English Department Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 17325 USA Phone: (717) 337-6762 Fax: (717) 337-6666 E-mail: cfee@gettysburg.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English Language, 1997. University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dissertation: "Torture, Text, and the Reformulation of Spiritual Identity in Old English Religious Verse"

M.A. in Medieval Studies, 1995. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

M.A. in English Language and Literature, 1991. Loyola University, Chicago, IL.

B.A. in English Literature, 1989. Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH.
 

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Linkage Grant. Funds for travel costs and related expenditures for a trip to Brussels, Belgium to capture digital images of the Brussels Cross. A.W. Mellon Grant for Recently Tenure Faculty, administered through the Faculty Development Committee, Gettysburg College. May-August 2005.

Professional Development Grant.  Funds to pay student workers to capture and to process digital images of the Brussels Cross. Faculty Development Committee, Gettysburg College. May-August 2005.

Team Teaching Fellowship. Funds to support the development and teaching of “Books of Love, Tales of Sex: Unions of Man/Woman/God in the Middle Ages.” Johnson Center for Creative Teaching, Gettysburg College. August-December 2004.

Service Learning Grant. Funds to support the Washington, DC Service Learning component of "The Literature of Homelessness." Corporation for National and Community Service funds provided through a grant to the Center for Public Service, Gettysburg College. August-December 2004.

Professional Development Grant.  Funds for travel costs, software, technical support, research assistance, and research and development of “The Digital Rood:  A Scholarly Electronic Edition.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  May 2002-August 2004.

Curriculum Development Grant.  Funds for travel costs, software, technical support, research assistance, and research and development of “English 401—Viking Studies:  Composing an Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia of Viking Britain.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  May-August 2001.

Curriculum Development Grant.  Funds for stage construction, costuming, and other production costs associated with “English 312—Medieval Drama.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  January-May 2001.

Pre-Tenure Research Leave (one term with full pay and benefits) to complete Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain.  Office of the Provost, Gettysburg College.  August-December 2000.

Curriculum Development Grant.  Funds for travel costs, software, technical support, research assistance, and research and development of “English 401—Viking Studies:  Composing an Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia of Viking Britain.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  May-August 2000.

Best Professor in English.  Order of Omega Awards Banquet, Gettysburg College.  1999.

Faculty Excellence Award for the Creative Use of Instructional Technology.  Office of the Provost, Gettysburg College.  1999-2000.

Technology and Pedagogy Grant.  Funds for teleconferencing costs associated with a course taught simultaneously at Dickinson College, Franklin and Marshall College, and Gettysburg College:  “English 319--The Battle for Britain:  Mythology in Medieval English Literature.”   Mellon Foundation funds administered through the Central Pennsylvania Consortium.  August-December 1999.

Technology and Pedagogy Grant.  Funds for travel costs, software, technical support, research assistance, technical teaching assistance, professional development, and research and development of “English 319--The Battle for Britain:  Mythology in Medieval English Literature.”  Central Pennsylvania Consortium.  May-December 1999.

Curriculum Development Grant.  Funds for travel costs, software, technical support, research assistance, technical teaching assistance, and research and development of “English 319--The Battle for Britain:  Mythology in Medieval English Literature.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  May-December 1999.

Curriculum Development Grant.  Funds for stage construction, costuming, and other production costs associated with “English 312--Medieval Drama.”  Grants Advisory Commission, Gettysburg College.  January-May 1999.

Best New Faculty Member Award.  Order of Omega Awards Banquet, Gettysburg College.  1998.

Technology and Pedagogy Grant. Funds for hardware, software, technical support, research assistance, technical teaching assistance, professional development, and research and development of "English 401--Viking Studies: An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Senior Seminar on the Language, Literature, History and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia." Mellon Foundation funds administered through the Central Pennsylvania Consortium. May-December 1998.

Postgraduate Scholarship. University of Glasgow, 1995-1997.

Overseas Research Student Award. Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, 1995-1997.

Research Support Award. Travel, accommodation, and subsistence grant for two-week research trip to Vercelli, Italy, to consult the Anglo-Saxon manuscript "Vercelli, Biblioteca Capitolare CXVII" (the "Vercelli Book"). Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow, August 1996.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. Grant from British Council, 1995-1996.

Predoctoral Fellowship. University of Connecticut, 1991-1994.

Tuition Fellowship. University of Connecticut, 1991-1994.

