Name/Degree: Jeffrey Martinek /Ph.D, English
Title/Rank: Dr. /Associate Professor
Office: P 22-4
Phone Number: 6394
Email Address: jmartinek@iwc.edu
Educational Background (degree earned, certifications or other professional designations):
Ph.D in English, Indiana University, 1999
MA in English, Indiana University, 1990
BA in English, University of Pennsylvania, 1987
Courses Taught:
English 101
English 102
English 352 (Shakespeare)
English/Communications 380 (Media Ecology and the Humanities)
Wesleyan Seminar
Areas of Professional interest or research: Early Modern Culture, Media Ecology, Philosophy, Theory, Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, Critical Thinking.
Research and Publications:
PUBLICATIONS:
"An Ebullition of Fancy: Playing the Race Card in Othello," Studies in the Humanities, December 1998
PRESENTATIONS:
“A New Way of Conquering: Julius Caesar, Populism, and the Roman Media Environment” Merton College (UK) Summer Continuing Education Programme, July, 2005
Chair, English Renaissance Literature (Non-Dramatic) Panel, South Central Modern Language Association, November, 2002
“Teaching and Technology: Possibilities and Priorities” Missouri Southern State University Lecture Series, February 22, 2002
“Neo-Luddite in Cyberspace: Using Renaissance Texts to Question Technology in a ‘Wired’ Classroom,” South Central MLA in November, 2000.
“The Father Or Worse: The Fate of the Patriarchal Metaphor in King Lear and The Tempest,” delivered at the Central Renaissance Conference, Kansas City MO, April 1998
"An Ebullition of Fancy: Playing the Race Card in Othello," delivered at the Midwest MLA Regional Conference in November, 1996
"Debt, Redemption, and the 'Virtual Game' of Politics in Shakespeare's Second Henriad, "delivered at the Central Renaissance Conference, St. Louis, April, 1994
Professional Memberships:
Modern Language Association
Campus Involvement (committees chaired, organizations advised, etc.):
Director, First Year Writing Program
Forum Committee
Technology Committee
Website Committee
Office hours:
MWF 10-11 am, 3-5pm and by appointment
