Valorie A. Worthy
Assistant Professor
Medieval Renaissance Literature, Humanities
Office: Ellis 316
Office Phone: 593-2802
Email: worthy@ohio.edu
Degrees
Transformative Faculty Award, Arts and Sciences Committee, Ohio University, 2010
Ph.D., Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Ohio University, 1989
M.F.A., Painting and Art History, Ohio University, 1975
B.F.A., Painting and Art History, Ohio University, 1973
Publications
Writer/Reviewer, Damisch, Hubert, trans. John Goodman, A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca, Stanford, 2007, Reviewed for Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Archive, 9.2, (2008)
Writer, ed.F. Pereira, “Still Singing after 3000 Years: Orpheus and the Orphic Tradition: His Psychological Impact.” Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Literature and Psychology, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicado, Lisbon, (2003)
Writer, “ Instruction and the Meshing of Literary Motifs in Three Lais: “Guigemar,” “Equitan” and “Sir Orfeo.” Special Edition Papers from The 10th Triennial International Courtly Literature Society Conference, Tuebingen 2001. With the 11th ICLS Conference, 2003, publication (2004)
Writer, “Without Number, Without Name.” Thresholds Quarterly, 15.5, (1987)
Writer/Reviewer, “Orpheus and Myth.” Milton Quarterly, Athens, Ohio 1984.
Conference Presentations 2000-2010
Presenter, “The Augmentation of Humanities Instruction with the Classroom Computer Podium: Supplementing Close Reading with the Socratic Method.” Ubiquitous Learning Conference 2010, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2010.
Panel Member and Paper Presenter, “Still Singing after 3000 Years: Orpheus and the Orphic Tradition: His Psychological Impact.” 19th International Conference on Literature and Psychology, University of Siena, Italy, Arezzo Italy, June/July 2002.
Panel Member and Paper Presenter, “Instruction and the Meshing of Literary Motifs in Three Lais: “Guigemar,” “Equitan” and “Sir Orfeo.” X Triennial Congress of International Society of Courtly Literature, Tuebingen, Germany, July/August 2001.
Curriculum Vitae
Originally trained in the visual arts with an emphasis on Iconography, I came to my PhD in literature via the completion of coursework and comprehensive 777777y6i8u7exams for a Ph.D. in Comparative Arts/Humanities (Interdisciplinary Arts). My English dissertation focused on the figure and tradition of Mary Magdalen in the Medieval play “The Digby Mary Magdalen” and Shakespeare’s late play, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre.”
Courses
Humanities Series, Classical Literature through 20th century 100 and 300 levels
Women and Writing, 306J
Junior Senior Advanced Rhetoric Composition 308J
Technical Writing for Engineers, 305J
Technical Writing, 305J
Renaissance Literature, 312
Introduction to Literature 200
Introduction to Drama 203
Introduction to Fiction 201
Introduction to Poetry 202
Writing and Reading 152
Writing and Rhetoric 151