Arnold Sanders, Emeritus Professor of English (2015-present)

(Major Interests: medieval literature, history of the book and archival research)

Bibliographic Description Volunteer, Goucher Library Special Collections (Athenaeum, 4th floor)

Curriculum vitae

Course Web Sites:

• 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 230: Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman classical literature in translation, which meets the pre-1700 literature requirement for the major for the literature option.
• English 240: Medieval Literature; an elective course which meets the pre-1700 literature requirement for the major for the literature option.
• English 241 / 341 / Book Studies 341: Archeology of Text: an interdisciplinary course teaching archival research methods in digital, print, and manuscript texts.
• English 330: Chaucer Seminar: an elective seminar reading the Canterbury Tales, their sources and analogues.
• Frontiers 100: "Watery Frontiers--Voyages of Self-Discovery": a freshman seminar on the theme of transforming voyages on an ocean-centered planet.

Recent Publications:

“The Death of the Editor and Printer: Teaching Early Modern Publishing Practices to Internet-Raised Undergraduates.”  Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives.  Heidi Brayman Hackel and Ian Moulton, eds.  NY:  MLA Press, 2015.  82-100.

“The ‘1689 Chaucer’: A Reissue of the Last Black-Letter Chaucer Edition.”  Journal of the Early Book Society.  13 (2014)  221-29.

“Hands-On Research with Rare Books and Ephemera,” Archives Remixed, Archive (June 2012).  Available online at http://archivejournal.net/journal/.  (co-authored with Sarah Kendall [‘08] and Cassie Brand [‘09])  An editor-solicited article for a thematic issue about undergraduate work in archives and rare book collections.

“Writing Fame: Epitaph Transcriptions in Renaissance Chaucer Editions and the Construction of Chaucer’s Poetic Reputation,” Journal of the Early Book Society 14 (2011), 105-130.

Recent Conference Papers Delivered:

“Pearl’s Hyperbola/e and God’s Spotless Spot: Beautiful Excess and Deficiency,”  Medieval Institute’s  48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-12, 2013.  Pearl Paper Images in PowerPoint

"Writing Fame: Renaissance Chaucer Editions’ Epitaph Transcriptions and the Construction of Chaucer," 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2010.  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.)