| Brigham Young University-Idaho | |
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English 111 | English 331 |
| I was
born in
Moreland, Idaho (formerly Keever), so named because, as it sits on
the verge of the great Idaho desert, there is "more land" than the eye can
see. I attended school in the Snake River school district, where I graduated 13th in my class. Unfortunately, our class was so small that wasn't even the top 10%. Still, it was a fun time, and though I can't speak for them now, we were cool. GO PANTHERS! I served a mission for the LDS Church in Mexico. I started out in the Mexico, Mexico City South Mission, but ended up in the Mexico, Mexico City East Mission after the mission split. I am proud and happy to have served the Lord in both missions. I finished a two year degree at Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho), and met my wife, Jamie. We married in 1988 and have four children. I finished a BA in Political Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, after which I worked in southern California as a private investigator. I then returned to Provo to fulfill prerequisites for an MA in English. I was admitted to the program in 1995, and finished my degree in 1997. I wrote a thesis that explored the influence of the Corpus Christi manuscript of the Canterbury Tales on three "D" group manuscripts. As far as I am aware, this was the first use of Canterbury Tales Project software in hypertext manuscript criticism by anyone but the software's creator, Peter Robinson. After finishing my MA, I worked for the BYU English Department as a non-tenured, renewable contract instructor. I entered the Ph.D. program at Arizona State University in 1999, and am currently finishing my Ph.D. in Medieval British Literature-mostly Chaucer. My dissertation is an analysis, based on Canterbury Tales Project collations, of the text of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts. Robert Bjork is my committee chair. I was hired at BYU-Idaho in 2002 as a one-year lecturer, and became a permanent member of the faculty in 2003. Recent Scholarship |