Vita jonathan Bryant Himes Assistant Professor of English, John Brown University
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Jonathan Bryant Himes Assistant Professor of English, John Brown University 623 Raines Road, Siloam Springs, AR 72761, jhimes@jbu.edu 
Educational Background Ph.D.: English, Texas A&M University, 2003 M.A.: English, Texas A&M University, 1998 B.A.: Business Administration, Harding University, 1995 Publications The Old English Epic of Waldere. Ed. and Trans. with Introduction by Jonathan Himes. Cambridge Scholars: 2009 (forthcoming) Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy. Ed. and Introduction by Jonathan Himes. Cambridge Scholars: 2008 Waldere: Anglosaksinen Muinaisruno. Trans. Osmo Pekonen and Clive Tolley. Minerva Press: 2005 “The Allegory of Lust: Textual and Sexual Deviance in The Dark Tower.” Chapter 4 of
“World’s End Imagery: How William Morris and C.S. Lewis Imagined the Medieval North,” Extrapolation 44.3 (2003): 304-310 “What Tolkien Really Did with the Sampo,” Mythlore 22.4 (2000): 69-85 Awards Shipps Grant for Research, John Brown University, 2005, 2006, 2007 Dissertation Research Award (Grant), Texas A&M English Department, 2003 Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Travel Grant, Texas A&M University, 2002 Charles Gordone Creative Writing Award (Poetry), Texas A&M University, 2002
“The Inklings and the Alliterative Tradition,” CSLIS 12th Annual Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Mar. 2009 “The Pagan Celticisms of Yeats’s Early Poetry,” Arkansas Philological Association Conference, Fort Smith, Oct. 2008 “C. S. Lewis’s Celticisms and the Influence of W. B. Yeats,” CSLIS Conference, Grove City College, Mar. 2008 “The Redemption of Irish Faeryland: Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Stephens’s The Crock of Gold,” Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Mar. 2007 “A Fighting Religion: Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethics in the Christian Faith,” Conference on Faith and History, Oklahoma Baptist University, Sept. 2006 “Rules and Rites of Military Conduct in Old English Waldere,” International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, May 4, 2006 “The Inklings: Writers of the Speculative and the Sacred at Oxford,” University of Jyväskylä, Finland, March 2005 “'I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man': Baptism by Fantasy in George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis,” Oral Roberts University, April 2005 “The Allegory of Lust: Fictional and Sexual Deviance in The Dark Tower,” LeTourneau University, April 2004 “Singers of the Sampo and the Silmarils: How Lönnrot and Tolkien Constructed Their Quest Objects,” Singer of Epics Symposium, Turku, Finland, Nov. 2002 “Mimming and Mimesis: The Sword That is There and Not There in OE Waldere,” Texas Medieval Association, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Oct. 2002 “World’s End Imagery: How C. S. Lewis and William Morris Imagined the Medieval North,” ICOLL Conference, Texas A&M University, Oct. 2000 “Fantasy Criticism: A Model from Lewis and Tolkien,” C.S. Lewis and the Inklings Conference, Oral Roberts University, Feb. 1999
Writing Center Director, tutor, consultant Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society) Member of Honors committee Member of core curriculum committee Departmental representative at several majors fairs Panelist twice for Scholarship Day on academic rigor Interviewer of several prospective English majors and parents on recruitment weeks Participant on three faculty roundtables about graduate school for interested undergrads Organizer of annual adjunct workshops for the English department Leader of two Writing Center sessions for faculty at Fall Workshops Seminar leader for Advance Program instructors on grading student papers Point person and organizer of 2004 Distinguished Writers Series, Barry Hanna Chair of session for 2005 Arkansas Philological Association Conference hosted by JBU Conference chair and host for 2006 C. S. Lewis Conference at JBU Producer of 2006 performance, “An Evening with the Inklings” in the role of C.S. Lewis Secretary of the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society (CSLIS) Leader of two JBU student panels at CSLIS conferences in Texas and Oklahoma Moderator for JBU student panel at U. Oklahoma Writing Center conference, 2008 Leader of writing workshop for students on campus through Student Support Services Creator and supervisor of two Medieval Faire events on campus for the whole town Languages Reading knowledge: Hungarian, German, Old and Middle English, Latin, Spanish Download 26.16 Kb. Share with your friends:
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