Dr. Verena Theile, Assistant Professor
Department of English |
| Curriculum Vitae | |||||
| Employment | |||||
| AY 2008-present | Assistant Professor, Department of English, North Dakota State University | ||||
| AY 2007-08 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gonzaga University | ||||
| AY 2006-07 | Charles Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, Washington State University | ||||
| AY 2001-06 | Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Washington State University | ||||
| AY 1999-2001 | Teaching Assistant, Department of English, MInnesota State University | ||||
| Education | |||||
| AY 2001-06 | Ph.D. English, Washington State University, Pullman Dissertation Title: Staging the Occult: Continental European Influences on the Literature of the English Renaissance Stage (Director: William M. Hamlin) |
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| AY 1999-2001 | M.A. English Literature, Minnesota State University, Mankato Thesis Title: Henry Vaughan: A Modernist Perspective (Director: Mary S. Johnston) (Received nomination for Best Thesis Award at MSU in 2001) |
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| AY 1995-98 | B.A. English Literature (Minor in History), Minnesota State University, Mankato (Graduated with summa cum laude and with Distinctions in English) |
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| Honors and Awards | |||||
| AY 2006-07 | Charles Blackburn Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of English, Washington State University | ||||
| Spring 2006 | T.A. Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of English, Washington State University | ||||
| Summer 2005 | Doctoral Fellowship, Dr. Günther Findel-Stiftung, Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany | ||||
| Summer 2005 | Travel Grant from the Graduate School, Washington State University, for Inscriptions in the Sand | ||||
| Spring 2004 | Travel Grant, Princeton University, for The Natural & the Unnatural: Nature in the Middle Ages | ||||
| Teaching Experience | |||||
| Literature courses: English 484: Literature of the Sixteenth-Century (elective for majors) English 480: Modern Theories of Literature and Criticism (elective for major & non-majors) English 466: European Literature in Translation (elective for majors) Humanities 335: The Bible as Literature (elective for major & non-majors) English 306: Shakespeare after 1600 (elective, English majors & non-majors) English 305: Shakespeare before 1600 (elective, English majors & non-majors) English 251: British Literature I (early survey, general education elective) English 209: Reading in British Literature (British survey course, requirement for majors) Honors 199: Freshman Composition and Introduction to Literature (requirement for Honors students) English 108: Introduction to Literary Studies (requirement for majors; general education elective) Composition courses: Distance Degree Courses at Idaho State University and WSU: |
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| Work in Progress | |||||
| Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century, a collection of critical essays, co-edited by Marie Drews (Whitworth University) and Verena Theile (North Dakota State University), forthcoming with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, spring 2009. Translation of excerpts from Guarinonius and Platter from early modern German to English Carnival, comedy and festival in early modern Europe: theatrical writings of the physicians Hippolytus Guarinonius and Felix and Thomas II Platter by for M. A. Katritzky (The Open University) is in progress; the projected completion date is AY 2008-9 “Staging Skepticism: The Devil and the Witch in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” currently under consideration with English Literary Renaissance“Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Enter the Discourse of Demonology” in progress for consideration with Theatre Research International Essays for Staging Superstitions: Playwrights, the Supernatural, and the Early Modern Stage have been collected; this collection, co-edited by Andrew McCarthy (Washington State University) and Verena Theile (North Dakota State University), was solicited by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Essays for New Formalist Approaches to Literature and Culture have been solicited; the collection will be edited by Linda Tredennick (Gonzaga University) and Verena Theile (North Dakota State University). Peter Lang Publishing, and VDM (Verlag Dr. Muller) have expressed an interest in the publication of Staging the Occult: Continental European Influences on the Literature of English Renaissance Stage. |
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| Selected Conference Presentations and Panels | |||||
| Presenter, Participant: “Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: Enter the Discourse of Demonology” at Rocky Mountain MLA in Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 2006 “Lear’s Witches and Edgar’s Demons: When Superstition met Skepticism in Shakespeare’s England” at RMMLA in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Oct. 2005 “Comus’s Bare Magic Wand and the Magical Problem-solving Capabilities of Free Will in Milton’s Comus: A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634,” at Inscriptions ’05: Eighth International Literature & Humanities Conference in Famagusta, Cyprus, May 2005 Seminar on Medieval and Early Modern Magic at the Newberry Library in Chicago, AY 2004-5 “Miracles, Marvels, Misperceptions: Magic in Chaucer’s Miller’s, Franklin’s and Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale” at The Natural & the Unnatural: On & Beyond Nature in the Middle Ages at Princeton University, Mar. 2004 “The Wilderness Within: Toni Morrison’s Trilogy as an Exploration of the Wild in Women” at RMMLA in Missoula, Oct. 2003 (received nomination for best graduate conference paper Panel Chair, Organizer: Panel Organizer: “Early Modern Witchcraft on Trial” and “Undergraduates Unplugged: Literature Matters” at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) in Calgary, Canada, Oct. 2007 Research Symposium Organizer and Chair: “Honors Presentations on God, Satan, Temptation, Human Suffering, and Free Will” on behalf of the Honors College and the Department of English at WSU, Fall 2006 Panel Organizer and Chair: “African American Women Writer: Memory and Identity” at RMMLA in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Oct. 2005 Panel Organizer and Chair: “Magicians, Jugglers, Swindlers: Representations of Magic, Natural Philosophy, and the Occult in Renaissance Literature" at Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA) in St. Louis, Nov. 2004 |
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| Professional Experience | |||||
| 2007-present | Translation Assistant to Dr. M. A. Katritzky, Oxford, UK |
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| Summer 2007 | Course Developer, English 466: Shakespeare, Distance Degree Program, Idaho State University | ||||
| Summer 2005 | Research Fellow (Stipendiat) at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Germany * Research in support of my dissertation project |
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| AY 2004-5 | Research Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, Will Hamlin, English Department, WSU * Assisted in final editing of proofs and assembling of index as well as in revising, editing and reducing the length of Professor Hamlin’s book manuscript Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England (Palgrave, 2005) |
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| Professional Service | |||||
| Spring 2007 | Member of Honors Thesis Committee: Sara Hilliard, “Shakespeare’s Othello: Biographical Parallels with the 17th Earl of Oxford” (Advisor: Michael Delahoyde, Department of English, WSU) | ||||
| Spring 2007 | Member of Honors Thesis Committee: Albert J. Hsu, “Effect of Temperament in Infancy on Sleeping/Feeding Behaviors in Toddlerhood” (Advisor: Marsha Gartstein, Department of Psychology, WSU) | ||||
| AY 2006-07 | Member of Scholarship & Awards Committee, Department of English, WSU | ||||
| AY 2005-06 | Literature at Large Representative, English Graduate Organization, WSU | ||||
| AY 2004-06 | Member of ESL Committee, Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman | ||||
| AY 2003-present | Freshman Composition Placement and “Junior Portfolio” Reader, Writing Programs, WSU | ||||
| Language Competency | |||||
| Fluent in German and English and Reading Comprehension in Italian, Latin, and French | |||||
| Professional Memberships | |||||
| Sixteenth Century Society, Renaissance Society of America, Shakespeare Association of America, Modern Language Association, Rocky Mountain and Midwestern MLA, Sir Philip Sidney Society, Societas Magica | |||||
| References upon Request | |||||
Last updated August 2008 |
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