EDUCATION

PUBLICATIONS

The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558-1582, Ashgate Publishing (forthcoming)

 
Guest Editor, Special Issue on George Gascoigne, Early Modern Literary Studies (forthcoming, Spring 2008)

Editor, Proceedings, Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Fall 2007 (forthcoming, Spring 2008)

“‘Set in portraiture’:  George Gascoigne, Queen Elizabeth, and Adapting the Royal Image,” Early Modern Literary Studies 11.1 (2005):  1-30

“Tottel’s Miscellany and the English Reformation,” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 44.4 (2002):  329-361

COURSES TAUGHT (selected)

2003–2008      Minnesota State University Moorhead

Composition

First Year Composition and Literature, II:  Academic Service Learning

Graduate

The Literatures of War

Honors

Honors Colloquium in the Humanities

Literature

Dante (team taught with Dr. Gary Litt)

Donne and Jonson
Gender Theory

J.R.R. Tolkien:  The Lord of the Rings

Literature Capstone:  Romance and Epic (Spring 2008)

Major British Writers, I
Renaissance Literature

Renaissance Literature:  The Literature of Women

Shakespeare
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Philosophy

World Religions

1997-2003       The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Composition

Principles of Composition*

Literature

Bible as Literature (discussion sections & grading)
English Literature from the Beginning to 1798 (discussion sections & grading)*

Introduction to British Literature

Introduction to Literary Study
Introduction to Poetry

Religious Studies

World Religions (discussion sections & grading)

(*Included on “The List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students”)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS (selected)

Faculty Development Grant, MSUM, 2005, 2006, 2007
Release Time Grant, MSUM, 2006

Graduate Faculty, MSUM, 2004-2010
Assistant Professor, MSUM, 2003-present

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected)

“‘Certain decayed men’: Gascoigne’s Catholic Maske, ” The George Gascoigne Seminar, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, 21 September 2007 

“Barnabe Googe and the Absent Elizabeth,” Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Brookings, SD, 2006

“‘Venus Be in my Verse’:  Thomas Watson and the Cult of Elizabeth,” Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Morris, MN, 2005

“Queen Elizabeth, George Gascoigne, and the Royal Image,” Central Renaissance Conference, Lawrence, KS, 2003

“Carving Images for Ourselves:  Sidney, Astrophil, and the Idolatry of Love,” Midwest MLA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 1999

“Contexts of Identity and Knowledge:  Jesus, the Temple, and the Desert in Paradise Regain’d,” South Central and Central Renaissance Conferences, St. Louis, MO, 1996

“Tasso and Milton:  Pastoral as Vehicle for the Heroic Paradigm,” Graduate Student Conference on Languages and Literature, Baton Rouge, LA, 1996

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)

Administration

Co-organizer, The George Gascoigne Seminar, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, 2007, 2009

Organizer, Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Moorhead, MN, 2007

Director, University Honors Program, MSUM, 5/2006-present

Advising

Mentor, Honors Apprentices, MSUM, 2006-present

Faculty Co-Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, English Honors Society, MSUM, 2003-2004

Undergraduate Advisor, General Curriculum, University of Illinois, Summers 1999-2002

Undergraduate Advisor, Department of English, University of Illinois, 1999-2000

Committees

Master of Liberal Arts Program Committee, MSUM, 2007- 

Foundations of Excellence:  Roles and Purposes Committee, MSUM, 2007-

Scholarship Awarding Committee, MSUM, 2007-

Lead Faculty Group, MSUM, 2006-2007

Curriculum Committee, Department of English, MSUM, 2005-2008

Academic Policy Advisory Committee, MSUM, 2004-2005, 2007-2009

Six-Year Review Committee, Department of English, MSUM, 2004-2005

Budget Committee, Department of English, MSUM, 2003-2005

First-Year English Committee, Department of English, MSUM, 2003-2005

Editorial

Webmaster, The George Gascoigne Seminar, www.mnstate.edu/hamrick/gascoigneseminar.htm, 2007-

Webmaster, Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, www.mnstate.edu/hamrick/NPCEBLWeb.htm, 2007-

References

Dr. Kathleen Enz Finken, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, MSUM, enz@mnstate.edu

            Dr. Achsah Guibbory, Professor, Chair, Department of English, Barnard College, aguibbor@barnard.edu

Dr. Susan Imbarrato, Associate Professor, Department of English, MSUM, simbarra@mnstate.edu

            Dr. Gary Litt, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, MSUM, litt@mnstate.edu