Biographical Sketch

Education

• Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1/1998



Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2010-2011   



Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Early Modern England, with a focus on the English Reformation. Also Elizabethan poetry and drama. Area of specialization is oath swearing. Current Project: book manuscript on death, fascination, and the Renaissance. Future projects include research on Humor in the 16th century, and literary tourism.

Research Keywords

Reformation, 16th century, oaths, vows, ghosts, disinterment, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Bale, Foxe, rhetoric, humanism.

Research Specialties

Oath swearing and its history in English literature. Translation of the Bible into English from the Anglo-Saxon period to The King James Version. Interment and tomb monuments of literary figures and literary tourism.



Conferences and Other Presentations




Conference Presentations

• "Speaking of the Dead", Southeast Medieval Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Roanoke, VA, MEARCSTAPA (Society for study of monsters and the , Invited, 11/19/2010-  
• "Defiance By Prerogative:The Strange Case of the coronation Oath of Henry VIII", 44th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Kalamazoo, MI, Society for Reformation Research, 05/2009  
• "The King's Phantom: Reform and Revision in Bale's Kynge Johan", 42 International Congress of Medieval Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Kalamazoo, MI, Society for Reformation Research, 05/2007  
• "Additions and Admissions: The Manipulation of Sworn Bond in Two Henrician Manuscripts. ", 40th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Kalamazoo, MI, Society for Reformation Research, 05/2005  
• ""The Matter of Resources: Sir Thomas Elyot and the Retelling of Biblical Virtue", 37th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Kalamazoo, MI, Society for Reformation Research, 05/2002  
• "Divinity Adieu!", Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Roundtable/Panel, Paper, San Marino, CA, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 05/1998  
• "Oath, Obligation, and Obedience: Sworn Fealty and Social Change in Bale’s Kynge Joha", 29th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Paper, Kalamazoo, MI, 05/1994  



Publications




Book

• Cervone, T. (2011). Sworn Bond in Tudor England. (Tyler Cloherty, Ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland.



Journal Article

• Cervone, T. M. "Staging Majesty in Bale’s Kynge Johan." " Studies in Medievalism Vol. XVII. (2008): pps. 185-202.



Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works

• Original Poem, "Taco Truck," published in WordRiver literary journal (UNLV), vol IV., 2010-2011   
• Original poem, "University Village," accepted for publication in Collier's magazine, projected date, Fall 2011., 2010-2011   



Service to the University

Committees

• Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Chair: Lawrence D. Green, Director of Undergraduate Studies., 2010-2011   
• Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Chair: Lawrence D. Green, 2009-2010   



Service to the Profession




Professional Memberships

• MEARCSTAPA; Society for Research of Monsters and the Occult in the Middle Ages, 2008-2011  
• Societe Fableors: The Society for the Study of Medieval Fabliaux, 2008-2010  
• Society for Reformation Research, 2002-2010  
• Modern Language Association, 1998-2010  



Reviewer for Publication

• Sixteenth Century Journal, Ashgate, Book Review: "Anonymity in Early Modern England: What's in a Name?" ed. Janet Wright Starner. UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2011., 09/01/2011  



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