CV

Megan Herrold

mherrold at achehealth.edu

Education:

Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine, DO (expected 2026)
University of Southern California, Ph.D. in English Literature (2018)
University of Virginia, M. A. in English Literature (2011)
Hendrix College, B.A. in English, minor in Chemistry (2008)

Publications

“Compassionate Petrarchanism: the stabat mater dolorosatradition in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum,” (Studies in Philology 117:2 (2020): 365-396).

“Form” in A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age, eds. Andrew McConnell Stott and Eric Weitz. The Cultural History Series (forthcoming from London: Bloomsbury (2020): 10,000 words).

“‘A game played home’: The Gendered Stakes of Gambling in Shakespeare” in Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th–17th Centuries,ed. Robin O’Bryan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019): 119-37.

Review of Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare, dir. Mark Wing-Davey, Theater Journal 66:1 (2014): 132-3.

Work in Progress

Froward Women: Fictions of Gendered Personhood and Queer Social Order in Early Modern England (Book project, monograph)

“‘Astonying Lookes’ in a ‘Stonie Age’: Reforming Petrarchanism and Allegory in the Later Works of Edmund Spenser,” currently under review at English Literary Renaissance, 43 p. in MS.

Digital Scholarship

 “The Fellowship of Dangerous ‘Seeds’ in Early Modern Women’s Writing.” Digital exhibit in preparation for Women Writers Project, part of the Intertextual Networks collaboration.

“Mapping Misogyny Blog.” <https://meganherrold.com/mapping-misogyny-blog/> 

“Lanyer’s Appropriation of the Stabat Mater in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” 2017 post for Women Writers Project: the Blog. <https://wwp.northeastern.edu/blog/stabat-mater/> &nbsp;

Honors and Awards

Huntington Library short-term Fellowship (2020-2021)
NEH collaborative research award participant, Intertextual Networks, Women Writer’s Project (2016-19)
Folger Shakespeare Library Symposium Participant: Political Personhood in the Early Modern British World before 1800 (2019)
Vanessa Mary Giles Memorial Fund– Awarded by USC’s English Department (2018)
Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship (Summer 2017)
Shakespeare Association of America Graduate Student Travel Grant (2017)
Provost Fellow, University of Southern California (2011–16)
Provost Travel Fellow, USC (2015-16)
Scholarship Grant for Summer Language Institute Graduate: University of Virginia for Latin (2010)
Distinction in English Major, Cum Laude Degree, Hendrix College (2008)
Arkansas Governor’s Distinguished and President’s Scholarship, Hendrix College (2004-08)
Dean’s List, Hendrix College (2007)

Teaching Experience

Part-time Lecturer, 4 sections of ENGL 230: Shakespeare and His Times, USC (Spring & Fall 2019)
Visiting Instructor, INTD 100, Writing Program, Whittier College: Science, Beauty, and Identity: from Frankensteinto “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (Fall 2018 & 2019)
Adjunct Professor, ENG 110, Freshman Composition, CSU Dominguez Hills (Fall 2018)
Assistant Lecturer, CORE 112, Thematic Option Honors Program, USC (courses self-created and run):

“Puppet-Masters: Undue Influences”: From Pygmalionto Being John Malkovich (Spring 2018)
“The Social Network: Cliques, Gangs, Squads”: From Vile Bodiesto Mean Girls (Spring 2017)
“Success and Its Excesses”: From The Great Gatsby to American Psycho (Spring 2015)
“Terrorism: Total Devotion to the Cause”: From Emma Goldman to The Attack (Spring 2014)

Assistant Lecturer, CORE 111 Thematic Option Honors Program, USC (self-run)

“Recognizing Realizations: From The Odyssey to Never Let Me Go (2017)
“The Stories We Tell”: From The Theogonyto The Master and Margarita (2016)
“The City and Its Loves”: From Homer and Plato to Nietzsche (2014)
“Family Feuds”: From The Odyssey to Paradise Lostto White Teeth (2013)

Assistant Lecturer, WRIT 140, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Program, USC

“Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts” (2012)
“Sociology of Science” (2013)

Writing Center Tutor, University of Virginia, UVA (2009-2011); including ESL and co-remedial tutoring with UVA’s Cavalier Academic Support Team

Guest Lectures

“The Teaching Philosophy: Forging Connections between Research and Pedagogy,” Graduate Pedagogy Workshop, Thematic Option Department, USC, February 16, 2018.
“Shakespeare’s Hamlet,” Undergraduate Shakespeare General Education Lecture course, English Department, USC, April 13, 2017.
“Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale,” Graduate Shakespeare Seminar, English Department, USC, November 5, 2015.
“Tragedy and Shakespeare’s Late Plays,” Undergraduate Shakespeare Seminar, English Department, USC, November 3, 2014.

