Matthew Stallard
Ph.D Candidate
English Renaissance and Reformation
Office: 347 Ellis Hall
Office Phone: 740-597-2926
Email: ms493101@ohio.edu
Degrees
M.A. English: Literary History, Ohio University
A.B. English summa cum laude, Ohio University
Publications
Milton’s Biblical Epic, doctoral dissertation in progress
Numerous commissioned entries, forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Middle East and South Asia, ed. Gordon Newby
“2Peter,” forthcoming in the Yale Milton Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Corns
“2Samuel,” forthcoming in the Yale Milton Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Corns
Book Review of Timothy Hodor’s The Crowd of Time, Quarter After Eight, Vol. 9, 2003
Vagabonds: Song of Amergin (Rome Records, 1995)
Articles in The Extended Media and Comfort News
Curriculum Vitae
John F. Cady Fellowship, 2007-2008
English Collection Library Acquisitions Assistant, 2004-2006
Assistant Editor, Milton Quarterly, 2003-04
AWA Fiction Book of the Year Selection Committee, 2003
Book Review Editor, Quarter After Eight, 2003
Vagabonds (Celtic Music Group), 1990-1997
Selected Conference Presentations
“The Bower of Tranquility: The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet,” Violently Shakespeare: The 2006 Ohio Shakespeare Conference; Marietta College, November 2006
“Guglielma and the Guglielmites: Heresy and Gender in the Thirteenth Century,” Medievalism and the Marvelous:The 21st International Conference on Medievalism; The Ohio State University, October 2006
“Langland’s Natural Theology: Trinitarian Discourse in Piers Plowman,” Medieval-Renaissance Conference XX; The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, September 2006
“‘The Shape of Nature’: Shakespeare’s Natural Theology in Twelfth Night,” Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century; Centre for Early Modern Studies at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, July 2006
“‘In the straits of time’: Shaping Character in 1Henry IV,” Michigan, Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters; Oakland University, March 2006
“‘Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind’: Rhetorical Seduction in Comus,” 2005 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2005
“What Time of Day Is It Lad?: Time as Character in Shakespeare’s 1HenryIV” West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference; Bethany College, May 2005
“Saint Peter’s Anglo-Saxon: The Reformation Voice in Milton’s Lycidas,” The International Milton Congress: Milton in Context; Duquesne University, March 2004
“The ‘Two-Handed Engine’ of Lycidas as Christ’s Second Advent,” 2003 Conference on John Milton; Middle Tennesee State University, October 2003
“Miltonic Resonance in John Fox’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine: Appalachia Lost,” Annual Conference of the Appalachian Writer’s Association (AWA); Cumberland College, July 2003
“‘Appalachian-American’ as Transnational Identity,” Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Atlanta, 2003
Professional Associations
The Milton Society of America
Modern Language Association of America
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Appalachian Writers Association
Michigan Academy of Arts and Letters
Courses
English 151: Writing and Rhetoric I
English 151: RLC "Examining America"
English 200: Introduction to Literature
English 201: Critical Approaches to Fiction
English 202: Critical Approaches to Poetry
English 251: English Literature to 1688 (second instructor)
English 254: Research and Writing in English Studies
English 303: Shakespeare's Tragedies
English 305J: Technical Writing
English 306J: Women and Writing
English 308J: Writing and Rhetoric II
English 312: Renaissance English; 1500-1660
Humanities 107: Great Books; Ancient World
Humanities 109: Great Books; Modern World