Curtis Gruenler, Associate Professor

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e-mail address: gruenler@hope.edu
Office Telephone: 616/395-7996

A.B., Stanford University, 1985
M.A., UCLA, 1993
Ph.D., UCLA, 1998

Dr. Gruenler began teaching at Hope in 1997.
Curriculum Vitae

Article in Speculum: "How to Read Like a Fool: Riddle Contests and the Banquet of Conscience in Piers Plowman"

Course Proposal Form for Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage Courses

Courses

For general web resources for all English courses, see the English department’s Research Web.

English 301: British Literature in English to 1800

• Syllabus (spring 2006)
• Study aids for English 270 (the previous version of this course) compiled as a student project.
• A site on medieval culture (literature, music, architecture, and history) compiled by previous students
• A site with versions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales respelled as an aid to understanding the original Middle English: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/webcore/murphy/canterbury/

English 373: Chaucer

• Syllabus (spring 2006)
• The Electronic Canterbury Tales
• The Harvard Chaucer site

English 375: History of the English Language

• Syllabus (fall 2009)
• Links to fun and useful web sites on language and English
• New terms compiled by previous classes
• Assignments

IDS 171: Cultural Heritage I

• Syllabus (spring 2007)

IDS 402: Senior Seminar: Christianity and Literature

· Syllabus (spring 2007)

English 371: Arthurian Literature

• Syllabus (spring 2005)

English 113: Technology and Society

• Syllabus (fall 2003)
• Helpful links

Other interesting links

• Midrashes on the Mission of Hope, a web cite sponsored by the CrossRoads Project at Hope that invites members of the college to reflect on its mission. I am its editor. It requires a Hope webmail username and password for access.
• "A Theology of Imagination in the Liberal Arts at Hope College", delivered Sept. 29, 2005, in the Department of Philosophy’s series on the Liberal Arts

• "What Use Is Literature?" by Myron Magnet

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