Pedagogical Training

Professional Development for FYC Faculty, CSU-Dominguez Hills (Fall 2018)
Workshop participant in “Teaching Analytical Writing through Reading in the Humanities,” Thematic Option Honors Program, USC (2013-2018)
Workshop participant in “Theory and Practice in Teaching Expository Writing,” Writing Program, USC (2012-2013)

Conferences and Presentations

“The Fellowship of Dangerous Seeds in the Querelle des Femmes and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene,” Seminar: Fellowship in Shakespeare’s Time, Shakespeare Association of America (Washington DC: April 2019).

“Marrying the Medusa in Spenser’s Book of Justice,” Seminar: The Problem of Life, Shakespeare Association of America (Los Angeles: March 2018).

“‘That lothly uncouth sight’: Misogyny and Marital Justice in The Faerie Queene,Book V,” National Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago: March 2017).

Seminar participant in “Queer Theology in Shakespeare Studies,” led by Melissa E. Sanchez, National Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America (Atlanta: March 2017).

“‘That lothly uncouth sight / Of men disguiz’d in womanishe attire’: The Gender, Politics, and Justice of Spenser’s Loathly Ladies,” Spenser Sessions, International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo: May 2017).

“Kinship and Misogynistic Doubling in The Winter’s Tale,” Seminar: More or Less than Kind: Claiming Kinship in Early Modern Literature, National Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America (New Orleans: March 2016).

“The Justice of Bed Tricks in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure,” Poetics of Law Panel, National Conference of the Renaissance Society of America (Boston:April 2016).

“In disparity / The one intense the other still remiss’: Adam and Eve’s Social Economy in Paradise Lost,” Milton Panel, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (Pasadena: March 2014).

“Performing the Monody: Milton’s ‘Lycidas’ within the Tradition of Musical Commemoration and the Liturgy,” Pre-1600 Panel, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (Seattle: October 2013).

“Secular Hagiography in Sidney’s Old Arcadia: Readership, Historiography, and Exemplarity in Romance,” Friendship, Hagiography, Exile, and Time in Sidney’s Old Arcadia Panel, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (Pasadena: March 2012).

“John Dennis, The Dunciadand the Musical Sublime,” Restoration to Eighteenth Century Panel, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (Vancouver, Canada: March 2011).

Service

Program Manager and Editor for VAST: Viterbi Adopt-a-School, Adopt-a-Teacher k-12 STEM Outreach, USC (Summer 2018-present)
President, Graduate Association for Early Modern Studies (GA-EMS), USC (2012-17)
Co-President, Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS), USC (2013–14)
Founder and Leader, Los Angeles Chapter of the Revolutionary Feminism Reading Group (2015-2016)
M.A. Student Representative, Graduate English Students Association (GESA), UVA (2010)
Writing Center Tutor, University of Virginia, UVA (2009-2011)
Research Assistant to Elizabeth Fowler, editor of forthcoming Oxford Collected Works of Edmund Spenser, UVA (2010-11)
Research Assistant to Michael Suarez, Director of the Rare Book School, UVA (2009-10)

Languages

Latin (read, written)
Spanish (read, written)

References

Rebecca Lemon
Professor of English
University of Southern California, 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, THH 429, Los Angeles, CA 90089
rlemon@usc.edu
213-740-3732

Heather James
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
University of Southern California, 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, THH 417, Los Angeles, CA 90089
hjames@usc.edu
213-740-3740

Bruce Smith
Dean’s Professor of English and Professor of Theatre
University of Southern California, 3501 Trousdale Pkwy, THH 404G
brucesmi@usc.edu
213-740-2814

David Rollo
Professor of English
University of Southern California
rollo@usc.edu
213-740-3729

Elizabeth Fowler
Associate Professor
University of Virginia
ef4n@virginia.edu
434-924-6627

Trisha Tucker
Writing Instruction and Curriculum Supervisor, Thematic Option Honors Program
University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, AHF 410, Los Angeles, CA 90089
ttucker@usc.edu
213-740-2961