Geoffrey B. Elliott CV

Degrees

PhD

English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, Louisiana), 2012

MA

English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, Louisiana), 2007

BA

English, University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas), 2005

Continuing Education

  • Oklahoma State University Provost’s Initiative Workshops (Written Communication, Diversity), 2014-2015

  • University of Cambridge International Summer Schools (Medieval Studies), 2012

Refereed/Reviewed Publications

  • "Moving beyond Tolkien's Medievalism: Robin Hobb’s Farseer and Tawny Man Trilogies." Fantasy and Science Fiction Medievalisms: From Isaac Asimov to A Game of Thrones. Amherst, NY: Cambria P. Forthcoming in June 2015.

  • "Where Writes Me." CCC 66.2 (December 2014): 247-49. Print.

  • "Melville's Moby-Dick." The Explicator 67.4 (Summer 2009): 252-54. Print.

  • "Shades of Steel-Gray: The Nuanced Warrior-Hero in the Farseer Trilogy." Studies in Fantasy Literature 4 (2006): 70-78. Print.

Other Publications

Conference Presentations

  • "One Other Bone in the LotR Online Soup. Popular Culture and the Deep Past, 2015: Tolkien Days (Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio). 2015.

  • "Royal Evils in the Farseer Trilogy." Evil Incarnate: Manifestations of Villains and Villainy (Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio). 2014. (Abstract)

  • "Play with It." Legacies of Undergraduate Research Roundtable. CCCC (Indianapolis, Indiana). 2014.

  • With Sonya Jaramillo. "Is the English Strong Verb Making a Comeback?" City University of New York Graduate Center Strange and Quirky Ideas in Development Symposium (New York, New York). 2009.

  • "Here There Be Dragons: Draconic Parallels between Beowulf and The Faerie Queene." South Central Renaissance Conference (San Antonio, Texas). 2007. (Abstract)

  • With Michael J. Berntsen. "Tutors, Pimps, and Other Advertising Geniuses." South Central Writing Center Association Conference (Little Rock, Arkansas). 2006.

  • With Sonya Jaramillo and Melissa A. Kizina. "Building Ideas: The Use of Tangibles in the Writing Center." South Central Writing Center Association Conference (Little Rock, Arkansas). 2006.

International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

  • "White Hats for White Plumes: The Western as Arthurian Romance Reimagined." 2015. (Abstract)

  • "Unchurched: On the Relative Lack of Religion in Tolkienan-Tradition Fantasy Literature." 2014. (Abstract)

  • "A Divergent Medievalism in Robin Hobb's Farseer and Tawny Man Trilogies." 2013. (Abstract)

  • "Knighthood Continued: The Endurance of the Chivalric in Early Stuart England." 2011. (Abstract)

  • "No Advice sans Knowledge: The Major Martial Aspect of Castiglione's Ideal Courtier." 2010. (Abstract)

South Central Modern Language Association Conference

  • "A Tacit Satire in Stansby's 1634 Le Morte d'Arthur." (Austin, Texas). 2014. (Abstract)

  • "Which Way I Fly Is Middle-Earth; Myself Am Middle-earth: Miltonic Resonance in Tolkien." (Hot Springs, Arkansas). 2011. (Abstract)

  • "Manifest Destiny and Other Western Ideas in Robin Hobb's Soldier Son." (Fort Worth, Texas). 2010. (Abstract)

  • "Closed-Lipped Howls: Lupine/Human Psychic Projections in Contemporary Fantasy Literature." (Baton Rouge, Louisiana). 2009. (Abstract)

  • "Riddle Me This: Warrior Ethics in The Dream of the Rood." (San Antonio, Texas). 2008.

  • "Martial Methodology in Malory." (Memphis, Tennessee). 2007. (Abstract)

Institutional Affiliations and Professional Positions

Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma)

Technical Career Institutes (New York, New York)

  • Instructor in Arts and Sciences, 2010-2013

  • Adjunct Instructor in Arts and Sciences, 2009-2010

University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, Louisiana)

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2005-2009

Courses Taught

Oklahoma State University

Technical Career Institutes

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • ENGL 360: Advanced Exposition

  • ENGL 207: Poetry

  • ENGL 205: Early American Literature (to 1865)

  • ENGL 204: Novel and Short Fiction

  • ENGL 201: Early British Literature (through 18th Century)

  • ENGL 102: Writing and Culture

  • ENGL 101: Introduction to Academic Writing

  • ENGL 090: Developmental English

Selected Service

  • Reviewer and Editorial Board Member, Humanities Directory, 2013-2014.

  • Presenter, City University of New York Graduate Center Professional Development Series (New York, New York), 2009.

International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

  • Presider, Looking Back at the Middle Ages General Session, 2015.

  • Presider, From Frodo to Fidelma: Medievalism in Popular Genres Roundtable, 2015.

  • Presider, Middle English Arthuriana Regular Session, 2014.

  • Presider, Arthuriana Regular Session, 2013.

South Central Modern Language Association

  • Chair, English I: Old and Middle English Regular Session (Nashville, Tennessee), 2015.

  • Chair, English I: Old and Middle English Regular Sessions (New Orleans, Louisiana), 2013.

  • Organizer and Presider, Tauroscatology Special Session (San Antonio, Texas), 2012.

  • Organizer and Presider, Borrowings from the Past: Reception Studies Special Session (Hot Springs, Arkansas), 2011.

  • Organizer and Presider, Re-creations of the American West in Popular Culture Special Session (Fort Worth, Texas), 2010.

Tales after Tolkien Society

Technical Career Institutes

  • Faculty Mentor

  • Coordinator, Professional Development Research Forum

  • Member, Library Committee

  • Originator, Standard Course Syllabus for HUM 209: Ethics and Technology

  • Participant, Lecture Capture Pilot Program

  • Guest Lecturer

    • ESL 031: Advanced ESL

    • RV 021: ESL Reading and Vocabulary

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • Contributor/Organizer, Department of English Thursday Night Reading Series

  • Presenter, Department of English First-Year Writing Workshops

  • Member, Louisiana Conference on Language and Literature Abstracts Committee

  • Chair, Graduate Student Conference on Language and Literature Abstracts Committee

  • Guest Lecturer

    • ENGL 505: Medieval Studies (Arthurian Literature)

    • ENGL 424: Shakespeare, Later Plays

    • ENGL 360: Advanced Exposition

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Oklahoma State University Department of English Travel Program for Visiting Assistant Professors

  • South Central Modern Language Association Travel Grant

Technical Career Institutes

  • Sabbatical Leave (awarded but waived)

  • Research and Travel Grant

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  • Florence Sanders Jones Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in English

  • Graduate Student Organization Research and Travel Grant

  • Department of English Graduate Assistantship

Professional Associations

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Arthurian literature

  • Fantastic and speculative literatures

  • Literatures of medieval and early modern England

  • Reception of medieval and other literatures

  • "Warrior" texts, including combat manuals

  • Scansion and interpretation of poetry

  • Technical and professional writing

  • First-year English composition, including remedial/developmental English

Other Online Academic and Professional Presence