July, 1999.
"The Inscriptions of the Bayeux Tapestry." 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Foys 9 Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May, 1999.
"The Translation of Cultures: Anglo-Saxonism, Anglo-Normanism and the Impact of Technology." Medieval Academy of America, Stanford University, 28 March, 1998.
"Electronic Threads: A Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry." International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, University of Palermo, 8 July, 1997.
“The Bayeux Tapestry: Digitizing the Space Between the Disciplines." 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 9 May, 1997.
“Computer-Based Approaches to the Instruction and Experience of Art." with James Caccamo and Trevor Bechtel, School for the Visual Arts Annual Conference, New York City, 18 October, 1996.
“Motion Toward a Digital Facsimile of the Bayeux Tapestry." First Annual Conference for Digital Resources in the Humanities, Oxford University, 2 July, 1996.
“Intertextuality and a man nought textueel in the Manciple's Tale." International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 5 July, 1994.
“The Monster in the Text; Reflections on the Manciple's Tale.” 12th Annual New Graduate School Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 12 April, 1994.
“Mediating Medieval Desire: The Collapse of the Messenger in Medieval Romance.” International Conference on Representations of Love and Hate, Atlanta, 4 December, 1993.
“Appropriating the Past: Washington Irving’s Anxiety of Production in The Sketchbook.” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 22 October, 1993.
“Beowulf, Violence, and the Disruption of the Word.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, New Orleans, 24 September 1993.
“Anxiety and Imperatives of Knowledge in Exeter Book Riddle 47, Bookmoth.” Undrawing the Line; Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Lehigh University, Lehigh, PA, 12 February 1993. Foys 10
Teaching
Drew University (2008-): Writing in the Discipline of English (ENGL 4) Introduction to Literary Analysis (ENGL 9) Language, Communication, Culture (LING 10) Anglo-American Literary Survey (ENGL 21B; medieval component, half semester) Introduction to Literary Theory (ENGL 121) Digital Narratives (ENGL 140) The English Language (Historical Linguistics – ENGL 38/LING 51) (Really) Old English (ENGL 140) Medieval Drama: Literature and Performance (ENGL 112 / THEA 165) Chaucer Seminar (ENGL 171/175) King Arthur Then and Now (ENGL 126, half semester) New Media Literatures (ENGL 127) 1066 and All That: Theorizing Medieval Conquest in Literature, Art and Film (ENGL 127) Medieval Monsters and Monster Theory (ENGL 128)
Digital Humanities (HUM 20) We Have Always Been Medieval (CSEM /First Year Seminar)
We Have Always Been Medieval (Graduate Seminar: HC 895)
Individual Instruction: Special Major Advisor/ Thesis Director: Patrick Mooney, “Technologies of Storytelling” (2009-) Senior Thesis committee (English): Erin Newell (2009-2010) Senior Thesis committee (German/Russian): Joshua Rowe (2009-2010) Senior Thesis Director (English): Ian Crepea (2010-11) Independent Study: Gaelan Johnson; topic: Postcolonial Feminism (Spring 2011)
Other: "Are Computers Eating Us? Art, Identity and Video Games" (Drew Summer College, 2010, 2011) Guest Lecturer – ENGL 43 Literature in Translation (2009) Pre-conference Graduate Seminar on Media History and Theory and Anglo-Saxon Studies (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists: Newfoundland, CAN), July, 2009 Led students from the Old English course (ENGL 140) in a public reading (in Old English) of Ælfric's Colloquy at the annual Revels dinner of "That Medieval Thing" (2009) First Year Seminar (We Have Always Been Medieval) field trip to MOMA (2009, 2011) Produced with Medieval Drama class: Noah’s Ark: Commanded by God, Built by Pontiac, a modern updating of the fifteenth-century York Cycle’s play of Noah’s Flood (2010)
