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Wayne Chandler
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in English, University of Alabama, 2000
- M.A. in English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1994
- B.A. in English, Northwest Missouri State University, 1992
Courses Taught
- Composition
- Introduction to Literature
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Literary theory
- Science fiction
Academic Interests
- Shakespeare and other English Renaissance literature
- The effect of literature in print, film, and games
- Science fiction and other fantastic literature
Scholarly Activity
Selected Publications
- An Anthology of Commendatory Verse From the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005
- Commendatory Verse and Authorship in the English Renaissance. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. (Mellen Studies in Literature: Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, Volume 129)
- "Review: Georgia Brown: Redefining Elizabethan Literature." Shakespeare Yearbook 16: The Shakespeare Apocrypha (2007): 468-74.
- "Living with Reptiles: Welcome to the Jungle." Reptiles (August 2000): 100.
- "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.
- "The Servant." Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine 33 (Fall 1996): 21-23.
Selected Presentations
- "‘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.
- "‘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.
- "‘Loue this Booke': Commendatory Verse and Jonson's Praise of Shakespeare." Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Columbia, SC, April 15, 2000.
- "A Tragicomedy: Mary Wroth, John Fletcher, and Critical Reception." Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Chapel Hill, NC, April 17, 1998.
Student Group Advisement
- Science Fiction Society of Northwest (2011- )
- Fellowship of the Tower Gaming Society (2005-present)
