Melanie C. Maddox, Ph.D. in Mediaeval History History Department, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409 Office Phone: 843-953-5054 E-Mail: [email protected]
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Melanie C. Maddox, Ph.D. in Mediaeval History History Department, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409 Office Phone: 843-953-5054 E-Mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Ph.D. in Mediaeval History 2010. Dissertation: ‘The Anglo-Saxon and Irish Ideal of the Ciuitas, c. 500-1050.’ B.A. University of California, Riverside. B.A. in History 2004. B.A. University of California, Riverside. B.A. in Art History 1996. Honors & Awards The Citadel’s recipient of the 2017 All-Conference Faculty Award (February 2, 2017). James A. Grimsley Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (Awarded by the Class of April 2016, The Citadel) Teaching Experience Assistant Professor, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Department of History, 430 Capers Hall, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409 (August 2015- present). Visiting Assistant Professor, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Department of History, 430 Capers Hall, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC 29409 (August 2012-June 2015). Visiting Assistant Professor, Eckerd College, Letters Collegium, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33711 (August 2011-August 2012). Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College, Department of History, Old Main, Room 311, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105 (Spring 2011). Lecturer, University of California, Riverside, Department of History, 1212 HMNSS Building, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521 (Fall 2010). Tutor, University of Edinburgh, Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, 27 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD (January-May 2009). Tutor, University of St Andrews, The St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews, 71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9QW (Martinmas Semesters 2005-2007). Courses Developed & Taught Anglo-Saxon England (Graduate-level class) Celtic Culture & History HIST Capstone: Medieval Vengeance & Feud History of Ireland History through Harry Potter Honors History I Honors History II Introduction to the Discipline of History Ireland’s Struggles & the Road to Peace Medievalism & Popular Culture (Graduate-level class) Melanie C Maddox Page 2 Medieval Ireland (Graduate-level class) Medieval Travelers and their Accounts Monks, Lords, War and Pestilence: Europe AD 950-1350 The Romans The Viking Age: c. AD 750-1100 Tudor England Tutorial for British Isles from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries Tutorial for Celtic Civilization IB Western Civilization I & II Western Civilization II (online) World History I & II World History through Cities Supervised Student Research Viking Belief & Warfare TERRORISTS OR FREEDOM FIGHTERS?: The Irish Republican Army and the Modern Middle East Roman Imperial Army Economies of the Scandinavians & the early English Graduate Thesis on Justinian & Theodora Publications ‘Re-Conceptualizing the Irish Monastic Town’, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland 146 (June 2018 for 2016), pp. 21-32, http://www.citadel.edu/root/images/history_dept/jrsai_146_reconceptualizing_the_iris h_monastic_town.maddox.pdf .* This is one of the leading journals of Ireland. 'Queen or Puppet Lady?: Æthelflaed’s role in the Politics, Economics and Identity of Mercia', Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 19 (Published Fall 2015 for 2014), pp. 111-126.* ‘Finding the City of God in the Lives of St Coemgen: Glendalough and the History of the Irish Celestial Civitas’, in Glendalough: City of God, ed. Charles Doherty, Linda Doran and Mary Kelly (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011), pp. 1-21. 'Early Irish Monasteries and their Dynastic Connections', Studia Celtica Fennica 4 (2007), 65-76, file:///C:/Users/Citad/AppData/Local/Temp/7426-Article%20Text-17773-1- 10-20121210.pdf . *My two most recent articles were worked on and completed in 2018 and late 2015. Both of the academic journals were behind on publications of yearly editions, so they are backdated. Each article belongs to a year during my tenure-track period. Book Reviews Review of Medieval York: 600-1540, by D.M. Palliser. The Medieval Review (October 2016), https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22709. Review of Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland, by Elva Johnston. Studia Celtica Fennica XII (December 2015), 83-86, file:///C:/Users/Citad/AppData/Local/Temp/60643-Article%20Text-65557-1-10- 20170203.pdf . Review of The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages, by Ian Wood. Medievally Speaking Melanie C Maddox Page 3 (August 2015), http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2015/08/wood-modern-origins- of-early-middle-ages.html . Review of Interpreting the English Village: Landscape and Community at Shapwick, Somerset, by Mick Aston and Chris Gerrard. The Medieval Review (April 2014), https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/18578 . Review of The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles, by Nicholas Evans. Studia Celtica Fennica 7 (2010), 53-56, file:///C:/Users/Citad/AppData/Local/Temp/7363- Article%20Text-17498-1-10-20121203.pdf . Review of City and Cosmos: The Medieval World in Urban Form, by Keith D. Lilley. The Medieval Review (April 2009), https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/17010 . Conferences ‘Perceptions of Crusaders and Crusading in American Military Colleges and the United States Armed Forces,’ at the 55th Annual International Congress of Medieval Studies (7-10 May 2020, Western Michigan University). *Meeting canceled due to Covid. Roundtable Discussant for ‘“Can These Bones Come to Life?” I: The Society for Creative Anarchronism, a Problematic Medievalism? (A Panel Discussion),’ at the 55th Annual International Congress of Medieval Studies (7-10 May 2020, Western Michigan University). *Meeting canceled due to Covid. ‘Honor & Duty: Teaching Memory and Conflict through the Citadel’s 1898 Cadet Rebellion,’ at the South Carolina Historical Association Meeting and Annual Conference (15 March 2020, USC, Aiken). *Meeting canceled due to Covid. ‘Thoughts on Ethnic and Cultural Interests in the Irish Life of Adamnán,’ at the Southeastern Medieval Association (14-16 November 2019, University of Greensboro, NC). ‘Fact or Fiction: Ireland’s Designation of Æthelflæd as Queen of the Saxons,’ at the ÆTHELFLÆD 1100 Conference (13-15 July, 2018, Council Chamber, Marmion House, Tamworth, UK). ‘Queen or Puppet Lady?: Æthelflaed’s Agency in the Politics, Power and Identity of Mercia,’ at the International Medieval Congress 2018 (4 July 2018, University of Leeds, Leeds). Roundtable discussant for ‘Monarchy and Memory, IV: Gone But Not Forgotten? –A Roundtable Discussion,’ at the International Medieval Congress 2018 (2 July 2018, University of Leeds, Leeds). ‘7th-Century Otherness for a 10th-Century World: Anglo-Saxon Raiders in the Irish Life of Adamnán,’ at the South Carolina Historical Association Meeting & Conference (10 March 2018, South Carolina Archives). ‘Honor & Duty: Student Rebellion in Harry Potter & The Citadel’s 1898 Cadet Rebellion’ at the Philological Association of the Carolinas (23-24 February 2018, The Citadel). ‘Re-Conceptualizing the Irish Monastic Town,’ at the Southeastern Medieval Association (16-18 November 2017, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston). ‘7th-Century Otherness for a 10th-Century World: Anglo-Saxon Raiders in the Irish Life of Adamnán,’ at International Medieval Congress 2017 (3-6 July 2017, University of Leeds, Leeds). ‘Bede’s World’s for Places of Power and the Passage of Time,’ at the South Carolina Historical Association Meeting & Annual Conference (11 March 2017, Bob Jones University, Greenville). Melanie C Maddox Page 4 ‘The Civitates in Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s Mind: Word Use and the Paradigms of Heaven and Hell on Earth,’ at the 51st International Congress of Medieval Studies (12-15 May 2016, Western Michigan University). Roundtable discussant for ‘Academia & Social Media in the Promotion of Medieval History. A.K.A. Who Said What?!,’ at the Forty-First Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (22-24 October 2015, University of Central Arkansas). Roundtable discussant for ‘The Heaven, The Hell, and the Rock-in-a-Hard-Place of Teaching Medieval Studies in the Twenty-First Century Classroom,’ at the Forty-First Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (22-24 October 2015, University of Central Arkansas). ‘The Irish Civitas: Christian Memory, Myth & the Heavenly Meaning of Space,’ at the Forty- First Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (22-24 October 2015, University of Central Arkansas). ‘Civitas, Cathair or Monastic Town: Space, Terminology and the Question of Urbanization,’ at the Third Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (15-17 June 2015, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University). 'Queen or Puppet Lady?: Æthelflaed’s role in the Politics, Power and Identity of Mercia,’ at the Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (16-18 June 2014, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University). 'Queen or Puppet Lady?: Æthelflaed’s role in the Politics, Power and Identity of Mercia,’ at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association (27-28 September 2013, West Texas A & M, Canyon) 'Glendalough and the History of the Irish Civitas: Urban "City" or Sacred Space?' at the Urban History Lecture Series (16 November 2010, University of California, Riverside). 'Glendalough: Considering the Role of One of Ireland's New Romes' at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association (24-26 September 2010, Southern Methodist University,