Curriculum Vitae

 

Christian Sheridan

sheridan@sxu.edu

 

 

EDUCATION:


Ph.D.  English Language and Literature, Tufts University.

Dissertation: The Interpretive Marketplace of the Canterbury Tales.

   Director: John M. Fyler.

 

MA.  English Language and Literature, Tufts University.

 

BA.  Williams College.  Major: English.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:


Saint Xavier University

Interim Director of the Writing Program 2005-
Assistant Professor, 2004-

Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002-03.

 

Hampden-Sydney College

Lecturer in Rhetoric and English, 2000-2002

 

Piedmont Virginia Community College

Lecturer in English, Spring 2000.

 

Tufts University

Graduate Student Lecturer, 1995-1999.

 

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Medieval English Literature and Culture; Chaucer; Early Modern Literature and Culture; History of the English Language; Literary Theory and Cultural Studies; Survey of British Literature; Science Fiction; Rhetoric and Composition; Teaching with Technology.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

"May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale."

Studies in Philology Winter, 2005.


"Conflicting Economies in the Fabliaux."  Comic Provocations. Holly A. Crocker, ed.  Palgrave (2006).

"The Early Prints of the Testament of Cresseid and the Presentation of Lines 577-91." ANQ. (20:1, Winter 2007).

"Funny Money: Puns and Currency in the Shipman's Tale." Medieval English Comedy. Paul Hardwick and Sandra Hordis, eds. Brepols (2008).

Robert Henryson, "Moral Fabillis, Overview"; "The Cock and the Fox";  "The Fox and The Wolf." Pre-1600 British Poetry Michelle Sauer, ed. Facts on File (forthcoming).


SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

"Lost Books and Leprous Bodies: The Circulation of the Testament of Cresseid." 15th New Chaucer Society   International Congress. New York City, NY, July 27-31, 2006.


"Whose Right" : English and Scottish Copyright Law and Henryson's Testament"  41st International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2006.


"The Penny, the Lamb, and the Text: Market Value and Textuality in Du Denier et de la Brebis." 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 2004.


"Critical Monsters, Monstrous Critics: The Space of the Monster and Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2003.


"Caught in-between: Henryson's Cresseid as transitional text."  The 118th MLA Annual Convention.  New York, NY, December 27-30, 2002.


"Fame's Afterlife: The House of Fame, The Testament of Cresseid, and the Language of Literary Inheritance."  37th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 2-5, 2002.


"Reading Chaucer Reading: The House of Fame and Reception Theory."  Medieval-Renaissance Conference XIII.  The University of Virginia's College at Wise, September 16-19, 1999.


"The Competition and Commerce of Reading in the Canterbury Tales."  34th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1999.


"'Encressed were or noon': The Canterbury Tales as Interpretive Marketplace."  The Sixteenth Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference: Marketplace and Society.  Barnard College, December 5, 1998. 



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