1. WAYNE A. CHANDLER
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Language, Literature, and Writing 1130 N Main St
Northwest Missouri State University Maryville, MO 64468
Maryville, MO 64468 (660) 853-1090
chandlr@nwmissouri.edu ChandlerWA@gmail.com
EDUCATION Ph.D. English, The University of Alabama, May 2000.
Degree earned through the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies.
Emphases on non-dramatic poetry, drama (including Shakespeare), Spenser.
M.A. English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1994.
Thesis: “This Hideous Rashness”: A Pattern of Betrayal in Three Shakespearean
Tragedies.
B.A. English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1992.
DISSERTATION Of an Age: Commendatory Verse in Ben Jonson’s England. Director: Gary Taylor.
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SCHOLARSHIP
BOOKS
Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2003. (Mellen Studies in Literature: Elizabethan and Renaissance
Studies, Volume 129)
Anthology of Commendatory Verse From the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2005
ARTICLES
“Tolkien’s Problematic Immortality: Life and Death in the Fantasy Frame.” (Co-author Carrol
Fry.) Forthcoming in Mythlore
“The Pen is Mightier Than the Fang: Geek Lit as Buffy’s Equipment for Living.” Slayage:
The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 14.1 (Winter 2016). Web
“A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and Critical Reception.” Renaissance Papers
1998: 137-149
“The Magic(s) of Steven Brust.” Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts 9.2 (1998): 71-79
“Frankenstein's Many Readers.” Extrapolation 37.1 (Spring 1996): 37-45
“An Epiphany at Owl Creek Bridge: Intimations of Immortalities in Ambrose Bierce's Fiction.”
(Co-author Carrol Fry.) Studies in Weird Fiction 24 (1999): 8-14
FREELANCE PUBLICATIONS
“That One Counselor” (poem). Gutter Eloquence 27 (July 2013). Web
“Living with Reptiles: Welcome to the Jungle.” Reptiles (August 2000): 100
“The Servant.” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine 33 (Fall 1996): 21-23
REVIEW
“Georgia Brown: Redefining Elizabethan Literature.” Shakespeare Yearbook 16: The
Shakespeare Apocrypha (2007): 468-74
PRESENTATIONS

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“‘Cool! I mean—nerds!’: Courting Geeks for Fun and Profit in the Buffyverse.” Slayage
Conference on the Whedonverses. Barnesville, GA, May 27, 2006
“The Shoulders of Giants: Premodern Tools Remade for the Posthuman Age.” Computers &
Writing. Palo Alto, CA, June 17, 2005
“Jonson and Company: Reputation and Reciprocity in English Renaissance Commendatory
Verse.” Central Renaissance Conference. Lawrence, KS, September 20, 2003
“J.R.R. Tolkien and The Call of Immortality.” Mythcon XXXIV: The Thirty-Fourth
Conference of the Mythopoeic Society, Nashville, TN. July 27, 2003
“‘We are compounded of free parts’: John Fletcher, Shakespeare, and the Creation of
Female Audience.” 26th
Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus, OH.
April 27-29, 2002
“The Book is the Thing: Strategies of Advertisement in Renaissance Commendatory Verse.”
Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Raleigh, NC, April 5, 2002
“The Tale of The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare’s Romances.” Invited speaker at the
Scholar’s Forum, Missouri Repertory Theater’s production of The Winter’s Tale.
University of Missouri at Kansas City. February 10, 2002
“J.R.R. Tolkien and The Call of Immortality.” Symposium on J.R.R. Tolkien. Northwest
Missouri State University. November 6, 2001
“‘How True That Sexe Can Write’: Convention and Construction Among Renaissance
Women Writers.” 2001 Convention of the Missouri Philological Association.
Westminster College, Fulton, MO. March 2, 2001
“‘Certaine Tragicall Discourses’: Graduate Study and the Reign of Postmodernism.” Fall
2000 Faculty Colloquium, Department of English, Northwest Missouri State
University. September 20, 2000
“‘Loue this Booke’: Commendatory Verse and Jonson’s Praise of Shakespeare.”
Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Columbia, SC, April 15, 2000
“Luther, Language, and Lucrece: The Verbal and the Visual in Shakespeare's Poem.” 1999
Convention of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honorary. St. Louis,
MO, March 13, 1999
“A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and Critical Reception.” Southeastern
Renaissance Conference. Chapel Hill, NC, April 17, 1998
“‘On Bokes Rede I Oft’: The Erring Narrator of Chaucer's Parliament of Foules.”
International Convention of Sigma Tau Delta. Memphis, TN, March 18, 1994
“Frankenstein's Many Readers.” Western Regional Conference of Sigma Tau Delta.
Denver, CO, March 19, 1993
“Fear and Loathing in the Men's Room: Misogyny’s Religious Roots.” Nebraska Regional
Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honorary. Omaha, NE, March 13,
1993
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Northwest Missouri State University, 2007-present.
Studies in Figures & Groups 631: Beowulf
Studies in Genre 640: Science Fiction and Faith
Introduction to Theoretical and Practical Criticism 610
Studies in American Literature 543: Michael Chabon
Studies in Early British Literature 520: Renaissance Poetry and Renaissance Drama

