• "Wörter, Sachen, und Wahrheit: Philology and the Tree of Language in Tolkien." In Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T.A. Shippey. Ed. Andrew Wawn, Graham Johnson, and John Walter. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. 242-74.

• "As Rare As They Are Dire": Old Norse Dragons, Beowulf, and the Deutsche Mythologie." In The Shadow-Walkers: Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous. Ed. Tom Shippey. Tempe, Az.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 207-269.

• "The Anthropology of Arda: Creation, Theology, and the Race of Men." In Tolkien the Medievalist. Ed. Jane Chance. New York & London: Routledge, 2003. 194-224.

• "The Dragon-lore of Middle-earth: Tolkien and Old English and Old Norse Tradition." In J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances. Ed. Daniel Timmons and George Clark. New York: Greenwood, 2000. 21-38.

• "A Consideration of the Role of Semiotics in Redefining Medieval Manuscripts as Texts." In New Approaches to Medieval Textuality. Ed. Mikle Dave Ledgerwood. New York: Lang, 1998. 3-38.

• "Medieval Semiotics." In Semiotics in the Individual Sciences: Part I. Ed. Walter A. Koch. Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, vol. 10/1. Bochum, W. Germany: Brockmeyer, 1990. 152-177.

• "Semiotik im Mittelalter." In Semiotik in den Einzelwissenschaften: Halbband I Ed. Walter A. Koch. Bochumer Beitra"ge zur Semiotik, Band 8/1. Bochum, W. Germany: Brockmeyer, 1990. 343-372.

• "The Dragon." In Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source-book and Research Guide. Ed. Malcolm South. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood, 1987. 27-58.

• "Introduction: Semiotics as a Language of Theory." In Semiotics and International Scholarship: Towards a Language of Theory. Ed. Jonathan Evans and André Helbo. Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1986. xi-xxiii.

• "Danes," "Danish Language," "Dragons," "Dwarves," "Maiar," "Mirkwood," "Monsters," "Misty Mountains," "Pride," "Sauruman." In The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Ed. Michael D.C. Drout. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2007.

• "Palinode," "Sir Philip Sidney," "Synecdoche." In The Facts On File Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2007.

• "Dragon." In Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow. Vol. 1. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000. 233-240

• "Old English Literature: An Introduction." In Old and Middle English Literature. Ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 146. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. 3-10.

• "A Checklist of Further Readings: Old English." In Old and Middle English Literature. Ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 146. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. 479-81.

• "Hrólfs saga kraka." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano. New York: Garland, 1993. 304-305.

• "Sörla saga sterka." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano. New York: Garland, 1993. 637-638.

• "Fridþjöfs saga." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Phillip Pulsiano. New York: Garland, 1993. 221.

• "C.S. Lewis." In Modern British Essayists. Ed. Robert Beum. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 100:2. Detroit: Gale, 1990.

Bulletins or reports

• "Semiotics and International Scholarship: Towards a Language of Theory" (notice), NATO Scientific Publications Newsletter 24 (1987), pp. 5-6.

• "American Semiotics in its Second Decade: A Report on the Semiotic Society of America's Tenth Annual Meeting," Semiotische Berichte 10:1/2 (1986), pp. 83-90.

• "Semiotics and Traditional Lore: The Medieval Dragon Tradition" (abstract), Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society 37 (1985), pp. 112-113.

• Arnold Rosenfeld, "A Complete Electronic Newspaper?," Antioch Review 35 (1977), pp. 171-179. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5039].

• Frank Annunziata, "The New Left and the Welfare State: The Rejection of American Liberalism," Southern Quarterly 15 (1976), pp. 33-56. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5092]

• William Everson, "The Regional Incentive: Reflections on the Power of Place in Contemporary Literature," San Jose Studies 2 (1976), pp. 51-59. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5292]

• James A. Lavernier, "The Captivity Narrative as Regional, Military, and Ethnic History," Research Studies 45 (1977), pp. 30-37. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5307]

• Eva Schaper, "Fiction and the Suspension of Disbelief," British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (1978), pp. 31- 44. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5319]

