John Henry AdamsCurriculum Vitae 1
John Henry Adams
Department of English
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature
Arizona State University (December 2015)
Dissertation: “Book Culture and Assembled Selves in the English Renaissance”
Abstract: The rise of print book culture in sixteenth-century England had profound effects on understandings of identity that are reflected in the prose, poetry, and drama of the age. Framing books as objects that tap into historically specific cultural discourses, I argue that personal identity was formed in a collaborative engagement between human subjects and books, both physically and textually. By examining historical bibliography through the lens of object-oriented critical theory, we gain a better sense of how books contributed to identity assemblages for the people who wrote, owned, and read them.
Committee: Cora Fox (director), Ian Moulton, Bradley Ryner, Bradley Irish
M.A. in English & Comparative Literature
University of Cincinnati (June 2010)
B.A. in Comparative Literature
St. Mary’s College of Maryland (May 2007)
Bibliographical Training
Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
“The Handwriting & Culture of Early Modern English Manuscripts” (July 2013)
“Printed Books to 1800: Description and Analysis” (June 2012)
Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
“History of Books and Printing Workshop” (May 2013)
Employment
Arizona State University
Faculty Associate, English Department (August 2015 to present)
Data Entry Bibliographer, Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (May 2015–August 2015)
Research Assistant and Typesetter, ACMRS. (January 2013–August 2014)
Graduate Teaching Associate, English Department (August 2010–May 2015)
University of Cincinnati
Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department (September 2008–June 2010)
Writing Center Tutor (January 2009–June 2010)
Research
Publications
“Assembling Radigund and Artegall: Gender Identities in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.” Early Modern Literary Studies 18.1-2(2015): 1-22. Web.
Works in Progress
“Agentive Objects and Protestant Idolatry in Arden of Faversham,” under review at SEL, submitted January 2016.
“The Works of Isabella Whitney,” a scholarly edition with critical apparatus, in progress.
“Isabella Whitney and Paratextual Identity.” Renaissance English Text Society, article submitted upon request, November 2014. 8,800 words.
Conference Presentations
“Isabella Whitney and Inverted Petrarchanism,” Shakespeare Association of America Conference Seminar: “Women Making Texts in Early Modern England,” (Vancouver, April 1, 2015)
“Isabella Whitney and Paratextual Identity,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (New Orleans, October 16, 2014)
“Establishing Borders of Purpose: Revitalizing and Situating an RSA Student Chapter in the University,” Rhetoric Society of America (Austin, May 25, 2014)
“Epistolary Identity Construction in The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare Association of America Conference Seminar: “Shakespearean Alter Egos and Second Selves” (St. Louis, April 12, 2014)
“‘Remember first to possess his books’: Prospero as Bibliographic Cyborg,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Phoenix, February 15, 2013
“Physical Magic, Performative Virtue: Milton’s Uncloistered Virtue in Comus,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference (Pocatello April 13, 2012)
“Spenser’s Mayd Martiall: The Faerie Queene as a Moment of Cultural Change,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Tempe, February 13, 2012)
Panel Chair: “Transformative Eroticism, Erotic Transformation: Sexuality in Late Medieval & Renaissance Romance,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Tempe, February 13, 2012)
“Knowing One’s Price: Commodified People in Othello and Cymbeline,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (Tempe, February 12, 2011)
“‘The Fiend In His Own Shape’: Disruptive Witch-Hunting in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction,” Hawthorne Society Conference: Hawthorne in Concord (Concord, June 12,2010)
“‘And Thus Rid Myself Of The Eye Forever’: Witch-Hunting in Poe’s Short Fiction,” Ohio Festival of the Short Story(Cincinnati, May 8, 2010)
“‘And he were a gentlemen, as he seemed to be’: Gender Performativity in Middleton’s The Widow,” Composing Ourselves: A Graduate Conference in Literature, Composition, and Rhetoric (Cincinnati, April 16, 2010)
