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    • Tamara A. Goeglein

    Professor of English
    English
    Academic Advising
    Comparative Literary Studies
    717-291-4289
    Keiper Liberal Arts
    Office: KEI-311
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    Professional Biography

    English Department Associate Chair, 2012-

    Associate Dean of the Faculty, 2006-11

    English Department Chair, 2005-06, 1996-97

    Secretary of the Faculty, 2004-06

    Assistant, Associate, and Professor of English, 1989-

    Education

    Ph.D. British Literature with Medieval Studies Certificate, Indiana University, 1989

    M.A. British Literature, Indiana University, 1986

    A.B. English, Earlham College, 1982 (with highest honors, PBK)

    Research Interests

    English Renaissance Literature and Intellectual History; Early Modern Emblematics and Visual Culture; Edmund Spenser.

    Grants & Awards

    • Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Summer 2009
    •  Central Pennsylvania Consortium/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 2009
    •  Princeton University Library Research Grant, Spring 2004
    •  The Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, 1993
    •  NEH Summer Institute, “Society and Religion in Early Modern England," 1993
    •  NEH Summer Seminar, "The Protestant Imagination," 1990
    •  William Riley Parker Prize, Indiana University, 1989
    •  John H. Edwards Fellowship, by Trustees of Indiana University, 1986-87
    •  Phi Beta Kappa (Delta of Indiana), 1982

    Publications

    • "Death is in the ‘I’ of the Beholder: Early Modern English Emblems of Death” in Emblems of Death in the Early Modern Period, ed. Peter Daly and Monica Calebritto, (forthcoming, Geneva: Librarie Droz, 2012)
    •  "The Emblematics of Edmund Spenser’s House of Holiness,” Spenser Studies 25 (2010): 21-51
    • "Early Modern Emblem Books as Memorial Sites,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 69  (Autumn 2007): 43-70
    • "’You Might Find it a Different Story from the One You Learned in School’: Teaching Writing in a First-Year Seminar on Historical Fiction” in Integrating Literature and Writing  Instruction, eds. Judith H. Anderson and Christine R. Farris (Modern Language   Association, 2007), 150-73
    • "Reading English Ramist Books as Early Modern Emblem Books: The Case of Abraham   Fraunce,” Spenser Studies 20 (2005): 225-52

    Presentations

    • "Who's Looking?" Society for Emblem Studies, 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2013
    • "Emblematic Posturing," Renaissance Society of America Convention, April 2013
    • "Spenserian Lines of Sight," Spenser at Kalamazoo, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2012
    • National Endowment for the Humanities/American Library Association Series, "Making Sense of the American Civil War," convener, Spring 2012
    • The Shakespeare Association of America Seminar, convener with Frederick Kiefer, “Visual Studies and Early Modern Drama,” 2011-12
    • "George Wither as Creative Curator,” The Society for Emblem Studies Ninth International  Conference, July 2011
    • "The Pleasures of Iconoclasm in Spenser’s Emblematic Poetry,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, 2010
    • "The Emblematics of A Theatre for Worldlings,” Shakespeare Association of America, 2009
    • "Must We Compare Emblematic Texts and Images?” Renaissance Society of America Convention, 2009
    • The Shakespeare Association of America Seminar," Shakespeare and the Organization of Knowledge,” 2008-09
    • "Edmund Spenser and the Emblem,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2008
    • "Henry Peacham’s ‘Haphazard Variety,’” Renaissance Society of America Convention, 2008
    • "Re-reading the Emblematic Trees in Ashrea (1665),” Shakespeare Association of America, 2007
    • The Royal Shakespeare Company Symposium at Davidson College, 2007
    • The Shakespeare Association of America Seminar, “Readings in Early Modern Book History,” 2006-07
    • "Whither Wither’s ‘Metrical Illustrations’?” Renaissance Society of America Convention, 2006
    • "Reading Two Cambridge Emblem Books,” Renaissance Society of America Convention, 2005
    •  "Emblematic Habits of Thought in Spenser’s House of Holiness,” Renaissance Society of America Convention, 2004

    Course Information

    Medieval and Early Modern English Literature; Shakespeare; History of the Book; Historical Fiction