Arnold Sanders, Associate Professor of English

(Major Interests: Medieval literature, history of the book and archival research, freshman composition, composition theory and tutoring)

Van Meter G57 / Campus Phone, x6515

Curriculum vitae

• English 104: Academic Writing I: a section of the first semester freshman composition course
• English 105: Academic Writing II: a section of the second semester freshman composition course
• English 211: Beowulf to Dryden: a required British literature survey of early literature (to 1700)
• English 215: Critical Methods: a required course in applied interpretive theory
• English 221: Theories of Composing, Teaching and Tutoring: a course which trains Writing Center tutors and explores composition theory (permission of the instructor required for admission).
• English 222: Women and Literature--"Women and Inspiration": an elective course cross-listed with Women's Studies (WS 222).
• English 240: Medieval Literature; an elective course which meets the pre-1700 literature requirement for the major for the literature option.
• English 241: Archeology of Text: an interdisciplinary course teaching archival research methods in digital, print, and manuscript texts.
• English 330: Chaucer Seminar: an elective seminar.
• Frontiers 100: "Watery Frontiers--Voyages of Self-Discovery": a freshman seminar on the theme of transforming voyages on an ocean-centered planet.

Recent Conference Papers Delivered:

"Writing Fame: Renaissance Chaucer Editions’ Epitaph Transcriptions and the Construction of Chaucer," 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2010.  (Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Early Book Society, 14 [2011].  Slides referred to in the talk are stored in this PowerPoint slide show.  If your Internet connection is slow, you can see a shortened version on this web page: http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng330/Kzoo%202010/kalamazoo_2010.htm.)

"The Promise and Perils of WorldCat and Online Library Catalogues as Search Engines for Copy-Specific Information and Images of Early Books," 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2007

"Collecting to Teach / Teaching to Collect: The James Wilson Bright Collection of the Julia Rogers Library,"  Collectors and Collecting Conference, Chawton House Library, 19 July 2007

“’Sir Gareth and the Green Knight’ (Or, ‘The Unfair Unknown’): Educating the Ignorant in Malory’s ‘Gareth’ and the Gawain-Cycle Romances”  40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2005  (Revised and published as “Sir Gareth and the‘Unfair Unknown': Malory's Use of the Gawain Romances,” Arthuriana 16:1 (Spring 2006) 34-46.)