Elizabeth started following the work of Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Shorter University, Humanities.
Elizabeth started following the work of Ivy Hamerly, Baylor University, Political Science.
Elizabeth started following the work of Vicki Behrens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Writing Center.
Elizabeth is slouching toward Siena.
University of Central Arkansas
Faculty Member, English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English
visiting assistant professor
Thesis Title: Gifts and Economic Exchange in Middle English Religious Writings
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Joseph Wittig
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About
I teach world literature as a visiting assistant professor in the English department at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. Before that I had a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I taught two sections of composition and one introductory lit course titled "The Ethics of Reading" that incorporated service learning. (Note to students visiting this page: you have to work hard in my courses! Please come prepared to write and talk a lot!)
My article on the Middle English _Pearl_ has just come out in April's issue of _The Chaucer Review_. The larger project from which this article derives is a book manuscript focusing on how late medieval writers imagined exchanges between individuals and God, or individuals and each other, as gift-exchanges or as mercantile transactions. I'm writing about three Middle English texts: the poem _Pearl_, the long prose treatise _Dives and Pauper_, and _The Book of Margery Kempe_ (which is so wonderfully nutty that it gets two chapters, and perhaps its own book later).
I am also currently writing an article about the connections between epistemology and moral poetry in Thomas Hoccleve's _Series_.
My other research interests include medieval culture, religion, and social and intellectual history, as well as Chaucer, Piers Plowman, Hoccleve, romance, begging poems, and late medieval and early modern drama. I'm also interested in the history of the self, and in the ways that we imagine history.
Outside my literary field, I'm very interested in the process (not so much the theory) of academic writing: the practices that academics use to generate ideas and expand upon them, strategies for revision, and the communities that we form for mutual support and exchange of ideas. I am also interested in applying virtues-ethics theory to academic practice.
