Education:
Ph.D., Comparative Literature/Medieval Studies, University of Southern California, 1992
M.A., Medieval Studies, California State University, Long Beach, 1986
Visiting Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford University, 1985-86
Teaching Credential, Multiple-Subject K-12, California State University, Long Beach, 1980
B.A., Liberal Studies/Comparative Literature, California State University, Long Beach, 1979

Languages:
Scholarly proficiency in French (Old and Modern), Italian, Latin, and Spanish

Frequently Taught Courses:
Gateway: Arthur: The Once and Future King?
Humanities 102: The Art of Seeing: The World in Perspective(s), 450-1600
English 170: Travellers and Travel Liars
English 170: “I Anxious”: Circumnavigating the Self
English 241: Such a Knight: Medieval Chivalry
English 258: On the Bus: The Beats, Buddha, and Beyond
English 341: Medieval Literature
English 366: Romance: Loosely Defined, Mostly Medieval
English 391: Chaucer: His Life, the Times, and the Tales
English 480: Senior Seminar, Brilliant Failures: Word, Image, and Imagination
English 485: Research Honors; studies recently supervised include “Raiding the Archive: A Study in the Veneration and Visibility of the Lindisfarne Gospels” and “An Eternal Castaway: Pedophilia in J. M. Barrie’s The Boy Castaways of Black Lake Island.”

Selected Honors/Awards:
2008 Recipient of a J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography
2008 Recipient of a British Academy/Newberry Library fellowship
2007 Elected to the Council of the Society for the History of Discovery
2006 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, Multiple-Year Honoree
2000-06 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
2005 Inducted into Phi Beta Delta
1999-2001 Teacher of the Year Nominee
1998 Inducted as Fellow into Royal Geographical Society, London
1998 Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi

Work in Progress:
Articles: “The Duchy of Cornwall and Hereford Maps: Heritage, Patronage, and Commemoration”; “Seeking Patronage, Beguiling Pilgrims: Ekphrastic Expressions of the Bayeux Tapestry and the Adelae Comitissae”

Selected Publications:

Books:
Michael J. Lewis and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, and Dan Terkla, eds. New Research on the Bayeux       Tapestry: The Proceedings of a Conference at the British Museum. Oxford: Oxbow Books, forthcoming.

Martin Foys and Karen Eileen Overbey, and Dan Terkla, eds. The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: The Boydell Press, 2009.

Articles:
“Informal Catechesis and the Hereford Mappa Mundi.” The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel. Ed. Robert Bork and Andrea Kann. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art: 6. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2008. 127-42.

"Speaking the Map: Teaching with the Hereford Map." Geotema: Organo Ufficiale dell'Associazione Geografi Italiani 27. Itineraria, Carte, Mappe: dal reale al virtuale.  Dai viaggi del passato la conoscenza dell’oggi. (2007): 199-214.

“The Original Placement of the Hereford Mappa Mundi.” Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography 56.2 (July 2004): 1-21.

“From Hastingus to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitability on the Bayeux Tapestry.” The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations.  Ed. Martin K. Foys, Karen Overbey and Dan Terkla.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: The Boydell Press, 2009. 141-57.

 “The Bayeux Tapestry: A Selective Bibliography.” The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations.  Ed. Martin K. Foys, Karen Overbey and Dan Terkla.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2009. 176-210.

“Impassioned Failure: Metaphor, Memory and the Drive toward Intellection.” Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. Ed. Jan Emerson, Hugh Feiss, OSB. Afterword Jeffrey Burton Russell. New York, Garland P, 2000. 245-316.

with Tom Reed, “'I’m gonna git medieval on your ass’: Pulp Fiction for the 90s—the 1190s.” Studies in Popular Culture 20.1 (October 1997): 39-52.

Selected Recent Presentations:
“From Hastingus to Hastings and Beyond: Inexorable Inevitablity on the Bayeux Tapestry.” The BT @ the BM: New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry, An International Conference  at the British Museum, London (July 2008).

“Those not Present: Speaking the Hereford Mappa Mundi.”  The Ides Lecture and Performance Series.  Illinois Wesleyan University (March 2007).

“Further Thoughts on Pedagogy for Pilgrims; or, Making the Past Present.” Maps & Society Lecture Series. The Warburg Institute, University of London  (January 2006).

“Pedagogy for Pilgrims: Curiositas and Hereford’s Cantilupe Complex.” The Cambridge History of Cartography Seminar  Series. King’s College, Cambridge,  England (March 2005).

“The Duchy of Cornwall and Hereford Mappaemundi: Heritage, Patronage, and Commemoration,”

50th Anniversary Meeting of The Society for the History of Discoveries. Raleigh, NC (October 2009).

“The Bayeux Tapestry: Gesturing Toward History?” 12th International Medieval Congress. 

University of Leeds, England (July 2006).

“The Voices of Those not Present: Speaking the Hereford Map.” 41st International Congress of Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University (May 2006).

“Hearing the Map: The Probability of Praxis.” 10th International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, England (July 2004).

Faculty Status:
Professor of English, Humanites Coordinator; at IWU since 1995; next sabbatical 2015-16