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Thea Marie CervoneAssociate Professor (Teaching) of EnglishContact Information E-mail: theacervone@hotmail.com Phone: (213) 821-1163 Office: THH 402J |
Biographical Sketch |
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Education |
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 Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1/1998
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Lecturer, University of Southern California, 2010-2011
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| 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 |
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| Reformation, 16th century, oaths, vows, ghosts, disinterment, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Bale, Foxe, rhetoric, humanism. | |
Research Specialties |
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| 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 |
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Conference Presentations |
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"Speaking of the Dead", Southeast Medieval Conference, Talk/Oral Presentation, Roanoke, VA, MEARCSTAPA (Society for study of monsters and the , Invited, 11/19/2010-
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"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
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"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
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"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
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""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
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"Divinity Adieu!", Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Roundtable/Panel, Paper, San Marino, CA, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 05/1998
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"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
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Publications |
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Book |
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Cervone, T.
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Sworn Bond in Tudor England. (Tyler Cloherty, Ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland.
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Journal Article |
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Cervone, T. M.
"Staging Majesty in Bale’s Kynge Johan."
" Studies in Medievalism Vol. XVII.
(2008): pps. 185-202.
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Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works |
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Original Poem, "Taco Truck," published in WordRiver literary journal (UNLV), vol IV., 2010-2011
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Original poem, "University Village," accepted for publication in Collier's magazine, projected date, Fall 2011., 2010-2011
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Service to the University |
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Committees |
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Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Chair: Lawrence D. Green, Director of Undergraduate Studies., 2010-2011
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Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. Chair: Lawrence D. Green, 2009-2010
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Service to the Profession |
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Professional Memberships |
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MEARCSTAPA; Society for Research of Monsters and the Occult in the Middle Ages, 2008-2011
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Societe Fableors: The Society for the Study of Medieval Fabliaux, 2008-2010
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Society for Reformation Research, 2002-2010
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Modern Language Association, 1998-2010
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Reviewer for Publication |
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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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