Department of English 321 Buena Vista Biola University La Habra, CA 90631 La Mirada, CA 90631 (714) 871-9373 (562) 903-6000 X5568 E-Mail: [email protected]
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Department of English 321 Buena Vista Biola University La Habra, CA 90631 La Mirada, CA 90631 (714) 871-9373 (562) 903-6000 x5568 e-mail: [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE FOR LYLE H. SMITH EDUCATION: PhD. 1973. The University of Minnesota Dissertation: The Elizabethan English Debate Dialogue: Puritan Satire in the Anti-Clerical Tradition. Dissertation advisor: Gordon W. O'Brien Supporting field: Renaissance history M.A. 1968. The University of Minnesota Major: English literature. Minors: American studies, speech communication B.A. 1966, University of Minnesota. Cum laude Major: English Minor: History My doctoral dissertation, a study of the Elizabethan Puritan mock-debate dialogue, attempts to do three things; to demonstrate the working of a specifically Puritan anti-clerical satire; to demonstrate that this Puritan literary genre has its roots in a much older English Catholic tradition of anti-clerical satire; and finally, to render a just appreciation of some obscure but ingeniously inventive men--Williiam Turner, Anthony Gilby, John Udall and the pseudonymous "Martin Marprelate." The study begins with a discussion of the Marprelate pamphlets, which embody the distinguishing characteristics of Puritan satire. It then examines the roots of anti-clerical polemic in England, considering homiletic literature of the thirteenth century as well as Lollard satire of the fourteenth. It concludes with a look at a number of Puritan anti-clerical satires, all written in the sixteenth century; an attempt is made to show that they refined and sophisticated the potential for drama and story inherent in the character and dialogue form of medieval complaint and Renaissance satire. LANGUAGES: Reading knowledge of German and Latin. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 1978- : Biola University, La Mirada, CA. 1972-1977: Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky. COURSES TAUGHT: I regularly teach courses on Shakespeare and Milton, as well as the Seventeenth Century survey and the Renaissance survey, and together with the entire English department faculty I assist with the majors seminar. On the lower division level, I have been teaching freshman composition regularly, as well as sophomore survey courses in English, American and World literature. Also, I teach a course on film adaptations of prose fiction and dramatic works during Biola University's three-week interterm session in January. On the upper division level, in addition to Shakespeare and Milton, I have taught Medieval English Literature, Seventeenth Century English poetry and prose (pre-Restoration) English Romantic poetry, Victorian poetry and prose, and Twentieth Century English Poetry and Novel (pre-1950). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: 2 University Committees 1998-99: Academics Committee 1997-98: Committee on Unity 1994-present: Chimes advisory committee 1991: Co-organizer for Biola University’s 1991 fall faculty workshop. 1990-1994: Co-chair of the University task force on Philosophy of Education. 1980-1990: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Departmental Committees 1999: Scheduling and budgeting coordinator 1990-present: Coordinator, Humanities English-specialty major 1989-1990: Chair of the English department sub-committee to restructure the Humanities major. 1980-present: English department library acquisitions coordinator GRANTS: 1997: Half-time release during spring semester to work on the book project Teaching C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity in the Twenty-First Century, in collaboration with Bruce Edwards of Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and Rick Hill at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. (Professor Edwards is the contributing editor of several book-length studies of C.S. Lewis, among themThe Taste of the Pineapple. ) 1994: Half-time release grant as member of the Biola University faculty seminar, underwritten by the Fieldstead Foundation. 1994: Travel grant to participate in the triennial C.S. Lewis Institute conference at Queen’s College, Cambridge, summer of 1994. 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1997: Biola University release-time research grants. PUBLICATIONS: Lyle Smith and Richard Hill, Teaching C. S. Lewis: A handbook for professors, church leaders and Lewis enthusiasts. Newcastle, U.K.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Contributor to Perspectives: A Guide to Teaching Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith, ed. Darryl Tippens and Stephen Weathers. Abilene, Texas: ACU Press, 1999. Contributor to The C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia, ed. Jeffrey Schultz and John G. West, Jr.Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998. “Metaphors of Deep Heaven: the Platonic Context of C.S. Lewis’s Interplanetary Trilogy,” The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, Vol. 21, Number 4, Winter 1997-98. “Reading ‘something’ in ‘Tintern Abbey,’” Christianity and Literature, Spring-Summer 1996 (Vol. 45, No. 3-4). "C.S. Lewis and the Making of Metaphor," in Word and Story in C.S. Lewis, ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1991, 11-28. "The Argument of 'Sunday Morning'," College Literature, Vol. 13, 1986. "What Fielding Missed: Forster's 'Special Effects" in "A Passage to India," Studia Mystica, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Fall 1985. "Beyond the Romantic Sublime: Gerard Manley Hopkins," Renascence, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Spring, 1982. "Volk, Jew and Devil: Ironic Inversion in Günter Grass's Dog Years," Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. III, No. 1, 1979. Review of "Wordsworth's 'Natural Methodism'" by Richard Brantley (New Haven, 1975) in Christian Scholar's Review V:4, 1976, 397-398. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: “Always the Old Nostalgia: the Early Poems of C.S. Lewis,” presented July 15-20, 1998 at Mythcon XXI, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. “Reading ‘something’ in ‘Tintern Abbey,’” presented July 31, 1996 at the Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, Cumbria, U.K. “On the Border of Nature: Reading ‘Tintern Abbey,’” presented June 16, 1996 at the Western Regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westmont College “The Oxymoron of a Humanistic Sublime,” presented May 5, 1995, at the Western Regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University. 3 "'Thou Still Unravish'd Question Mark of Quietness:' Metaphors of a Metaphor in 'Sunday Morning,'" presented May 2, 1992 at the Western Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle University, Seattle, WA. "Being a Christian Professor in a Post-Christian World," presented as part of a symposium at the Biola University Fall Faculty Workshop, August 22, 1991. "Structure as Meaning I Henry VI, " presented at the session on Literature and Linguistics, 87th annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, The Claremont Colleges, November 10- 12, 1989. "Salvation: Five Ministers of the Elizabethan Settlement," presented at the Tenth Annual Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature, September 22-24, 1989, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. Chaired session, "Dramatic Discourses", meeting of the Renaissance Conference of Southern California, April 7-8, 1989. "C.S. Lewis and the Making of Metaphor," presented at the C.S. Lewis Celebration, Mercer University, Atlanta, October 7-9, 1988. "Transcendence and the Narrative Mode," presented at the MLA conference, San Francisco, CA, December, 1979. "Foxhunter and Marprelate: The Legacy of William Turner," presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, April, 1979. "The Pilgrim Progress of Spenser's Redcrosse Knight," presented at the Western Regional meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, January, 1979. "Mythic Transformation in Dog Years: An Evaluation," presented at the annual conference of the Kentucky Philological Association, April, 1976. .