Professor of English, former Director of Graduate Studies in English, and Co-chair of the Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, Marion Hollings teaches classes and pursues research in British and European literature of the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance. Her courses include Early Women Writers, Sixteenth-Century British Literature, Desire in History and Literature, and Feminist Theory. Gradute seminars (Ph.D. and MA combined) she offers in Spenser, Bibliography and Research, Sixteenth-Century British Poetry and Prose, and Critical Theory. She has attended NEH seminars at the University of Hawai'i-Honolulu, The Ohio State University, West Virginia University, and The Folger Shakespeare Library. She has presented research at York University, Yale, Cambridge, the University of Kent, and The Centre for Humanistic Studies, Utrecht. While Graduate Director, she represented the department for the chair at annual ADE seminars and the MLA. She was nominated for the MTSU Foundation Career Achivement Award in 2015 and won an Outstanding Teaching Award in Women's and Gender Studies in 2016.

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“Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries.”  Indography: Writing the Indian in Early Modern England, ed. Jonathan Gil Harris (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 151-168.

“Romancing the Turk: Trade, Race, and Nation in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene.” The EnglishRenaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea ofAsia, ed. Walter S.H. Lim and Debra Johanyak (New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 51-76.

“Fountains and Strange Women: Eastern Contexts for Acrasia and Her Community.” Consuming Narratives: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and   the Renaissance.  Ed. Liz Herbert MacAvoy and Teresa Walters (Cardiff:  University of Wales Press, 2002), 144-156.

“Reprocessing the Subject of History in the Renaissance.”  Memory, History and Critique:  European Identity at the Millennium.  Proceedingsof the Fifth Conference of the InternationalSociety for the Study of European Ideas at the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht,The Netherlands, August 19-24, 1996.  Ed. Frank Brinkhuis and Sascha Talmore (Cambridge, MA: University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht and MIT University Press, 1998) [CDROM]. 

Bibliographical Contributions (annually to 20 volumes [vols. 22-42] of Encomia from 2002-2018) 

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Triple volume of Bibliography for 2016-2018) Vols. 40-42 (forthcoming from Garnier in 2019). 

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Double issue of Bibliography for 2014-2015) Vols. 38-39 (2018).   

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Bibliography for 2013) Vol. 37 (2015).  

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2012) Vol. 36 (2014).   Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2011) Vol. 35 (2013).   Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2010) Vol. 34 (2012).  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2009) Vol. 33 (2011).  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2008) Vol. 32 (2010).  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Bibliography for 2007) Vol. 31 (2009).  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society  (Double issue of Bibliography for 2005-2006) Vols. 29-30 (2008).  

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Bibliography for 2004) Vol. 28 (2007).                                                         Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Bibliography for 2003) Vol. 27 (2007).  Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Bibliography for 2002) Vol. 26 (2006). Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Double issue of Bibliography for 2000-2001) Vols. 24-25 (2004). 

Encomia: Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Courtly Literature Society (Double issue of Bibliography for 1998-1999) Vols.  22-23 (2002). 

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Presented internationally, nationally, and regionally 1-2 papers each year from 1994-2015.  

“Elizabeth I’s ‘Tru copie of a letter’ (1586): Documents, ‘Papers,’ and Epistolary Voices in Shakespeare’s Plays.” Shakespeare Association of America, Los Angeles, California, April 2018 [invited paper].

“‘The first Lampe of Virginitie’ (1582) and Spenser’s Models of Womanhood.” South Central Renaissance Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2018.

“In her thou maist them all assembled see”: Alice, Countess of Derby, and the Early Modern Poetic Community,” International Courtly Literature Society Triennial Congress, Lexington, Kentucky, July 2016.

“The Countess of Auvergne, Herodotus, and the Scythian.” Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2017 [invited paper].

“John Marston and John Milton’s Shared Patroness and Poetic Reputation in Early Seventeenth-Century England.” South Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, Texas, April 2017.

“Scythia, Herodotus, and the Place of History in Spenser’s Vewe.” The Place of Spenser, Fifth International Spenser Society Conference, Dublin, June 2015.

“Performing Ghosts of Greek History: Genealogies of Shakespeare’s Scythian.” Invited for colloquium on“Greek Receptions in Early Modern Drama,” Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, July 2014 [invited paper].

“Women of Elizabeth’s Court and the Gendering of Patronage.” South Central Renaissance Conference, Tucson, Arizona, April 2014.

“Herodotus and Early Modern Historiography.” Paper invited for “Greek Texts and the Early Modern Stage,” Shakespeare Association of America, Toronto, April 2013 [invited paper].   