Hood College (2002-2008): Writing About Literature: Medieval Texts, Modern Expressions (ENGL 114) Approaches to Literature (Introduction to Critical Theory) (ENGL 210) Survey of Early British Literature, 700 – 1700 (ENGL 222) Revolting Peasants and Red-Hot Heretics: Medieval Literature of Power and Dissent (ENGL 253) Medieval Drama (ENGL 279) Old English: The Language and Literature of Anglo-Saxon England (ENGL 300) Beowulf Seminar (ENGL 299B) Chaucer (ENGL 318/518) The English Language: History and Linguistics (ENGL 405/505) Foys 11 Digital Narratives: New Media Theory Seminar (ENGL 450/550)
Individual Instruction: Capstone Thesis Director, Lori Sylvia, "Old Testament Allusion in Beowulf," 2006. Theatre 370 (Practicum), Natalie McVeigh, 2006 Senior Honors Thesis Director, Elizabeth Aghjayan, 2007-08 Senior Honors Thesis Director, Elizabeth Lipke, 2007-08 Senior Honors Thesis Director, Whitney Trettein, 2006-2007 Senior Honors Thesis Director, Elizabeth Jones, 2005-2006 Independent Study: Art and Romance in the Middle Ages, Victoria Benson, Fall 2003. Independent Study: Research and Critical Argumentation, Libby Knight, Fall, 2004. Senior Honors Thesis Committee (Art History), Taryn Chubb, 2002-2003. Senior Honors Thesis Committee (Literature), Patricia Stevenson, 2004-2005. Senior Honors Thesis Committee (Literature / Art History), Rebecca Sullivan, 2004-2005. Senior Honors Thesis Committee (Literature),Sarah Feldberg, 2004-2005. Honors 202 Director: Elizabeth Aghjayan (2005-2006) Honors 202 Director: Patricia Stevenson (2003-2004)
Guest Teaching: ENGL 210: Approaches to Literature (Fall 2002, 2003, 2006) HUM 501: Graduate Seminar, Humanities and the Western Tradition (Fall 2003, 2004, 2005. 2006) ENGL 470: Senior Seminar (Spring, 2003, lectured twice on various literary theories of criticism) HON 101: Honors Colloquium I, The Nature of Evil (Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) Art 470: Senior Seminar (Spring, 2005, lectured on the spectacle of Medieval Drama)
Florida State University (1998-2002): University Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001), during first eligible year Critical Issues in Literary Study (an introduction to literary theory) Introduction to Shakespeare (London Study Centre) Early British Literature Survey (London Study Centre) Medieval Literature in Translation Middle English Romance Chaucer Graduate Studies in Chaucer Graduate Tutorial: Hypertext Theory and Medieval Literature Graduate Tutorial: Medieval Women Writers and the Epistolary Genre Graduate Seminar: The Natures of Medieval Narrative Graduate Seminar: "Medieval Texts, Modern Expressions"
University of Hull (UK) (1998): Anglo-Saxon Epic and Elegy
Loyola University Chicago (1992-1997): Writing I, Writing II, Introduction to Fiction, Medieval Culture and Text, Chaucer University Teaching Fellowship, 1993-1994 Teaching Assistantship, 1990-1993 Foys 12
Institutional Service and Administration
Professional:
Executive Director of the International Society for Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), 2012-2015
Use-case consultant, DMSTech (Mellon Foundation-Stanford University), 2011
Board Member (elected), International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 2008-2011
Committee on Electronic Resources, (CER) Medieval Academy of America, 2007-
Parker on the Web: a multi-year project dedicated to the production of a complete, high-resolution digital representation of (nearly) all the manuscripts in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College (Cambridge), and to building an interactive web application in which the manuscript page images can be studied in the context of editions, translations and secondary materials; a joint undertaking of Corpus Christi College, the University of Cambridge and Stanford University. 2006-2010
The Archimedes Palimpsest: Project to digitally recover palimpsested Greek texts of Archimedes, Hyperides, and Aristotle from a tenth-century Byzantine manuscript, and design a digital architecture for the continuing dissemination and study of recovered materials. 2005-2007.
