College of Arts

CURRICULUM VITAE

Marianne Micros
School of English and Theatre Studies
4040 MacKinnon
(519) 824-4120, ext. 58976
mmicros@uoguelph.ca

1. GENERAL INFORMATION

EDUCATION

1989		Ph.D.  The University of Western Ontario
		(attended 1974-1982; 1987-1989)
                       
1974		M.A.  St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, New York
		(attended 1972-1974)		

1965		B.A.  Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia
		(attended 1961-1965) 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Fall 2007	Appointed to a permanent position as Asecured@ faculty

2007-2012	Assistant Professor.  Contractually-limited appointment 
		
2003-2007	Assistant Professor.  Four-year contractually-limited appointment

2002-2003	Assistant Professor.  Twelve-month contractually-limited appointment

1989-2002	Sessional Lecturer

1987-1990	Co-ordinator, Instructor and Tutor.  Writing Centre
(This was part of the position of English Language Services Co-ordinator for
		the University, under the office of the Associate Vice President Academic, and
included the administration of an entrance exam in writing proficiency, courses in remedial writing, and communication courses for the Diploma-in-Agriculture program.)                        

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES, PRIOR TO AND SIMULTANEOUS WITH APPOINTMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
2000-2002	Sessional Lecturer.  Wilfrid Laurier University
		
Fall 1996
Fall 1994	Sessional Lecturer.  University of Waterloo
								
Winter 1993	Sessional Lecturer.  St. Jerome=s College, Waterloo, Ontario
		
1990-1991      Assistant Professor.  King=s College of the University of Western Ontario
	           Sabbatical-leave replacement 
		
1984-5;	Teaching Assistant and Sessional Instructor
1974-1980	University of Western Ontario

1983-1986	Writing Tutor.  King's College, University of Western Ontario
		
1972 - 1974	Teaching Assistant. St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, New York

AWARDS AND HONOURS

1974-1980	University of Western Ontario
		Teaching Assistantship for five years
		Scholarships for four years

1972-1974	St. Bonaventure University, New York State
		Teaching Assistantships and full tuition scholarships

1961-1965	Sweet Briar College, Virginia
		Competitive scholarship for four years
		Dean's List
		Junior Honors
		B.A. degree cum laude

2. TEACHING AT UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (1997-Winter 2008)

UNDERGRADUATE

Courses

ENGL*1080	English I: Reading the Past 			F04, F05, W06, F06

ENGL*1200
(37-120)	Reading the Contemporary World		F98, W99, F03

37-205	Early English Literature			W97

ENGL*2060	Literatures in English II			W03

ENGL*2120	Critical Practices				W04

ENGL*2130	Literature and Social Change			W99, W05, F06, F07

ENGL*2740
(37-274)	Children=s Literature				W97, F97, W98, S98, W99

ENGL*2940	Creative Writing: Poetry			W04, W05, W06, W07, W08

ENGL*3120	Shakespearean Receptions			F01
ENGL* 3170: Elizabethan Literary Culture			W03, W07
(37-317)	Renaissance Prose and Poetry		W97, W98
	
ENGL*3190	Poetics and Politics of Early Modern
		England					F99, F03, F05

ENGL*3230	Literature of the English Civil War period     W00, W02, W04, W06, W08

ENGL*3360: Scottish Formations				F00, F02, F04, F06

ENGL*3570: The Age of Chaucer				F02

37-382           Study in a Major Author: Shakespeare	S99

ENGl*3940	Form, Genre & Literary Value		F04, F05, F07

ENGL*3960	Literature in History				F99, F00, W01, F01, F03, W05, W08
		
ENGL* 4040: Medieval-Early Modern Seminar		F97, W00, W01, W03, F07
		(jointly with DRMA*432 in W01)					 	 

ENGL*4810	Directed Reading (Christine de Pizan)	F03

ENGL*4810	Directed Reading (Folktales about fairies)	F06

ENGL*4910	Yeats and the Fairies				W07
ENGL*4910	Creative Writing: Poetry			W07
ENGL*4910	Creative Writing: Poetry			W07		

Other Teaching Activities
Winter/Spring 2008		Wrote reference letters for several students who were accepted into teachers= college, graduate school, and specialized training programs, as well as a student who found employment in human resources and one who was accepted for a summer creative writing course in Manchester, England.

