Office: Keezell
411
Phone: 540-568-6744
Email: johnsoba@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - W 10:00-1:00, Th 2:00-3:00, F 8:00-9:00
Courses: Fall 2009
GHUM 200 Great Works: The Sacred and the Secular, TT 3:30-4:45
ENG 299 Writing About Literature, TT 12:30-1:45
ENG 315 Seventeenth Century British Poetry, TT 9:30-10:45
Specialties: 17th-century British Poetry
Education: Ph.D. University of Illinois May, 1987; M.A.
Indiana University May, 1982; B.A. Greenville College January, 1976
Awards:
grants
• 2004 General education Grant, James Madison University
• 1998 James Madison Summer Grant.
• 1997 James Madison Summer Grant.
• 1996 James Madison Summer Grant.
Publications:
“One Story, One Voice, One Love: The Uses of Convention
and Repetition in Howatch’s Fiction.” In Johnson,
Bruce and Charles A. Huttar, eds., Scandalous Truths: Essays
by and about Susan Howatch
(Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna
University Press, forthcoming, 2005), pp. 8-32. Co-editor. Scandalous Truths: Essays
by and about Susan Howatch (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna
University Press, 2005).
“Howatch and the Academy.” In
Johnson, Bruce and Charles A. Huttar, eds., Scandalous Truths: Essays by and
about Susan Howatch (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna
University Press, 2005), pp.1-6.
Review of
Cristina Malcolmson’s Heart-Work: George
Herbert and the Protestant Ethic.Christianity
and Literature. 50.4 (2001): 741-42.
“The Audience Shift in George Herbert’s
Poetry.” Studies
in English Literature1500-1900 (1995) 35: 89-103.
“The Moral Landscape of ‘The Pardoner’s
Tale.’” In
Allen, David G. and Robert White, eds., Subjects on the World’s
Stage: Essays on British Literature of the Middle
Ages and Renaissance (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press,
1995), 54-61
“’To Love the Strife’: George Herbert’s
Struggle for His Poetry.” Renascence (1994)
46: 105-116.
"Theological Inconsistency and its Uses
in George Herbert's Poetry.” George Herbert Journal 15.2
(1992): 1-18.
Review of Janis Lull's The Poem in Time: Reading George
Herbert's Revisions of 'The Church'. Christianity
and Literature 40 (1990): 81-82.
"Penitential
Voices in Herbert's Poetry." George
Herbert Journal, 8.2 (1985): 1-17.
Presentations:
“Real Life is Meeting: C.S. Lewis and Women,” C.S. Lewis: A 21st Century
Legacy, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, October, 2007.
“Round Peak Appalachian Banjo Style and the African/Plantation Style,” American Culture Association, Boston, April, 2007.
"Susan Howatch’s Narrative Method.” South Atlantic
Modern Language Association. November, 2004.
“Toward
An Ethics of Reading.” “The English
Workshop” of the Council for Christian Colleges and
Universities. Seattle Pacific University, June 24-July 1,
2001.
“The Word(s): Deconstruction, Literature,
and Biblical Exegesis.” “The English Workshop” of
the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Seattle
Pacific University, June 24-July 1, 2001.
“George
Herbert’s Unlawful Prayer.“ Southeast
Conference on Christianity and Literature. April, 2000.
“The
Fiction of Susan Howatch.” Special session
chair. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. November,
1999.
“The Ecclesiology of Howatch’s Starbridge
Novels.” Southeast
Conference on Christianity and Literature. April, 1999.
“C.S.
Lewis and the Canon.” C.S. Lewis Centenary
Celebration. Montreat College. April, 1998
"Usurping
Scripture: George Herbert and His Contemporaries." Modern
Language Association. December, 1993.
"The Moral Landscape of Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale.'" The
Seventh Citadel
Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. February,
1991.
"John Donne and the Idea of the Holy Ghost as Arch-Poet," South
Atlantic Modern Language Association. November, 1990.
"The Audience Shift in Herbert's Poetry," South
Atlantic Modern Language Association. November, 1989.
"'To Love the Strife': George Herbert's Struggle for His
Poetry," South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
November, 1988.
"The Un-Reformed George Herbert: Anti-Calvinist
Currents in Herbert's Poetry,"
The Sixth Citadel Conference
on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, March, 1988.
“Herbert's Poetry and the Ricoeur Paradigm of Revelatory
Experience." Colloquium Series of the Unit for Interpretive
Criticism at the University of Illinois. September, 1984. |