Research Grant. Research and Editorial Assistant for the Old English Newsletter, under the direction of Frederick Biggs. University of Connecticut Research Foundation, September 1993-May 1994.

Summer Fellowship. University of Connecticut, 1992-1994.

Summer Research Grant. Research and Editorial Assistant for An Annotated Bibliography of Beowulf Scholarship, volume II, by Robert Hasenfratz. University of Connecticut Research Foundation, 1992.

Tuition Fellowship. Loyola University, 1989-1991.

Library Research Award. Baldwin-Wallace College, 1989.

Bertha L. Stiefel Scholarship in English. Baldwin-Wallace College, 1986.
 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain.  With David A. Leeming.  Oxford University Press, September 2001. Paperback issued by Oxford in March 2004.

Mythology in the Middle Ages. Under contract for the Praeger series on the Middle Ages, Jane Chance, editor. Anticipated release in the course of 2008.

Torture and Text in Anglo-Saxon England:  The Poetics of Pain. Manuscript currently under revision.

ARTICLES

“Trial by Ordeal and the Nature of the Soul:  Influences of Popular Justice in the Middle English Romance of Athelston,” in The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West.  M. Gosman, et al., eds.  Mediaevalia Groningana XXV.  A. MacDonald, gen. ed.  Groningen, The Netherlands:  Egbert Forsten, 1999.

“Judith  and the Rhetoric of Heroism in Anglo-Saxon England.” English Studies 78 (1997).

 “Beag  & Beaghroden:  Women, Treasure, and the Language of Social Structure in Beowulf.”  Neuphilologische Mitteilungen XCVII (1996).

 “Swa Smæte Gold:  Material Purgation and Spiritual Refashioning in Old English Visions of Judgment.”  The Glasgow Review  4 (Spring 1996).

“Productive Destruction:  Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English Andreas.”  Essays in Medieval Studies XI (1994).

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

“Giving Voice to the Silence of Suffering:  Pain, Perception, and the Language of Wounds and Weapons in the Old English The Dream of the Rood.”  In preparation for submission to Exemplaria.

“Public Pain, the Body as Document, and Torture as a Language of Political Power in Anglo-Saxon England.”  In preparation for submission to Exemplaria.

“‘Sare ic wæs mid sorgum gedrefed’:  Physical Torment, Emotional Anguish, and the Language of Penitence in the Old English The Dream of the Rood.”  In preparation for submission to Neophilologus.

“Secrets from the ‘Grave’:  The Duality of the Old English Grafan and the Nature of Spiritual Substance.”  In preparation for submission to Neuphilologische Mitteilungen.

“Learning to Speak:  Voice, Identity, and Play in the Discourse of Chaucer’s Troilus.”  In preparation for submission to The Chaucer Review.

 “‘Pinsunge i flesch’:  Meditation, Mortification, and the Loving Language of Penitent Pain in the Ancrene Wisse.”  Article in progress.
 

PAPERS

“Eating a Holy Family into House and Home:  Modelling the Heavenly Banquet in the Old English Andreas, Daniel, and Guthlac.”  8th International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England.  11 July 2001.

“Technology & Pedagogy Workshop and Round-table Discussion: Crossing the Great Divide(s):  Interdisciplinary Electronic Collaboration in Medieval Studies.”  8th International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England.  9 July 2001.

“Glossing from the Inside Out:  Teaching Mythic Diversity from Within the Canon of the Undergraduate Medieval Survey Course.”  36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  3-6 May 2001.

“Technology & Pedagogy Workshop and Round-table Discussion:  Virtually Medieval College Campuses?  It's Not Just the Trivium and Quadrivium Anymore!”  36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  3-6 May 2001.

“Seeing is Believing?  Virtual Reality and the Medieval Classroom:  A Workshop.”  7th International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England.  11 July 2000.

“Technology & Pedagogy Workshop and Round-table Discussion:  Virtual Reality and the Medieval Classroom.”  35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  4-7 May 2000.

“Technology & Pedagogy in the Medieval Classroom:  A Workshop.”  6th International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England.  12 July 1999.

 “Viking Studies:  An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Seminar on the Language, Literature, History and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia.”  34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  6-9 May 1999.

 “Reading Rape in Medieval Texts:  Violence to the Body or the Text?”  Organizer and Moderator of Special Session. 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  6-9 May 1999.

