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Dr. Benita Muth
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| Courses: | Graduate Courses: Technical Writing in the Digital Age (English 5106) Theory and Practice in Editing and Style (English 5650) Undergraduate Courses: Shakespeare (English 4100) Milton (English 4200) 17th Century Poetry and Poetics (English 4130) Introduction to Professional Writing (Professional Writing 3160) Mythology and Folklore for Literary Studies (English 3120) Introduction to Literary Studies (English 3010) British Literature I (English 2121) World Literature I (English 2111) World Literature II (English 2112) Composition and Rhetoric (English 1101) Composition and Literature (English 1102) Honors World Literature I (English 2111H) Honors Composition and Literature (English 1102H) USG Goes Global Courses: (2026) Legendary Ireland: Myth and Lore in Irish Literature (lower level) (2026) Eerie Ireland: Gothic and the Supernatural in Irish Literature (upper level) (2025) Fairyland and Beyond: The Fantasy Worlds of Scottish Writers (lower level) (2025) The Devil Went Down to Scotland: Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scottish Literature (upper level) |
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| Education: | Ph.D. in English Literature: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MA in English Literature: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BA in English Literature: University of the South (Sewanee) magna cum laude British Studies at Oxford Study Abroad |
| CV: | As an intertextual critic, I have broad research interests in British literature, with a primary emphasis on early modern drama and poetry; secondary emphasis in Scottish literature; and work in the scholarship of teaching and learning focused on effective graduate curriculum development and scheduling. Please see my courses and publications for specific examples. |
| Professional Experience: | Middle Georgia State University; Professor, 2018 - present; Associate Professor 2013- 2018 Department Chair: 2022-2025 Coordinator of Graduate Writing Programs: 2019-2022 Macon State College; Macon, Georgia Associate Professor, 2012-2013; Assistant Professor, 2007-2012. Wesleyan College; Macon, Georgia: Instructor. Westminster College; New Wilmington, Pennsylvania: Instructor. Tennessee Wesleyan College; Athens, Tennessee Assistant Professor. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Teaching Fellow. |
| Awards and Honors: | Middle Georgia State University Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2017-2018 The National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award; 2017. School of Liberal Arts Award for Outstanding Teaching; 2014 USG European Council Study Abroad Faculty, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 “Pedagogy in Literature” Award, from Conference of College Teachers of English for “Reuniting Renaissance Drama: Teaching Shakespeare with his Contemporaries.” 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Order of the Gown, University of the South: Sewanee |
| Publications: | Publications: “Paradise Retold: Lewis’ Reimaging of Milton.” Mytholore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 37: No. 1, Article 3. 2018: 23-44 “Few Return to the Sunlit Lands: Lewis’s Classical Underworld in The Silver Chair.” Inklings Forever 8 [i/] (2012): 152-158. “Sir Thomas Browne, Screwtape, and the ‘Amphibians’ of Narnia.” In Christianity and Literature 59.4 (2010): 645-663. “Reuniting Renaissance Drama: Teaching Shakespeare with his Contemporaries.” In CCTE Studies 73 (2008): 35-42. “Dorinda’s Rejection of Love.” In Regarding Ellen Glasgow. Ed. By Welford Dunaway Taylor and George C. Longest. Virginia State Library and Archives, 2002. “The Instruments in the Symphony Orchestra.” With Louis D. Rubin. In A Writer’s Companion. Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Representative Presentations: “The Shadow of Mary and the Precariousness of Kingship in Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear” Medieval-Renaissance Conference 36. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Wise, Virginia. September 21, 2024 “Promoting Graduate Student Progression through Scheduling.” Panelist: “Designing Graduate Programs for Accessibility, Student Success, and Progressive Attainment”: Panelist: The Graduate School Exerience. Ashville, North Carolina. March 25-27, 2024. “Flexible Course Scheduling.” Panel: “Empowering the Professional Pivot: Modular Graduate Programs in the Professional Liberal Arts” SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia. November 11, 2023. “Rizzio in Scotland: Renaissance Courtier and Renaissance Queen in Hogg, Doyle, and Mina.” Medieval-Renaissance Conference 35. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Wise, Virginia. September 23, 2023. “’The fit is momentary:’ Perceptions of Epilepsy in Othello, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.” Medieval-Renaissance Conference 34. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Wise, Virginia. September 16, 2022. “Claudio’s Uncle in Messina: Complex Kinship in Much Ado About Nothing.” Medieval-Renaissance Conference 33. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Wise, Virginia. September 26-28, 2021. “Teaching Measure for Measure and The Tempest in the Age of #MeToo.” Medieval-Renaissance Conference 33. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Wise, Virgnia. September 27, 2019. |
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