Curriculum Vitae

Gregory Vaughn McNamara

Education / Academic Appointments / Academic Honors
Courses Taught / Publications / Presentations / Departmental Service
 Continuing Education / Professional/Technical Experience / Recommendations

Education

Academic Appointments

Academic Honors

Courses Taught

Publications

"'Grief was as clothes to their backs': Prince Henry's funeral viewed from the wardrobe" in Prince Henry Reviv'd: Image and Exemplarity in Early Modern England, ed. Timothy V. Wilks (Paul Holberton, 2008) 259-79.

Review of Roche, Mark William, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century (Yale 2005).  Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts.  Vol. 6, No. 2 (August 2005).

Review of Hill, Tracey, Anthony Munday and English Civic Culture: Theatre, History, and Power in Early Modern London, 1580-1633 (Manchester 2004). The Sixteenth Century Journal 36.3 (2005).

Review of Rhodes, Neil, Jennifer Richards, and Joseph Marshall, eds., King James VI and I: Selected Writings (Ashgate 2003).  The Sixteenth Century Journal 36.2 (2005): 838-40.

“Garments of Majesty: Looking into the Wardrobe of Henry, Prince of Wales.”  Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  12 (2002).  47-56.

 “‘Create in me a new heart’: Puritan Preaching and the Making of Stuart Prince,” Creation/Re-Creation: Selected Proceedings of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  John Lambert and Mitzi Anderson, eds.  UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa (2002).  100-11.

"Prince Henry's Barriers: Courtly Entertainment and the Containment of Emergent Majesty." SRASP: Shakespeare and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Selected Papers 23 (2000).  42-52.

"‘One Dear Son Shall I Twice Lose’: Henry, Prince of Wales and the 1613 Tempest at Whitehall." Selected Proceedings of Medieval-Renaissance Conference XII at Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia (1998).

Review of Smuts, Malcolm, ed., The Stuart Court and Europe (Cambridge 1996). The Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997).  894-6.

"A Brief Guide to Citing Electronic Sources." West Virginia University Guide to Library Research. Ed. Winston Fuller. 6th ed. Action, MA: Tapestry, 1995. 215-18.

Review of Squires, Ann, ed. and Nicola Timbrell. The Dream of the Rood hypertext edition. Bryn Mawr Medieval Review 94.11.3 (1994). Online: http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr.

"Hypertextual Pedagogy: Structuring Student Exercises." Computers and Texts 6 (1993): 8-10.  

Presentations

“Court Culture and Common Culture in The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, 1610-13,”  The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, March 24, 2007.

"Bringing Portraiture into the Conversation: Examples from the English Renaissance,"  South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Charlotte, NC.  November 11, 2006.

“Prince Henry's Funeral Viewed from the Wardrobe,” Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.  October 16, 2006.

“Early Print Culture through the Lens of New Media,” Humanities Discussion Circle, South Atlantic  Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Atlanta,  GA.   November 5, 2005.

“When the Context is Your Only Text: Anthony Munday's 1610 Lord Mayor's Show,” Special Session, South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Roanoke, VA, November 12, 2004.

“Crafting Majesty: Royal Shipbuilding at the Court of Prince Henry Stuart, 1608-10,” West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Thirty-First Annual Conference, Huntington, WV, April 22, 2004.

“Teaching Shakespeare on Film: Bridging the Textual-Visual Gap,” Teaching Matters, An Interdisciplinary Conference on Pedagogy, Gordon College, Barnesville, GA, March 29, 2003.

“‘Create in me a new heart’: Puritan Preaching and the Making of a Stuart Prince,” Medieval and Renaissance Society of South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, September 5, 2002.

“Anthony Munday's London's Love to the Royal Prince Henry: Guild Culture and the Proper Means of Bringing Royal Freight to Landing,” Medieval and Renaissance Conference XV, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Wise, VA.  September 21, 2001.

"The Tiring Rooms of Majesty: Fashion and Power at the Early Stuart Court," Blue Ridge International Conference on the Humanities and the Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. April 27, 2001.

"'In this Court of Fame': Henry, Prince of Wales and English Civic Pageantry," The Premodern Teenager: An International Symposium, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. October 8, 1999.

"'The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man': Fashioning Early Stuart Majesty," Medieval-Renaissance Conference XIII, The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, VA. September 17, 1999.

"Prince Henry's Barriers: Courtly Entertainment and the Containment of Emergent Majesty," West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference, Elkins, WV. April 16, 1999.

"'One Dear Son Shall I Twice Lose': Henry, Prince of Wales and the 1613 Tempest at Whitehall," Medieval-Renaissance Conference XII, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA. September 19, 1998.

"'A Practicer of Arts Inhibited': Magic, Repression, and the Egyptian Handkerchief in Othello," Medieval-Renaissance Conference X, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA. September 21, 1996.