• Barbara Charlesworth-Gelpi, "From Colonial to Revolutionary: The Modern American Woman Poet," San Jose Studies 2 (1976), pp. 37-50. [Sociological Abstracts 1978, AN #78J5329]

Scholarly papers

• "The Heynesbók Dragon in its Legal-historical Context," 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 4, 2000

• "Two Neglected Late Icelandic Analogues of Beowulf ll. 2200, ff.," 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamaozo, Mich., May 8, 1999

• "The Preeminence of Sigurd: Old Norse Skaldic and Archeological Evidence," 33rd Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-10, 1998

• "'As Rare as they are Dire: Dragons, Tolkien, and Jacob Grimm," 32nd Int'l Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7-10, 1997

• "A Philosophy One Can Live In: Alfred the Great, St. Augustine, and Being in the World," Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture, Seventh Annual Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, N.Y. April 25-26, 1997

• "Response to James Blodgett: Weallan, Wylm, and the Dragon's Venom," 24th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, Tenn., April 4-5, 1997

• "Medieval Dragon-lore in Middle-earth," 18th Int'l Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 19-22, 1997

• "Beowulf, St. Michael, and the Dragon of the Apocalypse," 21st Annual Meeting, Southeastern Medieval Association, Baylor Univ., Waco, Tx. October 1996

• "Problems Assessing the Beowulf Dragon's Old Norse Analogues," the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univl, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 1996

• "Bodleian MS Laud 626 as Evidence of Grammatical Borrowing in Middle English," Germanic Linguistics Second Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., April 1996

• "Fantasy and Mimesis in Old Norse Dragonlore," Seventeenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 1996

• "Syntactic and Semantic Overlaps in Beowulf,"* Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Los Angeles, California, November 1989

• "Peirce, Poinsot, and the Sign-type Triad," Semiotic Society of America 14th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis Indiana, July 1989

• "Old Norse Dragon Illuminations: Illusions/Reality," 13th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1988

• "Medieval Textuality: Manuscripts and Genealogy," 12th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Pensacola, Florida, October 1987

• "Episodic Structures in Medieval Narrative: Synchronicity and Semantic Overcoding," 21st International Congress of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1986

• "Intertextual Constraints on Dragon Slayer Texts in Old Norse," 11th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco, California, October 1986

• "Intertextuality in Old Icelandic," 12th Annual South Eastern Medieval Association, Athens, Georgia, October 1986

• "Episodes in Analysis of Medieval Narrative," 10th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 1985

• "The Episodic Character of Medieval Narrative," International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, June 1985

• "Medieval Studies and Semiotics: Perspectives on Research," 9th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1984

• "A Semiotic Framework for Analysis of Traditional Lore: The Medieval English Dragon Tradition," International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, June 1983

• "Tagmemics as a Semiotic of Literacy," Semiotics and Education Colloquium, Int'l Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, June 1983

• "Irony and Ambiguity in the Medieval Dragon Code," 7th Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Buffalo, N.Y., October 1982

• "The Episode as Narrative Unit," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Department, October 1982

• "Approaching the Medieval Dragon," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Dept., October 1980

• "Christianity and Beowulf," Graduate Symposium, Indiana University English Department, October 1979

• "Old English," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Birmingham., Alabama, November 10-12, 2000.

• "Beowulf and its Analogues: New Evidence?" 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, 1999.

• "The Text(s) of George MacDonald I" 18th Int'l Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 19-22, 1997

• "Men, Women, and Monsters," Seventeenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 22, 1996

• "Illusion, Mimesis, and Reality in the Medieval World," Thirteenth Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1988

• "Semiotics in and of the Middle Ages," the Eleventh Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco, California, October 1986

• "Semiotics, Narrative, and the Middle Ages," Tenth Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Reading, Pennsylvania, October 1985

• "Medieval Studies and Semiotics," Ninth Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, October 1984

• "Literature II: The Interpretant," The Seventh Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Buffalo, N.Y., October 1982

Conference sessions organized

• "Philological Practices in Medieval Studies," 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8-11, 2003

• "Proverbs in Medieval Germanic," 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8-11, 2003

• "Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary: Hard Words and Hapax Legomena as Poetic Devices in Old English," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5, 2002

• "Wulf and Eadwacer: Solutions & Investigations," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5, 2002

• "Philology: Whence? Whither?" 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5, 2002

• "Medieval Dragon Legends," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5, 2002

• "The Personal 'I': Direct Discourse in Medieval Literature," 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 2-5, 2002

• "Old English," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Birmingham., Alabama, November 10-12, 2000.

