EDUCATION

College and University Education

Ph.D., English Literature, 1999
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Areas of Specialization: English Renaissance; Drama; Christian Late Antiquity
Dissertation: "Imaginative Space and the Construction of Community: The Drama of
Augustine's Two Cities in the English Renaissance"
Advisors: Mark Vessey, Anthony B. Dawson, Dennis Danielson

MA, English Literature, 1995
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Thesis: "Elizabethan Theatre as Textual Community: Words as Essence, Action and
Historicization in Hamlet"

BA, Honors English, 1992
University of Washington, Seattle

Graduate Honors and Awards
University Graduate Fellowship (1998-9)
Anne and William Messenger Scholarship in English (1998)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Morris (Aug. 2001-present)
Sessional Lecturer, Arts One Program, University of British Columbia (1999-2001)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (1999-2000)
Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia (1995-1998)

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Publications

Books
Critical edition of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens for The Arden Shakespeare (Third Series). Senior editor: Anthony B. Dawson; associate editor: Gretchen E. Minton. The Arden Shakespeare is one of the three leading publishers of critical editions of Shakespeare's plays. (Under contract; expected completion, 2004)

Articles
"Civitas to Congregation: Augustine's Two Cities and John Bale's Image of Both Churches." Augustinian Studies 32.2 (1999): 237-56. Reprinted in History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: New Essays on Augustine's City of God. Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999.

"John Bale's Image of Both Churches and the English Paraphrase of Revelation." In Holy Scripture Speaks: The Production and Reception of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 291-312.

"'The same cause and like quarell': Eusebius, John Foxe, and the Evolution of Ecclesiastical History." Church History 74.1 (2002).

"'A poor chipochia': A New Look at an Italian Word in Troilus and Cressida 4.2." Forthcoming in Neophilologus (2003)

"William Cave." New Dictionary of National Biography. 2000 words. Forthcoming, 2004.

Reviews
Review of John Foxe: An Historical Perspective, ed. David Loades. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Church History 69.4 (Dec. 2000).

Review of John Foxe and his World, ed. Christopher Highley and John N. King. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Church History 74.1 (2002)

Work in Progress
Critical edition of John Bale's Image of Both Churches (requested by Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands).

Cultural biography of John Foxe. Long-term project in its initial stages.

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations
"Magnalia Christi Americana: Cotton Mather's Ecclesiastical History of New England."
Promised Lands: The Bible, Christian Missions, and Colonial Histories in Latin Christendom from the Late Roman Empire to the European Settlement of North America. (Vancouver, October 2002).

"The Damnation of Pluto's Gold in Timon of Athens."
Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting (Minneapolis, March 2002)

"Romeos and Juliets: The Performance History of Shakespeare's Play."
A seminar for students at Keio University (Tokyo, October 2001)

"'Discharging less than the tenth part of one': Performance Anxiety and/in Troilus and Cressida."
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference (Vancouver, April 2001)

"Eusebius in the English Reformation: The Case of John Foxe."
North American Patristics Society (Chicago, May 2000)

"Erasmian Humanism vs. Apocalyptic Polemics in the English Reformation."
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conerence (Tacoma, Apr. 2000)

"John Bale's Image of Both Churches as Erasmian Paraphrase."
An International Symposium on Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament (Toronto, Oct. 1999)

"Real Stories for an Imagined City: Narrative Strategies in Augustine's City of God Book 22."
International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, Aug. 1999)

"Acting the Apocalypse: John Foxe's Textual Bodies in Shakespeare's Cymbeline."
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1999)

"Re-imagining the City of God: Foxe's use of Augustine."
John Foxe and His World: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium (Columbus, May 1999)

"Generic Hybridization and Protestant Rhetoric in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments."
Modern Language Association Annual Convention (San Francisco, Dec. 1998)

"Prescripting Sacred History: Augustine's City of God as Cosmic Drama."
North American Patristics Society (Chicago, May 1998)

"Reading the Apocalypse in Cymbeline."
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference (Bellingham, WA, Apr. 1998)

"Martyrdom and the Word: Acts of the Flesh and Monuments of the Book."
Conference on Christianity and Literature (Seattle, May 1997)

"The Iconography of the Word: John Bale's Divided Drama."
Renaissance Society of America (Vancouver, Apr. 1997)

"Christian Community, Christian Mind: Cassiodorus and the Aim of Education."
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 1996)

Research Direction
I am currently employing a student as a research assistant through the Morris Academic Partnership program. Margaret Uttke is assisting me on the Timon of Athens edition, which is providing her with valuable skills for her future educational endeavors. She is also developing her own related research project, which she will present at a national undergraduate conference in Salt Lake City in the Spring of 2003.

TEACHING

University of Minnesota, Morris courses taught (2001-2002)
College Writing
Introduction to Poetry and Poetic Language
Medieval to Renaissance in English Literature
Shakespeare
Variable Topics in Interpreting Literature: "Modern Drama: Exploring Nightmares in the Twentieth Century"
Senior Honors Seminar: "The Drama of Shakespeare's Contemporaries"
Directed Study: "Shakespeare and Literary Theory"

Study abroad course planned for May 2003: "Shakespeare's England"

Other courses taught (University of British Columbia)
Arts One: A full-year team-taught interdisciplinary program for first year students who plan to major in the humanities. (1999-2001)

"Literature and Criticism": Introduction to critical thinking and literary theory. (1998)

"Approaches to Literature": Introduction to interpreting and writing about poetry, drama, and prose. (1994-1997)

SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSION

Internal (University of Minnsota, Morris)
Music Search Committee for tenure-line band director (2002-3)

Judge for the Meiningens Theatre Group for the 2002-3 season

Philosophy examining committee, honors defense for David Speetzen (Apr. 2002)

English Department Search Committee for tenure-line position in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. (2001-2)

External
Conference Coordinator for the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop at the University of British Columbia, entitled "Institutional Readings: Early Modern Europe and the Modern University." (1999-2000)

Conference Coordinator for the 27th Annual Medieval Workshop at U.B.C., entitled "History, Apocalypse, and the Secular Imagination: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Augustine's City of God." (1996-7)

Editorial Assistant, Early Modern Literary Studies, an electronic journal: www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/emlswsrc.html. (1994-5)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS

Professional Organization Memberships
Modern Language Association
Renaissance Society of America
Shakespeare Association of America
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society
North American Patristics Society

Professional Honors and Awards

Folger Shakespeare Library fellowship (May-June 2002)