CURRICULUM VITAE
Stephen Henry Alexander Shepherd

Department of English,
Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Voice Mail: (310) 568-6225
E-mail: sshephe1@lmu.edu

EDUCATION

Oxford University

1984-1988: Hertford College and St. Cross College, University of Oxford; D.Phil.
D.Phil. Thesis: "Four Middle English Charlemagne Romances: A Revaluation of the Non-Cyclic Verse Texts and the Holograph Sir Ferumbras" (Supervisor: Douglas Gray)

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1979-1984: Queen's University at Kingston; B.A.(Hons.) and M.A.
M.A. Thesis: "A Characterization of The Middle English Breton Lay" (Supervisor: John Finlayson)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

William Langland, Piers Plowman: A Norton Critical Edition (W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 2006). Co-edited with Elizabeth Robertson. [The Donaldson translation, revised, with new facing-page original-language edition prepared, at my instigation, from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 58.]  500 pages, jumbo format.

 

“For teaching undergraduate and nonspecialist graduate students, this edition of Piers Plowman is all I could ever wish for. The full text with facing-page translation is a godsend and will for the first time provide the intelligent access this magnificent but challenging poem deserves. The offerings in ‘Sources and Backgrounds’ and the included critical writings are a veritable banquet.” – Linda Georgiana

Turpines Story: A Middle English Translation of The Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle, Early English Text Society, Original Series 322 (Oxford University Press, 2005). 172 pages. The book has a dedicated website: http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/TurpinesStory.htm.

 

Notes & Queries: “This recently discovered text is a welcome addition to the corpus of Middle English Charlemagne literature, giving further evidence of the striking interest in translating and circulating the Charlemagne material in fifteenth-century England. Stephen Shepherd has provided a meticulously edited text, with extensive commentary detailing the instances of divergence in this translation from the standard Latin text of the Pseudo-Turpin, and from other versions in the branch of the Northern European C-family to which Turpines Story belongs.” – Phillipa Hardman 


Leeds Studies in English: “The journey through which this medieval account of Charlemagne’s great deeds found its way into the miscellany comissioned/consumed in a household of the lesser gentry during the Wars of the Roses prompts us to reconsider the cultural and political aspirations of members of this social class. . . . this excellently produced edition certainly proposes an invaluable source for further research, which will no doubt spark future projects on the cultural, literary and political implications of reading romance and chronicles in late medieval England.” – Raluca Radulescu


Journal of English and Germanic Philology: “Shepherd is to be commended for producing a carefully prepared and useful edition, the product of a tremendous amount of research.” – Edward Donald Kennedy

Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur: A Norton Critical Edition (W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 2003; Second Impression, 2004). 750 pages, jumbo format. [Whole text, plus source and background selections, edited by me from actual manuscripts and incunabula, or facsimiles thereof.] The book has a dedicated website: http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/MorteDarthur.htm .

The Times Literary Supplement: “ . . . thoughtfully edited . . . buttressed by a substantial section of relevant historical material, excerpts from sources, and literary criticism, all intended to help the twenty-first-century reader to come to grips with the primary English version of the Arthurian legend in its immediate context. . . . The modern reader, then, is guided to an encounter with Malory which insists on the text's historical otherness, on its status as a fifteenth-century cultural product. . . . How do we read Malory now? . . . . Shepherd's recontextualizing of Malory for the present day [is] timely.” – Carolyne  Larrington. 

Middle English Romances: A Norton Critical Edition (W.W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 1995; Second Impression, 2003). 534 pages. [All texts edited by me from the original manuscripts or photographs or facsimiles thereof:. Unabridged texts: Havelok, Ywain and Gawain, Sir Orfeo, Sir Launfal, Sir Landevale, The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Watheleyne, The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnell, The Mariage of Sir Gawaine, The Sege off Melayne, Capystranus]. The book has a dedicated website: http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/index.html

Review of English Studies: “...assessing what a romance implies is a complex inductive process that needs a combination of knowledge, judgement, and literary responsiveness rarely found except among professional scholars, and not common there.... Happily the scholars who produced the... anthologies under review here have  what it takes. . . .The notes and glosses are generally succinct, intelligent, and strikingly well expressed.... In headnotes, and to a lesser extent in footnotes, [Shepherd] clarifies the status and editing of each pair of texts, and explores internal and external connections for all of them. This part of the book provides much information and many ideas, but again in an open way that prompts readers to discover more.” – P.J.C.  Field.

 

Essays
(A list of papers delivered at conferences is available upon request.)

