English Department Faculty
GARTH WILLIAM BOND
Lawrence University
711 E. Boldt Way
Appleton, WI 54911
garth.bond@lawrence.edu
W: (920) 832-6941
F: (920) 832-6944
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Chicago, IL
December 2006 Ph. D. in English
Dissertation: "Truant Pens: Representations of Manuscript Circulation in the Early Print Era, 1520-1620."
Focusing on five English poets writing for manuscript circulation after the advent of print, my dissertation explores the growing influence of this emerging medium on their representation and understanding of scribal composition and circulation.
Dissertation Advisor: Richard Strier
June 1997 Master of Arts in English.
M. A. Thesis: “Public and Private in Spenser’s Late Pastorals”
TRINITY UNIVERSITY. San Antonio, TX.
May 1994 Double Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Honors English.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
February 2010 “‘Rare Poems Ask Rare Friends’: Ben Jonson, Coterie Poet.” Modern Philology 107:3 (2010) 380-99.
September 2008 "Expanding the Canon of Lady Mary Wroth's Poetry." Notes and Queries Vol. 55, No. 3 (2008) 283-6
REVIEW ARTICLES
A.S.G. Edwards, ed., Regional Manuscripts 1200-1700: English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, Vol. 14 SHARP News Vol. 18, No. 1 (2009) 13.
Stephen Parks, Marc Greitens, and Carolyn Nelson, First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the James M. and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 102 (2008) 125-26.
Winter 2008 Peter Beal, ed., New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts: English Manuscript Studies, Vol. 13. In SHARP News.Vol. 17, No. 1 (2008) 6.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
“John Donne's ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ As an Open Source.”
“Sequence and Design in Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.” A Manuscript Miscellany. Folger Shakespeare Library. 12 July 2006.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
May 2010 “Mary Wroth and William Herbert at Penshurst, in Manuscript and in Print.” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University.
April 2010 “‘Venture’ and ‘Law’ in The Merchant of Venice.” 2010 Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV.
November 2009 "A Mount of One's Own: Mary Wroth and William Herbert at Penshurt." 20th Aphra Behn Society Conference. Cumberland University
October 2008 "'A Sweetnesse Readie Penn'd': Herbert's Scriptorum of the Heart." George Herbert's Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies. University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
July 2008 "'Rare Poems Ask Rare Friends': Ben Jonson, Coterie Poet in Print." "Lords of Wine and Oil": Community and Conviviality in the work of Robert Herrick and his contemporaries. Buckfast Abbey, Devon.
March 2007 “Manuscript and Print Space in Lady Mary Wroth’s ‘Penshurst Mount.’” 53rd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Miami, FL.
May 2004 “’Lament My Losse’ and the Musing Readers of the Devonshire MS.” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University.
Oct. 2003 “Univocal Historicism and the Ambiguity of Thomas More’s Utopia.” First International Humanities Conference “Ambiguity and the Western Tradition.” Temple University.
May 2003 “Verse and Letter: Manuscript Circulation in the Old and New Arcadia.” 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University.
May 2001 “Representations of a Miniature Court: Manuscript Circulation in Donne’s Verse Letters.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
August 2006 Faculty Research Grant, Lawrence University.
Awarded by the University to support a month-long visit at the Huntington Library, in San Marino, CA, in order to study manuscripts written by and related to Lady Mary Wroth.
June-July 2005 Participant, “The Handwritten Worlds of Early Modern England.” NEH Institute. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
One of 16 scholars awarded a stipend to participate in a 6-week, NEH-funded institute on literary, dramatic, and other types of manuscripts. Hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library and directed by Steven May and Kathleen Lynch.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sept. 2007-present Assistant Professor, Lawrence University. Appleton, WI.
Jan. 2007-July 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor
Jan. 2005-Dec. 2006 Full-time Instructor
Courses Taught:
ENG 527: History of the Book
ENG 440: Milton and the 17th Century
ENG 435: Renaissance Drama
ENG 430: Renaissance Literature
ENG 425: Shakespeare
ENG 420: Studies in Medieval Literature
ENG 230: Major British Writers I
FRST 101: Freshman Studies
2002-Fall 2004 Full-time Instructor, Temple University. Philadelphia, PA.
Courses Taught:
ENG 133: Shakespeare
ENG 113: Survey of English Literature to 1650
Intellectual Heritage 51: The Ancient World, Religious Traditions, The Renaissance (General Humanities Course)
ENG 50: Basic College Writing
ENG 40: Introduction to Academic Discourse (Remedial Composition)
Fall 2001 Instructor, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL.
Spring 1998 Course Assistant
1998-2002 Writing Intern
Winter 1997 Lector
Course Taught:
HUM 140: Reading Cultures (General Humanities Course)
Courses Assisted:
English Literature of the Renaissance and Reformation.
General Humanities Core Courses (Reading Cultures, Media Aesthetics).
The Littel Red Schoolhouse (upper-division composition).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
September 2010 Lecturer, Freshman Studies on The Tempest.
Lawrence University. Lecture delivered to al sections of a course required of all First-Year and transfer students
June 2010 Participant, Freshman Studies Writing Assessment.
Lawrence University.
June 2009 Participant, Freshmen Studies Writing Assessment Symposium
Lawrence University. Helped revise writing assessment criteria.
May 2009 Discussion Leader, "Republican Liberty in Milton's Political Writings and Paradise Lost."
Liberty Fund. Westgate Hotel, San Diego, CA. Interdisciplinary Colloquium inviting 16 scholars to discuss selected readings from John Milton's political writings alongside his epic poem.
Spring 2009 Member, Freshmen Studies 2009-10 Works Committee.
Lawrence University
April 2005 Conference Director, “Liberty and Order in Restoration Poetry.”
Liberty Fund. Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, VA.
Interdisciplinary Colloquium inviting 16 scholars to discuss selected readings from John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, Andrew Marvell, Katherine Philips, and John Dryden.
Fall 2004 Facilitator, First-Year Writing Program Teaching Circle.
Temple University.
Spring 2004 Data Gathering and Rectification for the English Department Program Review. Temple University.
Fall 2003 Facilitator, First-Year Writing Program Teaching Circle.
Temple University.
1997-98 Co-Director, Renaissance Workshop.
University of Chicago.