"Castration, Cowardice, and Commitment: Castration Anxiety and Sexual Potency in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Claremont, CA. 6-8 November 1998.

"Learning to Speak: Voice, Identity, and Play in the Discourse of Chaucer's Troilus." 5th Annual International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England. 14 July 1998.

"Giving Voice to the Silence of Suffering: Pain, Perception, and the Language of Wounds and Weapons in the Old English The Dream of the Rood." 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 7-10 May 1998.

"Medical Conceptions of Pain, Disease, and the Body: Medieval through Modern." Organizer and Moderator of Special Session. 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 7-10 May 1998.

"Trial by Ordeal and the Nature of the Soul: Influences of Popular Justice in the Middle English Romance of Athelston." The Growth of Authority in the Medieval West International Conference, Sponsored by the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. 26-29 November 1997.

"'Sare ic wæs mid sorgum gedrefed': Physical Torment, Emotional Anguish, and the Language of Penitence in the Old English The Dream of the Rood." 4th Annual International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England. 17 July 1997.

"Pain, the Body, and the Political Power of Torture in Old English Poetics." The Propagation of Power in the Medieval West International Conference, Sponsored by the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. 20-23 November 1996.

"Inscription or Infliction? Torture, Text and Gender in the OE Andreas, Elene, and Judith Poems." 3rd Annual International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England. 8-11 July 1996.

"Swa Smæte Gold: Material Purgation and Spiritual Refashioning in Old English Visions of Judgment." 3rd Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Glasgow, Scotland. 8-12 September 1995.

"Purgation, Power, and Pain: Spiritual and Physical Reality in the Old English Elene." 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 5-8 May 1994.

"Judith and the Rhetoric of Heroism in Anglo-Saxon England." 12th Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference, University of Connecticut. 9 April 1994.

"Productive Destruction: Torture, Text, and the Body in the Old English Andreas." 11th Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, Loyola University, Chicago. 18-19 February 1994.

"Critical Fashioning or Fashionable Criticism: Reexamining the Text, the Critic, and the Discipline." Presenter and chair of panel discussion. Medieval-Renaissance Conference VII, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia. 23-25 September 1993.

"Coercion and Conversion in Elene: The Unmaking of Judas and the Refashioning of the Soul." 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 6-9 May 1993.

"Beag and Beaghroden: Woman as Object of Material Culture in Beowulf." 11th Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference, Yale University. 3 April 1993.

"Writing the Body, Reading the Soul: Infliction, Inscription, and Identity in the Old English Andreas." 10th Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, Loyola University, Chicago. 20 February 1993.

"The Appropriation of Heroism in the Old English Judith Poem." 26th Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, NY. 15-17 October 1992.

"Commodity, Currency, and Conquest: Woman as Material Object in Anglo-Saxon Texts." 8th Annual Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. 25-26 September 1992.

"The Atonement of the Pit: Judas and the Fires of Judgment in the Old English Elene." 10th Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference, Brown University. 11 April 1992.
 

SOLICITED LECTURES AND TALKS

“Digitally Imagining the Rood: Praxis and Pitfalls in the Development of a Prototype Electronic Ruthwell Cross.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.  5-8 May 2005.

“Electronic Dreamin’ the Rood: Sandstone Crosses, Talking Objects, and Bringing the Anglo-Saxon World to Life in the Wired Classroom.” The Christian A. Johnson Center for Creative Teaching, Gettysburg College. 14 September 2004.

“Anglo-Saxon Spirituality and the Cult of the Cross:  Glossing the Hypertext Rood.” The Institute for Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School. 15 January 2002.

“There and Back Again: Virtual Reality as a Window on the Medieval World.” NEH Community College Technology Initiative, William Rainey Harper College. 16 November 2000.

“Teaching Technology Tricks and Traps: New Models for Student-Centered, Active Learning.” NEH Community College Technology Initiative, William Rainey Harper College. 15 November 2000.

“‘Off with His Head!’  Decapitation, Power, and Sexual Potency in Sir Gawain and His Progeny:  From Celtic Fertility Rite to American Popular Pulp.”  Alumni College 2000, Gettysburg College.  2 June 2000.

“Nothing New under the Sun:  The Medieval Nature of Internet Technology.”  Retired Faculty & Administrator Luncheon, Gettysburg College.  6 April 2000.

“There and Back Again:  Motivating Student Learning through Virtual Reality.”  Volunteer Leadership Institute, Gettysburg College.  1 April 2000.

