Dr. Ted Sherman

Professor

Dr. Ted Sherman
615-898-2653
Room 352, Peck Hall (PH)
MTSU Box 70, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Degree Information

  • PHD, University of Southern Mississippi (1993)
  • MA, University of Central Florida (1988)
  • BA, Covenant College (1987)

Biography

Dr. Sherman teaches courses on Introduction to Literature, Medieval Literature, European literature to 1400, Introduction to Shakespeare, Tolkien and Rowling, the Inklings, British Literature to 1660, and the history of the English language. He served as an assistant textual editor for the Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Indiana UP) from 1993-2006 and is the former editor (2000-2006) of Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. TolkienC. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, a publication of the The Mythopoeic Society.

 

Publications

Sherman, Ted. Assistant textual editor. The Divine Poems: The Holy SonnetsVol. 7, Part 1. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005. 
___. Assistant textual editor. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies . General ed. Gary A. Stringer. Volume commentary ed. John R. Roberts. Contributing ed. Diana Trevino Benet. Senior textual eds. Ted-Larry Pebworth, Gary A. S...

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Sherman, Ted. Assistant textual editor. The Divine Poems: The Holy SonnetsVol. 7, Part 1. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005. 
___. Assistant textual editor. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies . General ed. Gary A. Stringer. Volume commentary ed. John R. Roberts. Contributing ed. Diana Trevino Benet. Senior textual eds. Ted-Larry Pebworth, Gary A. Stringer, and Ernest W. Sullivan, II. Assistant textual eds. Dennis Flynn and Theodore J. Sherman. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Encyclopedia Articles

___. "Allegory"; "Christianity"; "Escape"; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; The Hobbit; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Out of the Silent Planet; Star Wars. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, Wonders. Ed. Gary Westfahl et al. Westport: Greenwood P, 2005.

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