Winter 2007			Supervised three honours projects (ENGL*4910) (two creative writing projects and one honours essay on Yeats and the Fairies)

Spring 2007			Wrote reference letters for three students: these students received acceptances from universities of their choice.
	
Winter 2005			Second reader for Honours Essay, ENGL*4910, by Mark Stoiko,     Gender and Chivalry in Thomas Malory=s le Morte Darthur

Winter 2004			Supervision of Honours Essay, ENGL*4910 (began as second reader, took over as first reader for last few weeks of the project),
by Rachel Freedman, Controlling Representations: the Manipulation of Family and Gender Roles in the Correspondence
				of Elizabeth I and James VI
Fall 2001, 2002, 2003	Guest lectures in ENGL*1060

1986-2002			Co-ordination and Development of Diploma-in-Agriculture courses in Communications 

GRADUATE

Supervision of Graduate projects

Spring/Summer 2008		Supervisor for creative writing project for M.A. student Catherine McCormick. Her project combines a scholarly essay with her own original poetry on the topic of AEco-feminism, Dialogism and the Glosa@

Summer 2006			Second reader for graduate research project, ENGL*6803,
				by Cynthia Scott, A>The game=s no straight=: Renton=s Scotland
				and the State of the Nation in Irvine Welsh=s Trainspotting@

Other Teaching Activities

F06, W07		Supervision of teaching assistant for ENGL*3360 and marker for ENGL*3170.

F05, W06		Supervision of markers for my own sections of ENGL*1080; meetings with course co-ordinator, other instructors, and markers

F98, W99, F03	Supervision and training of teaching assistants for ENGL*1200

1986-2002		Supervision and training of teaching assistants for Diploma-in-Agriculture
			communications courses, most recently DAGR*2600

3. SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY

PUBLICATIONS (SCHOLARLY) ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

ARobber Bridegrooms and Devoured Brides: the Influence of Folktales on Spenser=s Busirane and Isis Church Episodes.@  Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts, ed. Karen Bamford and Mary Ellen Lamb.  Ashgate, 2008.  73-84.  12 pp.

A>A world of my own=: John Milton=s and Margaret Cavendish=s Reflections of Paradise,@ Cithara:
Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 43.1 (November 2003): 3-20.  18 pp.

"Et in Ontario Ego:  The Pastoral Ideal and the Blazon Tradition in Alice Munro's >Lichen=," Essays on Canadian Writing 66 (Winter 1998): 44-59.  16 pp.

"'Ryse up Elisa' -- Woman Trapped in a Lay:  Spenser's 'Aprill'," Renaissance and Reformation
7.2 (Spring 1993).  11 pp.

"The Poem Becomes:  A Journey for a Song."  Critical/autobiographical article using Denise Levertov's poetry.  CVII 6. 1 & 2 (Winter 1982).  6 pp.
Forthcoming: A>For him what countless tears I must have shed=: Identity, Subjection, and Subjectivity in the Poems of Mary Stuart and Mary Wroth,@ Sidney Journal, probably spring of 2009. 

ENTRIES IN REFERENCE WORKS

"Welwyn Wilton Katz."  The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.  1997. 

"Erotica: Canada."  Entry in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Vol. 1,  1994. 2 pp.

REVIEW ARTICLES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, INTRODUCTIONS, AND INTERVIEWS

Back cover copy for anthology Stones Turned.  Dove Tale Press, 2004.

"'A goodly castle in a pleasant dale': The Millennium Spenser Conference, County Cork, Ireland."  Spenser Newsletter 30.3 (Autumn 1999): 33-37.  5 pp.
"'My Books Are My Children': An Interview with Welwyn Wilton Katz." Canadian Children's Literature, no. 90, 24:2 (Summer 1998): 51-65.  15 pp.   (Responses to this interview, including my reply to those responses, appeared in no. 94, 25:2 (Summer 1999)). 

