Freelance writer and editor
Resume:
Subject:
Joseph McNally’s resume
Address:
Houston, TX 77006
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Objective:
Full-time or part-time work in teaching English
Teaching Experience:
Thirteen years’ experience in teaching courses in basic grammar, composition, and English and western literature, as well as tutoring students individually in two writing labs. Have also taught in a private high school and grade school.
Public Speaking Experience:
Winner of public speaking and debating awards in high school and of a teaching award as the outstanding graduate teaching assistant in the English Department at the University of South Carolina, 1975.
Master’s Thesis:
This work was an analysis of Sir Phillip Sidney’s Arcadia and included attention to the literary influences on Sidney’s long pastoral novel.
Doctoral Dissertation:
The dissertation, entitled The Exemplum in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, shows that Gower was influenced by the exemplum literature and the sermon literature of his time. Gower’s use of exempla is compared with exempla of other prominent collections to show that Gower’s methods of story-telling are very different from those used by more orthodox exemplarists, and that this reveals important aspects of the art of the Confessio Amantis.
Conference Paper:
“The Policraticus as a Source for Dante, Chaucer, and Gower,” read at the Twenty-Seventh International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 7, 1992.
Conference Sessions:
Organized and presided over two conference sessions at the Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth International Congresses of Medieval Studies (1993 and 1994). The title of each session was “Veritas Linguae: Medieval Approaches to Language,” and each session offered papers on the approaches to language found in various medieval authors.
Education:
B.A. (English) University of Dallas, 1966
M.A. (English) University of Dallas, 1969
Ph.D. (English) University of South Carolina, 1982
Military Service:
Served in U.S. Army Intelligence, 1968-71.
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