Curriculum Vitae

Gavin Todd Richardson

Professor of English

Union University

1050 Union University Drive

Jackson, Tennessee 38305

Phone: (731) 661-5317

E-mail: grichard@uu.edu

Homepage: http://www.uu.edu/personal/grichard/

Education:                 

Ph.D., English. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 1998.

M.A., English. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 1993.

B.A., English and Classics, Magna Cum Laude. Vanderbilt University, May 1991.

Study Abroad Program, University of Leeds, England, 1989-1990.

Dissertation:             

Title:               Truth is Trickiest: The Exploitation of Proverbial Authority in Medieval English Literature

Director:         Charles D. Wright

Readers:          John B. Friedman, Marianne E. Kalinke

Classical & Medieval Studies Publications:   

 "Pseudo-Boniface IV,” “Boniface V,” “Pseudo-Boniface V,” Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture,

 eds. Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, Paul E. Szarmach, and E. Gordon Whatley

(Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Press). [forthcoming]

"Practical Paleography in the Chaucer Classroom.”  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. 18.1 (Spring 2011): 79-96.

“Numismatic Images of Atargatis: Keys to a Parody.” The Celator: Journal of Ancient and Medieval

 Coinage. 23.10 (October 2009): 6, 8, 10, 12, 14.

“The ‘Barbarian/Hut’ Centenionalis and Vergilian Iconography.” Vergilius 54 (2008): 70-96.   

“La Male Règle.”  The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600.  Ed. Michelle M. Sauer.

New York: Facts on File, 2008. 238-39.

“Sex and Secrecy in Medieval Antifeminist Proverbs,” Proverbium: Yearbook of International

Proverb Scholarship 22 (2005): 321-36.

“Germanus Autisiodorensis” (with Prof. E. Gordon Whatley), in Abbo of Fleury, Abbo of

Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, and Acta Sanctorum (Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture,

V. 1) . Eds. Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, Paul E. Szarmach, and E. Gordon Whatley.

(Kalamazoo:  Western Michigan University Press, 2002).

“Langland's Mary Magdalene: Proverbial Misogyny and the Problem of Authority,”

Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000): 163-84.

“Judgment Day I & II,” Medieval England, ed. Paul E. Szarmach (New York: Garland

Publishing, 1998): 382-83.

Other Publications:

Review of Shylock Is Shakespeare by Kenneth Gross.  The Sixteenth Century Journal 39.4 (Winter 2008):1221-2.

“Jarman’s UNHOLY SONNET: AFTER THE PRAYING, AFTER THE HYMN-SINGING,”

The Explicator, 63.3 (Spring 2007), 185-88.

Conference Presentations:

"Henryson’s Proxy Avengers: Male Revenge Fantasy in the Testament of Cresseid."  

Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2009.

“The Bursting of the Womb: Male Revenge Fantasy and Hoccleve’s Tale of Jonathas.” 

34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association: Bodies, Embodiments,

Becomings, Saint Louis University, October 2008.

“Practical Paleography in the Chaucer Classroom.”  Forty-second International Congress

on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007.

“Leading Men: An Analysis of a Romano-Byzantine Gesture.”  Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, September, 2005.

“Sex and Secrecy in Medieval Antifeminist Proverbs.”  Thirty-eighth International Congress

on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003.

“Mary Magdalene in the English Mystery Plays,” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern

Medieval Association, New Orleans, October, 2001.

“'For hit ys an olde-seyde sawe . . . .': Proverbial Authority and the Denial of Agency in

Malory's Le Morte Darthur,” Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies,

Western Michigan University, May 1999.

“Gnomic Generalization and Situational Ethics in La3amon's Brut,” The Second Annual

Colloquium for Philology in Germanic Studies at Illinois and Indiana, Indiana

University, October 1996.

“Langland's Mary Magdalene and the Problem of Authority,” The Medieval Association

of the Midwest's Twelfth Annual Conference, Indiana State University, October 1996.

“Judas' Bread and Stone: The Proverbial Background of Elene 611-618 and the Problem

of Choice,” The Illinois Medieval Association's Thirteenth Annual Meeting,

University of Illinois at Chicago, February 1996.

“A World Without the Word: Gnomic Manipulation in Hrafnkels Saga,” Thirtieth

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1995.

“Narratology and Sapientia in the Old English Daniel,” Twenty-eighth International

Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1993.

Other Presentations:

“Constantine the Great: Christianity, Community, Art, & Propaganda -- A Numismatic Lecture.” 

Society for the Critical Imagination, March 2008.

Medieval Manuscripts & the Processus Contra Templarios.  Lambuth University

Lecture Series on the Knights Templar and the Processus Contra Templarios, March 2008.

“Language & Landscape: Mahmoud Darwish & Yehuda Amichai.”  Union University

“Town & Gown” Lecture Series on Israel and Palestine, June 2002.

“The Literature of Islam.”  Union University “Town & Gown” Lecture Series on

Islam, January 2002.

Courses Taught at Union University:

          English 111: Introductory Composition
          English 112: Introduction to Literature
          English 201: World Literature I
          English 202: World Literature II
          English 300: Literary Theory
          English 312: Creative Writing
          English 330: Advanced British Literature I
          English 336: The Epic
          English 395: The Medieval Dream Vision
          English 395: Medieval Poetry: Dante
          English 395: Gender & Society in the Middle Ages
          English 410: Representative Plays of Shakespeare
          English 421: History and Structure of the English Language
          English 430: Classical Antiquity: From Augustus to Augustine
          English 431: The Middle Ages: Chaucer
          English 431: The Middle Ages: The World of Beowulf
          English 431: The Middle Ages: Arthurian Legend

Other Teaching Experience:

ESL teacher trainer, Sripatum University, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2002.

Union University in Italy, January 2003, 2004, and 2010.

Professional Organizations:  Medieval Academy of America, Southeastern Medieval Association

Research Languages: Old & Middle English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Latin, French, German

Selected Recognitions:

            Granted Research Leave, Fall 2008

            Howard Newell Innovative Teaching Award, 2007

            Tenure, 2005

            Pew Research Grant, Summer 2005