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.”
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Honors/Awards | |
Editorial board member, Maps, Spaces, Cultures series, Brill (Leiden, The Netherlands) | (2014) |
Nominee, Teacher of the Year, Panhellenic Council | (2011, 2013) |
Kemp Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence | (2010) |
British Academy/Newberry Library Fellow | (2008) |
J.B. Harley Fellow in the History of Cartography | (2008) |
Council member, Society for the History of Discoveries | (2007) |
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar: “The Bayeux Tapestry and the Anglo-Norman World” (Yale University) | (2005) |
Nominee, Student Senate Teacher of the Year | (1999, 2000, 2001) |
Participant, Folger Institute Seminar: “The Force of Memory in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Culture” (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC) | (2000) |
Whatley Award, Article of the Year (Studies in Popular Culture) | (1999) |
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London | (1998) |
Phi Kappa Phi member | (1998) |
Dickinson College Faculty (Teacher) of the Year | (1993–1994) |
Participant, NEH Summer Seminar: “Conceptions of Heaven from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages” (University of California, Santa Barbara) | (1993) |
Visiting Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford University | (1985-86) |
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.