Curriculum Vitae
CV
William Joseph Taylor
Associate Professor
Co-editor, Exemplaria: Medieval and Early Modern Theory (Taylor and Francis)
262 Morton Hall
Department of English
University of Alabama in Huntsville
E-mail: wjt0003@uah.edu
https://sites.google.com/a/uah.edu/joseph-taylor/home
Education
PhD, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, December 2009
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dissertation: "'That Country Beyond the Humber': The English North, Regionalism and the
Negotiation of Nation in Medieval English Literature"
Committee: Elizabeth Scala (co-chair), Daniel Birkholz (co-chair), Mary Blockley, Marjorie
Curry Woods, Geraldine Heng
M.A., English Literature, May 2004
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Thesis: "Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Criseydan Conversations 1986-2002, A Narrative Bibliography"
Supervisors: Daniel Mosser, Anthony Collaianne
B.A., English, Dec 1999
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Study Abroad, University of Brighton, London and Edinburgh (UK), Summer 1999
B.A., History, Dec 1999
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Publications
Books
Peer Reviewed Articles and Essays
“Quiet Riot: A Politics of Noise in the Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer Review 53, no. 2 (2018): 178-93.
“Arthurian Biopolitics: Sovereignty and Ecology in Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 59, no. 2 (2017): 182-208. Winner of the Tony Hilfer Prize for best TSLL essay in 2017
"Sovereign Ecologies: Securing the Royal Flesh in Anglo-Norman Historiography" in The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain. Eds. Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, 179-209. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
with Randy P. Schiff, "Introduction: The Politics of Ecology" in The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain. Eds. Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, 1-30. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2016.
"Sovereignty, Oath, and the Profane Life in the Avowing of Arthur," Exemplaria 25, no. 1 (2013): 36-58.
""Me longeth sore to Bernysdale": Centralization, Resistance and the Bare Life of the Greenwood in A Gest of Robyn Hode," Modern Philology 110, no. 3 (2013): 313-339.
"Chaucer's Uncanny Regionalism: Rereading the North in the Reeve's Tale," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 109, no. 4 (2010): 468-489.
Book Reviews
Review of Emily Dolmans. Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From “Gesta Herwardi” to “Richard Coer de Lyon.” Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Speculum 97.4 (2022): 1183-1185.
Shawn Normandin. Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the CanterburyTales. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2020): 391-95.
Susan Nakley. Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales. University of Michigan Press, 2017. Arthuriana 28.3 (2018): 117-18.
Lynn Staley, The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 113.3 (2014): 382-85.
Timothy S. Jones, Outlawry in Medieval Literature. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 112.2 (2013): 221-224.
Neil Cartlidge, ed. Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. The Medieval Review (2012) <http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tmr/>
Scholarship in Progress
“‘Where the Unsaid Goes Unspoken’: Translation As a Matter of Life and Death in the Legend of Good Women and Refugee Tales” (article in preparation)
"Work Like the Devil: Loving Thy Neighbor in the Friar's Tale" (under revision and resubmission) (15,003 words)
Fluid Spaces: Biopolitics and Medieval Landscapes (book project in preparation)
Presentations and Conference Papers
Presenter: “Are You Not Entertained?: Undulating Ethics in the Canterbury Tales.” Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Los Angeles, CA. July 2024.
Panel Organizer: "Deep Medieval Ecologies." Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. March 2023.
Panel Organizer: "Medieval Ecological Flows." Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. March 2023.
Presenter: "'Where the Unsaid Goes Unspoken': Language IS Life in the Legend of Good Women and Refugee Tales." Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Durham, UK. July 2022.
Panel Organizer: “Medieval Ecomaterialistm: Reading Ruins in Medieval Literature.” Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Davis, CA. June 2019.
Presenter: "A Coming Community: The Anglo-Scottish March in the Late Middle Ages." Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Toronto, Canada. July 2018.
Presenter: “A Political Theology of the Refugee as Neighbor.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2018.
Session Organizer. Borders of Perception. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. March 2017.
Presenter: “Quiet Riot: Sound Studies and Chaucer’s Ear for the City.” Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. London, UK. July 2016.
Session organizer (2 sessions, Paper Panel and Roundtable). An Audible Medieval Past. Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. London, UK. July 2016.
Session Organizer (2 sessions). Medieval Domains: Forests and Waterways. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. April 2016.
Panel Chair. Allegorical War. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. April 2015.
Presenter: "In the pines, in the pines…: Ovid's Trees in the Metamorphoses." Invited Lecture, Society For Ancient Languages. Huntsville, AL, October 2014.
