Curtis Gruenler
Dept. of English
(616) 395-7996
gruenler@hope.edu
Associate Professor,
University of California,
Los Angeles,
Ph.D., English literature, 1998
Dissertation: “Piers Plowman and the Medieval Uses of
Enigma”
Directors: V. A. Kolve and
H. A. Kelly
Sluyter Fellowship,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Grant, The
Lynn White, Jr., Fellowship,
Friends of English, Daniel
G. Calder Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, UCLA, 1995–6
Collegium
of University Teaching Fellows, UCLA, 1995–6
University
Fellowship, UCLA, 1990–1
“Dante’s Quest for Home.” Christianity and the Arts 7.1 (Winter
2000): 6-9.
“Desire, Violence, and the
Passion in Fragment VII of The
Review of
Review of Carolyn P.
Collette, Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in
The
Review of Joan M. Nuth,
God’s Lovers in an Age of Anxiety: The Medieval English Mystics in Reformed
Review, Autumn 2002.
Review of Steven Justice, Writing and Rebellion:
Encyclopedia entries: “Seint
Denys,” “Via Appia,” “Walakye,” “Ware,” “Watlynge Strete,” “Wyndesore.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Ed. Paul
Ruggiers.
“The Tearing of the Pardon
and the Poetics of Piers Plowman,”
“The Medieval Poetics
of Enigma and Christian Imagination,” The World and Christian Imagination,
“Girardian Themes in
Arthurian Literature,” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
“Wendell Berry,
Marilynne Robinson, and the Refiguring of Reality,” Festival of Faith and
Writing,
“Medieval Philology Meets
Modern Linguistics in the
“The Enigmatic Mode in Pseudo-Dionysius, The Cloud of Unknowing, and Julian of
“The Uses of Enigma in
Middle English Lyrics: From Reading Right to Making Meaning,” 35th
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
“Culture out of Noise: The House of Fame and Cybernetics,” Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium,
March 2000.
Response to “Langland’s
Syncategoremic Imagination” by Christopher Cannon, Second International
Langland Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, July 1999.
“Enigmatic Discourse in the
Banquet Scene of Piers Plowman,”
International Medieval Congress,
“‘Til I have Piers the
Plowman’: Langland’s Enigmatic Apocalypticism,” Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium,
March 1999.
“Owen Barfield: Prophet of
Postmodernism?” C. S. Lewis Centenary Celebration,
“Fragment VII of Chaucer's
“Augustine’s Hermeneutics of
Enigma and the Historical Criticism of Medieval Literature.” The annual meeting
of the Medieval Association of the Pacific,
“The Poetics of Chaos:
Emergent Systems in Two Medieval Allegories.” The annual conference of the
Society for Literature and Science,
“‘As myself in a mirour’:
Self-interpretation in Piers Plowman.”
Glossed by Another Text: English Literature and the Bible,
Expository
Writing I (topic: Technology and Society)
The
History of the English Language
Literature
in English to 1775
Chaucer:
The
Arthurian
Literature
Christianity
and Literature (interdisciplinary senior seminar)
Theology
and Literary Theory
World
Literature I: Ancient to Renaissance
First-Year
Seminar
Cultural
Heritage I: Antiquity to 1500
Introduction
to Literature
Department
Practicum Seminar
Composition
and Rhetoric
Critical
Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales (assistant)
English
Literature 800–1660 (assistant)
English
Literature 1660–1832 (assistant)
Shakespeare
for non-majors (assistant)
Department
of Computer Science, teaching assistant, 1984
Center for Teaching and
Learning, volunteer tutor, 1982–1985
Editor. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Managing Editor. Modern Liturgy. Resource Publications,
Medieval
New Chaucer Society
Colloquium on Religion and Violence
Conference on Christianity and Literature