Review of dissertations on the Sidneys for the past eight years. Sidney Newsletter and Journal 11.2 (1991).  13 pp.

Review of two books on classical and Renaissance Erotica.  Sidney Newsletter and Journal 11.1 (1990).  6 pp.

"'When is a Book Not a Book?'  The Novels of Welwyn Wilton Katz."  Canadian Children's Literature, 47 (1987). 6 pp.

"The Miracle of Everyday Life."  Review article of four books of short fiction.  The Fiddlehead,  147 (Spring 1986).  4 pp.

Introduction to Toad Tales by Penny Kemp. White Pine Press, 1981. 6 pp.

A Bibliography of Al Purdy.  Annotated. Vol. Two of The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors.  ECW Press, 1980.  56 pp.

Review Article on Mircea Eliade's The Forbidden Forest.  Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 18.1 (Nov. 1978).  4 pp.

Review Article on Gwendolyn MacEwen's Mermaids and Ikons.  Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 12 (Fall 1978). 7 pp.

Review Article on Anne Hebert's Children of the Black Sabbath.  Essays on Canadian Writing, Nos. 7/8 (Fall 1977). 5 pp.

Review Article on Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser.  Cithara:  Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition, 15.1 (Nov. 1975).  4 pp.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Refereed article for International Review of Scottish Studies, August, 2006.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

May 2007	Western Michigan University, International Congress on
		Medieval Studies
		ADancing in Delight: Dance as Indicator of Cultural Change in the Poetry of
		Edmund Spenser.@  

June 2006	Annual General Meeting, League of Canadian Poets
		AIron Pants and Iron Fists: the Legacy of my Sisters in Spirit@

Dec. 2005 	MLA Conference, Washington, D.C.
		AAcorns are Good Enough: Anne Askew=s Humor as a Tool of Subversion@

Spring 2002	University of Guelph, Classics Symposium
		A>I Ariadne am alike oppress=d=: Ovid in Renaissance
		Women=s Writing@

Spring 2002	Western Michigan University, International Congress
		on Medieval Studies
		A>For him what countless tears I must have shed=: Identity,
		Subjection, and Subjectivity in the Poems of Mary Stuart
		and Mary Wroth@

Summer 2001	Wheaton College, The Fourth Biennial Conference of
		the International Margaret Cavendish Society
		A>A world of my own=: John Milton=s and Margaret
		Cavendish=s Reflections of Paradise@
		
Spring 1999	Western Michigan University, International Congress on
		Medieval Studies
		"Robber Bridegrooms and Devoured Brides: Portrayals of Female
		Threshold Experiences in Folktales and in Spenser's House of Busyrane
		Episode"			

Spring 1996	Brock University, Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies
		at the Learneds
		A>Curse on that Crosse, quoth then the Sarazin': Spenser's 
		Orientalism in The Faerie Queene, Book I"

Spring 1996	University of Iowa and Iowa State, International Conference on
		the Short Story in English				
		"'Flaunting Fat' and 'Sprouting Warts':  Women's Bodies and the
		Deconstruction of the Blazon in Alice Munro's 'Lichen'"	

Spring 1995	University of Tennessee, Conference on Modern Critical Approaches
		to Children=s Literature.
		"The Third Sex: Stereotyping and Blurring of Gender Roles in Peter Pan"
						
Spring 1993	University of Ottawa, Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies
		at the Learneds
		APornography, Poetics, Power: Thomas Nashe's The Choise of
		Valentines@

Fall 1991	Villanova University, Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval,
		and Renaissance Studies
		A'Ryse up Elisa' B Woman Trapped in a Lay: Spenser's 'Aprill'@	
					
Summer 1990	Olympia, Greece.  Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Skepticism
		Sponsored by the International Center of Philosophy and 
		Inter-Disciplinary Research	
		"The Relativism of Landscape in the August Eclogue of 
		Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender" 

Spring 1975	Western Michigan University, International Congress on
		Medieval Studies
		"The Influence of the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Mystics on the 
		English Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century"  	     

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Spring 2006	The International Spenser Conference.  University of Toronto.
		Attended.