“A Wycliffite Bible Possibly Owned by Sir Henry Spelman and Ole Worm” Notes & Queries (forthcoming, Autumn 2008)

“Turpines Story: A Revised Collation,” Notes & Queries New Series, Vol. 54, No. 1, 29-30

“Langland’s Romances,” in Kathleen Hewett-Smith, ed., William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays (Routledge, 2000), pp. 69-81

Editions, with introduction and commentary, of two Wycliffite sermons, and Trevisa's Epilogues to his translation of Higden's Polychronicon, in Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed., The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520 (Pennsylvania Sate University Press, 1999), pp. 130-137, 146-156

“The Middle English Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle,” Medium Ævum 65 (1996), 19-34

“No poet has his travesty alone: The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell,” Romance Reading on the Book: Essays on Medieval Narrative presented to Maldwyn Mills, ed. J. Fellows, R. Field, G. Rogers, and J. Weiss (University of Wales Press, 1996), 112-28

“‘Of Thy Glitterand Gyde Have I Na Gle’: The Taill of Rauf Coilyear,” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 228 (1991), 284-298’

“‘This Grete Journee': The Sege of Melayne,” in Romance in Medieval England (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 113-131

“The Ashmole Sir Ferumbras: Translation in Holograph,” in Roger Ellis, ed., The Medieval Translator (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1989), pp. 103-121

I have supplemented this essay with an on-line article employing moveable 3D models: http://myweb.lmu.edu/sshepherd/vrml33.htm

“‘I have gone for thi sak wonderfull wais’: The Middle English Fragment of The Song of Roland,” Olifant, A Publication of the Société Rencesvals 11 (1986), 219-236

Reviews

A. S. G. Edwards, ed., A Companion to Middle English Prose (Cambridge: Brewer, 2004), in JEGP (forthcoming)

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive, Vol. 1: Corpus Christi College, Oxford MS 201 (F), edited by Robert Adams, Hoyt N. Duggan, Eric Eliason, Ralph Hanna III, John Price-Wilkin, and Thorlac Turville-Petre (CD-ROM, University of Michigan Press, 1999: ISBN 0-472-000275-9), in The Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 12 (for 2000)

Charlotte Brewer, Editing Piers Plowman (Cambridge, 1996), in Arthuriana, 9, no. 2 (Summer,  1999)

Piero Boitani, ed., The European Tragedy of Troilus (Oxford, 1989) in Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 229 (1992), 181-184

R.G. Arthur, Medieval Sign Theory and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (Toronto, 1987), in Notes and Queries, New Series, Vol. 36, No.4, 494-496



Encyclopedia Entries 

“Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory,” in Jay Ruud, ed., Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature (Facts on File Library of World Literature, 2006)

“Middle English Romance" and "Sir Thomas Malory,” in David Scott Kastan, Editor in Chief., The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Oxford University Press, 2005)


WORK IN PROGRESS
(Titles are provisional)

“Langlandian Revision and the Images of MS Douce 104” (article)

“Heathenic Catechesis and The Source of Awntyrs B” (article)

The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive: Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Douce 104. (This is a C-text MS famous for its marginal illustrations of characters from the poem. I am currently transcribing the MS and researching what I think are better source traditions than have been suggested so far for some of the key illustrations.)


UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

From May, 2008:

Director of the Graduate Program, Dept. of English, Loyola Marymount University

From August, 2006:

Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Loyola Marymount University

September 1998 - June 2005:

Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of English, Southern Methodist University

September 1995-July 2006:

Associate Professor of English, SMU

1989 - August, 1995:

Assistant Professor of English, SMU

 

COURSES TAUGHT
(** = courses originated by me)

At LMU:

 

ENGL203

History of British Literature I

ENGL373

**RoadRead: Medieval SoCal

ENGL502

Arthurian Romance

ENGL503

English Literature of the Middle Ages

ENGL504

Chaucer

ENGL598

**The Idea of The Vernacular

 

 

At SMU:

 

ENGL1301/1302

Freshman Composition

ENGL2311

Honors Rhetoric: Understanding and Doubting

ENGL2305

Introduction to Poetry

ENGL2327

**Literary Studies: Computing in The Humanities

ENGL2327

**Literary Studies: Manuscript and Milieu in Middle English Literature

ENGL3305

Survey of English Literature: Chaucer to Pope (team-taught: Course Director, 2002-present)

ENGL3321

Medieval English Literature (The Beginnings to the Advent of Printing)

