Faculty Member, English and Art History
About
I hold the MA in English from Longwood University, with a specialization in medieval literature. At Longwood, I worked primarily with Larissa "Kat" Tracy, Shawn Smith, Esther Godfrey and Chene Heady. (I also worked at the graduate level with William MacLehose at Catholic University and David Pike and Daniele Rodamar at American University prior to Longwood). My thesis focused on the Arthurian legend as the foundation for national identity as evidenced in British medieval texts; beginning with a postcolonial framework, I applied a myth theory approach centralizing on Jung's ideas about archetypes, alchemy, and the collective unconscious, and this project is being revised and expanded for publication.
I am a humanities instructor at the Carlbrook School, a year round boarding school, where I have worked since the school's opening in 2002; I teach six courses a term, five terms a year, of my own devising in terms of curriculum and delivery. I have been admitted to UNC Greensboro's PhD Program in English and awarded a fellowship.
Current projects as of May 2011: "Species or Specious: Chaucer's Parliament of Fowles" essay for proposed edited collection _In Hir Corages_ (Carolynn van Dyke, Ed.); Article on Spenser for the Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception in Literature (Britt, subject editor; DeGruyter Publishing); book review of Hardyment's _Thomas Malory: King Arthur's Biographer_ for Hortulus Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies (March, 2011); Female Biography Project: 15 research subjects for updated edited edition of Mary Hays' 6-volume women's historical biography (June, 2011); an article under peer review for _Arthuriana_.
My interests are broad and interdisciplinary in nature, but generally boil down to two primary criteria: 1. Does it have dragons, monsters, or other folkloric or mythological creatures in it? and 2. Is it either medieval or influential for, related to, responding to, or attempting to recreate, something medieval? If the answer is "yes" to either or both questions, I'm interested in it!
*Please note: I am taking a hiatus from my (formal) academic work once these projects are completed to focus on treatment for a recent diagnosis of breast cancer. I plan to return to doctoral work in fall of 2012 and to complete my PhD as quickly as possible after that. in the meanwhile, I will continue to teach and to research independently as health permits.*
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