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Shakespearean Drama 573
Senior Seminar 405
Introduction to Shakespeare 372
Science Fiction Literature 351
The Literary Critic’s Craft 305
English Literature: Beowulf to the 18th
Century 245
Introduction to Literature 220
English Composition 112 Honors
English Composition: Writing as Engagement 112
English Composition: Academic Literacies 111
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Northwest Missouri State University, 2001-2007.
Women in Renaissance Literature (Problems in Scholarship) 621
The State of Renaissance Studies (Problems in Scholarship) 621
Shakespearean Drama 573
English Literature of the Seventeenth Century 544
English Literature of the Sixteenth Century 543
Medieval Literature 622
Chaucer 585
Introduction to Shakespeare 372
Science Fiction in Context (Special Topics) 325
Literature of the Fantastic (Special Topics) 325
English Literature: Beowulf to the 18th
Century 245
Introduction to Literature 220
English Composition 112
English Composition 111
Introduction to College Writing 110
Instructor, Department of English, Northwest Missouri State University, 2000-2001:
English Composition 111
English Composition 112
Introduction to Literature 220
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Alabama, 1995-2000:
English Composition 101
English Composition 102
English Literature I 205
English Literature II 206
Instructor (adjunct), Holy Spirit High School, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1997-1998:
Creative Writing
Instructor (adjunct), Southwestern Community College, Creston, IA, 1994-1998:
English Composition I
English Composition II
Technical Writing
Introduction to Literature
American Literature I
Speech
Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
American History II
Instructor (adjunct), Buena Vista College, Creston, IA, 1995:
Creative Writing

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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Northwest Missouri State
University, Maryville, MO, 1993-94:
Writing Center clinician
Guest lecturer in classes on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature
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DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Ad hoc Committee on Faculty Evaluation, 2015-2016
Ad hoc Committee on Diversity & Inclusion, 2016
Extended Leadership Team, 2014-present
University Budget, Planning & Development Committee, 2015-present
Faculty Senate President, 2013-14, 2015
Chair of Dept. of English & Modern Languages Lit. & Pedagogy Committee, 2013-2015
Faculty Senate Secretary, Northwest Missouri State University, 2004-2007
Faculty Senator, Dept. of English, 2004-2007
Chair of Dept. of English Curriculum Committee, 2002-2005, 2007-2013
Dept. of English Recruitment & Retention Committee, 2006-2009
Dept. of English Graduate Committee, 2001-present
Dept. of English Scholarship/Essay Committee, 2003-2004
Dept. of English Colloquium Committee, 2002-2003
Search committee for Assistant Professor of English, Generalist, 2002-2003
English Graduate sub-committee for re-evaluation of graduate student assessment, Fall 2001
University Faculty Welfare Committee, 2007-2009
University Student/Faculty Discipline Committee, 2001-2004
University Faculty Research Committee, 2003-2004
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of English with specialization in 18th
-century
literature, 2000-2001
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STUDENT SUPPORT
First-Year-Student Advocate, 2016
Freshman Seminar Instructor, Fall 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Advisor for English majors, 2000-present
Chair or member of M.A. Portfolio Committees, Fall 2007-present
Director for Master’s Thesis, Spring 2005
Freshman Interest Group sponsor (English), 2003-04
Director of individual student research, 2001-2005
Sponsor for student group, Northwest Gaming (formerly The Fellowship of the Tower), 2003-
present
Sponsor for student group, The Science Fiction Society of Northwest, 2011-2016

