MASTER'S THESIS: “Ben Jonson’s Epicœne, or The Silent Woman
(1609) and its afterlife, with special reference to Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig’s Die schweigsame Frau
(1935)"; Roland Mushat Frye (director) and Gary Schmidgall
Notices and Reviews:
Emblem Studies Newsletter
32 (Jan 2003), 12; Emblematica
13 (2003), 397-403; Sixteenth Century Journal
35.2 (2004), 593-95; Bibliothèque et Renaissance,
66.2 (2004), 413-14; Renaissance Quarterly
57.3 (2004), 1166-68; Studies in English Literature
44.2 (Spring 2004), 416;
Review of English Studies
55
(2004): 457-9; Notes and Queries
51.1 (March 2004), 85-86; Clio: Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History,
33.4 (Summer 2004); Shakespeare Studies
32 (2004), 352-6; Year's Work in English Studies
84 (2005), 441ff.; Libraries & Culture
40.1 (2005), 91-92; Shakespeare Studies
32 (2004), 352-356;
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Education & Anarchy
(Lanham, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 2001).
Notices and Reviews: The Spenser Review
32, No.3 (Autumn 2001), 14-15; The Pennsylvania Gazette
100, No.1 (Nov/Dec 2001); Trinity Reporter
(Fall 2002), 12; Choice
40.1 (Sept 2002); Sixteenth Century Journal
33.3 (Fall 2002), 914-15; click here to view book
Notices and Reviews:
Sixteenth Century Journal
27.2 (Summer 1996), 663; Emblem Studies Newsletter 19 (July 1996), 2; Trinity Reporter
(July 1996), 36; Choice
33, No. 11/12 (July/August 1996); Sidney Newsletter and Journal
14.1 (Summer 1996), 82-87; Bibliothèque et Renaissance
58.3 (1996), 701-702; Sewanee Review
105.1 (Winter 1997), xx-xxii; Studies in English Literature
37 (1997), 218; Epilogue
11.2 (1996), 52-53; Libraries and Culture
(Summer 1997), 382-83; Seventeenth-Century News
55 No. 3 & 4 (Fall-Winter, 1997), 60-61; Review of English Studies, New Series 48, No.192 (1997), 534-35; Renaissance Quarterly
50.4 (Winter 1997), 1223-24; noted in Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
60 (1998), 166; Bulletin of the History of Medicine
72.3 (1998), 543-45; Litterarum Kritikon
27 (2000), 137-42;
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BOOK UNDER CONTRACT
Researching the Reformation: Essays in Honor of W. B. Patterson, co-edited with Benjamin Guyer (Brill, delivery Dec 2022)
BOOK PROJECTS, ON-GOING
At the Limits of the Visible: Cognitive Ecologies in the Premodern Paperworld
Slips of Thought from Chaucer to Milton: Imagining the stuff of allegory
Nineteenth Century Writers Reading Renaissance Texts: Poe, Melville, and Marx
Voices in Transit: attending to dogs, death, dialect, and demons in the works of Poe
The Ubiquity of "Grace" in Early Modern English Literature: A Philological Inquest
What the Pastoral Remembers: case studies from Theocritus to Wendell Berry
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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Confronting Imagination in Langland, Spenser, and Bacon,” in Imagination and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature, ed. Mark Kaethler and Grant Williams (contract with Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2024)
"Migrating Aspects of an Emblem: Occasio, Time and Death from Alciato to Holbein," in Recent Work in Emblem Studies,
ed. Paulette Choné and Anne Rolet (Presses universitaires de Rennes/Cambridge Scholars Publications (forthcoming 2024)
Special issue on "Esoteric Design in Premodern Texts," edited by William E. Engel and James Ross Macdonald, South Atlantic Review 89.2
(Summer 2024), available June 2024); preface, pp.1-8
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Executive Board, Peoples' Branch Theatre in Nashville, 2001-04
Executive Board, National Coalition of Independent Scholars, 2001-05
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Chair, Nominating Committee Sixteenth Century Studies Exec Board, 1997-98
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Awarded Herzog August Bibliothek Fellowship, Wolfenbüttel, for Fall 2020
Short Term Reader Fellow, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Spring 2018
Faculty Research Award, The University of the South, Easter 2017
Delegate for Teacher Exchange Program, Hadera, Israel, Winter Recess 2008
Nominated Teacher of the Year, The University of the South, 2007
Red Ribbon Society (The University of the South), inducted Advent 2006
Phi Sigma Tau, Philosophy Honor Society (University of the South), Easter 2005
Israeli Teachers' Union, Tel Aviv/Jerusalem (Traveling/Research Fellow), May 2000
USA Olympic Coaches College, Colorado Springs, CO (Level One Foil), August 1999
Leonard Bernstein Center for Education Through the Arts (Fellow), 1997-99
NEH Council for Basic Education; Humanities Seminar (Team Leader), Summer 1998
NEH Folger Shakespeare Institute seminars; Washington, D.C., Fall 1994 and 1995
Ernest A. Jones Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Vanderbilt University, 1992
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL (Short Term Consortium Research Fellow), 1989-96
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, TN (Resident Fellow), 1989-90
William R. Hearst Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Summers 1988-89
Exxon Fellow for Advanced Study, The Huntington Library, SanMarino, CA 1987