Summer 1999	The Millennium Spenser Conference in Doneraile, Ireland
		Attended conference and wrote report for Spenser Newsletter

Spring 1998	Western Michigan University, International Congress on
		Medieval Studies
		Response to paper by Benjamin Grossberg, a queer reading of
		a section of Sidney's Arcadia 					

1992, 1993,
1994, 1995	Western Michigan University, International Congress on
		Medieval Studies
		Chaired sessions on Sidney and Spenser

1992		Canadian Society of Renaissance Studies
		at the Learneds
		Chaired Milton session 

WORKS IN PROGRESS (SCHOLARLY)

Revision of ADancing in Delight: Dance as Indicator of Cultural Change in the Poetry of
Edmund Spenser,@ paper delivered at International Congress on Medieval Studies, May, 2007.  
This is part of a larger project on dance and movement in literature.  I plan to use dance theory and early dance manuals in an analysis of depictions of dance in Early Modern writing.  As part of my research, I have been studying and performing Middle Eastern dance and the American Tribal Style of belly dance.  I am hoping, as well, to find an individual or group who can teach me Renaissance dance styles.  I am taking into consideration the important connection between theory and practice in this area of dance scholarship.

Continuation of research on Early Modern women writers.

Continuation of research on folktales of the supernatural.

PUBLICATIONS (CREATIVE) 

BOOKS 

Seventeen Trees.   A collection of poetry. Guernica, June 2007.

The Key of Dee, a poem sequence about the Elizabethan magus John Dee. Forthcoming. Pendas Productions.

Upstairs Over the Ice Cream, a collection of poetry.  Ergo Productions, London, Ontario, 1979.

SECTIONS OF BOOKS

ASympathetic Magic@; AThe Meeting@; AThe Marriage Contract@; AIn the British Museum.@
Pendas Poets Anthology, 2004.  Available on www.mytown.ca.

Poetry in Four Women.  Red Kite Press, 1999.  97-123.  27 pp. 

ARemember Descending.@  Origins.  Red Kite Press, 1985. 43-60.  18 pp.

The Creative Circus Book, editor and contributor.  Red Kite Press, 1984.

CREATIVE ESSAYS

AIron Pants and Iron Fists: the Legacy of My Sisters in Spirit.@  Our Sisters in Spirit 2006.   The League of Canadian Poets, 2007.  13-27. 15 pp.

AThe Subway of Desire: Women, Sex, and Poetry: a response to the panel on Eroticism at the 22nd annual Feminist Caucus, League of Canadian Poets, 38th annual general meeting, June 4, 2004.@  Forthcoming.

SELECTION OF POETRY PUBLISHED 

Awhere are the hippies?@  Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era.  Ed. Allan Briesmaster and Steven Michael Berzensky.  Seraphim Editions, April 2008.  153-155. 3 pp.

AKaterina.@  Arms Like Ladders: The Eloquent She: Poems from the Feminist Caucus.  Ed. Katerina Fretwell.  The League of Canadian Poets, 2007. 65-66. 2 pp.

AA Dream Poem About bill bissett Cooking.@  radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett.  ed. Jeff Pew and Stephen Roxborough.  Nightwood Editions, 2006. 95-6. 2 pp

AThe Buddha Tattoo.@  And no one knows the blood we share: Poems from the Feminist Caucus.  Ed. Katerina Fretwell.  League of Canadian Poets, 2005.  11-12.  2 pp.

ASantorini: the gate to heaven.@  milieu press.  www.milieupress.net

A17 Trees.@  Monkscript (2002): 45-50.  6 pp.

APater Ignatius.@  Smaller than God: Words of Spiritual Longing.  Black Moss Press (2001): 54-56.
3 pp.

