Dr. Joshua Eyler

(2006)
Assistant Professor of English

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2006.
M.A., University of Connecticut, 2002.
B.A., Gettysburg College, magna cum laude, 2000.

Interests

Old English Literature, Middle English Literature, Chaucer, Piers Plowman, Medieval Latin and Vernacular Drama, Disability Studies, History and Literature of Sport, Children's Literature.

Courses Frequently Taught

ENGL 1102: English Composition II
ENGL 2111: World Literature I
ENGL 2146: Introduction to Fiction
ENGL 2149: Introduction to Drama
ENGL 3120: Chaucer
ENGL 4135: Medieval Literature in Britain
ENGL 5166: History of the English Language

*As well as courses on Sports in American Literature, the Arthurian Legend, Children's Literature and other topics.

Publications

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (editor and contributor). Under contract with Ashgate. Forthcoming late in 2009.

"The Miller's Tale, 11. 3466-99: Narrative Inconsistency and the First Fragment of The Canterbury Tales." ANQ: American Notes and Queries 21 (2008): 2-6. (with John P. Sexton)

"Once More to the Grove: A Note on Symbolic Space in the Knight's Tale." The Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 433-39. (with John P. Sexton)

"The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman." Literature Compass 2 (2005) : ME 132, 1-11. (with C. David Benson) [Peer-reviewed essay for Blackwell Publishing at: <http://www.literature-compass.com>.]

"Reassessing the Wrestling in Beowulf." English Language Notes 41.3 (2004): 1-11.

"The Rhetorical Significance of Wrestling in the Ancrene Wisse." In Anchoritic Literature: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Susannah M. Chewning. Forthcoming from Brepols. 17-page ms.

"Aldhelm." In Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

"Piers Plowman, Passus XIX and XX." In Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

Bernard of Clairvaux, On Baptism and the Office of Bishops, trans. Pauline Matarasso with introductions by Martha G. Newman and Emero Stiegman (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2004). Mysticcs Quarterly 31 (2005): 131-34.

"Guthlac A and the Spiritual Athlete in Anglo-Saxon Christian Thought" (currently under review at The International Journal of Religion and Sport). 36-page ms.

Selected Conference Presentations

Organizer and Participant-- "The Theory Question: Intersection between Disability Studies and Medieval Studies" (A Roundtable Discussion). Accepted for 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 7-10 May 2009.

Organizer and Participant-- Roundtable Discussion on Disability in the Middle Ages. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 8-11 May 2008.

"Disability and the Construction of Identity in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica." 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 10-13 May 2007.

"Figuring Disability in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Faculty Research Forum, Columbus State University. 18 January 2007.

"Sports and Medieval Culture: Reinterpreting the Evidence." 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 4-7 May 2006.

Organizer--Panel: "Sports in the Middle Ages: Historical and Literary Approaches." 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 4-7 May 2006.

"Medieval Asceticism and Disability Studies: Elxploring Cultural Responses to the Impaired Body." Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/ American Culture Association, New Brunswick, NJ. 4-6 November 2005.

"The Value of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies." Presentation made to the A.J. Pappanikou University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, University of Connecticut. 19 January 2006.

"The Rhetorical Signifigance of Wrestling in th Ancrene Wisse." 19th Annual Conference on Medeival and Renaissance Studies, University if Virginia's College at Wise. 15-17 September 2005.

"Wrestling with Desire: Athletic Discourse and the Feminine Spirituality of the Katherine Group's Marherete and Iuliene." 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 5-8 May 2005.

Current Projects

Sport and Spirituality in Medieval English Literature (in progress; based on dissertation).

"Disappearing Act: The Search for Arcite's Squire in the Knight's Tale" (in progress).

"Disability and the Construction of Identity in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica" (in progress).

"What We Talk about When We Talk about Revenge: Pairing Beowulf and Hamlet in Survey Courses" (in progress; will submit to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching when completed).

Awards/ Honors

Columbus State University's Nominee for the University System of Georgia's Board of  Regents' Teaching Excellence Award, 2008.

Finalist, Educator of the Year. Columbus State University, 2008.

Nominee, QEP Outstanding Teacher of Writing Award. Columbus State University, 2008.

Literary Sage Award-An award given by CSU's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta each year.  Columbus State University, 2008.

Professional Activity

Member: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Medieval Academy of America, Modern Language Association, Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages (Co-founder and Charter Member).