• "Beowulf and its Analogues: New Evidence?" 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, 1999.

• "Medieval Literary Adaptations of Draconitas," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, 1998.

• "The Text(s) of George MacDonald," 18th Int'l Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 19-22, 1997.

• "Medieval Iconicity," Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana, July 1989

• "Signs and Signification in the Middle Ages: Two Sessions," Twenty-second International Congress of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1987

• "Medieval Textuality: After the Colon," Twelfth Annual Meeting, Semiotic Society of America, Pensacola, Florida, October 1987

• "Semiotics in the Study of the Middle Ages," Twelfth Annual South Eastern Medieval Association, Athens, Georgia, October 1986

Courses taught

• ENGL 1010 English Composition

• ENGL 1050H English Composition (Honors)

• ENGL 2310 English Literature to 1700

• ENGL 2350H English Literature to 1700 (Honors)

• ENGL 4000 History of the English Language

• ENGL 4060 Old English

• ENGL 4210 Old English Literature

• ENGL 4220 Beowulf

• ENGL 4230 Medieval Literature

• ENGL 6000 History of the English Language

• ENGL 6060 Old English

• ENGL 6210 Old English Literature

• ENGL 6220 Beowulf

• ENGL 8200 Seminar in Medieval Literature

  Old English Heroic Poetry (1985)

  Wisdom Literature in Old English (1989)

  Analogues of Beowulf (1993)

  Alfredian Prose (1998)

Lectures

• "Contact between Scandinavian and English Speakers in the Province of Oundle: What They did to the Language and How We are Indebted to Them," UGA Linguistics Society, October 29, 1997

• "Dragons and Dragon-slayers," Franklin College Outreach Program, Lincolnton Elementary School, Lincolnton, Ga., October 28, 1997

• "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table," Franklin College Outreach Program, Rockdale County High School, October 21 1997

• "Wealhtheow, Hildeburh, and the Female Voice in Beowulf," Department of English, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vt., April 23, 1997

• "The Theological Anthropology of Arda," Department of English, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vt., April 23, 1997

• "Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?" Emmanuel College Department of Language and Literature, February 28, 1995

• "Christian Multiculturalism," Emmanuel College Academic Enrichment Series, October 28, 1994

• "Medieval Literature in a Postmodern World," Emmanuel College Academic Enrichment Series, October 15, 1993

• "What's Wrong with Semiotics?" College of Arts & Sciences Lunch in Theory Group, October 1991

• "Gothic Manuscript Illuminations as Symbolic Documents," Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Winter Forum, University of Georgia, January 1989

• "An Assessment of Semiotics," Graduate Colloquium, Department of Romance Languages, University of Georgia, May 1988

• "En Tjat til Drager: Monstre i Marginerne," Arnamagnaean Institute, University of Copenhagen, July 1987

• Student Government Association Outstanding Leadership Recognition, December 8, 1999.

• General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor, 1997-2000

• Outstanding Teacher, Honors Day 1997

• Outstanding Honors Professor 1992

• Chair, University Council Faculty Conference Committee, 1999-2000.

• Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Restructuring, Franklin College Faculty Senate, 1999-2000.

• Member, University Council, 1999-2002.

• Presiding Officer, Franklin College Faculty Senate, 1998-99

• Senator, Franklin College Faculty Senate, 1996-99

• Committee on Committees, Franklin College Faculty Senate, 1997-98

• Curriculum Committee, Franklin College Senate, 1996-97; 1997-98

Department Committees

• Search Committee, English Language Assistant Professor, 1994-95

• Search Committee, Medieval History Assistant Professor, 1994-95

• Undergraduate Committee, 1992-94

• Graduate Committee, 1988-89; 1989-90

• Search Committee, Folklore and Linguistics, 1988-89

• Search committee, English Language & Linguistics, 1987-88

Other

• Member, UGA Faculty in Linguistics, 1992- present.

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