English
Professor of English
Education:
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1992
M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1986
B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1979
Languages:
Scholarly proficiency in French (Old and Modern), Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Frequently Taught Courses:
Gateway: Arthur: The Once and Future King?
Humanities 102: The Art of Seeing: The World in Perspective(s), 450-1600
English 116: Travellers and Travel Liars
English 134: “I Anxious”: Circumnavigating the Self
English 241: Such a Knyght: Medieval Chivalry
English 258: On the Bus: The Beats, Buddha, and Beyond
English 341: Medieval Literature
English 366: Romance: Loosely Defined, Mostly Medieval
English 391: Chaucer: His Life, the Times, and the Tales
English 480: Senior Seminar, Brilliant Failures: Word, Image, and Imagination
English 485: Research Honors; studies recently supervised include “Raiding the Archive:
A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels” and “An Eternal
Castaway: Pedophilia in J. M. Barrie’s The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island.”
Professional development
2015 London International Palaeography Summer School
— How Medieval Manuscripts Were Made, taught by Patricia Lovett, MBE
— Introduction to Latin Palaeography, taught by Marigold Norbye, Teaching Fellow in Medieval Latin and Latin Palaeography,
University College, London
— Intermediate Latin Palaeography, taught by Marigold Norbye, Teaching Fellow in Medieval Latin and Latin Palaeography,
University College, London
2015 London Rare Books School
— The Medieval Book, taught by Michelle P. Brown, Digital Curator; Professor of Medieval MS Studies,
British Library, University of London (SAS)
Work in progress
— Review for Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies: Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and Reworkings , ed., Anna C. Henderson and Gale Owen-Crocker (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2017), Spring 2018.“Edmund of Almain and Thirteenth-Century Mappaemundi: The Case of the Duchy of Cornwall Fragment.” International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2018).
— A Companion to English Mappaemundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Ed. Dan Terkla and Nick Millea. (Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer, Spring 2018).
— Companion Chapters: “Maps and Books: Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury and Geospatial Awareness; “Books
and Maps: Anglo-Norman Durham as Exemplar”; “The Duchy of Cornwall Map (Fragment):
Materiality and Context.”
— Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 8.1. Ed. Dan Terkla and Asa Mittman. (Spring 2018).
— “From Eiderdown to World Heritage Item: The Story of Sandy Cockerell and the Hereford Mappa Mundi.”
Book-length publications
— Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6.1. Ed. Dan Terkla and Asa Mittman. (Spring 2015).
— Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 4.1. Ed. Dan Terkla and Asa Mittman. (Spring 2013).
— New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry: The Proceedings of a Conference at the British
Museum. Ed. Michael J. Lewis, Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Dan Terkla.Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011.
— The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations. Ed. Martin Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey and Dan Terkla. Woodbridge, England: The Boydell
Press, 2009.
Selected recent presentations
— “Geo-spatial Awareness in Anglo-Saxon Britain.” International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2017).— “Geometric Similarity and Medieval Maps, the First
Step on a Stairway to Heaven.” IWU, Dialogues Across the Disciplines (January 2017).
— “The World of World Maps or, Chapter Impossible.” International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2016).— “Conceptual Logic: Traditio, Innovatio, and Hugh of St. Victor’s Theography.” International Medieval Congress. University
of Leeds, England (July 2015).
— “Furnishing the Soul: Medieval Maps, Mediation, and Metaphor.” Lunch and Learn.
McLean County Historical Society (April 2015).
Recent conference sessions organized and moderated
— International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (2016-2018).
Session titles: “Mappings” (multiple annual sessions, tied to biennial Peregrinations issue).
— International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, England (2011–2018). Session
titles: “Mappings” (multiple annual sessions, tied to biennial Peregrinations issue).
Faculty Status:
Full Professor, at IWU since 1995.