research

Curriculum Vitae
of
PAUL HENRY DYCK

Ph.D. in English, 1995 - 2000 (Submitted December 1999, Convocation June 2000)
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Master of Arts in English, 1991 - 1993
University of Alberta

Bachelor of Education, 1986 - 1991
University of Alberta

'"So rare a use": Scissors, Reading, and Devotion at Little Gidding,' in The George Herbert Journal. Vol 27 1&2, (Fall 2003/Spring 2004 [submitted 2005, published 2006]), pp 67-81.

"Locating the Word: The Textual Church and George Herbert's Temple," in Centered on the Word: Scripture and Literature in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Eds. Daniel Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins. Newark: University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses, 2004, 224-244.

"The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating the Boundaries of Interactivity in an Electronic Journal for the Humanities." (Written with R.G. Siemens, Jennifer Lewin, and Joanne Woolway Grenfell). Published simultaneously in Text Technology 9.2, (Summer 1999): 45-62 and Early Modern Literary Studies. 5.3 / Special Issue 4 (January, 2000): 4.1-20 <URL: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/05-3/dslwemls.html>.

"Reading and Writing the Commonplace: Literary Culture Then and Now." (Re) Soundings: A World Wide Web Publication, 1.1, (Winter 1997). <http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/*vol1iss1/index.html>.

"Theology as Interruption: Some Opening Moves in Reimagining the Academy." Currents. Winnipeg, Manitoba: St John's College, forthcoming.

The Book: A Technology of the Spirit. Exhibit Catalogue: University of Manitoba and Canadian Mennonite University, May 2004. 16pp.

"Love Bade Me Welcome" Vision: A Journal of Church and Theology. Spring 2002, 3:1, 85-88.

"An XML encoding for the Little Gidding Gospel Harmony: Report." Victoria, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, June 2006.

"Altered Altars: George Herbert Reads Two Common Biblical Title Pages." Toronto, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, May 2006.

"Reading Margins/Reading Centers at Little Gidding: Texts, Politics, and Liturgy." University of Alberta, "Meaningful Marginalities," May 2006.

"Gospel Texts/Paratexts at Little Gidding." San Francisco, Renaissance Society of America, March 2006.

"Theology as Interruption: Some Opening Moves in Reimagining the Academy." Winnipeg, Manitoba: St John's College, September 2005.

"Hand-Work and Heart-Work at Little Gidding: Working the Gospels." Cambridge, UK: Renaissance Society of America, April 2005.

"Tolkien's Fashioning a Reader: Breaking the Spell and Re-enchanting the World" Halifax: Christianity and Literature Study Group, May 2003.

"Reading Places at Little Gidding: Textual Boundaries and Passageways." Toronto: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, May 2002.

"Reading Herbert Through His Readers" Edmonton: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, May 2000

"The Multi-linear Temple: Re-Reading Herbert’s ‘Affliction.’" Saskatoon: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, May 1999

"Emblems and Herbert's Temple: Learning to Read the Signs." Sherbrooke: Christianity and Literature Study Group, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, May 1999

"Talking it Up at EMLS: Problems and Projects with Scholarly Exchange on the Internet." Ottawa: Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, May 1999 (co-written with Mathew Martin)

"The Church as Text in George Herbert's Temple and Country Parson." Ottawa: Christianity and Literature Study Group Conference, May 1998

"The Janus-Face of Early Modern Literary Studies: Negotiating Boundaries" Ottawa: Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies Joint Session , Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, May 1998 (co-written with Jennifer Lewin and Ray Siemens)

"‘Formes such as never were in nature’: Interactivity and Challenges for the Future of Early Modern Literary Studies." St Anne’s College, Oxford, Digital Resources for the Humanities, September 1997 (co-written with Jennifer Lewin, Ray Siemens, and Joanne Woolway)

"Old Texts, New Technologies." Banff, Alberta: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, May 1997

"Spectacle, Surveillance, and Subversion: The Theatre of Court in the Gunpowder Plot and The Revenger’s Tragedy." Seattle: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 1996

"Britomart and Artegal and the Battle of Mutuality." Jackson, Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, May 1994

Review Articles

"Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660" with others, in The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 84. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, (forthcoming).

"Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660" with Ken Simpson, Margaret Kean, Paul Stanwood, and Joad Raymond, in The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 83. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 432-69.

"Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660" with Ken Simpson, Margaret Kean, Paul Stanwood, and Joad Raymond, in The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 82. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 425-453.

"Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660" with Margaret Kean, Paul Stanwood, and Joad Raymond, in The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 81. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 493-521.

"Milton and Poetry, 1603-1660" with Margaret Kean, in The Year's Work in English Studies. Vol. 80. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 335-361.

Book Reviews

Poetry Reviews

Review of David Wright, Lines from the Provinces. in The Journal of Mennonite Studies. 2003, 21.

Curating

"The Book: A Technology of the Spirit. Medieval and Renaissance Bibles, Prayer Books, Choir Books, and Histories" with Dietrich Bartel, May and June, 2004, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba.

Professional Experience

Teaching (University/College English)

Assistant Professor of English (July 2000 - )
Canadian Mennonite University
Courses Taught (2000-2001): Introduction to English Literature, Shakespeare, Creative Writing, Faith and Literature, Reformation Devotional Literature.

English Instructor (1996 - 1997, 1999 - 2000)
English Department, University of Alberta
Courses Taught: English 101, Critical Reading and Writing; English 199, Essentials of Writing for Engineering Students

English Instructor (August 1993 - July 1995)
Maskwachees Cultural College, Hobbema, Alberta
Courses Taught: English 100, Critical Reading and Writing; Introduction to Computing

Sessional English Instructor (Fall 1994)
Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta
Course Taught: English 104, English Literature from the Medieval Period to the 18^th Century

Teaching (English as a Second Language)

ESL Instructor (Summer 1997)
Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta

ESL Instructor (Summer 1994, 1995, 1996)
East-West Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia

Editing

Associate Editor (May 1997 - 2002)
Early Modern Literary Studies (Interactive Section) <http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html>

EMLS is a peer-reviewed journal of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature.

Editor, Maskwachees Creative Writing (August 1993 - July 1995)

Committee Work

Faculty Board Representative (June 2005 - )
Canadian Mennonite University

Chapel Committee (June 2003 - May 2005)
Canadian Mennonite University

Faculty Fora Committee (June 2003 - )
Canadian Mennonite University

Curriculum Committee (June 2001 - May 2002)
Canadian Mennonite University

Aesthetics Committee, Chair (June 2001 - the present)
Canadian Mennonite University

Information Technology Committee (June 2001 - May 2002)
Canadian Mennonite University

Academic Committee (February 2001 - May 2001)
Canadian Mennonite University

Library Committee (September 2000 - May 2001)
Canadian Mennonite University

First Year English Committee (September 1996 - May 1998)
English Department, University of Alberta

Research

Research Assistant (August 1997 - June 2000)
The Orlando Project: An Integrated History of Women's Writing in the British Isles Edmonton, Alberta

The Orlando Project is writing a history of women’s writing in the British Isles; this history will be published both in book form and as an electronic textbase. The project is using SGML (Standard Generalized Mark-up Language) as its basic structuring tool. My work included historical research and SGML tagging.

Research Assistant (Summer 1993)
English Department, University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta

Tuition Scholarship, University of Alberta (1996-99, $2,800 per year)
Sarah Nettie Christie Ph.D. Scholarship, University of Alberta (1995-96, $16,000)