Curriculum Vitae Breve

MICHAEL L. HALL

EDUCATION
1977, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (English)
1974, M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (English)
1972, M.A., University of Texas at Austin (English)
1968, B.A., University of Texas at Austin (Classics)
1964, Diploma, Thomas A. Edison High School, San Antonio, Texas
EMPLOYMENT
2006-present, Senior Lecturer, University of Maryland Honors Program
1992-2006, Lecturer, University of Maryland Honors Program
1985-present, Federal Grants Administrator, Washington, DC
1998-1999, Program Administrator, National Digital Library Competition, Library of Congress
1989 (spring), Instructor, Georgetown University (adjunct)
1985-1996, Poetry Editor, Poet Magazine
1984 (summer), Director, NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, Centenary College
1982 (summer), Tutor, British Studies at Oxford, St. John's College
1980-1987, Associate Professor, Centenary College (on leave 1985-87)
1978-1979, NEH Fellow-in-Residence, University of Chicago
1976-1980, Assistant Professor, Centenary College of Louisiana
1973-1975, Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University
1970-1972, Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
1968-1969, Latin Teacher, Pampa High School, Pampa, Texas
PUBLICATIONS

Prospectus for Monograph:

  1. The Idea of Discovery in the English Renaissance [PDF Document]
  2. Powerpoint Presentation [PDF Format]

Textbook:

