Jacob Lewis

Education
2006    M. A. in English, University of Arkansas
2004    B. A. in Classical Studies (Cum laude), University of Arkansas

Scholarship
Articles:

“In whose ‘Jailhouse’ now? : The Origins and Evolution of the Popular Song, ‘In the Jailhouse Now’” Overland Review 32 (2005).

Papers Presented:

“The Hope of Embodied Discourses: The Utopian Function in Winner and Waster,” Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) 2008

“Aduentures in Postcolonial England: Lancelot, Gender, and the Emergence of English Nationalism,” SEMA 2006

“Herod Antipas and the French of York Pageant XXXI: The Language of Kingship and the Rise of English Nationalism,” SEMA 2005

“Masculinities in Question: Gender and the Building of St Peter’s Basilica,” SEMA 2003

Teaching Experience
University of Arkansas, Graduate Assistant, Department of English

ENGL 2303: Survey of English Literature from the Beginnings to 1700 (Summer 2007; Spring 2008)
WLIT 1113 H: Honors World Literature to 1650 (Fall 2008; Spring 2009)
WLIT 1113: World Literature to 1650 (Fall 2006; Spring 2007; Spring 2008; Summer 2008, Summer 2009)
ENGL 1023: Composition II (Writing About Literature) (Fall 2005; Spring 2006; Fall 2007)
ENGL 1013: Composition I (Fall 2004; Spring 2005)

University of Arkansas, Writing Tutor, Quality Writing Center (2005-present)

Service
Coordinator of the Advanced Composition Exemption Exam (Spring 2008; Summer 2008)
Reader for the English Language Advanced Placement Exam (2007, 2008, 2009)

Awards and Honors
Blair Rouse Award for Superior Academic Achievement by a PhD Candidate in English, 2009
Ben Kimpel Memorial Fund Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, Spring 2006
Eta Sigma Phi, Inducted January 2001
Eagle Scout, Spring 2000

Professional Memberships
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association
Southeastern Medieval Association

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