Panel Chair. Chaucerian Emotions. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN. April 2014
Presenter: "Arthur's Biopolitical Milieu: Waterways and Conquest in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia." MLA Convention, Chicago, IL. January 2014.
Presenter: "Through the Strait Gait of the Medieval Stage: Northern Messianism and the Towneley Cycle." Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. Knoxville, TN. April 2013.
Session Organizer. Greenwood Ecologies: A Roundtable. Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Portland, OR. July 2012
Presenter: "Work Like the Devil: Redemptive Neighborhoods in Chaucer's Friar's Tale" (To Further a Political Theology of the Neighbor). Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Portland OR. July 2012
Panel Chair. Historicity. Surface, Symptom and the State of Critique. Symposium held by Exemplaria, Austin, TX. February. 2012.
Presenter: "'Kyll or sley, or laye adoune': Sovereign Misrule and Border Biopolitics in the Northern Gawain Romances." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2011
Presenter: "Speaking of Chaucer." Invited Lecture for the English Author Tea Event, Huntsville Literary Association. Huntsville, AL. February 2011.
Presenter: "Macbeth Among the Animals." Pre-Show Lecture for American Shakespeare performance of Macbeth. Huntsville, AL. January 2011.
Presenter: "Revulsion, Resistance, and Refiguring "The North" in the Medieval Literature of the Scottish Border." MLA Convention. Los Angeles, CA. January 2011
Presenter: "Smashing the North's Face: William of Malmesbury and the Ethics of Nationhood." MLA Convention. San Francisco, CA. December 2008
Presenter: "Collapsing Spaces and the Uncanny North in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale." Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. Swansea, Wales, UK. July 2008
Presenter: "'A myle brood of twenty foot of space': Physical and Social Space in Fragment I of the Canterbury Tales." Biennial New Chaucer Society Congress. New York, NY. July 2006
Presenter: "The Rhetoric of the Troilus: Chaucer's Truths About Language and Their Applications in Modern Pedagogy." SAMLA Convention. Atlanta, GA. November 2003
Presenter: "Chaucer and Pandarus: The Introverted Author's Self-Embodiment." Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference. Fayetteville, AR. October 2003
Presenter: "The Filtration of the Trojan Narrative in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2003
Courses Taught
University of Alabama in Huntsville
English 101 and 102: Freshman Composition
English 105: Honors Freshman Composition
English 205: British Literature I
English 207: Literatures and Cultures I
English 207 (Online): Literature and Cultures I
English 207: Literature and Cultures I at College Academy
English 209: Honors Literature and Cultures I
English 250: Honors World Literature I
English 305: Introduction to the Major and Minor
English 335: British Literature Survey for English Majors and Minors
English 403 and 503 (Graduate): Literary Theory
English 408 and 508 (Graduate): History of the English Language
English 450: Chaucer (undergraduate)
English 451 and 551 (Graduate): Middle English Literature Survey
English 451 and 551 (Graduate): Arthurian Romance
English 649 Special Topics: Medieval Monsters
English 650: Chaucer (Graduate)
English 655: Seminar in Medieval Literature
English 698: Independent Study (Valerie Lotz 2012; Farid Alkhafaji 2013)
Departmental and Related Positions
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Associate Professor, Aug. 2016-present
Assistant Professor, Jan 2010-2016
Department, College, and University Service
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Interim Co-Director of Graduate Studies in English (2019)
Interim Director of Freshman Composition (2015-2016)
Faculty Senator (2013-2017, 2019-present)
Faculty Senate President-Elect (2021-22)
Faculty Senate President (2022-23)
Faculty Senate Past-President (2023-24)
Committees
Faculty Senate Executive Committee (2015-2017; 2021-present)
University Budget Committee (2022-2023)
University Convocation Committee (2022-2023)
University Faculty Appeals Committee (2019-2022)
University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Planning Committee (2021-2022)
Humanities Center Steering Committee (2016-present)
Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2018-2019)
Faculty Senate Finance and Resources Committee (2013-2017; 2019-2021)
Chair, Faculty Senate Finance and Resources Committee (2015-2017; co-chair 2019-21)
University Individual Investigator Distinguished Research Awards Committee (Spring 2018)
Committee for Reviewing Research Infrastructure Proposals (2018)
University Online Task Force (Spring 2017)
Search Committee, UAH VP for Finance and Administration (Summer 2017)
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Promotions and Tenure Advisory Committee (2016)
Committee Chair (Pavica Sheldon tenure case, 2016)
University Graduate Council (2014-2015)
University Graduate Council Thesis/Dissertations Committee (2014-2015)
Faculty Sponsor, Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society (2011-2016)
Department Assessment Committee (2015-16; 2021-22)
Department Standing Curriculum Committee (2016-present)
Department Standing Curriculum Committee Chair (2018-2020)
Department Writing Program Administration Committee (2016-2019)
Composition Assessment Chair for SACSCOC Accreditation (2015-16)
Department EH 105 Common Text (2014-2017)
Department Special Committee on Graduate Capstone Project (Summer 2013)
Co-organizer, Department of English Graduate Student Conference (2012-2013; 2020-21).