"'Where he most would hit, he ever yet did miss': Sidney's Arcadia and the Politics of Tilting," West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Twenty-Third Annual Conference, Montgomery, WV. April 18, 1996.

"Spenser's Bowre of Blisse and the Ideology of Elizabethan Gardening," Medieval-Renaissance Conference IX, Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, Wise, VA. September 29, 1995.

Service to the Profession

Executive Committee, Humanities Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2005-present.

Chair, Humanities Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2005-06.

Secretary, Humanities Discussion Circle, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2004-05.

Departmental Service

Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Language and Literature.  Clayton State University.  2006-07.

Editor, Language and Literature Course Highlights (web and print editions).  2005-present.

Member, British Literature Search Committee (2), Department of Language and Literature.  Clayton State University.  2007.

Member, Composition and Rhetoric Search Committee, Department of Language and Literature.  Clayton State University.  2006.

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Language and Literature, Clayton State University.  2005-present.

Member, University Testing Center SAT Evaluation Committee, Clayton State University.  2005-present.

Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa Honorary.  Macon State College.

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee for Conflict Resolution.  Macon State College.  2004-05.

Member, English Search Committee.  Macon State College.  2005.

Member, Foreign Languages Search Committee.  Macon State College.  2004.

Campus Liaison, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Macon State College.  2003-present.

Chair, Campus Smoking Policy Committee.  Gordon College.  2003.

Guest Lecturer.  Discussion of Shakespeare's plays in performance.  Theatre 1100, Theatre Appreciation, Mr. Ron Ellison, July 9, 2002.

Coordinator and Faculty Liaison for Alternative Dispute Resolution.  Gordon College.  2001-3.

Faculty Senate.  Gordon College.  2002-3.

Faculty Senate Representative to the Faculty Welfare Committee.  Gordon College.  2003.

Faculty Senate Planning Committee.  Gordon College.  2001.

Georgia State Regents' Examination Task Force Committee.  Gordon College.  2001-02.

Faculty Advisor, Sigma Kappa Delta English Honor Society.  Gordon College.  2000-01.

Instructional Technology Committee, Gordon College.  2000-01.

Academic Advisor (37 Regular Advisees + Walk-Ins),  Gordon College.  2000-01.

Judge, Gordon College Oratory Contest.  Fall 2000.

Speaker, Gordon College Academic Contest.  "Kissing by the Book."  A discussion of Romeo and Juliet, 1.5. October 2000.

Evaluator, Department of English Writing Placement Examination. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 1995-99.

Affiliate, "Virtual Environment Design," West Virginia University Center for Literary Computing. 1998-99.

Speaker, "Managing Priorities," West Virginia University Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop, Morgantown, WV. August 22, 1998.

Speaker, "Mapping a Virtual Penshurst," Center for Literary Computing Research and Development Showcase, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. April 3, 1998.

Steering Committee Member, English Graduate Student Colloquium. Spring 1998.

Editor, WVUEGS-L Graduate Students' Electronic Discussion Group. 1993-96.

Vice President, West Virginia University English Graduate Students' Association. 1994-95.

Continuing Education

Certificate, “Negotiation and Academic Leadership,” an eight hour seminar coordinated by the University of Georgia Consortium for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.  July 29, 2004.

Certificate, “Co-Mediation,” an eight hour seminar coordinated by the University of Georgia Consortium for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.  July 28, 2004.

Certificate, “Mediating Campus Disputes,” a twenty-eight hour seminar coordinated by the University of Georgia Consortium for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.  June 10-14, 2002.

History of Professional / Technical Work 

Recommendations

Dr. Rudolph P. Almasy, Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Development, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University.  Morgantown, WV. Telephone: (304) 293-4611; E-mail: ralmasy@wvu.edu.

Dr. Amy Berke, Associate Professor of English.  Macon State College, Macon, GA.
Telephone: (478) 471-5788; E-mail: aberke@mail.clayton.edu

Dr. Patrick W. Conner, Centennial Professor of Humanities; Director, West Virginia University Press; and past Coordinator and Founder of the Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University.  Morgantown, WV. Telephone: (304) 293-3107; E-mail: pconner@wvu.edu

Dr. Susan Hunter, Professor of English and Head of Language and Literature,  Clayton State University.  Morrow, GA.  Telephone: (678) 466-4736; E-mail: susanhunter@clayton.edu

Dr. Robert Kelly, Professor of English and Chair, Division of Humanities, Macon State College.  Macon, GA. Telephone: (478) 471-5792; E-mail: rkelly@mail.maconstate.edu

Dr. Jason Munsell, Assistant Professor of Communications, Columbia College.  Columbia, SC.  Telephone: (803) 786-3197; E-mail: jmunsell@colacoll.edu