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Jonathan Bryant Himes Professor of English, John Brown University 623 Raines Road, Siloam Springs, AR 72761, [email protected]
Educational Background Ph.D.: English, Texas A&M University, 2003 M.A.: English, Texas A&M University, 1998 B.B.A.: Business Administration, Harding University, 1995
Publications Books The Old English Epic of Waldere. Ed. and Trans. with Introduction by Jonathan B. Himes. Cambridge Scholars: 2009 Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy. Ed. and Introduction by Jonathan B. Himes. Cambridge Scholars: 2008 Waldere: Anglosaksinen Muinaisruno. Trans. Osmo Pekonen and Clive Tolley. Minerva Press: 2005 Articles “Waldere.” The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature. Ed. Robert Rouse and Sian Echard. Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming 2016) “Mr. Vane and Lilith: Two Roads to Repentance?” Northwind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies (Spring 2015) “Questioning God(s) of Other Worlds in Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.” Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal 13.1 (Spring 2015): 64-71 “Redeeming the Narrator in George MacDonald’s Lilith” C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology. Cambridge Scholars, 2015 “Feminine Leadership: Spenser’s Britomart and Lewis’s Reason,” Proceedings of the Eighth Bienniel Francis White Ewbank Colloquium on C. S. Lewis & Friends, Taylor University, 2012 “A Matter of Time: C. S. Lewis’s Dark Tower Manuscript and Composition Process.” Mythlore Spring/Summer, 2011 “Oak Park” and “Turning Point: Jonathan Himes.” Chicago: Neighborhoods, Niches, and Community Needs. Ed. Kathy Lyon, Bernice Braid, Dylan D. Phillips. Chicago: (Re)Organizing Communities, NCHC Institute, July 28-Aug 1, 2010. 43-44, 91-93. Posted online November 2010
Book or Manuscript Reviews Beowulf: A New Verse Rendering. Wilson, Douglas. Review for Christian Scholar’s Review Spring 2017 (forthcoming) Both Sides of the Wardrobe. Fennell, Rob. Review for Sehnsucht 10 (2016) “Nature as a Christian and Pagan Symbol in Old English Poetry” (peer review of article for the multilingual journal Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 2014) The Unofficial Narnia Cookbook. Dinah Bucholz. Review for Sehnsucht 7 (2013) Ransoming the Waste Land: Papers on C.S. Lewis's Space Trilogy and Other Works. Nancy-Lou Patterson. Ed. Emily E. Auger (book proposal), on behalf of Mythpress for the Mythopoeic Society, 2013 Plain to the Inward Eye, Don W. King (book proposal), on behalf of ACU Press, 2012 Kalevala, Land of Heroes (book proposal), on behalf of Alabama UP, 2001
Awards Summer Fellows Grant, John Brown University, Summer 2011 OUSPF Grant, John Brown University, 2010 Shipps Grant for Research, John Brown University, 2005, 2006, 2007 Dissertation Research Award (Grant), Texas A&M English Department, 2003 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Travel Grant, Texas A&M University, 2002 Charles Gordone Creative Writing Award (Poetry), Texas A&M University, 2002
Conference Presentations “The Making of a Manly Romance: How Hervor’s Saga Became The Saga of King Heidrik the Wise by Christopher Tolkien.” CSLIS 17th Annual Conference, Grove City College, PA, Mar. 2015 “Questioning God(s) of Other Worlds in Lev Grossman’s The Magicians.” Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, JBU, Siloam Springs, AR, Nov. 2014 “’Imaginative Remembering’: Brueggemann and Lewis on Biblical Inspiration versus Inerrancy,” CSLIS 17th Annual Conference, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, Apr. 2014 “Mr. Vane and Lilith: Two Roads to Repentance?” CSLIS 16th Annual Conference, LeTourneau University, Longview, TX, Mar. 2013 “Feminine Leadership: Spenser’s Britomart and Lewis’s Reason,” 8th Bienniel Francis White Ewbank Colloquium on C. S. Lewis & Friends, Taylor University, June 2012. “Redefining Hillbilly with Honors: The New Mountain Men of the Ozarks,” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Boulder, Colorado, within the pedagogy session "Teaching Literature through Travel and Off-campus Study," Oct. 2012 “On Lewis’s Dark Tower,” South-Central MLA Conference, Science Fiction Session, Hot Springs, AR, Oct. 2011 “ ‘Oh, Lewis, Lewis. . . you are inimitable, simply inimitable!’: Self-reference in Lewis and Tolkien's Tales of Space or Time Travel,” CSLIS 14th Annual Conference, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 1-2, 2011. “Are You Being Served? Undergraduate Tutors and Writers in a Consumer Culture,” South-Central Writing Centers Association (SCWCA) Conference, University of Houston Clear Lake, Feb. 2011
“Of Time and Tide and Time Travel in The Dark Tower: A Close Examination of the ‘fragments [C. S. Lewis] shored against his ruins.’” CSLIS 13th Annual Conference, Oklahoma City University, Mar. 2010 “The Inklings and the Alliterative Tradition,” CSLIS 12th Annual Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mar. 2009 “The Pagan Celticisms of Yeats’s Early Poetry,” Arkansas Philological Association Conference, Fort Smith, Oct. 2008 “Tutor Training and Cross-Disciplinary Work at the Private University,” South-Central Writing Center Association (SCWCA) Conference, University of Oklahoma, Mar. 2008 “C. S. Lewis’s Celticisms and the Influence of W. B. Yeats,” CSLIS Conference, Grove City College, Mar. 2008 “The Redemption of Irish Faeryland: Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Stephens’s The Crock of Gold,” Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Mar. 2007 “A Fighting Religion: Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethics in the Christian Faith,” Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Sept. 2006 “Rules and Rites of Military Conduct in Old English Waldere,” International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, May 4, 2006 “The