Email
darienl@hartwick.edu
Phone Number
607-431-4651 Department
English Areas of Expertise
Old English and Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, Beowulf, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture, Middle English and Chaucer, women in the middle Ages, nineteenth-century medievalism
Education
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley Lisa Darien
Associate Professor of English
Recent courses taught:
- Fury of the Northmen
- Classical Mythology
- Old English
- First-Year Seminar: Sympathy for the Devil: the Diabolic in Literature and Film
- Senior Seminar: Anglo-Scandinavian England
Distinctions (awards, fellowships, and grants):
- Winifred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence
- NEH Summer Institute in Cambridge (UK), “Anglo-Saxon England”
- National Humanities Center Summer Institute, “Chaucer, Past, Present, and Future”
- Center for Hellenic Studies and CIC Institute, “Homer and Hesiod”
Selected publications:
- “Bridging the Gap: Getting Medieval at the Small Liberal Arts College.” SMART: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching2 (2007): 89-106.
College service and professional affiliations:
- Former Chair of Department of English and Theatre Arts
- Mellon First-Year Experience Project
- Faculty Mentor to various student research projects and presentations including: Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Moravian College (2015, 2012); Duffy Family Ambassador Scholar Lynda Birt: “Topography of the Icelandic Sagas” (Iceland, 2015); Student Showcase Presentations and Posters; Freedman Prize in Theatre Arts (2014, 2013, 2009)