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Sponsor for student group, Comic Book Club 2013-present
Presentations/activities primarily for students:
Graduate school discussion for undergraduates, Fall 2006
Discussion group about The Lord of the Rings, Spring 2004
Group Leader, Distinguished Scholars’ Day, Spring 2004
Symposium on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Fall 2003
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominee for 2014-15 Dean’s Faculty Service award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Spring 2009 Dean’s Faculty Research Award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Nominee for 2006-2007 Dean’s Faculty Service award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Nominee for 2004-2005 Dean’s Faculty Research award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Letter of Commendation for University service, Fall 2001, Northwest Missouri State U.
1999-2000 Boone Teaching Fellowship, University of Alabama
1999 Graduate Council Research Travel Grant, University of Alabama, for Of an Age:
Commendatory Verse in Ben Jonson’s England
1999 Graduate Scholarly Paper Award for “A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and
Critical Reception.” Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honorary
2000 Letter of Commendation for teaching, Dept. of English, University of Alabama
1999 Letter of Commendation for teaching
1998 Letter of Commendation for teaching
1994-95 Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, Northwest Missouri State Univ., for “This
Hideous Rashness”: A Pattern of Betrayal in Three Shakespearean Tragedies
1994 Graduate Research Award, Northwest Missouri State University, for “‘On Bokes Rede
Oft’: The Erring Narrator of Chaucer's Parliament of Foules”
1993 Outstanding Critical Essay Award, Northwest Missouri State University,
for“Frankenstein's Many Readers”
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE AP Reader, English Literature 2006 , 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Submission reviewer, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009, 2012
Submission reviewer, Publications of the Missouri Philological Association, 1999, 2003
Research Assistant to Professor Gary Taylor, Univ. of Alabama, 1995. Assisted in research
for Prof. Taylor’s books Cultural Selection and Works of Thomas Middleton
Research Assistant to Professor George Wolfe, University of Alabama, 1996

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Sponsor for student group, Comic Book Club 2013-present
Presentations/activities primarily for students:
Graduate school discussion for undergraduates, Fall 2006
Discussion group about The Lord of the Rings, Spring 2004
Group Leader, Distinguished Scholars’ Day, Spring 2004
Symposium on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Fall 2003
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Nominee for 2014-15 Dean’s Faculty Service award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Spring 2009 Dean’s Faculty Research Award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Nominee for 2006-2007 Dean’s Faculty Service award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Nominee for 2004-2005 Dean’s Faculty Research award, Northwest Missouri State U.
Letter of Commendation for University service, Fall 2001, Northwest Missouri State U.
1999-2000 Boone Teaching Fellowship, University of Alabama
1999 Graduate Council Research Travel Grant, University of Alabama, for Of an Age:
Commendatory Verse in Ben Jonson’s England
1999 Graduate Scholarly Paper Award for “A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and
Critical Reception.” Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honorary
2000 Letter of Commendation for teaching, Dept. of English, University of Alabama
1999 Letter of Commendation for teaching
1998 Letter of Commendation for teaching
1994-95 Distinguished Master's Thesis Award, Northwest Missouri State Univ., for “This
Hideous Rashness”: A Pattern of Betrayal in Three Shakespearean Tragedies
1994 Graduate Research Award, Northwest Missouri State University, for “‘On Bokes Rede
Oft’: The Erring Narrator of Chaucer's Parliament of Foules”
1993 Outstanding Critical Essay Award, Northwest Missouri State University,
for“Frankenstein's Many Readers”
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE AP Reader, English Literature 2006 , 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Submission reviewer, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009, 2012
Submission reviewer, Publications of the Missouri Philological Association, 1999, 2003
Research Assistant to Professor Gary Taylor, Univ. of Alabama, 1995. Assisted in research
for Prof. Taylor’s books Cultural Selection and Works of Thomas Middleton
Research Assistant to Professor George Wolfe, University of Alabama, 1996