Department Committee for Curriculum Overhaul (2011-2012)
Department Composition Committee (2010-2011)
Department Hiring Committee
Full-time Lecturer in Composition, 2022
Two full time Lecturers in Composition, 2019
Assistant Professor in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, 2016
Two full time Lecturers in Composition, 2015
Instructor of Composition and Creative Writing, 2012
Assistant Professor in Dramatic Literature, 2010
Department Tenure Committee
Anna Foy (Chair, 2018)
Chad Thomas (Chair, 2017)
Ryan Weber (2017)
Joseph Conway (2017)
Department Tenure-Earning Reappointment Committee
Gaines Hubbell (2020, 2021 [chair])
Joy Robinson (2019)
Department Lecturer Promotions Committee
Heather Cross (2019)
Sinceree Gunn (2019)
Department Lecturer Reappointment Committee Chair
Daniella Cornelius (2022)
Colleen Noletto (2022)
Sinceree Gunn (2020)
Rebecca Hazlewood (2020, 2022)
Anna Weber (2018)
Michael McGinnis (2017)
Susan Friedman (2016)
Heather Cross (2015)
Department Lecturer Reappointment Committee
Anna Weber (2022)
Sinceree Gunn (2022)
Elizabeth Hardin (2021)
Susan Friedman (2020)
Heather Cross (2019)
Seth Lee (2019)
Julie Naviaux (2018)
Susan Friedman (2014)
Out of Department Reviewer for Reappointment
Communications (2023)
Psychology (2019)
Art, Art History, and Design (2018)
Philosophy (2017)
History (2018, 2021)
Out of Department Reviewer for Tenure
Curriculum and Instruction, Education (2020)
Philosophy (2019)
MA Thesis Committees
Forrest Johnson 2021
Hannah Thomas 2019
Tyler Womble 2018-19
Sarah Moore 2015-16 (chair)
Kat Padilla (2015-16)
Melissa Black 2015
John Bjorne 2013-14 (chair)
Krista Reeves 2014
Barry Rich 2012-13 (chair)
Ryan Brown 2012
Raluca Markow 2011
MA Capstone Projects
Dominic Procopio (2023)
Laura Martin (2022)
James Rogers (2022)
Stephen Sheffield 2021 (chair)
Angela Hieronymi 2021 (chair)
Andy Arnold (2019)
Melissa Guerrero 2019 (chair)
Kerri Satterfield 2017 (chair)
Alexander Perry 2014 (chair)
Ashley Macemon 2014 (chair)
MA Exam Committees
Farid Alkhafaji 2013 (chair)
Victoria Miller 2013
Natalie Graham 2013
Jason Gabriel 2013
Ashley Clark-Brazelton 2013
Nathaniel Lindsey 2013
Bonnie Winstel 2013
Kristi Caudill 2012 (chair)
Erin Riddle 2012 (chair)
Jake Cornelius 2012
Tamara White 2011
Elizabeth Lack 2011
Susana Viscara 2011
Honors Capstone
Shannon Kruse (2019)
Professional Service
Member of Editorial Board, Bulletin of the International Association of Robin Hood Studies
Peer-reviewer for PMLA, Exemplaria, Bulletin of the International Association of Robin Hood Studies, English Studies, and CLIO
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium Advisory Committee 2016-present
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
Faculty Travel Grant $3400 for travel to New Chaucer Society Congress (Durham UK 2022)- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, CAHSS Dean’s Office, and Provost
Faculty Travel Grant $2000 for travel to Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
(UC-Davis 2019)- University of Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, CAHSS Dean’s Office, and Provost
Faculty Travel Grant $2000 for travel to New Chaucer Society Congress (Toronto 2018)- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, CAHSS Dean’s Office, and Provost
Faculty Travel Grant $1200 for travel to International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI)-
University of Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, CAHSS Dean’s Office
Research Grant $1600 for research at Lancashire Archives and British Library, UK- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, Dec. 2014
Faculty Travel Grant $2400 for travel to New Chaucer Society Congress (London 2016)- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center
Distinguished Speakers Series $2000 for visit of Dr. Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA)- University of
Alabama in Huntsville. April 2015.