"The King's Ship."  Carousel 11 (1996): 88-89.  2 pp.

Three poems in Carousel 10 (1994): 86-92.  7 pp.

AThe Thalami Bar."  Carousel 9 (1993): 100-103.  4 pp.

AThe Meeting."  CV11, 6.1&2 (Winter 1982). 1 p.

ANetty, the Earth."  Spirale:  A Women's Art and Culture Quarterly, 1.2 (Autumn 1981). 1 p.

AThe Meeting" and "Conjunction."  Eclipse, 2.1 (May 1981).  4 pp.

ASSSSSSS."  Twelfth Key, No. 1, wRITES (Spring 1978).  4 pp.

"Trapeze" and "Arabian Horses."  Quarry 25. 4 (Autumn 1976).  2 pp.

STORIES IN JOURNALS

"Trinities."  Event 14.1 (1985).  6 pp.

"Swinging."  Public Works, Spring, 1985.  4 pp.
"The Sacrifice" and "No Man's Castle."  Event 9.2 (1980). 13 pp.

POETRY ON TELEVISION

"Writing On The Wall," WTN, two programs, shown three times each, featuring my poetry, which was read and shown on the screen. Fall-Winter, 1995-6.

CDs

CD to accompany poetry book The Key of Dee.  Forthcoming.  Pendas Productions

CD to accompany anthology Pendas Poets Series 2004 Anthology. Pendas, 2004. Four poems.

Four Women Performing.  Performance at King=s College, London, Ontario. Centre for
Studies in Creativity, 2000.

from The House of Pan.  Performance at Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario. 
Pendas Productions, 2000.

"Delphi 1: Our Tour Guide" in Souwesto Words, Ergo Productions, 1999.

PERFORMANCES

September 2007 Poetry reading at launch of my book Seventeen Trees.  Bar Italia, Toronto.

September 2007 Poetry reading at one of the main stages at the Eden Mills Writers=
		Festival.

April 2007	Poetry reading at fund raiser for Action Read.  The Boathouse.  Guelph, Ontario.        
March 2007	Poetry reading for AA Night of Poetry@ at the Bull Ring, University of Guelph.  

June 2006	Poetry reading at launch of radiant dance uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett.  Toronto.

March 2005	Poetry reading at I.V. Lounge, Toronto.

October 2005	Poetry reading at the University of Guelph with other poets published by Pendas.
		Poetry reading in Orangeville, Ontario, with other poets published by Pendas.

May 2004	Three short readings at the Annual General Meeting of the League of Canadian Poets		
Winter 2002	Participation in Penn Kemp=s Peace Poem Project by reading the poem in Greek B in Toronto and in London, Ontario

May 2002	Poetry reading at Idler Pub, Toronto

April 2002	Poetry reading at League of Canadian Poets event, at The Boathouse, Guelph, Ontario	

Spring 2000	Poetry reading at King=s College, London, Ontario

Winter 2000	Poetry reading at MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario

Fall 1999	Poetry readings at Visionary Tradition conference, University of Guelph

Summer 1999	Poetry reading at Hillside Festival, Guelph, Ontario

WORK IN PROGRESS (CREATIVE)

Poems for a collection about women, the body, and Middle Eastern dance (along with other topics).  I have begun work on a suite of poems modelled on Renaissance dance styles.

4. SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION

A. Department

2002B		Department academic advisor 
2006-2007	School awards officer (replaced by Danny O=Quinn in April 2007)
2007-2008	Member of Undergraduate Committee and of Curriculum Committee
2008		Prepared files for two candidates for the Winegard Medal and met with the committee to select our candidate

A2. Other units

July 2007	 Member of hiring committee for writing consultant at the Learning Commons,
		Library.   Acted as consultant and helped with the shortlisting of
		candidates. 

B. College and University

Winter 2005	Member of Faculty Association committee on pension and benefits

C. Community

March, 2005   Lectured on and discussed poetry with residents of RiverGlen Retirement Centre, Guelph, Ontario