“Seeing is Believing?  Virtual Reality and the Medieval Classroom.”  Friday Faculty Lunch, Gettysburg College.  18 February 2000.

 “Creative Uses of New Technology in the Classroom.”  New Faculty Teaching Workshop Series, Gettysburg College.  4 February 2000.

“Who were the Vikings?”  Seminary Explorers with Jerry Christiansen, WGTY/WGET.  30 May 1999.

“Longships on the Cyber-Horizon:  Getting Medieval with Internet Technology.”  Annual Meeting, Board of Fellows, Gettysburg College.  10 April 1999.

“Longships on the Cyber-Horizon:  Getting Medieval with Internet Technology.”  Friday Faculty Lunch, Gettysburg College.  5 February 1999.

"Public Pain, the Body as Document, and Torture as Language in Old English Literary Culture." Departmental Symposium, Department of English Language, University of Glasgow. 14 November 1996.

"Riddles, Runes, and Writing: Magic Markings and Silent Speaking." Multimedia Presentation, the American School in London, England. 20 September 1996.

"Torture, Text, and the Recurrent Reformulation of Spiritual Identity in Old English Religious Verse." Departmental Symposium, Department of English Language, University of Glasgow. 7 November 1995.

"Grace under Fire: Sin, Atonement and the Doctrine of Purgatory in Early English Spirituality." Adult Education Forum, First Church of Christ Congregational, Redding, CT. 17 April 1994.
 

TEACHING INTERESTS

Old English Language and Literature, Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, Old Norse Language and Literature, Beowulf, Chaucer, Medieval Drama, Medieval Romance, Germanic and Comparative Mythology, Theories of Power and the Body, Technology and Pedagogy
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Gettysburg College.  August 2003-Present.

Associate Professor, English Department.  Responsible for suggesting, designing, and teaching all departmental medieval course offerings;  this position also entails teaching senior seminars, first-year seminars, and occasionally composition.  Other duties include advising students and full committee responsibilities.  The departmental medieval offerings presently include courses on Chaucer, Middle English Language and Literature, Medieval Romance, Medieval Drama, the History of English, Viking Studies, Mythology and Medieval Literature, and Medieval and Renaissance surveys.  New courses to be offered in the next three years include:  The Cult of the Cross and Anglo-Saxon Culture, Literature and Language;  Divine Love and Human Sexuality in Fourteenth Century Literature; The Face of the Goddess in Comparative Indo-European Mythology;  and Medieval Mysticism.

Gettysburg College.  August 1997-July 2003.

Assistant Professor, English Department. 

University of Glasgow. October 1995-June 1997.

Postgraduate Tutor, Junior Honours English Language. Taught seminars of third-year English majors on advanced Old English topics, including poetry, prose, and Beowulf. Led discussions both of thematic topics and of technicalities of translation exercises.

University of Glasgow. October 1996-June 1997.

Postgraduate Tutor, Higher Ordinary English Language. Responsible for teaching weekly seminars of second-year English majors on variety of topics in preparation for cumulative exams; also responsible for invigilating and marking exams. Gained considerable experience in the use of computer-based workshops and tutorial exercises in the teaching of language and literature. Topics of instruction included: Old and Middle English language, The Battle of Maldon, The Miller's Tale, Old Norse, Germanic Literature, and the Language of Shakespeare.

University of Glasgow. October 1995-June 1997.

Postgraduate Tutor, Ordinary English Language. Responsible for teaching weekly seminars of first-year English majors on variety of topics in preparation for cumulative exams; also responsible for invigilating and marking exams. Topics of instruction included: Phonetics, Semantics, Grammar, Dialectics, Poetics, History of English, and Introduction to Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Scots.

University of Glasgow. October 1995-June 1996.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Ordinary English Literature 'B': 'Approaches to Texts 1789-1992'. Responsible for teaching weekly seminars of first-year English majors; course was designed both as a survey of English literature and as an introduction to literary criticism. Also responsible for invigilating and marking exams, marking major term essays, and assigning and marking shorter papers. Texts studied included novels, shorter prose, poetry, and a number of critical works.

University of Connecticut. September 1992-December 1992.

Teaching Assistant for upper-level undergraduate Medieval Literature survey course. Responsible for one-to-one tutoring of students, half of all paper and exam grading, and delivery of several course lectures on Beowulf and on Medieval Drama.