Inklings: Writers of the Speculative and the Sacred at Oxford,” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, March 2005 “'I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man': Baptism by Fantasy in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis,” Oral Roberts University, April 2005 “The Allegory of Lust: Fictional and Sexual Deviance in The Dark Tower,” LeTourneau University, April 2004 “Singers of the Sampo and the Silmarils: How Lönnrot and Tolkien Constructed Their Quest Objects,” Singer of Epics Symposium, Turku, Finland, Nov. 2002 “Mimming and Mimesis: The Sword That is There and Not There in OE Waldere,” Texas Medieval Association, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Oct. 2002 “World’s End Imagery: How C. S. Lewis and William Morris Imagined the Medieval North,” ICOLL Conference, Texas A&M University, Oct. 2000 “Fantasy Criticism: A Model from Lewis and Tolkien,” C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference, Oral Roberts University, Feb. 1999
Institutes Attended “General Education and Assessment: Disruptions, Innovations, and Opportunities,” AAC&U’s Network for Academic Renewal conference in Portland, Oregon, February 27 – March 1, 2014 “Chicago: (Re)Organizing Communities,” National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Institute, July 28-Aug.1, 2010 “L. M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature,” The 9th Biennial L.M. Montgomery Institute’s International Conference, University of PEI, Canada, June 2010 “A Space for Writing: Writing Centers and Place,” International Writing Centers Association Conference, Houston, TX, April 2007 “Putting Research at the Center,” South-Central Writing Center Association Conference, OSU, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Feb. 2004
Teaching Experience Elementary Latin I & II (Independent Studies) Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014 Anglo-Saxon Language Lab: John Brown University, Fall 2007, Spring 2011 Beowulf)Great Books Series, History Dept.): John Brown University, Spring 2011 C. S. Lewis & the Inklings: John Brown University, Spring 2004, 2006, 2011 Myths & Epics of (North)Western EuropeJohn Brown University, Fall 2008 , English 1013 and 1023: John Brown University, Fall or Spring 2003 – 2013 Masterpieces of Literature: John Brown University, Fall or Spring 2005 – 2010, 2013-14 Medieval Literature: John Brown University, Fall 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 History of the English Language: John Brown University, Spring 2005 Advanced Composition: John Brown University, Spring 2005 – 2010 Advanced English Grammar: John Brown University, Fall 2004 Introduction to Linguistics: Texas A&M University, Fall 2001 Technical Writing: Texas A&M University, 1999 – 2002 Introduction to Literature: Texas A&M University, 1998 – 2003 Freshman Composition and Rhetoric: Texas A&M University, 1997 – 1998 English Through the Bible: Hungary, 1995 - 1996
Professional and Community Service Host family for Panama student, Walton Scholars Program, 2014-2015 Elementary Latin I & II, Independent Studies for 7 students, 2012-2015 Online Course designer & instructor, Masterpieces of Literature, 2014-2015 Presentation, 45 mins., in the “Master Teaching” series to Dick Ellis’s class for Degree-Completion adjuncts at the Rogers campus, Nov. 6, 2014 Autism consultant for JBU student projects in counseling: Chase Sloan 2012, Kristie Lotz 2013 Autism interviews: for Colleague, U of A, College of Education & Health Professions 2012 and 2013 issues; for Ability Tree promotional video 2014 Writing Center Director, consultant 2003-present Secretary of the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society (CSLIS) 2006-present Member of NWA Autism Support Network, Rogers, AR, 2010-present Member of Honors committee 2007-present Member of Core Curriculum Committee 2007-present Chair, Core Curriculum Committee 2012-2014 Reader at Faculty Readings hosted by Patty Kirk & Sigma Tau Delta, 2006, 2013 Online Course designer & instructor, Business Communication (Advance Program), 2011 Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society) 2005-2010 Co-director of Honors Thesis for Lindsey Seader, Spring 2010 Director of Eagle Scholars Independent Study for Alyssa Peiser, Fall 2010 Independent studies director for four JBU students (two non-English majors) Panelist for Jennifer Niles’ (Mar. 2009) and Holly Allen’s Parenting classes (2011, 2013) Leader of writing workshop for students through Student Support Services, 2007, 2008 Leader of “Myths & Epics” Study Abroad Trip to England and Scandinavia, May 2009 Leader of “Alsace Castle Tour” near Strasbourg, France, for 3 JBU students, May 2008 Leader of Ireland Study Abroad Team, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 2004, 2005 Seminar leader for Advance Program instructors on grading student papers, Feb. 2007 Departmental representative at several majors fairs
Panelist twice for Scholarship Day on academic rigor Interviewer of several prospective English majors and parents on recruitment weeks Participant on three faculty roundtables about graduate school for interested undergrads Organizer of annual adjunct workshops for the English department Leader of Writing Center sessions for faculty at Fall Workshops, 2004, 2006 Conference chair and host, C. S. Lewis Conference, JBU, 2006, 2016 Producer, “An Evening with the Inklings” in the role of C.S. Lewis, JBU, 2006 Chair of session for Arkansas Philological Association Conference, JBU, 2005 Point person and organizer, Distinguished Writers Series, Barry Hannah, JBU, 2004 Leader of JBU student panels at CSLIS conferences in Texas, 2004, and Oklahoma, 2005 Creator and supervisor of four Medieval Faire events on campus, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013
Languages Reading knowledge: Hungarian, German, Old and Middle English, Latin, Spanish