“If The Chicks Dig It, Is It A Chick Flick?: An Examination of Perceived and Actual Genres,” University of Cincinnati Graduate Poster Forum(Cincinnati, March 5, 2010)
“Reflection In And Outside The Classroom,” Ohio First-Year Summit (Cincinnati, October 16, 2009)
“The Galenic Humors: Marriage & Balance in Shakespeare’s King Lear,” English Graduate Organization Literature Colloquium (Cincinnati, May 22, 2009)
Invited Talks
Arizona State University
ENG500 (ASU English Department): “Managing Graduate Studies” (September 8, 2014)
Ad Hoc Lecture Series (ACMRS): “What Is Between The Covers: Books and the Public/Private Divide” (April 16, 2014)
ENG500 (ASU English Department): “Managing Graduate Studies” (September 3, 2013)
Teaching
Arizona State University (2010 to present)
First-Year Composition I. English 101 at ASU is an introductory course to academic writing at the college level. I have additionally taught a variant of the course aimed at students from the School of Life Sciences focusing on science studies. [3 sections]
First-Year Composition II. English 102 at ASU builds on ENG101 and additionally acts as an introduction to rhetorical study. [4 sections]
Advanced First-Year Composition. English 105 is an honors course that combines the course objectives of English 101 and English 102 into a single semester-long course. [3 sections]
Critical Reading and Writing About Literature. English 200 serves as an introduction to the major at ASU. [1 section]
World Literature. English 202 is an introductory survey course covering the Renaissance and modern periods. Students read selections from the great literature of the world in translation and are given lectures on the cultural background. [1 section]
Introduction to Shakespeare. English 321 is a literature course focused on Shakespeare run by a professor with the assistance of graduate student TAs who handle grading and group discussions. [3 sections]
University of Cincinnati (2008–2010)
English Composition I. English 101 at UC is a course designed to introduce students to the basic principles of rhetoric as part of their first year of college education. [2 sections]
English Composition II. English 102 at UC is a follow-up course to 101 focused on writing academic research papers. [3 sections]
Intermediate Composition. English 289 is a course intended to complete undergraduate students’ composition training. My course focused on genre and discourse communities. [1 section]
Related Professional Experience
October 2015: I completed paleography transcriptions of three legal documents in secretary hand for Alcuin Books, Scottsdale, AZ.
Awards
Arizona State University
English Department Summer Research Grant, May 2015
Graduate Education Dissertation Fellowship, English Department Nominee, January 2015
Graduate Education Travel Grant, October 2014
Exemplary Professional ePortfolio Award, May 2014
Graduate Scholars of English Association Travel Grant, April 2014
Graduate Teaching Associateship, 2010–2015
University Graduate Fellowship, 2010–2011
University Service
Arizona State University
Writing Programs Committee: Faculty Associate Representative, 2015–2016
Southwest English Symposium, Staff, 2015–2016
Co-Leader, Renaissance Colloquium, 2014–2015
Director, Dramatic Play Reading Group, 2012–2015
Graduate Scholars of English Association (GSEA) Treasurer, 2012–2013
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), Arizona State Graduate Chapter, Treasurer, 2012–2013
Lying Conference: The Making of the World, Staff, 2012
GSEA President, 2011–2012
GSEA Critical Writing Award Committee, 2011–2012
Western States Rhetoric & Literacy Conference, Staff, 2011
University of Cincinnati
Incoming Graduate Student Mentor, 2009–2010
Literacy Narrative Collection, 2009
Cincinnatus Scholarship Grader, 2009
References
Dr. Cora Fox, Associate Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 87302, Tempe, AZ 85287, (480) 965-2482,
Dr. Ian Moulton, Professor (FSC), Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication, Arizona State University, 233W Santa Catalina Hall, 7291 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall, Mesa, AZ 85212, (480) 727-1172,
Dr. Bradley Ryner, Associate Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 87302, Tempe, AZ 85287, (480) 965-4576,
Dr. Bradley Irish, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 87302, Tempe, AZ 85287, (480) 965-4642,
Dr. Steve Farmer, Senior Lecturer and Literature TA Mentor, Department of English, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 87302, Tempe, AZ 85287, (480) 965-7998,