Rice University, for restarting their university press as an all-digital entity, 2005
Board Member (founding), Digital Medievalist, 2003-2007
Virtual Cathedral Project, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. 2003-2004 External Tenure Reviewer: Pomona College, 2011 Grant Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, 2010 External Tenure Reviewer: Columbus State University, 2010. Leader: Pre-conference Graduate Seminar on Media History and Theory and Anglo-Saxon Studies (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists: Newfoundland, CAN), July, 2009 Board Member (elected), International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 2008-2011 Committee on Electronic Resources, (CER) Medieval Academy of America, 2008- Reader, Speculum, 2006-2007 Consultant, Parker on the Web, Stanford University, 2006-2009 Respondent, Digital Roman de la Rose project, 2006 Consultant, Rice University, for restarting their university press as an all digital entity, 2006 Consultant, Archimedes Palimpsest Project, Walters Art Museum, 2006-2007 Reader, Palgrave Macmillian, 2006 Reviewer/Consultant, Literature-Compass (on-line journal), Blackwell Publishing (http://www.literature-compass.com), 2004-2005 Organizer, Anglo-Saxon Space sessions, with Jacqueline Stodnick and Renee Trilling, International Foys 13 Medieval Congress, 2005-2009 Board Member (founding), Digital Medievalist, a Best Practices Community initiative, 2003-2006 Consultant, Virtual Cathedral Project, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University 2003- 2004 Reader, University Press of Florida, 2002, 2005 Organizer, Post-Conquest England sessions, International Medieval Congress, 2000-2001 Co-leader, Shakespeare Discussion Group, Florida State University, 1999-2001 Reader, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 2000 Reviewer of electronic resources, Old English Newsletter, 1999-2002 Assistant organizer for Illinois Medieval Association Conference, 1993, 1994 and 1997
Drew University:
Committees: Strategic Planning Committee: Technology at Drew University (2010-11) Committee on On-line Teaching at Drew (2010-2011) Search Committee: Film Studies hire, English Department (2010-11) Search Committee: Senior Director of Alumni and Parent Relations (2010) Hiring Committee: post-doc writing positions (reviewed folders and helped conduct interviews and visits for three separate positions) (2008-2009) Ad hoc committee on exploring a Media Studies Program, headed by Dean Levin (2009-) Ad hoc committee: Dodge Foundation Poetry Archive, Digital Initiative; head: Peggy Samuels (2008-) Ad hoc committee on Medieval Studies minor, headed by Louis Hamilton (2010-) Working Group: Digital Work @ Drew (2010-) Working Group: Linguistics Studies at Drew (2010-) Working Group: Medieval Studies Minor (2010-11) Departmental Committee: Catalog Revision (ad hoc – 2009)
Other: Director: Linguistic Program (2011-) Director: Film and Media Studies working group (2011-) Reader: Drew Review (2010, 2011) Organized: Humanities talk by Tom Bissell (Why Video Games Matter), 2010 Instructor: Drew Summer College (2010) Panel member for First Year Seminar Course design (2010) Participation in department’s all-night reading marathon, monthly literary moots (2008-2010) Advisor, Drew Organization of Gaming (student club, 2009-2010) Advisor: That Medieval Thing (2009-2010) Assiduous attendance at departmental hiring talks and functions for twentieth-century American position (2010), writing post-docs (2009, 2010), and Environmental Studies position (2008). Regular attendance at monthly faculty and department meetings
Hood College:
Committees: Chair, Search Committee, NEH Libman Professor position (2005-2006) Chair, Humanities Council (2005-2008) Bookstore Committee (2005-2007) Foys 14 Humanities Council (2004-2005) Graduate Council (2003-2005) Faculty Technology Advisory Group (2003-2005) Search Committee, NEH Libman Professor position (2004-2005) Search Committee, Visiting Professor, American Literature position (2004-2005) Search Committee, Art History Department position in Medieval Art (2003)
Other: Director, Theatre Minor (2003-2006) Oversaw development of Theatre Program and Minor at Hood (2003-2005) Technical Oversight, Conversion of the Avalon Speech Studio to Studio Theatre space (2004-2005) Technical Administrator, Return of the Fifth Sister Hood College Theatre (April 2006) Technical Director, Tartuffe Hood College Theatre (December 2005) Technical Director, After/The Stronger Hood College Theatre (April 2005) Technical Director, Stop Kiss Hood College Theatre (December 2004) Technical Director, Brown v. Board Hood College Theatre (March 2004) Freshman Advisor (2003-2005) Student Recruitment Mini-classes (November 2003, January 2004, February 2004) Staffed Spring Saturdays and Parents Weekends (2002-2006) Faculty Advisor, Hood Anime Club (2003-2005) Organizer, Medieval Studies Minor field trips (April, 2004, December, 2002) Co-organizer, Hood Undergraduate Medieval Conference (2004-2005) Chaperone, Honors Trip to NYC (2003- 2005) Hood College NEH Colloquium Presenter (23 October 2003) Faculty Luncheon Presenter (September 2002) Speaker, Hood alumni/ae groups in Florida, Maryland, New York and Philadelphia (2003-05) Technical Consultant, Hood Today computer equipment (2004) Coordinator, English Department web page (2003-2005)
Florida State University: Placement Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 1998-1999 Literature Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 1998-2001 Electronic Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 1998-2001 Evaluation Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 1999-2000 Research Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 2000-2001 Grant Committee, English Department, Florida State University, 2000-2001 Search Committee, Renaissance Drama position, English Department, FSU, 1999-2000
Loyola University Chicago: Loyola University Adult Literacy Program, 1993 Loyola University Chicago Medieval Studies Group, 1992-1998 Martin D'Arcy Gallery of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art advisory board, 1996-1997