Faculty & Staff
Alex Mueller, PhD
- Assistant Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6723
- Email: alex.mueller@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,00003
Areas of Expertise
Pedagogy, digital textuality, medieval literature, academic commentary, history of the English language
Degrees
PhD, University of Minnesota
Professional Publications & Contributions
- “Digitizing Chaucerian Debate.” Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. Frank Grady and Peter Travis. Revised edition. New York: Modern Language Association. (forthcoming)
- Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance. Columbus: Ohio State University Press (forthcoming April 2013).
- “A Prehistory of Resistance to Writing Across the Curriculum.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 19.2 (Fall 2012): 117-42.
- “The Historiography of the Dragon: Heraldic Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 32 (2010): 295-324.
- “Wikipedia as Imago Mundi.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 17.2 (Fall 2010): 11-25.
- Co-writer with Cheryl Nixon and Rajini Srikanth. “Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter.” Human Architecture 8.1 (Spring 2010): 1-16.
- “The Medieval Writing Workshop.” The Once and Future Classroom 6.2 (Fall 2008).
- “Linking Letters: Translating Ancient History into Medieval Romance.” Literature Compass 4.4 (2007): 1017-29.
- “‘The Soft Beauty of the Latin Word’: Experiencing Latin in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Classical and Modern Literature 26.2 (Fall 2006): 179-96.
- “Corporal Terror: Critiques of Imperialism in The Siege of Jerusalem.” Philological Quarterly 84.3 (Summer 2005): 287-310.
- Alex Mueller's Author Page in ScholarWorks
- Alex Mueller's Author Page in Academia.edu
Additional Information
Book Reviews
“More than Something on the Side: Teaching Medieval Romance.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 13.2 (book review essay forthcoming).
Simon Armitage, trans., The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation. Arthuriana 22.4 (Winter 2012): 190-2.
Karen Cherewatuk and K.S. Whetter, eds., The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition, in Arthuriana 21.1 (Spring 2011): 111-2.
Rachel Fulton and Bruce W. Holsinger, eds., History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, in Medieval Encounters 16 (2010): 363-6.
Current Project
Veni, Vidi, Wiki: A Prehistory of Digital Textuality (book manuscript)
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses
Engl 630 Chaucer
Engl 611 Teaching Literature
Engl 613 Teaching English with Technology
Engl 360 Arthurian Literature
Undergraduate Courses
Engl 449 Contemporary Issues in Teaching English
Engl 440 History of the English Language
Engl 381 Geoffrey Chaucer
Engl 360 Arthurian Literature
Engl 262G The Art of Literature
Engl 200 Understanding Literature: Romancing the Tome
