Department of Literature and Languages

David Strong - Curriculum Vitae

 

DAVID STRONG

dstrong@uttyler.edu

                                                                             

Education:

Ph.D., English Literature, Indiana University

B.A., English Literature, Dominican University

 

Accepted Refereed Publications:

“Mede’s Right to Marry: A Consideration of Medieval Natural Law,” Medieval Perspectives 21 (2007), 154-73.

 

“Illumination of the Intellect: Franciscan Sermons and Piers Plowman,” Speculum Sermonis, Eds. Georgiana Donavin, Cary Nederman, and Richard Utz (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005): 197-209.

 

            “Titus’ Big Screen Debut,” Academic Exchange Quarterly, vol. 8.1 (2004), 165-9.

 

            “The Questions Asked, The Answers Given: Langland, Scotus, and Ockham,”

            The Chaucer Review, vol. 38.3 (2004), 255-75.

 

“Supra-Natural Creation in Dunbar’s ‘The Goldyn Targe,’” Philological Quarterly vol. 82.2 (2003), 149-63.

 

“Overcoming Marginalization: Promoting Active Learning by Teaching the Technique and Theory of Margin Notes” in Teacher Commentary on Student Papers: Conventions, Beliefs, and Practices, ed. Ode Ogede (London: Bergin & Garvey, 2002): 21-8.

 

Refereed Scholarly Presentations:

“The Oppositional Forces of Donne’s and Crashaw’s Poetics,” (58^th Annual South Central Renaissance Conference, Hot Springs, AR, 2009)

 

“Mariana’s Measure for Measure,” (Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Dallas, TX 2008)

 

“Getting Medieval on Friendship: Literary and Philosophical Approaches” (Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Waco TX, October 2007)

 

“Late Medieval Poetry and Franciscan Renewal” (Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, New Orleans LA, March, 2007)

 

“Meed’s Right to Marry: A Consideration of Medieval Natural Law” (Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona FL, October 2005)

 

“Meed’s Right to Subvert Justice in Piers Plowman” (Texas Medieval Association Conference, Dallas TX, September 2004)

 

“Macbeth’s Faith in Witchcraft” (Shakespeare Association of America Conference, New Orleans LA, April 2004)

 

“Getting Medieval on Love” (The International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville FL, April 2003)

 

“Supra-Natural Creation in Dunbar’s ‘The Goldyn Targe’” (Exploring the Renaissance: An International Conference, New Orleans LA, March 2003)

 

“The Iconography of Love in Dunbar’s ‘The Goldyn Targe’” (37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 2002)

 

“Titus Andronicus’ Cinematic Longing for Madness” (58^th Annual Conference: South Central Modern Language Association, Tulsa OK, November 2001)

 

“The Barn of Unity and Religious Thought in Piers Plowman,” (33^rd Annual Conference: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Fort Collins CO, May 2001)

 

“The Bloody Madness of Titus Andronicus” (International Conference on Madness and Bliss, Atlanta GA, November 2000)

 

“Mede’s Right Both to Subvert and Sustain Justice: Langland’s Consideration of              Natural Rights in Medieval Society” (34^th International Congress on Medieval                        Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 1999)

 

“Mystic Visions” (Critical Thinking and Learning Conference, Winona State University, Winona, MN, March 1999).

 

“The Wisdom of Will's Intellectual Folly” (30^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 1995)

 

“A Mind to Know Faith, A Body Divided: Langland’s Use of Allegory to Depict                         Epistemological Issues” (Illinois Medieval Association, February 1994)

 

“Exploring the Bounds of Reason: An Examination of Langland’s Philosophical Beliefs” (28^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 1993)

 

“The Will to Know Faith” (Interdisciplinary CAES Conference Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Muncie IN, November 1992)

 

Areas of Teaching Interest:

Old & Medieval British Literature; Chaucer; Renaissance Poetry and Prose; Shakespeare; Milton; British Literature Survey; World Literature Survey; Introduction to Literature; Medieval Cultural Studies; Elementary to Advanced

Composition; Technical Writing; Philosophy and Literature.

Teaching Experience:

Associate Professor, University of Texas at Tyler, (2000-present)

ENGL 1301 Grammar & Composition

ENGL 1302 Grammar & Composition

ENGL 2310 Literary Appreciation

ENGL 2322 British Literature to the 1780’s

ENGL 2323 British Literature from the 1780’s to the present

ENGL 2362 World Literature Through the Renaissance

ENGL 3390 Advanced Writing

ENGL 4199 The Law of Love

ENGL 4300 Old and Middle English Literature

ENGL 4305 Renaissance Poetry and Prose, excluding Shakespeare

ENGL 4310 Shakespeare

ENGL 4365 Medieval Love and Literature

ENGL 4397 Senior Seminar—Milton

ENGL 5310 Medieval Literature graduate-level course

ENGL 5315 Studies in the English Renaissance graduate-level course

ENGL 5320 Shakespeare graduate-level course

PHIL 3302   Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

UNIV 1300  Freshman Seminar—Rock Music’s Impact upon America