Curriculum Vita Bradley P. Spaulding Office: Home: Modern Language and Literature 4432 South Old State Road 15 Indiana Wesleyan University Lot #11 4201 South Washington Street Wabash, IN 46992 Marion, IN 46953-4974 Telephone: 260.569.0437 Telephone: 765.677.2453 blspaulding@yahoo.com brad.spaulding@indwes.edu Education PhD English (Literature) 2013 Ball State University Dissertation: The Tree for the Forest, Eco-Typology, the Tree of Life, and John Milton s Paradise Lost MA English 2003 U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire BA, English/Writing 1996 Indiana Wesleyan University (magna cum laude) Teaching Experience Assistant Professor of English 2003-present Indiana Wesleyan University Instructor of English 2002-2003 Indiana Wesleyan University Associate Lecturer Fall 2000 U of Wisconsin-Marathon Co. 1
Courses Taught at Indiana Wesleyan University Upper-level English Major Courses English Major Courses/General Education General Education ENG 462 Milton ENG 466 Chaucer ENG 260 The British Novel ENG 242 Saints and Sinners in Literature ENG 240 British Literature Survey ENG 237 18 th Century Plays, Poetry, and Prose ENG 180 Humanities World Literature ENG 120 English Composition ENG 100 English Pre-Composition Awards and Recognitions Leave of Absence Fall 2012 Indiana Wesleyan University Ten-Year Service Award Fall 2012 Indiana Wesleyan University Publications Review. Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature, by Reginald A. Wilburn. Renaissance Quarterly 68.3 (Fall 2015). Print. Review. A Private History of Awe. By Scott Russell Sanders. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15.1 (Winter 2008): 286-87. Print. Lessons on the Hoof. The Mercury Reader: A Custom Publication. Compiled by Dr. Roberta J. Henson. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2004. 20-24. Print. 2
Conference Presentations Eco-Typology and the Tree of Life in Milton s Paradise Lost and Lanyer s The Description of Cook-ham. The Eleventh Annual Milton Symposium. University of Exeter, UK. July 20-24, 2015. Be Thou in Adam s Room : Eco-typology and the Tree of Life in Milton s Major Poetry. Spiritus Loci, 2011 Indiana College English Association (ICEA), Anderson University, October 7, 2011. The Tree for the Forest: Typology, Ecology and the Tree of Life in Paradise Lost. The King James Bible and Its Cultural Afterlife, An International Conference, The Ohio State University, May 5-7, 2011. Ecological (Dis)embodiment: Aphra Behn s Oroonoko, Eroticism, and Spectacular Violence. Seventeenth Annual British Women Writer s Conference, University of Iowa, April 2-5, 2009. [H]er fertile womb teemed at birth : Conceptual Metaphor, Ecofeminism, and the Earth as Nurturing Mother in Paradise Lost. Literature, Writing, and the Natural World, EAPSU Conference 2006, Mansfield University, October 20-22, 2006. Walking into Place: Pastoral Theory and Student Alienation. Space(s), College English Association (CEA) National Conference, Indiapolis, Indiana, March 30-April 2, 2005. Walking into Place: Pastoral Theory and Student Alienation. Indiana College English Association (ICEA), Ball State University, October 1, 2004. Lifting the Romantic Mask: William W. Warren s Narrative Persona in History of the Ojibway People. Identity Politics and the Politics of Identity in the 19 th Century, A Graduate Conference, University of South Carolina, March 4-6, 2004. Conferences Attended Virtues, Vices, and Teaching Conference Oct. 3-5, 2014 Calvin College Teaching for Technology Aug. 22-23, 2005 Taylor University Panel chair 2004 Midwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, IWU CCCU New Faculty Workshop June 10-13, 2003 Geneva College 3
Professional Activities Host Site Co-Chair Oct. 28, 2017 2017 ICEA Conference, Indiana Wesleyan University Chapel Speaker April 8, 2013 MLL Divisional Chapel, Indiana Wesleyan University Writing Retreat Nov. 12-20, 2012 St. Meinrad Archabbey & Monastery Michigan Shakespeare Festival Aug. 3-5, 2012 Michael Baughman Theatre, Jackson Community College Conference Co-Chair Oct. 12, 2007 2007 ICEA Conference, Indiana Wesleyan University Coordinator/Host Oct. 11, 2007 Ogaga Ifowodo Poetry Reading, 2007 ICEA, IWU Basic Blackboard Training May 11, 2005 Indiana Wesleyan University IWU Forum on Life Calling Jan. 24, 2003 Indiana Wesleyan University Professional Affiliations Member 2013-present Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Service to Indiana Wesleyan University College of Arts and Sciences Committee for Student Success Division of Modern Language and Literature Representative, 2013-15 Unit Parents Reed and Shatford Halls, 2004-2007 4
Delegate, MLL CAS Curriculum and Program Development Planning Meeting, Sept. 22, 2004 Division of Modern Language and Literature English Curriculum Committee Academic Advisor Major Content Supervisor Co-chaired review and restructure of English Major, 2013-2015 Advise English majors, English/Writing majors, and English-Ed. majors, 2005-present Supervise English-Ed. junior-year practicum and senior-year student-teacher field experience, 2012-13 MLL Faculty Advisor Assist with New Student Registration events, 2009-present MLL Faculty Representative Attend IWU Admissions Visit Days, 2010- present Portfolio Review Committee Participate as Senior English Major Portfolio Reader, 2010-present Ad-hoc Committee on English Assisted with gathering information on curriculum Major Assessment for HLC Accreditation, 2009-2012 Ad-hoc Committee on Student Helped to create SLOs for various levels of Learning Outcomes curriculum in MLL, 2008-2011 Search Committee Served on Search Committees in 2010-11 and in 2004-05 Service to Community Volunteer Holiday Food Basket Packing, Lighthouse Mission, Wabash, Ind., 2005-2013 Volunteer Wabash Moose Free Thanksgiving Meal, Moose Family Center, Wabash, Ind., 2005-2012 5
Guest Speaker Assistant Advertising Coordinator Christian Business Men s Club, Marion, Ind. Feb. 10, 2005 Day of Healing, Wabash Friends Counseling Center, Wabash Friends Church, 2002-2006 Service to Church Regular Attendee Benedictine Oblate Benedictine Oblate Novice Participant Co-teacher Volunteer Co-facilitator Ad-hoc Vision Committee Wabash Friends Church, 2002-present St. Meinrad Archabbey & Monastery, Final Oblation, June 9, 2015 St. Meinrad Archabbey & Monastery, Ritual of Investiture, May 7, 2014 Christian Companions Grow Group (Sunday School), Wabash Friends Church, 2002-present The Five Love Languages, Christian Companions Grow Group, Wabash Friends Church, July 2014 Greenhouse Children s Ministry, Wabash Friends Church, 2011-present Christian Companions Grow Group, Wabash Friends Church, 2011-2012 Served on Grow Group Vision Committee, Wabash Friends Church, 2011 6