ENGL4320/6320

**Allegory and Romance (The Gawain-Poet, Chaucer, Langland, Malory; Classical and Medieval Theories of Allegoresis)

ENGL4323/6323

Chaucer's Earlier Work

ENGL4324/6324

The Canterbury Tales

DIRECTED STUDIES

**Old English Language

GRADUATE SEMINAR

**Romance

GRADUATE SEMINAR

**Power, Patronage, and Authority in Middle English Literature

ENGL6398/6399

Supervision of M.A. Thesis

CF2332

Ancient Institutions

CF2338

Ancient Thought

CF3351

The Pilgrimage

 

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

2008:

Chair, Renaissance Search Committee, LMU Dept. of English

From 2007:

Editorial Board, Marymount Institute Press, LMU

2004-2006:

Board of Directors, Friends of the SMU Libraries/Colophon: Library advocacy and fundraising

2004-2006:

Faculty Representative, SMU Parking Appeals Board (adjudication of student and faculty appeals against parking fines)

2004-2005:

Provost's Teaching Technology Group: evaluation of campus-wide teaching technology resources and faculty grant applications for IT projects

2003-2005:

English Department Ph.D. Program  Committee: development of proposal to implement a Ph.D. program (proposal approved August, 2005)

2003-2004:

English Department Curriculum Review Committee: recommendations for major curricular reform were adopted by the Department

2002-2005:

Dean's Advisory Committee on Promotion to the Rank of Associate Professor, with Tenure

1999-2004:

University Instructional Technology (IT) Committee (Chair, 2002-2004): establishing of University IT course standards, reviewing of new and old courses claiming IT status, administering of waiver exams

1999:

Chair, Faculty Senate Benefits Council: researched and instituted Long Term Care benefit option for all faculty and staff

1997-2005:

Faculty Marshal for SMU Degree Ceremonies

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND CONSULTANCIES

2004:

In-house reviewer in preparation for the 11th edition of Perrine's Sound and Sense, Thomas Wadworth Publishers

From September 2002:

Editor,  The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive,  based at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville

From 1999:

Peer-reviewer for proposals for Norton Critical Editions submitted to W.W. Norton & Co.

Summer, 1998:

Judge, First Annual Norton Scholar's Prize (best college essay on English Literature)

1999-2001:

Co-Sponsor, with Joan Baker, of "Romance Intertext" sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo

1997-1999:

Representative, Division on Middle English Language and Literature, excluding Chaucer, for the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association

From 1996:

Peer-reviewer for essays submitted to the following scholarly journals:

     The Chaucer Review
     JEGP
     The Journal for Maritime Research
     Modern Philology
     Studies in The Age of Chaucer
     The Yearbook of Langland Studies

 

1987-1989:

Freelance etymology and usage researcher for the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK)

1983-1984:

Teaching Assistant in Victorian Literature and Shakespeare, Queen's University

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006:

$6500 from The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (University of Virginia) for purchase of digital images of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104

2005:

Faculty Travel Grant to research bookbindings commissioned c. 1600 by Sir Henry Saville, Eton College Library: $1200

2004:

Decanal nominee, SMU Academy of Distinguished Teachers

2003:

Provostial Teaching Technology Grant: $795 (software site-licence for development of a new course, "Computing in The Humanities")

2002-2003:

SMU student-voted H.O.P.E. (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Teaching Award

2002:

Faculty Travel Grant to record the rubrication of the Winchester Manuscript, British Library: $1000

2001:

One-Semester Faculty Development Leave

1999:

University Research Council Travel Grant (to read a paper at the Early Book Society Conference, Glasgow: $1,250)

1998:

SMU Center for Teaching Excellence Instructional Technology Development Grant ($2,500)

1996:

One-Semester Faculty Research Leave

1995:

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Award (for participation in the 1995 Chaucer/Langland Institute, Boulder, Colorado: $1,000 plus travel and accommodation)

1994:

SMU Faculty Travel Grant (for a U.K. conference paper on The Weddynge of Syr Gawen )

1993:

12-month SMU Faculty Research Leave (includes a research grant calculated as half regular pay)

1992:

Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of America (for research on MS Ashmole 33 [early fifteenth-century] at the Bodleian Library, Oxford: $2,000)

1991:

1] SMU Faculty Travel Grant (for research in the U.K.: $2,000);  2] W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship (for manuscript research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California: $2,300)

1989:

SMU Professional Development Fund Award ($1,500)

1987:

1] Overseas Research Student (ORS) Award (a British award renewable competitively; c.£1,500 per annum); 2] Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Doctoral Fellowship (renewable competitively: $12,000 per annum) (to Spring, 1988)

1986:

1] ORS Award; 2] SSHRCC Fellowship

1985:

1] ORS Award; 2] SSHRCC Fellowship

1984:

ORS Award

1983:

Queen's University Graduate Award ($1,500)

1979:

Ontario Scholar