Tamara A. Goeglein

Associate Dean of the Faculty, Associate Professor of English

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)

Academic Positions:

Franklin & Marshall College, Associate Dean of the Faculty, 2006 -
Franklin & Marshall College, Associate Professor, 1995-
Franklin & Marshall College, Department of English, 1996 - 97, 2005 - 06
Franklin & Marshall College, Assistant Professor, 1989 -95

Teaching Interests:

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

Recent Academic Grants and Honors:

• The Shakespeare Association of American Seminar, "Readings in Early Modern Book History," 2006 -07

• The Princeton University Library Research Grant, Spring 2004
  

• The Folger Shakespeare Library Institute Seminar, "Language and Visuality in the Renaissance: Aesthetics, Theology, Theatre," 2002 - 03
  

• Rare Book School at the University of Virginia (2000, 2001, 2005)

Select Publications:

• "Early Modern Emblem Books as Memorial Sites," Princeton University Library Chronicle 68 (Winter 2008)
  
• "'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 (Modern Language Society, 2007)
  
• "Reading English Ramist Books as Early Modern Emblem Books: The Case of Abraham Fraunce," Spenser Studies 20 (2005)
  
• "Roland MacIlmaine" (s.v.) in Dictionary of Literary Biography, 281 ("British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500 - 1660"), 2003

Select Paper Presentations:

• "Emblematic Habits of Thought in Spenser's House of Holiness," Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA), 2004

• "Reading Two Cambridge Emblem Books," RSA 2005
  

• "Whither Wither's 'Metrical Illustrations'," RSA 2006
  

• "Henry Peachma's 'Haphazard Variety," RSA 2008  

• "Edmund Spenser and the Emblem," 16th Century Studies Conference, 2008