Library Enhancement Grant for Sound Studies $2946- University of Alabama in Huntsville Humanities
Center, Dec. 2014
Research Grant for The Politics of Ecology $400- University of Alabama in Huntsville Humanities
Center, Dec. 2014
Faculty Travel Grant $900 for travel to MLA Convention (Chicago 2014)- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center
Library Enhancement Grant for Medieval Literature and Criticism $3, 360- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, Dec. 2011.
Library Enhancement Grant for Medieval Literature and Criticism $1,257- University of
Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center, Dec. 2010.
Faculty Travel Grant $900 for travel to MLA Convention (January 2011) and to the International
Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2011) – University of Alabama in Huntsville Humanities Center
Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2009
Maxine Hairston Prize for Teaching Excellence, Department of Rhetoric and Writing,
University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2007
Martin Crow Fellowship Award for Chaucer Studies, Department of English, University of
Texas at Austin, 2005-2006
Carolyn Pace Chermside Award for Best Master's Thesis, Department of English, Virginia
Tech, May 2004
Professional Development Award, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin,
Spring 2009
Professional Development Award, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin,
Summer 2008
Professional Development Award- Department of English, University of Texas at Austin,
Fall 2006
Travel Award, Department of English, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003
Travel Award, Department of English, Virginia Tech, Fall 2003
Travel Fund Award, Graduate Student Assembly, Virginia Tech, Spring 2003
Graduate School Teaching and Service
University of Texas at Austin
English 314L: Introduction to Literary Studies, Fall 2007
English 316K: Masterworks of British Literature, Spring 2007
Rhetoric 310: Intermediate Expository Writing, Spring 2008
Rhetoric 309S: Critical and Persuasive Writing, Summer 2006
Rhetoric 309S: Liberal Arts Honors, Fall 2009
Rhetoric 309L: The Writing Process, Fall 2005
Rhetoric 309K: Topics in Writing: The Rhetoric of the Outsider, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Rhetoric 306: First-Year Writing, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Summer 2005
(As TA) E316: Masterworks of World Literature, Summer 2009
Virginia Tech
English 1105: Freshman Writing Component, Cultural Embedding and the Primitive Cool,
Fall 2003
English 1105: Freshman Writing Component, Critical Literacy, Fall 2002
English 1106: Freshman Literature Component, Madness and Ethics: Literature and
Writing, Spring 2004
English 1106: Freshman Literature Component, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters-Writing
Through Cross-Cultural Contact, Spring 2003
University of Texas at Austin
Co-author of the current Department of English Graduate Student Handbook
(online: www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/graduate/orientation/index.html)
Assistant Director, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2006-2008
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2006-2007
Member, RHE 306 Text Selection Committee, 2006-2008
Co-Organizer, First-Year Forum Speaker Series, Lawrence Lessig, author of Free
Culture, February 2007; Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil's Highway, April
2008
Organizer and Co-lecturer, EXPLORE UT: Community Open House of UT-Austin,
Rhetoric Seminar, "Representing Yourself on MySpace and Facebook," March 2008
Assistant Instructor, Department of English, 2006-2007
Assistant Instructor, Computer Writing and Research Lab, 2005-2006, Fall 2009
Assistant Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2004-2005, 2007-2008
Research Assistant, Dr. Marjorie Curry Woods, 2005-2006
Research Assistant, Dr. Jacqueline Henkel, History of the English Language Web Annotated
Bibliography (available online: https://sites.google.com/a/uah.edu/joseph-taylor/home/hel-bibliography-2), Summer 2005
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Programs Committee, Department of English,
2007-2008
Graduate Student Representative, Hiring Committee (for Assistant Professor in Language-
Linguistics), Department of English, 2006-2007
Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center, 2004-2005
Proctor, Computer Writing and Research Lab, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2005-
2006, Fall 2009
Virginia Tech
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 2002-2004
Consultant, University Writing Center, Fall 2003
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of English, 2003-2004
Department of English Representative, Virginia Tech Graduate Student Assembly, 2002-
2004
Co-coordinator, English Graduate Student Conference of Virginia Tech, April 2004
Co-coordinator, English Graduate Student Conference of Virginia Tech, April 2003