Dr. Bryan P. Davis, Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Bryan P. Davis, Professor of English and Assistant Dean

College of Arts and Sciences

Georgia Southwestern State University

800 Georgia Southwestern State University Drive

Americus, GA 31709

bpd(at)canes.gsw.edu

Education:

Dissertation: As The Boke Tellith: Reading and Writing Piers Plowman in the Fifteenth Century

Professional Employment:

Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (Georgia Southwestern State University) 2006-

Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages (Georgia Southwestern State University) 2004-2006

Associate Professor of English (Georgia Southwestern State University) 2003-2008

Assistant Professor of English (Georgia Southwestern State University) 1998-2003

Courses Taught:

ENGL 1101 (Composition I), ENGL 1102 (Composition II), ENGL 2110 (World Literature), ENGL 2111 (World Literature I), ENGL 2112 (World Literature II), ENGL 2120 (British Literature) ENGL 3110 (British Literature, Beginnings to 1800), ENGL 3955 (Colloquium I), ENGL 4020 (History of the English Language), ENGL 4110 (Chaucer), ENGL 4115 (Medieval English Literature), ENGL 4120 (Shakespeare I), ENGL 4125 (Shakespeare II), ENGL 4130 (British Drama to 1640), ENGL 4950 (Senior Seminar), ENGL 4955 (Colloquium II), ENGL 5000 (Literary Criticism and Bibliography), ENGL 6170 (Seminar in Advanced Studies in British Literature: Post-Colonial African Literature in English; Seminar in Advanced Studies in British Literature: Teaching the Canterbury Tales; Seminar in Advanced Studies in British Literature: Teaching Renaissance Drama; Seminar in Advanced Studies in British Literature: Teaching the Arthurian Tradition; Seminar in Advanced Studies in British Literature: Epic and Christian Humanism)

Courses Developed:

iPod™ ENGL 1101 Composition I Proof of Concept Team for Advanced Learning Technologies, University System of Georgia 2006

University System of Georgia eCore™ Development Team for On-line ENGL 2111 (World Literature I) Course 2002

University System of Georgia eCore™ Development Team for On-line ENGL 1102 (Composition II) Course 2000

Advising:

University Service:

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Organization of College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia Southwestern State University 2007

Member, University Honors Program Advisory Council, Georgia Southwestern 2003-2004

Faculty Representative to University Library Search Committee, Georgia Southwestern 2002

Co-Chair, Writing Across the Curriculum Committee, Georgia Southwestern 2001-2004

Planning Committee, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Manuscript Studies 1996-97

Additional Professional Service:

Scholarship:

Publications:

The Prophecies of Piers Plowman in Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.31.” The Journal of the Early Book Society 5 (2002): 20-41.

"Response to Emily Steiner's `Langland's Documents.'" The Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000): 14-15.

"The Rationale for a Copy of a Text: Constructing the Exemplar for British Library Additional MS 10574." The Yearbook of Langland Studies 11(1997): 141-55.

"Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Documents in the Literary Imagination." Social Practice in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 13th Illinois Medieval Association Conference. Chicago: IMA, 1997. 31-38. Available on-line: http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol13/davis.html.

"John Day." British Literary Printers and Publishers 1475-1640. Dictionary of Literary Biography. vol. 170. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1996. 78-93.

"William Seres." British Literary Printers and Publishers 1475-1640. Dictionary of Literary Biography. vol. 170. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1996. 231-38.

Review of Jane H. M. Taylor. The Making of Poetry: Late-Medieval French Poetic Anthologies. Texts and Transitions 1. Turnhout, BE: Brepols, 2007; for The Journal of the Early Book Society 11(2008): 272-74.

Review of Nigel Morgan, ed. Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom. Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XII. Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2004; for The Journal of the Early Book Society 9(2006): 196-98.

Review of Alfred Hiatt. The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England. Buffalo, NY: Toronto UP, 2004; for Renaissance Quarterly 58(Spring 2005): 321-22.

Review of Phillipa Hardman, ed. The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance. Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2002; for The Journal of the Early Book Society 7(2004): 178-79.

Review of Paul Saenger, and Kimberly Van Kampen, eds. The Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions. London and New Castle, DE: The British Library and Oak Knoll, 1999; in The Journal of the Early Book Society 5(2002): 200-02.

Review of Derek Pearsall, ed., New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies. York, UK: York Institute for Medieval Studies, 2000; in Speculum 77(July 2002): 966-68.

Presentations, Etc.:

“Cleaning Up the Mess a Bit: Commercial London Manuscripts of Piers Plowman during the Late 14th and Early 15th Century.” For the Fourth International Conference for the Study of Piers Plowman, Philadelphia, PA, May 19, 2007.