“Edmund Spenser ‘s Female Patrons.”  Paper invited for “The Politics of  Female Alliance,” Shakespeare Association of America, Bellevue, Washington, April 2011 [invited paper].

“Scythian Lawlessness, Ireland, and Renaissance Ethnography.” Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, May 2011.

“Southeast Asia, Faerieland, and Sexual Exchange in Shakespeare and Spenser.”  Paper invited for "China under Early Modern Western Eyes," ASIANetwork, Atlanta, April 2010 [invited paper].

“Mythologizing the Indian through the Genealogy of Faeries.” Paper invited for “Becoming Indian in Early Modern Culture,” Shakespeare Association of America, Chicago, April 2010 [invited paper].

• "India, Faerieland, and Hybridity in Shakespeare and Spenser." Shakespeare Association of America, Bermuda, March 2005.
• "Early Women Writers." Interdisciplinary Conference in Women's Studies, Murfreesboro, TN, March 2005.
• "The Uses of Literature to Increase Appreciation for Diversity." International Conference on Cultural Diversity. Nashville, TN, October 2003.
• "Translation, Transnation, Race: Spenser's Irish Vewe and the Turk." Women's Studies Research Series, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, November 2003.
• "Faculty Research Partnerships: Library of Congress and Middle Tennessee State University English 6/7660." Fourth Annual University-wide Showcase of Faculty Research and Creativity. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN ,May 2003.
• "Romancing the Turk: Trade, Race, Nation in Early Modern Romance and Travel Narrative." Group for Early Modern Culture Studies, Tampa , FL , October 2002. [Also presented at the Graduate Student/Faculty Research Symposium. English Graduate Program. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, November 2002.]
• "Sarazin, Paynim, and Other Strangers: Spenser's Discourses of Orientalism in The Faerie Queene." The Place of Spenser: Words, Worlds, Works, Pembroke College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, July 2001.
• "Early Modern European Travel Narratives and Discourses of Barbarism." Between Empires: Orientalism before 1600, Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, July 2001.
• "Representations of India in Early Modern Travel Literature." Interdisciplinary Conference on Mysticism, Reason, Art, Literature: East West Perspectives, Ferrum College, Virginia, September 2000.
• "Temperaunce, Turkish Baths, and the Threat of Islam: Bathing in Spenser's Paradise." Virile Women, Consuming Men: Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, April 2000.
• "Gender, Gardens, and Orientalism in Spenser's Bower of Bliss." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Tempe, Arizona, May 1999.
• "Medieval Women's Mystical Writing and the Courtly Love Tradition," Lecture. The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Osage Monastery, Sand Springs, Oklahoma, July 1998.
• "Spiritual Narratives: Theory and Tradition," Organizer and Chair, International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Haifa University, Israel, August 1998.
• "Early Modern Women's Autobiographical Writings and the Limits of New Historicism." Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, May 1997.
• "Abjection and Authority in The Legende of Holinesse." The Faerie Queene in the World: 1596-1996. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, September 1996.
• "Reprocessing the Subject of History in the Renaissance." International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 1996.
• "Consuming the Textual Body," Chair. Virile Women, Consuming Men: Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, April 2000.
• "Spanish and Portuguese," Chair. Marvels and Commonplaces in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Tempe, Arizona, May 1999.
• "Milton and Women Writers," Chair. The 1997 Conference on John Milton. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, October 1997.
• "Gender Issues I," Chair. Southeastern Medieval Association, Nashville, Tennessee, September 1997.

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Outstanding Teaching in Women’s and Gender Studies, 2016

Nominated for Middle Tennessee State University Foundation Career Achievement Award, 2015  

Outstanding Mentor, Disabled Student Services, Middle Tennessee StateUniversity, 2006

Ayne Cantrell Award for Outstanding Service to Women’s Studies, Middle Tennessee State University, 2001

Woman of Achievement, Women’s Leadership Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, 1997

Florence Hemley Schneider Dissertation Prize, University of Arizona, 1994

Folger Shakespeare Library Grant-in-Aid, The Folger Shakespeare Library, 1995

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Participated in four NEH seminars/institutes (competitive admission) and represented the department for the chair at four ADE seminars and two MLA workshops for chairs of Ph.D.-granting departments; attended a Folger Shakespeare Library special convention; performed extensive archival research at seven national and university libraries specializing in collections of early books and manuscripts. 

NEH Summer Institute, “The Dynamics of Cultural Unity and Exchange in Southeast  Asia,” East-West Center, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, June 20-July 22, 2011.

