Stephen Robert Slimp

Stephen Robert Slimp

5500 30^th Place

Meridian, MS 39305

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Education: December, 1995: PhD. In English, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill. (Dissertation: Samuel Johnson’s Christian Humanist

Poetry).
December, 1987: M.A. in English, Baylor University. (Thesis:

Moral Character and the Importance of the Political Hero in the

Writings of Edmund Burke).
May, 1985: B.A. in English, University of South Carolina

(Columbia).

Awards: May, 2008: William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching,

University of West Alabama

March, 2003 , University of West Alabama
October, 2002: University Research Grant for $1000 for access to Chadwyck-Healey’s on-line database of the Patrologia Latina.
May, 1999: William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching,

University of West Alabama.

December, 1996: , The University of West Alabama
May, 1995: Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate School, The

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

May, 1985: Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors

College, University of South Carolina.

April, 1985: George A. Wauchope Award for English, University

Of South Carolina.

April, 1984: ; W. Gordon Belser Prize for English,

University of South Carolina.

Teaching 1995-Present: Tenured Professor of English, The

Experience: University of West Alabama. (Full responsibility for four

undergraduate and graduate courses per semester of

seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Literary Research, Introduction to Literature, and Freshman Composition, both in the general curriculum and the Honors Program.)

2000-Present: Adjunct Instructor of English, Mississippi State University-Meridian. (Full responsibility for one course per semester of upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare, Chaucer, and English literature from 1485-1832, seventeenth-century English literature, and Milton.)
1989-1994: Instructor of Freshman Composition and literature,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Full responsibility

for the complete range of Freshman Composition courses, from

Basic Writing through Advanced Expository Composition. Leader

of discussion sections in Shakespeare, with full responsibility for

grading and partial responsibility for composition of tests, quizzes

and paper assignments.)
1987-1989: Instructor in English composition, conversation, and

literature, Baiko Jo Gakuin College, Shimonoseki, Japan. (Full

responsibility, from designing to conducting all courses taught.)
1986-1987: Instructor of Freshman Composition, Baylor

University Department of English. (Partial responsibility for

designing, full responsibility for conducting each course taught.)
1985-1986: Tutor in the Writing Center, Baylor University

Department of English. (Lent support to instructors of

composition courses through individual tutorials on all aspects of

composition.)

Related Director of the Honors Program at The University of

Experience: West Alabama (2000-08); Chairman of the Lorraine McIlwain

Bell Trustee Professorship Selection Committee (1995-96; 1998-

2000); Member of the Department of Marketing and

Management Sciences Search Committee (1996-97); Member of

the Written English Proficiency Committee (1996-present);

English Majors Recruitment Committee (1996-present); Faculty

Release Time Policy Review Committee (1997); SACS Reaccreditation Steering Committee (2000-2002); Chair, SACS Faculty Committee (2000-2002); College of Education College Review Group (2001-2002); College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Review Group (2002-3); Department of Mathematics Search Committee (2002); College of Liberal Arts Academic Council (2004-2008); Univeristy Academic Integrity Committee (2009-present).

1991: Member of the Freshman Composition Committee,

Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill.
Papers and With John Cunningham, “The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Publications: Analogue, and Deification in The Merchant of Venice.” In The

Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays, ed. John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon. New York: Routledge: 2002: 225-82.
“Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” The Explicator 57 (Spring 1999): 179-81. Reprinted in Kirzner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, compact edition, 5^th edition, New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004.
“A Poet’s Apprenticeship: Samuel Johnson’s School Translations.”

The Age of Johnson 9 (1998): 109-32.
“Sight and Insight: Irony in E.A. Robinson’s ‘Isaac and Archibald.’” Baiko Studies in English Literature 24 (1987):

141-48.
With Professor Mark Griffith, “Plato and Homer: Teaching Honors from Different Perspectives.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Memphis, TN, 18 April 2009.

“Substance and Accidents in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Man Is Hard to Find.’” Presented at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Covenant College, Chattanooga, TN 4 April 2009.
“Augustine and Milton: Images of the Trinity.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, Itta Bena, Mississippi, January 2005.
“Epistemology in Paradise Lost: Milton and Thomas.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus, Mississippi, January 2004.
“Tragedy into Comedy: Homer and Shakespeare.” Presented

at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association,

Tennessee Technical University, February 2000.

“Freedom and Constraint in Robert Herrick’s Hesperides”

presented at the Southern Conference on British Studies,

Birmingham, AL, November 19, 1998.

“The Textual Background of Burke’s Defense of the People of

India.” Presented at the 1994 Baylor University Literary and

Academic Conference, Baylor University, Feb. 13, 1994.
Languages: Latin, Greek, Old English, Spanish, German
References: Professor Christopher Armitage

Department of English

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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Professor Joe Taylor

Department of Languages and Literature

University of West Alabama

Livingston, AL 35470

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Professor Dennis Mitchell, Chair

Division of Arts and Sciences

Mississippi State University-Meridian

1000 Highway 19 North

Meridian, MS 39307

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