"Professional Scribes, Professional Readers and Extant Manuscripts: Where's the Evidence?" For the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10, 2007.

“The Scribe of HM 114: Nearly Contemporary with Langland and Chaucer.” At The New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, New York, New York, July 28, 2006.

"Can Wives Be Merry and Honest Too?: Comments on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor." at the Deerfield Windsor School, Albany, GA, April 29, 2005.

“`With Many Wyse Tales:' Pilgrimage and Wandering in The Canterbury Tales and Piers Plowman." at the International Conference on Truth & Mendacity in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2004.

“Is It Real or Is It Memorex?: Late Medieval Pretexts and the Authenticity of the Love Letters in the Devonshire Manuscript." Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, New York, April 2, 2004.

"From the Metropolis or From the Academy, It's Still Paternalism" at the GSW Colloquium "Of Spirits and Madness: A Multi-Disciplinary Conversation on Cultural Difference," Georgia Southwestern State University, November 5, 2003.

“An Introduction to Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales” at the Deerfield Windsor School, Albany, GA, October 9, 2003.

"Seeing is Believing: The Long and the Short of Copying Piers Plowman in the 15th Century." at the Eight Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society, University of Durham, United Kingdom, July 13, 2003.

"Langland's Scribal Editors and the Latin in Piers Plowman." at the Third International Langland Conference, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 10, 2003.

"The Influence of Vernacular Ordinatio on the Development of the Publicly Available Concepts of Pier Plowman." at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 2003.

"Academic Integrity and eLearning" panelist at the Teaching and Learning with Advanced Technologies Conference, Athens, GA, March 25, 2003.

"And the Morals of the Stories Are: The Several Origins of the Devonshire Manuscript." At the Early Book Society Conference on Telling Stories: the Book and the Art of Narrative, 1350-1550 University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, July 15, 2001.

"Economies of Production and Use: Two Cheapish Copies of Piers Plowman." in the Early Book Society Session Cheap Books and Chapbooks: Low-Budget Production in the Later Middle Ages at the 36^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2001.

"The Production of Troilus and Criseyde." At The New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, London, United Kingdom, July 16, 2000.

Participant in E-Seminar "Book Production and Use in London and Beyond" For The New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, 2000.

"Milton’s Anglo-Saxon Problem, or What Was Christian Heroism After the Civil War?" At the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5, 2000.

Respondent. At the Second International Langland Conference, Asheville, NC, July 29, 1999.

"Acting Scrivenyssh." At the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 1999.

"The Golden Mean: Some Thoughts from a Medievalist on Conserving a Canon." At the College English Association of Ohio Spring Meeting, Columbus, OH, April 17, 1998.

Session Organizer/Presider: "The Construction of Authorship and the Editing of Piers Plowman" at the 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10, 1997.

"To Make Some Mention of the French Book" at the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI; May 8, 1996.

"Beating the Bounds Between Church and State: Official Documents in the Literary Imagination" at The Illinois Medieval Association's 13th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 23, 1996.

"Whose Visio is it Anyway? Authoring/Authorizing the Manuscripts of Piers Plowman" at the 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6, 1995.

"Run-of-the-Mill Manuscripts and the 15th-Century English Book Trade" at the 21st St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, October 22, 1994.

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2007 (Spring)--Paper Presenter at the Fourth International Langland Conference

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2003 (Fall)--Paper Presenter at the Eight Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society & the Third International Langland Conference

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2003 (Spring)--Paper Presenter at the 38th International Congress of Medieval Studies

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2002 (Spring)—Presider, Early Book Society session at 37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Georgia Southwestern Distinguished Professor Grant 2002-03--For the Development of a Writing Across the Curriculum Web Site

Georgia Southwestern Distinguished Professor Grant 2000-01--For the Development of an On-Line Version of ENGL 5000 (Bibliography and Literary Criticism)

Georgia Southwestern Distinguished Professor Grant 2000-01--For the Development of an On-Line Version of UNIV 4000 (Contemporary International Cultures)

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2000 (Fall)—Paper Presentation at 36^th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 2000 (Spring)—Paper Presentation at The New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, London, United Kingdom

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 1999 (Fall)—Paper Presentation at 35^th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 1999 (Spring)—Respondent at the Second International Langland Conference

Georgia Southwestern Faculty Development Grant 1998 (Fall)—Paper Presentation at 34^th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Grant 1995—Traveled for Dissertation Research in United Kingdom

Ohio State University Graduate School Alumni Research Award 1995—Traveled for Dissertation Research in United Kingdom

Ohio State University English Department Summer Fellowship 1994—Traveled for Dissertation Research in United States

Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Grant 1994—Purchased Microfilms for Dissertation Research