ADE Summer Seminar West, University of New Mexico and Arizona State University, Santa Fe, NM, June 2008.

ADE Summer Seminar South, University of South Carolina, Kiawah Island, SC, June 2007.ADE Summer Seminar South, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, June 2006.

ADE Summer Seminar West, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2005. 

“Ottomans and Others: Cultural Exchange in the Old World,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2002.

NEH Faculty Weekend Seminar, “Reorienting the Renaissance: ‘Race’, Colonialism and Intercultural Contact in Early Modern Theatre,” West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 2001.

NEH Summer Seminar, “The English Reformation: Literature, History, and Art,” TheOhio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June-July 1997.

NEH Faculty Weekend Seminar, “Contextualizing Writing by Early Modern Women,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 1995.

Registered reader for Rare Book and Manuscript Room use at the following research libraries: The Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, D.C.), British Library (London), Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), Cambridge University Library   (Cambridge), Bodleian (University of Oxford), Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth).

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Courses Taught at Middle Tennessee State University (1994-present) 

Graduate (Master’s and Ph.D. combined): offer 8 different graduate seminars [including two new courses] and 6 different courses of specialized instruction)      

  English [courses have recently been renumbered and follow old style]           

Studies in Narratology (ENGL 6470/7470)

Milton Seminar (ENGL 6140/7140)

Spenser Seminar (ENGL 6110/7110)

Sixteenth Century British Poetry and Prose (ENGL 6120/7120)

Contemporary Critical Theory (ENGL 6380/7380)

Feminist Theory (ENGL 6500/7500)  (cross-listed with WGST 6000) [new course proposed and developed]

Medieval English Literature (ENGL 6040/7040)

Introduction to Graduate Studies:  Bibliography and Research (ENGL 6660/7660)

Directed Reading and Research (ENGL 6620/7620)

Dissertation Research (ENGL 7640)

Thesis Research (ENGL 6640)

Comprehensive Examination and Preparation (ENGL 6999)

Internship (ENGL 7600)    

  Women’s and Gender Studies

    Graduate Certificate

Feminist Theory (WGST 6000) (cross-listed with ENGL 6500/7500) [new course proposed and developed]           

Independent Study (WGST 6200)            

Internship (WGST 6020)

Undergraduate (twenty-one different courses [three new] and one course of specialized instruction)      

  English           

Introduction to English Studies (ENGL 3000)           

British Literature I (ENGL 3010) (early British literature to 1700)

Studies in Poetry (ENGL 4910)

European Literature, 1400-1800 (ENGL 3420)

English Literature: The Medieval Period (ENGL 3110)

English Literature: The Sixteenth Century (ENGL 3120)

English Literature: The Seventeenth Century (ENGL 3130)

Early Women Writers (ENGL 3720) [new course co-written and developed]

British Women Writers (ENGL 224 [course discontinued])

Women and Literature (ENGL 223 [course discontinued])

Writing Internship (ENGL 4000) [new course proposed, developed, and coordinated 1999-2003]

Professional Writing (ENGL 3620 [formerly technical writing])

Experience of Literature (ENGL 2030)

Research and Argumentative Writing (ENGL 1020)

Expository Writing (ENGL 1010)   

  Women’s and Gender Studies

Introduction to Women’s Studies (WGST 2100) [classroom, correspondence, and online delivery versions]

Women and Leadership (WGST 2500)

Sexuality Studies (WGST 3010)

Symposium in Lesbian Studies (WGST 4202)

Feminist Theory (WGST 4500)

Symposium in Desire in History and Literature (WGST 4209) [new course proposed and developed]    

  Honors

Honors Thesis (H)

Experience of Literature (ENGL 2030H)

Research and Argumentative Writing (ENGL 1020H) 

Courses Taught at the University of Arizona (1985-1994)    

  English           

Medieval and Renaissance Literature [Junior-level]           

Twentieth-Century British Literature (Modernism) [Sophomore-level]           

Freshman Honors           

Freshman Composition 

Courses Taught at the University of Sonora, Hermosillo (1993-1994)       

  English    

American Literature (comprehensive survey)           

British Literature (comprehensive survey) 

Supervision of specialized instruction: Student research, MA and Honors thesis and Ph.D. dissertation, supervised reading,  internships, student teaching, etc.:  40 theses and dissertations completed or currently in progress on topics ranging from Arthurian literature to contemporary women writers; 14 teaching interns and research assistants; 20 directed reading and research projects (on topics from early Gaelic women writers to semiology), one fully supported trip for 8 graduate students to the Library of Congress for training in methods of archival, rare book, and manuscript research.

