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Mr. Kenneth J. Tiller, Ph.D. |
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Associate Professor of English |
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Zehmer 130 |
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(276) 376-4587 |
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(276) 328-0173 |
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kjt9t@uvawise.edu |
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Education: |
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B.A., English
1985
University of Central Oklahoma |
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M.A., English
1989
Oklahoma State University |
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Ph.D., English
1996
University of Notre Dame |
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Courses
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ENGL 406 Shakespeare’s Late Plays
ENGL 401 Studies in Medieval English Literature (Allegory and Dream Vision; British Romance)
ENGL 400 Age of Chaucer
ENGL 349 Studies in the British Romance Tradition
ENGL 342 History of the English Language
ENGL 341 Introduction to the Study of the English Language
ENGL 325 Selected Readings in English Literature I
ENGL 307 Arthurian Literature
ENGL 305 Western Literary Traditions I
ENGL 300 How to Read Literature
ENGL 103H Honors Composition
ENGL 102 English Composition 2
ENGL 101 English Composition 1 |
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Professional
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Dr. Tiller has chaired the organization committee for the UVA-Wise Medieval-Renaissance Conference since 1997. He received summer research grants from the University of Virginia to pursue research on the his manuscript, the Chivalric Landscape in Sir Thomas Malory's _Le Morte Darthur_. He has organized sessions for the International Layamon's Brut Society at the Annual Congress on Medieval Studies since 2001. |
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Dr. Tiller publishes in Old and Middle English, with an emphasis in Arthurian literature. His book, on Layamon's Brut and Anglo-Norman Historiography, is in press and is due in 2006. He has published articles on the Brut and on the works of Sir Thomas Malory. He is currently working on a manuscript, _The Chivalric Landscape in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur_. |
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Recent
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_Layamon’s Brut and Norman-Angevin Historiography_. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006
“En-graving Chivalry: Landscape Markers and the Ideology of Knighthood in Malory’s
Tale of King Arthur.” Arthuriana 14.2 (Summer 2004): 37-53.
“‘So precyously Coverde’: Malory’s Hermeneutic Quest of the Sankgreal.” Arthuriana 13.3 (Fall 2003): 83-97.
“Romancing History: Masculine Identity and Authority: Layamon’s Prologue (MS Cotton
Caligula A.ix 1-38).” Layamon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation. King’s College
London Medieval Studies 19. Allen, Perry, Roberts, eds. London: King’s College Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2002. 371-84.
“‘The Truth ‘Bi Athure an Kinge’: Arthur’s Role in Shaping Layamon’s Vision of History.” Arthuriana 10.2 (Summer 2000): 27-49.
“The Fool as Physician in Shakespeare’s Plays.” Shakespeare’s Theories of Blood, Character, and Class: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor David S. Berkeley. Studies in Shakespeare 12, Peter C. Rollins and Alan Smith, eds. New York: Lang, 2001. 43-60.
“The Battle of Brunanburh in Latin and Old English,” in circulation |
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Personal
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http://people.uvawise.edu/kjt9t/
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