Curriculum Vitae
Arnold A. Sanders
3794 Church Road Goucher College
Ellicott City, MD 21043 Baltimore, MD 21024
Current Post Associate Professor of English, Goucher College
Education 1986: Ph.D. English Literature, Brown University
1980: M.A., University of New Hampshire
1970: B.A., With Honors, Lehigh University
Dissertation "Hyd Wythyn the Bodye": The Narrative Logic of Sir Thomas Malory (Director: Elizabeth Kirk. Readers: Robert Scholes, Michel‑Andre Bossy.)
Publications and Lectures
"Collecting to Teach / Teaching to Collect: The James Wilson Bright Collection of the Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD," at the Collectors and Collecting Conference, Chawton House Library (UK), 19 July 2007.
"The Promise and Perils of WorldCat and Online Library Catalogues as Search Engines for Copy-Specific Information and Images of Early Books." at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2007
“Illiterate Memory and Spiritual Experience: Margery Kempe, the Liturgy, and the ‘Woman in the Crowd,'" in Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk. N.Y.: Palgrave, 2006. Pp. 237-48.
“Sir Gareth and the‘Unfair Unknown': Malory's Use of the Gawain Romances,” Arthuriana 16:1 (Spring 2006) 34-46.
“Sir Gareth and the Green Knight” (Or,“The Unfair Unknown"): Educating the Ignorant in Malory's‘Gareth' and the Gawain-Cycle Romances" at the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2005
“Mulier de Turba” (Luke 11:27-28): Margery Kempe"s Defense of Her Evangelical Voice. 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2004
Fifteenth-Century Middle English Terms of “belongingness":“truste," "trewe,”and“love" in Malory. 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2003.
Paraphrase Plagiarism Risk Quiz. Designed and helped implement an online Internet site designed to let students test their ability to evaluate the accuracy and formal documentation of paraphrases of scholarly sources. January-May 2002. Available online at http://faculty.goucher.edu/writingprogram/sgarrett/Default.html
The King Who Will Win the Holy Cross: Malory, Caxton, and Political Prophecy in Le Morte Darthur. Early Book Society session at the 37th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2002.
William Caxton's Marketing Strategies: How Printshop Economics and Niche Marketing Shaped Early English Book Production. 35th International Congress of Medieval Studies. May 2000.
Listening to Malory: Inventing the Early Modern Reader with William Caxton. 34th International Congress of Medieval Studies. May 1999.
"'nevyr shal I se you agayne hole togydirs": Anxious "Departyng" in Malory. 33rd International Congress of Medieval Studies. May 1998.
Sanders' Law of Media Memory Decay: Why I Don't Use Video or Movies to Teach Classical Greek and Latin Literature. Panel Presentation, "Teaching Classics with Film," University of Maryland-College Park , March 1997.
"jantyllmannys servyse" and Fifteenth-Century Courtly Violence in Sir Thomas Malory's "Gareth." 31st International Congress of Medieval Studies. May 1996.
"Hypertext, Learning, and Memory: Some Implications from Manuscript Tradition," in Text 8 (1996) 125-45
Blake v. Stoddard: The Goucher "Speght 1598 Chaucer""'s Role in a Famous Artistic Quarrel. Friends of Julia Rogers Library, January 1993.
"Ruddymane and Canace Lost and Found: Spenser's Adaptation of Gower's "Confessio Amantis" (III) and Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," in The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Newark, Del.: U Delaware P, December 1991
Chaucer the Exile: Speght's Illustration of the Author and His "Friends" in the 1598 Edition, NEMLA Convention, Chaucer Session, 1991
Making Book on Malory: the hoole book" and Foucault's Authoring Function," MLA Convention 1989
Lancelot in Providence: Malory's Juridical Inquiry, NEMLA Convention, Old and Middle English Section, 1988
The Structure of the Winchester Malory (B.M. 54,678), a 15th Century Arthurian Compilation, Medieval Manuscript Group, 1988
"Malory's Transition Formulae: Fate, Volition, and Narrative Structure," Arthurian Interpretations, Fall 1987
Showing Loyalty / Claiming Protection: Medieval Ceremonial Gesture, NEATE Conference, 1987
A Pre‑Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper, edited and annotated with James Coombs, George Landow, & Anne Scott. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1986
Generic Action in Malory's Alterations of the "Suite du Merlin," MLA Convention, 1985
In Progress
“Love and the Forging of Authority in Malory's Morte Darthur”
King Author: Sir Thomas Malory's Struggle to Forge “Arthurity” in the Morte Darthur, a book-length manuscript tracing evidence of Malory's development from translator to author.
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Honors/Awards 2007 Summer Research Grant, Goucher College
2006 Goucher Innovation Grant, Goucher College (with Gail McCormick, Special Collections Librarian)
2006 Crosby Fund Grant, Goucher College (with Gail McCormick, Special Collections Librarian)
2006 Summer Research Grant, Goucher College
2001 Summer Technology Grant, Goucher College
1999: Summer Research Grant, Goucher College
1989: Elizabeth Nitzche Research Grant, Goucher College
1982‑86: Teaching Assistantship, Brown U.
1982: Graduate Council Special Research Stipend, Brown U.
1981: University Fellowship, Brown U.
1979: Alumni Summer Research Fellowship, UNH
Additional Professional Training: Heidelberg Pressman’s School (1975); Goucher Grant-Writing Workshop (June 2006); Rare Book School “Introduction to Bibliography” (July 2006); Rare Book School “Fifteenth-Century Books in Print and Manuscript” (August 2006).
Administrative Responsibility
Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center, 1989-96, 2000-2006
Graduate Studies Committee Faculty Representative, 2005-8.
Member: Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, International Courtly Literature Society, International Arthurian Society, Renaissance Society of America, National Writing Centers Association.