Ph.D. Dissertations: Michael Timothy Sirles, “William Baldwin’s Mirror for Magistrates : TheSociology of a Mid-Tudor Text” (Director, in process [projected December 2018]); Jessica Glade, “Practicing Feminist Cultural Studies: Raymond Williams and Reading the Media of Gender” (Director, 2017); Michael (Mick) Howard, “A Course in Cyborg Semiotics” (Director,  2016);            Jacquelyn Hayek, “Catherine Hubback and Victorian Womanhood”  (Reader, 2017); Lisa Jass (Reader, in progress [projected 2019]); Matthew Byrge (Reader, in progress [projected 2019]); Melissa B. Mitchell (Reader, in progress [projected 2019]); Matthew Spencer (Reader, in progress [projected 2019]); Lava Asaad (Reader, in progress [projected 2019)]; Jessica Szalacinski, “Language, Animality, and the Emerging Modern in Spenser, Baldwin, and Cervantes” (Director, 2014); Elizabeth Dawn Hall, “American Independent Filmmakers: Kelly Reichardt in Focus” (Reader, 2014); Jennifer Hayes, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Lynn Nottage’s Multicultural Community Plays” (Reader, 2013); Brett Hudson, “Religious Dissent in John Milton’s 1673 Poems, &c Upon Several Occasions and Nonconformist Speech Acts in the                                                     Restoration” (Reader, 2012); Emilee’ LeClear, “The Politics of Romancing Arthur in Early English Literature, Geoffrey of Monmouth to John Milton” (Director, 2011); Katherine V. Haynes, “Baconian Epistemology and the Test for Vocation              in George Herbert’s The Temple” (Reader, 2007); Deborah Higgens, “Anglo-Saxon Community in J.R.R. Tolkein’s The        Lord of the Rings” (Reader, 2007); Patricia Ralston, “Illuminating Christina Rossetti: Discourse and Symbol                          inCalled to Be Saints:  The Minor Festivals Devotionally Studied” (Director, 2003)

D.A. Dissertation :Jaime Sanchez, “Oral Narratives of Elena Lezama de Rodriguez: A Female View of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1928” (Reader, 1998).  

M.A. Theses             Katherine Estes, “Problems of Community in Aesthetic Theory: Kant,   Arendt, Nancy” (Director, in progress [projected 2018])Alanoud Alhamyani, “Unveiling the Veil: Representing Hijabin English-Language Arabic Fiction” (Director, 2017)            Jonathan Thurston, “Equine Erotology in Shakespeare’s Poems and   Renaissance Codes of Conduct” (Director, 2016)            Kazunori Odo (Reader, 2015)            Taffeta Xu, “Metaphor and Cognition in Praguian Structuralism”                                                    (Director, 2015)            Mary Marley Latham, “Apologia pro Semiotique: Wordworth’s and                                              Kristeva’s Revolutions in Poetic Language” (Director, 2016)             Cory Hudson (Reader, 2015)            Suzanne Long (Director, in progress [currently inactive])Debosree Banerjee, “Female Embodiment, Mother India, and the Power of                        Matriarchy During Partition in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the                              Body Remembers and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India” (Reader,                             2012)Cassandra Bishop, “‘Now good Sweet Muse, I beseech thee by thy                                     delicate witte, and by all the quaintest inuentions of thy deuiseful                             braine’:  The Feminine in Gabriel Harvey’s Innovative Inventions”                         (Director, 2009) Ben Strickland, “Girls Running from Age to Age:  Vanquishing the                                   Eternal Virgin from Ovid to Lessing” (Director, 2007)Adam McInturff, “Image of the Enemy:  Reconstructing the Brothers Sans                        in Spenser’s Faerie Queene” (Director, 2007) Sara Sweitzer, “Anthony De Mello’s Critical Journey of Awareness: The                          Self Discovered” (Reader, 2007)K. Brandon Baker, “Swapping Serpents and Breaking Mirrors:  Myth,                                Literature, and Folkloristics” (Reader, 2006)Emily Murray, “Voices, Body, and Identity in Early Modern Women                                 Writers:  Katherine Dowe, Marie Colllyn (Mercy Harvey), Hester                                  Wyatt, and Anonymous Gentlewoman”  (Director, 2006) Ryan Reed, “Sovereignty and Material Artifacts of Martial Cultures in                               Beowulf, The Faerie Queene, and Henry V” (Director, 2006) Dyanne Rice Mogan,  ‘This Yong Haeffer . . . Abideth No Yoke’:  Anne                            Askew, Women, and Resistance in Early Modern England”                               (Director, 2006) Christopher Flavin, “Early Modern Gaelic Women Writers, Cultural                                  Currency and the Modern Archive” (Director, 2006) Elizabeth Brittainy Burton-Pruitt, “ ‘Sisters Deckt in Black and White’:                             Anne Cooke Bacon, Anne Dudley Bradstreet, and the Sentences of                    Patriarchy” (Director, 2005)Emilee’ S. LeClear, “Spenser’s Daughters of Danu:  The Influence of                                 Ireland and Irish Culture on the Women of Spenser’s Faerie                           Queene” (Reader, 2005)Renee’ Byrnes, “Carried Away:  Subverting Marriage and Propriety in the                                     Novels of Burney, Inchbald, and Wollstonecraft” (Director, 2003)Paige Klein, “The Platonic Model of Education in Milton’s Paradise Lost”                         (Reader, 2002)Lisa Williams, “Contemplated Spouse:  Stevens, Irigaray, and the                                       Feminine” (Reader, 2000)                        Ruth Anne Dunkerly Summar, “The Downward Spiral:  Chaos and                                                 Complexity in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida(Reader, 2000)                        Jennifer Cleveland, “Immortality in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe”                                          (Reader, 1997)                        Victoria Wells Gay, “Lewis Carroll’s Photographic Imagination in the                                           Alice Books” (Reader, 1995)                

