Faculty
Benjamin Waller
Assistant Professor of English
Office: McCormick 02C
Phone: 402-461-7353
Education
Benjamin Waller
Assistant Professor of English
Office: McCormick 02C
Phone: 402-461-7353
Education
- Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in Medieval Literature, University of Oregon, 2012 (anticipated)
- M.A. in English, California State University at Sacramento, 2004
- B.A. in Linguistics, University of California at Davis, 2000
- Medieval Literature and Culture
- Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
- Church History
- Monasticism
- Myth
- Genre
- Parody & Satire
- Apocalypticism
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Comics & Graphic Novels, Superheroes
- Metaphor
- Space
- Hastings College, Assistant Professor of English, 2008-2011
- English 100: Composition
- English 110: Introduction to Literature
- English 200: Literature of the Western World
- English 217: SuperPsychology: Heroes, Villains and Their Fans
- English 301: Survey of British Literature, 731-1700
- English 344: Writing Literary Criticism
- English 400: Senior Seminar: Arthurian Literature
- Hastings College, Visiting Instructor of English, 2007-2008
- English 100: Composition
- English 110: Introduction to Literature
- English 301: Survey of British Literature, 731-1700
- English 356: Comics and the Graphic Novel
- English 370: Directed Study in the Graphic Novel
- University of Oregon, Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2005-2007
- Writing 121: College Composition I
- Writing 122: College Composition II
- English 221: Introduction to the English Major II: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (discussion leader)
- Division Secretary: Humanities Division, Hastings College, Fall 2009-
- Department Secretary: English Department, Hastings College, Fall 2009-
- Committee Secretary: Committee for Human Subjects Research, Hastings College, Fall 2009-
- Co-Sponsor: Sigma Tau Delta, Hastings College, Fall 2009-
- Search Committee Member: Department of Languages and Literatures, Hastings College, Fall 2009
- Mentor: Victor Short, Langvardt lecture, Hastings College, Fall 2009
- Mentor: Katrina Larsen, Langvardt lecture, Hastings College, Spring 2008
- Search Committee Member: Department of English, Hastings College, Fall 2007
- Directed Study Instructor: The Graphic Novel, Hastings College, Fall 2007
- Medieval Academy of America
- Modern Language Association
- Guest Instructor: Nebraska Young Scholars, July 2009
- Invited Lecture: “Wandering the Self: Personal Spaces in the Old English Wanderer,” English Forum, Hastings College, April 2009
- Assistant Editor: Free Speech: A Casebook for Writers, University of Oregon, 2008
- Paper Presentation: “Parody and the Apocalypse: A Generic Analysis of the Apocalypsis Goliae,” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007
- Panel Speaker: “Student Conferences,” Fall 2006 Composition Conference, University of Oregon
- Research Assistant: University Archives at the University of Oregon Special Collections Library, 2004-05
- Graduate School Research Award, University of Oregon, 2006
- Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2005-07
- Dominic J. Bazzanella Literary Awards, CSUS, 2003, second place in critical analysis: “In Possession of Ashes: Byatt’s Romance and the Ygdrassil Myth”
- Old English
- Middle English
- French
- Latin
- Ancient Greek