University of Connecticut. September 1991-May 1993.

Instructor in English. Designed and taught two courses of College Composition or Introduction to Literature each semester. Responsible for all aspects of teaching, from construction of syllabi to submission of final grades.

University of Connecticut. September 1994-December 1994.

Instructor in Computer-Assisted Writing. Designed and taught course in Basic Writing utilizing the departmental networked computer classroom. Attended intensive pre-semester seminar on technology and pedagogy.

University of Connecticut. July 1995-August 1995.

Upward Bound Instructor in English. Designed and taught course in English Literature for high school seniors in the Federal Upward Bound Program.

Loyola University. June 1991-August 1991.

Instructor in English. Designed and taught two courses of Advanced College Composition. Responsible for all aspects of teaching, from construction of syllabi to submission of final grades.

Loyola University. September 1990-May 1991.

Instructor in English. Designed and taught one section of Basic College Composition in the fall and one section of Advanced College Composition in the spring. Responsible for all aspects of teaching, in consultation with and with the approval of a faculty mentor.

Loyola University. January 1990-May 1990.

Teaching Assistant for an Advanced College Composition Course. Assisted faculty mentor with selection of texts, design of assignments, and grading. Led several class discussions under observation of mentor.

Loyola University. September 1989-May 1990.

Writing Center Tutor. Interacted with students on a one-to-one basis. Tutored all levels of students with papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Baldwin-Wallace College. September 1987-June 1989.

Teaching Assistant for a Basic Language Skills Class. Assisted instructor with class preparation and grading, and led weekly small-group workshops. Classes included both native speakers of English and ESL students.

Baldwin-Wallace College. March 1986-June 1989.

Writing Lab Peer Tutor. Interacted with students on a one-to-one basis. Worked with mostly lower-level undergraduates, many of whom were ESL students.
 

SERVICE

Adams County Interfaith Housing Corporation. 2005-2008. Elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for a local body dedicated to developing, improving, and making accessible affordable housing in our community.

TEAMS (The Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages.) 2004-2007. Elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and improving the teaching of Medieval Studies

Academic Programs and Policies Committee. 2003-2004. One of five faculty members elected to the body responsible for overview of the academic program of the college. During the 2003-2004 year the APPC is responsible for the implementation of a new curriculum approved by the full faculty in May 2003.

Committee on Learning Assessment. 2003-2004. APPC representative to committee responsible for developing and implementing a college-wide system of course-based assessment.

Steering Committee, Middle States Reaccredidation Self-Study.  2002-2004.  Member of body of faculty and administrators charged with oversight of the reaccredidation process.

Faculty Liaison for the Center for Public Service at Gettysburg College. March-December 2003. The Liaison works with the Center for Public Service, the Provost’s office, community partners, individual faculty members, and others to model and to promote community engagement by faculty in the form of service-learning as pedagogy and community-based research as scholarship.

Faculty Leader of ASCENT trip.  22-26 August 2003.  Faculty member of 24 mile pre-orientation backcountry hike in the Cranberry Glades Wilderness Area of the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia.  The ASCENT trips are optional for first year students and offer experiential learning with the aid of trained upper class student facilitators.  The ASCENT trips are organized by the Gettysburg Recreational Activity Board of Gettysburg College.

Commission on Faculty Governance of Gettysburg College. 2001-2002. Only junior Faculty member on an elected commission of six charged by the full Faculty of Gettysburg College to examine and recommend changes to the Rule on Committees as stated in the Faculty Handbook. This commission also received a unanimous mandate to consider the overall role and responsibilities of the Faculty in the governance of the College and to make recommendations in order to give the Faculty a stronger and more effective voice in that governance.

On-Campus Coordinator, Gettysburg College Study Abroad in England Program. 2001-Present. Responsible for planning, promoting, and running a study abroad program that includes month-long pre-term seminar options in London and in Lancaster, in combination with half-year or full-year matriculation for Gettysburg students at the University of Lancaster. This position requires regular contact with and travel to Lancaster University, coordination of Gettysburg faculty members with Lancaster University academic departments, and logistical and personal support for more than 30 Gettysburg College students per year. This program operates on a six figure budget, for which the On-Campus Coordinator is primarily responsible.

Information Resources Advisory Committee, Gettysburg College. 2000-2001. Served on committee responsible for researching and drafting proposal for a campus-wide mandatory laptop platform.