  1. LIT: Literature and Interpretive Techniques (Co-editor), New York: Harper & Row, 1986; rpt. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1997.
Essays, Articles, Review-Essays:
  1. "Addicted to Utterance of Truth and Common Sense," (Review-Essay) The Sewanee Review 110 (Fall 2002): 705-716.
  2. "Diverse Ways: Montaigne's Ethos and the Rhetoric of Indirection," Montaigne Studies 14 (2002): 65-80.
  3. "Out, Out, Brief Candle," (Review-Essay) The Sewanee Review 109 (Winter 2001): 167-169.
  4. "Writing Lives." (Review-Essay) The Sewanee Review 108 (Summer 2000): 457-461.
  5. "Teaching with Electronic Technology." Knowledge Quest: Journal of the American Association of School Librarians Volume 28, Number 5 (May/June 2000): 34-37.
  6. "What Are We Teaching about Morality by not Teaching Morality?" Philosophy and Literature 22 (April 1998): 160-165.
  7. "Memory and Nonsense." (Review-Essay) The Sewanee Review 106 (Winter 1998): 112-116.
  8. "Montaigne's Uses of Classical Learning." Journal of Education 179 (1997): 61-75.
  9. "Pope and the Allegorical Mode." In Rationality and the Liberal Spirit: A Festschrift Honoring Ira Lee Morgan, Willie Cavett and Paul Marvin Brown, Jr., Professor of English Literature at Centenary College of Louisiana. Edited by the Centenary English Department. Shreveport, Louisiana: Centenary College, 1997. Pp. 56-68.
  10. "A Book Consubstantial With Its Author." Philosophy and Literature 17 (October 1993): 315-332.
  11. "Metaphysicals and History." (Review Essay) The Sewanee Review 101 (Fall 1993): 596-603.
  12. "Versions of Pastoral." (Review Essay) The Sewanee Review 99 (Fall 1991): 640-648.
  13. "Jesus Christ Superstar and Medieval Drama: Anachronism and Characterization." In Approaches to Teaching Medieval Drama. Ed. Richard K. Emmerson. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990. Pp. 111-115.
  14. "The Emergence of the Essay and the Idea of Discovery." In Essays on the Essay: Redefining the Genre. Ed. Alexander J. Butrym. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989. Pp. 73-91. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol. 18. Ed. James E. Person, Jr. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992. Pp. 272-278.
  15. "Refashioning the English Renaissance." (Review Essay) The Sewanee Review 97 (Summer 1989): 456-462.
  16. "Poetry and Education." Poet Magazine 2.1 (Spring 1986): 22-23.
  17. "Small Presses and the Poetry of Feeling: A Cautionary Tale." (Review Essay) Poet Magazine 1.2 (Winter 1985): 18-19, 28.
  18. "Circles and Circumvention in Donne's Sermons." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 201-214.
  19. "'Drawing Myself for Others': The Ethos of the Essayist." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 7 (1981): 27-35. Rpt. in Reading Montaigne (Montaigne: A Collection of Essays, Vol. 5). Ed. Dikka Berven. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Pp. 157-165.
  20. "Searching and Not Finding: The Experience of Donne's Essays in Divinity." Genre 14 (1981): 423-440.
  21. "Incest and Morality in Tom Jones." South Central Bulletin 41 (1981): 101-104.
  22. "Searching the Scriptures: Meditation and Discovery in Donne's Sermons." In New Essays on Donne. Ed. Gary A. Stringer. Salzburg: Salzburg University Press, 1977. Pp. 211-218.
Reviews:
  1. "Neith Boyce's American Odyssey: The Modern World of Neith Boyce: Autobiography and Diaries, edited by Carol Deboer-Langworthy," The Sewanee Review 113 (Fall 2005): cvii-cix.
  2. "The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory, by William C. Dowling." Philosophy and Literature 24 (October 2000): 508-511.
  3. "On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, by Robert Grudin." Philosophy and Literature 21 (April 1997): 181-184.
  4. "Virgil and the Moderns, by Theodore Ziolkowski." Philosophy and Literature 19 (April 1995): 175-176.
  5. "William Empson: the Critical Achievement, edited by Christopher Norris and Nigel Mapp." Philosophy and Literature 18 (October 1994): 357-358.
  6. "Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism, by Edward Tomarken." Philosophy and Literature 17 (April 1993): 130-132.
  7. "Well Wrought Facts: Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry, by Cleanth Brooks." The Sewanee Review 100 (Spring 1992): xxxviii-xli. Rpt.in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 86, edited by James P. Draper. Gale Research, Inc.
  8. "Milton Among the Philosophers: Poetry and Materialism in Seventeenth-Century England, by Stephen M. Fallon." Philosophy and Literature 16 (April 1992): 221-22.
  9. "Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture, by Stephen J. Greenblatt." Philosophy and Literature 15 (October 1991): 326-327.
  10. "An Appetite for Poetry, by Frank Kermode." Philosophy and Literature 14 (October 1990): 444-445.
  11. "Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays, ed. Patrick Curry." Envoi 1.2 (Winter 1988): 425-26.
  12. "Readings in Medieval Poetry, by A.C. Spearing." Envoi 1.2 (Winter 1988): 445-448.
  13. "A Commonplace Book of Donne's Sermons: John Donne and the Theology of Language, edited by P.G. Stanwood and Heather Ross Asals." The Sewanee Review 95 (Fall 1987): lxxiv-lxxvii.
  14. "Richard Hooker, by Stanley Archer." South Central Review II (Spring 1985): 74-76.
Poems:
  1. "Dona Minervae," The Sewanee Review 100 (Winter 1992): 61-62.
  2. "In Early Youth the Forward Flow," New Laurel Review 11 (Spring/Fall 1981): 14.
COURSES TAUGHT

University of Maryland (1992-present):

Georgetown University (1989):
  • Seventeenth-Century Essays
Centenary College (1976-85):
  • Freshman Rhetoric and Composition
  • Introduction to Literature
  • History of British Literature I and II
  • Seminar on the Novel
  • Seminar on Film and Literature
  • Seminar on Styles of Film
  • Creative Writing
  • Classical Literature in Translation
  • Medieval Literature
  • Literature of the English Renaissance
  • Shakespeare
  • Eighteenth-Century English Literature
  • Literary Theory and Criticism
  • Introduction to Latin
  • Intermediate Latin
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS, ET CETERA
  • American Federation of Government Employees (1999-present; Local 3403 Steward, 1999-2005)
  • Association for Documentary Editing (2001-2007, ex officio)
  • John Donne Society (1981-2001)
  • Modern Language Association (1971-1995)
  • National Council of Teachers of English (1989-1991)
  • South Central Modern Language Association (1977-1987, 1997-1998; Secretary, Renaissance Section, 1982; Chair, Renaissance Section, 1983)
  • South Central Renaissance Conference (1977-1988; Executive Committee, 1982-1984; Program Chair, 1984; Vice-President, 1986; President, 1987)
  • American Association of University Professors (1980-1985; Local Chapter Vice President, 1983; President, 1984)

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