| 1972-1976 | Ph.D., University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia Major field: English Medieval Literature Minor fields: Chaucer, Romance Narrative |
| 1970-1972 | M.A., University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland Major field: English Medieval Literature |
| 1965-1969 | A.B., magna cum laude, Gettysburg College,
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Major field: English |
| Graduation Speaker, St. Bernard's Preparatory School, Cullman, Alabama, June 2002 |
| Nominee, 1987 and 1989 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Professor of the Year |
| University of Virginia Tuition Grant |
| Departmental Honors, Gettysburg College |
| Phi Beta Kappa, Iota of Pennsylvania, Gettysburg College |
Record of Employment:
| 2006 summer | Tutor, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Gawain Poet, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, England |
| 2003- | Honors Program Director |
| 1998-2004 | Associate Dean of the College |
| 1996-98 | College Coordinator of Teaching Technology |
| 1994-2000 | Chair of the Division of Humanities |
| 1994 summer | Tutor, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, England |
| 1990 summer | Tutor, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, England |
| 1988- | Appointed to the Mary Collett Munger Professorship in English, Birmingham-Southern College |
| 1986 summer | Tutor, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, England |
| 1983-89 | Coordinator for the Faculty of English, Birmingham-Southern College |
| 1982 summer | Tutor, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College, Oxford, England |
| 1982- | Associate Professor of English, Birmingham-Southern College |
| 1976- | Assistant Professor of English, Birmingham-Southern College |
| 1975-76 | Part-time Instructor in English, University of Virginia |
| 1973-75 | Graduate Instructor, University of Virginia |
| 1970-72 | Graduate Instructor, University of Maryland
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| Phi Beta Kappa (Senator 2006-2012) |
| New Chaucer Society |
| Southeastern Medieval Association (Executive Committee 1991-1994) (2005-2008) |
Publications:
Books:
| Allegorical Remembrance: A Study of the Pilgrimage of the Life of Man as a Medieval Treatise on Seeing and Remembering. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990. |
Articles:
| "The Visual Theology of Julian of Norwich," Medieval Memory: Image and Text. Ed. Frank Willaert. Netherlands: Brepols Publishers, 2004. 145-60, 276-81. |
| "Faculty in Information Fluency: Forgotten Stakeholders?" with James Rettig, University Librarian, University of Richmond, Transformations: Liberal Arts in the Digital Age (March 2003) 1:1, 2003. (http://www.colleges.org/transformations/) |
| "St. Cecilia and St. John of Beverly: Julian of Norwich’s Early Model and Late Affirmation."Julian of Norwich. A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra J. McEntire. Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 1998. 91-114. |
| "Teaching Chaucer in the 1990s. Interdisciplinary Chaucer." electronic pre-print Exemplaria. Conventional publication: Exemplaria (fall 1996): 49-53. |
| "Gender, Intelligence, and Good Sex in Heart of Darkness," Furman Studies 37 (June 1995): 45-54. |
| "Chaucer's May, Standup Comics, and Critics." Chaucer's Humor: The Playful Pilgrimage to Canterbury and Beyond. Ed. Jean Jost. Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 1994. |
| "The Wife of Bath: Chaucer's Inchoate Experiment in Feminist Hermeneutics." Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales. Eds. Susanna Fein, David Raybin, and Peter Braeger. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1991. 105-124. |
| "Feminist Theology and 'The Second Nun's Tale': Or St. Cecilia Laughs at the Judge." Medieval Perspectives. Ed. Edith Williams. The Southeastern Medieval Association, Vols. 4-5 (1989-1990): 42-52. |
| "The Wife of Bath, the Lion, and the Critics." Creativity, Influence, Imagination: The Worlds of Medieval Women. Eds. C. H. Berman, J. R. Rothschild, and C. Connell. Morgantown: U of West Virginia P, 1985. 130-38. |
Book Reviews:
| Mann, Jill. Geoffrey Chaucer. Atlantic Highlands. NJ: Humanities P International, 1991. For Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1992. 177-80. |
| Moriarty, Catherine, ed. The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters 1100-1500. New York: Peter Bedrick, 1990. For Mediavistik 5 (1992): 401. |
| McGerr, Rosemarie Potz, ed. 'The Pilgrimage of the Soul': a Critical Edition of the Middle English Dream Vision. Vol. 1. New York: Garland, 1990. For Medium AEvum 61 (1991): 324-25. |