Faculty Project Leader, Service Learning Project. 3-16 January 2001. Leader for a group of students working in Washington, D.C. at Luther Place (a shelter for homeless women), Martha's Table & McKenna's Wagon (programs which deliver meals to the homeless), and So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E., which provides meals to the homeless). The Service Learning Projects are coordinated through the Center for Public Service at Gettysburg College.

Advisor to the Gettysburg College Honor Commission. 1998-2001.  The Honor Commission is a group of students elected by their peers for the purpose of promoting and enforcing the Honor Code.  Two faculty members are appointed to confer with the Honor Commission at hearings.

Advisor to United Colors of Gettysburg (formerly Gettysburg Students Against Racism), a group devoted to promoting ethnic diversity and mutual understanding between racial groups on campus.  1998-Present.

Teacher Education Committee, Gettysburg College.  1999-Present.  Responsible for assessing the applications of students interested in Student Teaching through the Education Department.

Advisor to the Gettysburg College Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.  1999-Present.

Campus-Wide Information Systems Committee.  1999-Present.  Responsible for drafting and implementing policies concerning all college web-pages.

Faculty Project Leader, Service Learning Project. 3-18 January 1999. Leader for a group of students working in Washington, D.C. at Luther Place (a shelter for homeless women), Martha's Table & McKenna's Wagon (programs which deliver meals to the homeless), and So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E., which provides meals to the homeless). The Service Learning Projects are coordinated through the Center for Public Service at Gettysburg College.

Faculty Leader of ASCENT trip.  21-25 August 1999.  Faculty member of pre-orientation rock-climbing trip in the Shawangunk Mountains of New York.  The ASCENT trips are optional for first year students, and offer experiential learning with the aid of trained upper class student facilitators.  The ASCENT trips are organized by the Gettysburg Recreational Activity Board of Gettysburg College.

Faculty Leader of ASCENT trip.  18-21 August 1998.  Faculty member of 25 mile pre-orientation backcountry hike along the Appalachian Trail in Shenandoah National Forest.  The ASCENT trips are optional for first year students, and offer experiential learning with the aid of trained upper class student facilitators.  The ASCENT trips are organized by the Gettysburg Recreational Activity Board of Gettysburg College.

Gettysburg Review Advisory Board, Gettysburg College.  1998-1999.

Working Group on Hazing Education and Adjudication Issues, Gettysburg College.  Summer 1999.

English Department Faculty Technology Liason, Gettysburg College. 1998-Present.

English Department Webpage Coordinator, Gettysburg College. 1998-Present.

English Department Brochure Committee, Gettysburg College. 1998-Present.

English Department Reading Group, Gettysburg College. 1998-Present.

Computers and Writing Group, Gettysburg College. 1998-Present.

English Department Friday Afternoon Social Hour (FASH) Coordinator, Gettysburg College. 1997-Present.

Editor, MSS. V (1994), University of Connecticut. Solicited manuscripts for publication and served as primary reader for selection.

Conference Coordinator, 12th Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference, University of Connecticut. 9 April 1994. Responsible for all facets of planning and execution of sixty-person conference, from soliciting abstracts and drafting budget proposals to scheduling sessions and procuring catering.

Conference Assistant, 3rd Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, University of Glasgow, Scotland. 8-12 September 1995. Responsible for orientation and registration of delegates for five hundred-person Pan-European conference.

Administrative Assistant to the Director of Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut. 1994. Responsible for all program administrative duties, including budget, payroll, and admissions paperwork.

English Graduate Student Association Teaching Award Committee, University of Connecticut. 1993-1994. Helped draft and implement guidelines for the selection of a Teaching Assistant of superior teaching ability.

English Graduate Student Association Conference Funds Committee, University of Connecticut. 1993-1994.

English Graduate Student Association Executive Committee, Loyola University. 1989-1990.

Undergraduate Representative to Faculty Hiring Committee, Baldwin-Wallace College. 1988-1989.

Assistant Warden, Queen Margaret Hall of Residence, University of Glasgow, Scotland. 1995-1997. Member of residential staff responsible for overall guidance and discipline in four hundred-person student residence; primary contact and residential advisor for fifty undergraduates.

Adult Literacy Tutor, Literacy Volunteers of America. 1993-1994.
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association; International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
 

LANGUAGES

Command of Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse. Reading knowledge of Latin, Old High German, Middle High German, and Modern German.