English

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest: Shakespeare, early modern drama, early modern literature and culture, epistemology, critical theory
Degrees: B.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., Texas State University, San Marcos; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Contact Info
Email address: rpaul@allegheny.edu
Office Phone Extension: #2320

Office Info
Office: Oddfellow# 213

Office Hours: FALL 2012- TBA

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012
English 200*05: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 201*00: Studies in Early British Literature Download Syllabus
English 390*00: Literary Theory Download Syllabus

Fall 2011
English 200*09: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 200*10: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 212*00: Shakespeare Download Syllabus

Spring 2011
Engl 200*02: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
Engl 201*00: Studies in Early British Lit. Download Syllabus
Engl 311*00: Chaucer Download Syllabus 

Fall 2010
English 200*09: Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 212*00: Shakespeare Download Syllabus
English 425*00: Spenser’s the Faerie Queene Download Syllabus

Publications

Books

The Matchless Orinda: Essays on the Life and Works of Katherine Philips. Co-edited with David L. Orvis (Work in Progress)

Essays:

“The Power of Ignorance and The Roaring Girl.” (Work in Progress)

“To See and Be Seen: Aemilia Lanyer’s Poetics of Vision.” Masculinities and Femininities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. Frederick Kiefer. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009.

“‘I want to be surprised when I hear your voice’: Who Speaks for Jasmine?” Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas. Eds. Jaspal K. Singh and Rajendra Chetty. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Conference Papers

“Orinda’s Hand: Manuscript vs. Print in Katherine Philips Scholarship.” Western Conference on British Studies. Austin, TX, September 2010.
 
“Iconoclasm and Devotional Poetry in Early Modern England.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010.
 
“Visual Devotion in England: Crossing the Reformation.” Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference. Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009.
 
“Confusing the Senses in English Pastoral Drama.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, February 2009.
 
“Genre, Faith and Personal Revelation in Samson Agonistes.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. University of Nevada, Reno. Reno, NV, October 2008.
 
“Nothing from Nothing: The Maternal Historiography of Graham Swift’s Waterland.” New Directions in Critical Theory. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ, April 2008.
 
“Elizabethan Cinema: Derek Jarman’s Edward II.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, February 2008.
 
“Better Re(a)d than Dead: Narrative and Identity in Angela Carter’s Lycanthropy Tales.” New Directions in Critical Theory. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ, March 2007.
 
“To See and Be Seen: Aemilia Lanyer’s Poetics of Vision.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, February 2007.
 
“‘What has transformed my love to this strange shape?’: Moll and the Disruption of the Sexual Economy.” South Central Renaissance Conference. St. Thomas University. Houston, TX, March 2006.
 
“Family Jewels: Wealth and Castration in King Lear.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, February 2006.
 
“‘His confession would be long’: Stephen Dedalus and the Trap of Confession.” North American James Joyce Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY, June 2005.
 
“‘From thy wombe a famous Progenee,’ or ‘By me the Promised Seed shall all restore’: Spenser, Milton, and the Rehabilitation of Eve.” South Central Renaissance Conference. Pepperdine University. Malibu, CA, March 2005.
 
“‘You cannot rest in your silence’: Voice and Life in The Optimist’s Daughter.” Southern Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Conference. University of Mississippi-Oxford. Oxford, MS, July 2004.
 
“Spenser’s Psychological Allegory: The Palmer as Superego.” South Central Renaissance Conference. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX, April 2004.

Selected Awards:

College of Humanities Outstanding Graduate Assistant in Teaching. University of Arizona Foundation, May 2010

1885 Society Graduate Fellowship in Arts and Humanities. University of Arizona Graduate College, Spring 2010

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2009-2010

Outstanding TA/GA of the Year. Center for Student Involvement and Learning, University of Arizona, 2008-2009

David L. Patrick Dissertation Fellowship. Department of English, University of Arizona, Spring 2009

Best Essay Award. Group for Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, 2007-2008, 2008-2009

Milton O. Riepe Fellowship. Department of English, University of Arizona, Summer 2007

Research Grant, Cambridge University Library. Group for Early Modern Studies, University of Arizona, Summer 2006

Dean’s Fellowship. College of Humanities, University of Arizona, Spring 2006

Arizona Scholars Fellowship. University of Arizona, 2005-2006 & 2007-2008