| Brownlee, Kevin, and Sylvia Hout, eds. Rethinking the Romance of the Rose: Text, Image, Reception. Philadelphia. U of Pennsylvania P, 1992. For Medievalia et Humanistica. |
Papers:
| "The Literary and Horticultural Gardens of Boccaccio’s Decameron," Teaching Chaucer Conference, Vogona, Italy, May 2008 (upcoming). |
| 'The Holy Grail from Medieval Relic to Modern Rejuvenator," The Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach FL, September 2005. |
| "Fallen Camelot's Lesson for Us and the U.S.," Teaching Chaucer Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw GA, 28 March 2003. |
| "Faculty in Information Fluency: Forgotten Stakeholders?" with James Rettig, University Librarian, University of Richmond, Educause Conference, Atlanta GA, October 2002. |
| "The Revelations of Divine Love as the Memory of a Mystic," The Southeastern Medieval Association, Tallahassee, FL, September 2002. |
| "Go Little Website or The Text of the Course and the Text of the Poet," Teaching Chaucer Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw GA, April 2002. |
| "The Visual Theology of Julian of Norwich," International Congress on Memoria, Antwerp, Belgium, March 2002. |
| "Chaucer, Gardens, and Virgins." Forest Park Garden Society, Birmingham, AL, November 2000. |
| "Chaucer Had Adam Scryven, We Have Bill Gates." Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, December 1998. |
| "Julian of Norwich’s Shift from Female Mystic to Masterful Teacher." The Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Nashville, TN, September 1997. |
| "The 3 Inch Final Paper" with Birmingham-Southern College senior English major James Bullard, Faculty Development Consortium Technology Conference, Auburn University, March 1997. |
| "Chaucer On-Line: Reporting on Teaching Chaucer with Electronic Resources." The Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Waco, TX, October 1996. |
| "Modern Reader, Medieval Eye." Religious Arts Festival, Independent Presbyterian Church, February 1996. |
| "Chaucer, Computers, and Multimedia." The Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Charleston, SC, October 1995. |
| "Team Teaching Middle English Literature with Flannery O'Connor." The Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, September, 1994. |
| "'If it's Monday, it must be groupwork' or Activating Learning in the Literature Class," with Roger N. Casey, (College English Association Breakfast), SAMLA, November 1993. |
| "Gender, Intelligence, and Good Sex in Heart of Darkness," Women's Studies in the ACS: Challenging Gender in the 1990s, Furman University, Greenville, SC, October 1993. |
| "Reading the Wife of Bath by the Light of Madonna or An Anachronistic Post-Modern Reading of a Post Medieval Text," Southeastern Medieval Association Conference," New Orleans, September, 1993. |
| "What's Really Being Tested in 'The Clerk's Tale'?" The Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, September 1992. |
| "'The Second Nun's Tale,' or Protecting the World from Rude Women," New Chaucer Society International Congress, University of Washington, Seattle, August 1992. |
| "How Dorigen Lost Her Voice, or Why 'The Franklin's Tale' is a Lie," Twenty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, May 1992. |
| "The Critics, the Prioress, and the Monk, or Jail the Hooker and Let the John Go Free." SAMLA, November 1991. |
| "Dorigen and Averagus: Whose Trouthe Is It?" Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, September 1991. |
| "The Prioress, The Church, and the Critics: Gender Bias Then and Now." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, September 1990. |
| "The Wife of Bath: Chaucer's Inchoate Experiment in Feminist Hermeneutics." New Chaucer Society Congress, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, August 1990. |
| "'The Second Nun's Tale': Pathos for Lack of Another Purpose." Twenty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, May 1990. |
| "Chaucer's Prioress: Or the Critics Blame the Victim." Women Studies Program Conference, Re-Visioning Knowledge and the Curriculum, Michigan State University, April 1990. |
| "Feminist Theology and Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale': Or St. Cecilia Laughs at the Emperor." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, October 1989. |
| "The World of Chaucer Through Art." NEH funded seminar at Jefferson State Junior College, April 1988. |
| "Animated Image versus Abstract Idea: Teaching Medieval Allegory." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, September 1987. |
| "When Allegory Was Made Modern: Isabella Cust's Translation of Deguileville." Twenty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, May 1986. |