Internships(supervised teaching of three doctoral [D.A. and Ph.D.] and three WGST Graduate Certificate candidates)                        Rebekah Dawson (2017), Charlotte Archer (2017), Michelle Estes (2016), Yolanda Emery (1998), Gwynn Bennett (1997), Jaime Sanchez (1996)  

Research Assistantships(supervision of 10 graduate research assistants [M.A. and Ph.D.]): Eric Baker (2018),            Matthew Byrge (2015), Jessica Glade (Wofford) (2015), Claire Bates (2008), Eun Joo Chang (2002), Renee’ Byrnes (2001), Stephanie Pullen (2001), Savitri Ashok (2000), Alyson Meunzer (1999), Ruth Anne Dunkerley (1998) 

Directed Reading and Research(ENGL 6240/7240) (guided course of specialized study for graduate students in English [MA and Ph.D.]): Michael McDermot (Semiology, spring 2018), Matthew Zimwault (Semiology, spring 2018), Rebekah Dawson (Gay and Lesbian Literature, Culture, and Identity, fall 2017), Alanoud Alhamyani (Arabic Women in Popular Culture, fall 2016), Cyntoria Mederds (Outcast Mothers in World Literature, summer 2015), Ammar Aqeeli (Arabic Feminisms and Western Critical Theories, spring 2015), Jessica Glade (Raymond Williams and the New Left, summer 2014), Dennis Wise (History and Realism in Theory, fall 2014), Taffeta O’Neal Xu (Prague School Linguistics, fall 2013), Suzanne Previtt (Early Modern Prison Narratives, summer 2014), Mary Marley Latham (Contemporary French Theory, fall 2013), Katherine Estes (The Frankfort School, fall 2013), Cassandra Bishop (Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric, 2007), Ben Strickland (Classical Contexts for Sixteenth Studies, 2007), Adam McInturff (Sixteenth-Century Orientalism, 2007), Christopher Flavin (Early Gaelic Women Writers, 2006), Michael Morris (Feminist Theories, 2006), E. Brittainy Burton-Pruitt (Feminist Theories, 2005), Kelly Hancock (Renaissance Women Writers, 2002), Lisa Williams (Luce Irigaray and Feminist Epistemologies, 2001), Renee’ Byrnes (Eighteenth-Century Women Novelists, 2001), Mary Jo Johnson (Cultural Materialism and New Historicism, 1997)            

Directed Reading and Research(WGST 6200) (specialized study for students in the Graduate Certificate Program in Women’s and GenderStudies): Cyntoria Mederds, Matthew Byrge (Pacific Genders, summer 2014) 

Research and Trainingat the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.10 graduate students from Research and Bibliography Seminar, Spring 2002 (organized travel, accommodations in Washington, D.C., workshops by LC library staff, supervised individual on-site archival research, headed up fundraising through a special account set up within English into which anonymous donations were deposited)  

Sponsored Scholarvisiting Chinese Dr. Xiaoyan Yu, Associate Professor from Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, AY 2012-2013.  Guided over the course of a full academic year, including summers on either end, the visiting scholar’s research on Spenser and contemporary critical theory, training her in bibliography and methods of literary research. 

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