Dr Jeff H Taylor
English
tayljeff@msudenver.edu
CAMPUS BOX 032
KC 446
303-352-4103
Professional Affiliations
President - Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association
RMMRA Website
Selected Publications
"A Fascinating but Frustrating Study of Marlowe's Drama and Its Historical Contexts." Quidditas 33 (2012): 257-64.
“The Dutch Consolatio Tradition.” Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society 18 (2009): 37-64. Library Link
“Semantic Social Games and the Game of Life in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Arrow-Odd’s saga.” Medieval Forum 6 (2007). http://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume6/taylor.html
“The Hebrew Translation of the Consolatio Philosophiae.” with Marina Gorlach and Leslie A. Taylor. Carmina Philosophiae: Journal of the International Boethius Society 15 (2006): 89-109. Library Link
Four Levels of Meaning in the York Cycle of Mystery Plays: A Study in Medieval Allegory. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2006. Publisher Link -- Library Link
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Selected Presentations
"Wolves & Sheep: Grid/Group Contrasts in the Towneley Secunda Pastorum and the Theatricality of the Participated Consciousness." 19th International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2012
"Barfield, Theatricality, and Early British Drama." 44th Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Assoc Conf, Pocatello, Apr2012
"The Word Made Flesh: A Barfieldian Analysis of Ritual Creation in the York Cycle" 129th MLA, Seattle, Jan 2012
"Resisting Atomized Subordination: Using Burke & Douglas to Counter the Machinations of Invisible Power" 8th Burke Society Conf, Clemson, May 2011
“Battle for the Mind of God: Free Will, Theodicy & the Textual Layers of the Chester Cycle.” 45th Intl Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May2010
“New Traditionalists: The Case for the Legacy Course in the Global City.” Natl Honors Conf, DC, Oct09
“Traditional Curriculum in a Non-traditional Setting: Teaching Legacy of Arts & Letters Online.” Natl Honors Conf, San Antonio, Oct 08
“Wolves & Sheep: Grid/Group Contrasts in the Secunda Pastorum.” 42nd ICMS, Kalamazoo, May07
“Managing Risk: Spenser’s Discerning Dance with Power.” Intl Spenser Society, Toronto, May06 Abstract in The Spenser Review 37.2 (2006): 7
“The Persistence of Boethian Time in Shakespeare’s History Plays.” 120th MLA, Philadelphia, Dec04
“The Dutch Consolatio.” 39th ICMS, Kalamazoo, May04
“Synthetic Tensions: Kenneth Burke’s Pentad Meets Mary Douglas’s Grid/Group Cosmology.” 55th CCCC, San Antonio, Mar04
“Elizabeth Translates Boethius: Political Posturing or Personal Consolation?” 119th MLA, San Diego, Dec03
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Current Projects
45th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association, Denver, 11-13 April 2013.
RMMRA Website
Book Project: Boethius in the Renaissance: Studies in Spenser, Shakespeare, & Milton (co-authored with Dr. Leslie Taylor).
Book Project: The Contours of Culture: Applying Mary Douglas’s Grid-Group Theory to Literary Analysis.
Links
My Metro website: http://rowdy.msudenver.edu/~tayljeff/
Courses Taught
ENG-1020,ENG-1100,ENG-1110,ENG-2110,ENG-2310,ENG-3020,ENG-3070,ENG-3100
,ENG-311E,ENG-3440,ENG-411K,ENG-413F,ENG-4310,HON-2750,HON-3070
Office Hours
Monday -
[11:00 to 12:15]
Tuesday -
[11:00 to 12:15]
Wednesday -
[11:00 to 12:15]
Thursday -
[11:00 to 12:15]
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