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| Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
Dr. Benjamin Myers studies poetics and early-modern literature, and his essays on Edmund Spenser can be seen in several prominent journals. His current project is an examination of what he calls “the other Elizabethan settlement” (the solidification of English poetic conventions in the 16th century) in its cultural context. Other interests include modern prosody, contemporary poetry, Christian literary traditions, and depictions of wilderness in British literature. Dr. Myers is also a poet, with poems published in Byline, The Mid-American Poetry Review, Mobius, the Lily Review, and volumes six and seven of The Arkansas Literary Forum. His poem, “A Small Town Mourns its First Casualty” is slated for inclusion in the anthology America at War, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by McElderry Books. Dr. Myers lives with his wife, Mandy, and his daughters, Grace and Elizabeth, in Chandler, where they are renovating an early twentieth-century home. He is a member of Chandler First Baptist Church and Gideon's International. Educational Background: B.A., University of the Ozarks M.A., Washington University Ph.D., Washington University Courses Taught: Survey of English Literature I Survey of English Literature II Honors Colloquium: King Arthur and the Idea of Britain Advanced Creative Writing Exposition Writing Composition and Classical Literature European Civilization: Literature Modern West: Literature Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities: "Wordsworth’s Financial Sublime: Money and Meaning in Book VII of The Prelude" South Central Review 25.2 (2008): 80-90. "Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene 6.10.1-4" forthcoming in The Explicator "Spenserian Pastoral and the Pathos of the Fall" presented at The Conference of the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society, St. Louis, MO, October 2008 "’The Devil’s Banquet’: Milton and Puritan Anti-Luxury Polemic" presented at the South-West Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Shawnee, OK, October 2008. "’Curious Taste’: Luxury and Chastity in Paradise Lost" presented at the Ninth Annual John Milton Symposium, London, England, July 2008. "Courtesy, Colony, and the Pattern on Holiness in Book Six of the Faerie Queene" presented at Exploring the Renaissance: An International Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 2009. "Two Approaches in Recent American Poetry: Wilbur and Collins" presented at the American College of Physicians George Ackerman Reading Retreat, Heber Springs, AR, April 2008. "Pro-War and Prothalamion: Queen, Colony, and Somatic Metaphor Among Spenser's 'Knights of the Maidenhead,'" English Literary Renaissance, 37 (2007): 215-249. "'Such is the Face of Falsehood': Spenserian Theodicy in Ireland," Studies in Philology, 103 (2006): 383-416. "Wooly Bully For Britain: Spenser and the Wildman in Ireland" presented to the American Conference of Irish Studies, June 2003. "'Such is the Face of Falsehood': Spenserian Theodicy in Ireland" presented to the University of the Ozarks faculty research forum, February, 2004. "Life of Pi" presented at the American College of Physicians George Ackerman Reading Retreat, April 2005. "The Knight on the Frontier: Spenser and Pastoral in Ireland" presented to Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Annual Conference, June, 2005. |
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