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: 淚 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 淩aiding the Archive:
A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels and 淎n Eternal
Castaway: Pedophilia in J. M. Barrie檚 The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island.
Professional development
2015 London International Palaeography Summer School
&苍产蝉辫;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
&苍产蝉辫;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.淓dmund 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: 淢aps and Books: Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury and Geospatial Awareness; 淏ooks
and Maps: Anglo-Norman Durham as Exemplar; 淭he 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).
淔rom Eiderdown to World Heritage Item: The Story of Sandy Cockerell and the Hereford Mappa Mundi.
Book-length publications
&苍产蝉辫;Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6.1. Ed. Dan Terkla and Asa Mittman. (Spring 2015).
&苍产蝉辫;Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 4.1. Ed. Dan Terkla and Asa Mittman. (Spring 2013).
&苍产蝉辫;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.
&苍产蝉辫;The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations. Ed. Martin Foys, Karen Eileen Overbey and Dan Terkla. Woodbridge, England: The Boydell
Press, 2009.
Selected recent presentations
&苍产蝉辫; 淕eo-spatial Awareness in Anglo-Saxon Britain. International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2017).&苍产蝉辫;淕eometric Similarity and Medieval Maps, the First
Step on a Stairway to Heaven. 糖心动漫vlog, Dialogues Across the Disciplines (January 2017).
&苍产蝉辫;淭he World of World Maps or, Chapter Impossible. International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2016).&苍产蝉辫;淐onceptual Logic: Traditio, Innovatio, and Hugh of St. Victor檚 Theography. International Medieval Congress. University
of Leeds, England (July 2015).
淔urnishing the Soul: Medieval Maps, Mediation, and Metaphor. Lunch and Learn.
McLean County Historical Society (April 2015).
Recent conference sessions organized and moderated
&苍产蝉辫;International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (2016-2018).
Session titles: 淢appings (multiple annual sessions, tied to biennial Peregrinations issue).
International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, England (20112018). Session
titles: 淢appings (multiple annual sessions, tied to biennial Peregrinations issue).
Faculty Status:
Full Professor, at 糖心动漫vlog since 1995.