| "The Wife Was Right About the Clerk All Along." Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 1986. |
| "Deguileville, Langland, and the Memory of Sin." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, October 1984. |
| "The Wife of Bath, the Lion, and Kate Millett." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, October 1983. |
| "Mirrors, Eyes, and Allegory." Sixteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, May 1981. |
| "Dame Prudence, the Monk, and Stories." Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, April 1979. |
| "Allegory and Remembrance: Or the art of having your eyes placed in your ears." University of Alabama Medieval Club, October 1978; Birmingham-Southern College Humanities Forum, November 1978. |
| "Ritualistic Form and Legal Formula in Njals saga." SAMLA, November 1974. |
Panel Presentations:
| "A Continued Discussion of Pedagogy, Feminism & Misogyny in the Medievalist's Classroom." Southeaster Medieval Association. Dayton Beach, September 2005. |
| "Feminism for the Medieval Classroom: A Panel Discussion on Pedagogy and Misogyny." Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, October 2004. |
| "The Road to Xanadu: Evaluating Creative and Scholarly Work," SAADE, SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, 15-17 November 2002. |
| "Pedagogical Approaches to Chaucer, a Colloquium: 'Out-louding Chaucer': How Do We Handle Reading Chaucer Out Loud (Teacher and/or Class) in Our Teaching." with Alan Gaylord, Thomas Hanks, and Trish Ward, Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, LA, 18-20 October 2001. |
| "Using PowerPoint to Teach Foreign Language and Culture." Northeast Conference on Foreign Language Teaching, New York, NY, 28-30 March 2001. (Delivered by section chair) |
| "Reading Chaucer Aloud Workshops." with Alan Gaylord, Thomas Hanks, and Trish Ward, Southeastern Medieval Association, Ashville, NC, 28-30 September 2000. |
| "Chaucer Out Loud: Evaluating Formats." with Alan Gaylord, Thomas Hanks, and Trish Ward, Southeastern Medieval Association, Knoxville, TN, 14-16 October 1999. |
| "Teaching Chaucer in the 1990s. Interdisciplinary Chaucer," New Chaucer Society International Congress, Dublin Ireland, July 1994. |
| "Nine Professors in Search of a Major: A Workshop for Curriculum Development in English Departments," MLA Convention, Toronto, Canada, December 1993. |
| "Graduate Studies and Baccalaureate Education," ADE Eastern Summer Seminar, Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Campus, June 1993. |
| "Re-visioning Knowledge," Samford University Faculty Institute, Birmingham, September 1992. |
| Chair, SACS Reaffirmation On-Site Committee, Converse College, 20-22 March 2007. |
| SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Catawba College, 4-6 April 2005. |
| SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Agnes Scott College, 22-24 March 2004. |
| SACS Accreditation Committee, New College of Florida, 22-25 September 2003. |
| Information Fluency and General Education, Trinity University, San Antonio, 9-11 April 2003. |
| SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Lynchburg College, 16-20 March 2003. |
| Information Fluency and General Education, Hendrix College, 5-6 November 2002. |
| SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Young Harris College, 22-25 April 2001. |
| SACS Reaffirmation Committee, Limestone College, 21-23 March 1999. |
| Technology Facilities and Curriculum Peer Review, Martin Methodist College, 16 December 1988. |
| English Department Peer Review, Hendrix College, 15-17 February 1998. |
Grants and Institutes:
| Associated Colleges of the South, Technology Fellow, $2,500, Summer 2003. |
| HERS/Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, Bryn Mawr, 24 June-20 July 2001. |
| Hess Center for Leadership Studies and Service, "Faculty Summer Leadership Institute," Birmingham-Southern College, $400, 22-23 August 2000. |
| Association of American Colleges, "Engaging Cultural Legacies" Conference, Washington, DC, August 1991. |
| Summer Research Stipend. Birmingham-Southern College, $1,500, 1989. |
| NEH Summer Institute: "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." C. David Benson, Director. Storrs, The University of Connecticut, Summer 1987. |
| Fellow, Wye Faculty Seminar, "Citizenship and the American Polity." Wye Plantation, Wye, Maryland, August 1986. |
| Mellon Foundation Faculty Development Grant. Birmingham-Southern College, $3,000, 1982-1983. |
| Mellon Regional Faculty Development Project, "Teaching Chaucer." Emerson Brown, Director. Vanderbilt University, April 1981. |
| American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid for Recent Ph.D's., $1,500, 1978. |
