Jonathan Carlyle Glance

Department of English 320 Hines Terrace
Mercer University Macon, GA 31204
Macon, GA 31207 (478) 744-9756
(478) 301-2587
E-mail: Glance_JC@Mercer.edu

Degrees Earned:

• Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1991.
  Major: Nineteenth Century English Literature
  Minor: Medieval English Literature
  Dissertation: "Gates of Horn: The Function of Dreams in Nineteenth-Century British Prose Fiction."
  Dissertation Director: Allan Life.
• M.A., English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 1986.
  Thesis: "A History and Reading of Swinburne's 'Anactoria.'"
• B.A., English, cum laude, Davidson College, May 1983.
  Honors Thesis: "'Thise olde folk kan muchel thyng': A Jungian Analysis of Three Breton Lais."

Presentations:

• "New Media as Cognitive Tools: Technology's Role in Deepening Student Engagement." Conference on Technology, Learning and Intellectual Development, Association of American Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 31 October, 2003.
• "The Design of Understanding: The Promise of Deepening Student Engagement and Learning through New Media Applications." Association of American Colleges and Universities conference. Seattle, Washington. 25 January, 2003.
• "Web Content and Multimedia for English Majors." Teaching, Learning and Technology Showcase Series. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. 8 April, 2003.
• Chair, "Holiness and Repentance." Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. 11 April, 2003.
• "Strategies for Involving Students with Technology." Center for Teaching and Learning Summer Technology Institute. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. 15 May, 2003.
• "Revelation, Nonsense or Dyspepsia: Victorian Dream Theories." Victorian Nocturnes: The Northeast Victorian Studies Association Annual Meeting. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. 29 April, 2001.
• Chair, "Du Bois in the Core Curriculum," W.E.B. Du Bois symposium. Mercer University, Macon, Georgia. 23 March, 2000.
• "'The insanity of each day's sanity': Dickens and Victorian Dream Theories." Dickens Society Conference. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. 7 November, 1999.
• "Symbol of Progress and Loss: The Railroad and Charles Dickens." Popular Culture Association conference. Orlando, Florida. April 8-11, 1998.
• "Lewis's Raymond and Agnes: Staging a Subplot of The Monk." Popular Culture Association conference. San Antonio, Texas. March 26-29, 1997.
• "Everyday Lives, Every Night: Victorian Culture and Popular Dream Theory." Ordinary People: Everyday Lives. The 19th Century Studies Association Conference. Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. March 20-22, 1997.
• "'Stage Trick and Scenery': Spectacle in Matthew Lewis's Gothic Melodramas." The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference. Dallas, Texas. October 5-8, 1995.
• "Subverting the Subversive: Three Gothic Parody Novels." The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference. Rochester, New York. November 4-6, 1994.
• "Visions of Terror: The Dreams in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." International Conference on the Hideous and the Sublime. Atlanta, Georgia. November 10-13, 1994.
• "'Fitting the Taste of the Audience Like a Glove': Matthew Lewis's Supernatural Drama." Modern Language Association conference. Toronto, Canada. December 27-30, 1993.
• "Ann Radcliffe, the Supernatural, and the Science of the Mind." The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, October 8-10, 1993.
• "'Beyond the Usual Bounds of Reverie'? Another Look at the Dreams in Frankenstein." Modern Language Association conference. New York, New York. December 27-30, 1992.
• "Re-examining Dreams in In Memoriam." The Victorians Institute conference. Charleston, South Carolina. October 2-3, 1992.
• "Victorian Dream Studies." Popular Culture Association conference. Louisville, Kentucky. March 18-21, 1992.
• "The Historical and Literary Contexts of Lockwood's Dreams in Wuthering Heights." Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. October 19-20, 1991.
• "The Function of the Man-Trap in Hardy's The Woodlanders." Association of Graduate English Students Speakers' Forum. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. April 19, 1990.
• "Occultatio and Occupatio in Chaucer's House of Fame." Medieval Renaissance Conference. Clinch Valley College, Wise, Virginia. September 21-23, 1989.

Publications:

• "'Beyond the Usual Bounds of Reverie'? Another Look at the Dreams in Frankenstein." The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 7.4 (1996): 30-47.
• "Ambiguity and the Dreams in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner." Studies in Scottish Literature 28 (1995): 165-177.
• Review of Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious, by Ronald R. Thomas. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990. Configurations: A Journal for Studies in Literature, Science, and Technology 1.2 (1993): 276-279.
• "An Arabian Allusion in Irving's 'Wolfert Webber or Golden Dreams.'" The Explicator 50.1 (1991): 13-14.
• "The Problem of the Man-Trap in Hardy's The Woodlanders." Victorian Newsletter No. 78 (Fall 1990): 26-29.

Internet Publications:

• Mercer University Department of English Home Page.
  1997-present
• Mercer University First Year Seminar Home Page.
  2000-present
• Mercer University Honor Council Home Page.
  2002-present
• Mercer University Women and Gender Studies Home Page.
  2004
• Georgia Poetry Circuit Home Page.
  2001-present

Academic Awards & Service:

• Mercer University, Director of First Year Seminar, 2004
• Mercer University, Chair, The Faculty Liaison Committee on the Honor System, 2001-present
• Mercer University, College of Liberal Arts Ad Hoc Technology Committee, 2002-present
• Mercer University, Scholarship Committee, 1998-2000
• Included in Who's Who of American Teachers, 2000 edition
• Mercer University Task Force on Classroom Space Utilization, 2000
• English Department, Senior Comprehensive Examination Director, 1997-present.
• Mercer University, CLA representative to Instructional Technology Committee for Macon Undergraduates, 1999
• Mercer University, School of Education Professional Standards Commission Re-Accreditation Committee, 1998
• Mercer University, College of Liberal Arts Secretary, 1997-98.
• Mercer University Task Force on Information Technology, 1998.
• Mercer University House of Delegates Alternate, 1997-98.
• Mercer University General Education Special Committee, 1995-97.
• Mercer University Freshman Seminar Committee, 1996-present.
• Mercer University Honor Council Committee, 1994-1998.
• Chair, Mercer University Honor Council Selection Subcommittee, 1995.
• Mercer University Publications Board, 1993-95.
• Departmental Assessment Committee, Mercer University, 1993-94.
• Chair, Departmental Computer Resources and Needs committee, 1994-95.
• Senior Comprehensive Exam committee, Mercer University, 1993-96.
• Honors Thesis committee, Emory University, 1991-92.
• Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990.
• English Department Senator to the University of North Carolina Graduate and Professional Student Federation, 1990-91.

Community Membership & Service:

• Georgia Board to Determine Fitness of Bar Applicants, 2004.
• Miller Core Knowledge Middle School, School Council, 2003-present.
• Member of Northminster Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 1994-present.
• Church Elder, 1996-1998.
• Christian Education Committee, 1995-2000.
• Curriculum Review Subcommittee, Christian Education Committee, 1995-2000.
• Fellowship Committee, 1994-1995
• Sunday School Teacher, 1994-present.

Teaching Experience:

Mercer University, 1992-present. Associate Professor

• First Year Seminar (FYS 101 and 102)
• The Freshman Experience (University 101)
• Freshman Writing (English 108)
• Writing About Literature (English 109)
• Intermediate Essay Writing (English 200)
• The Study of Fiction (English 234)
• Dickens: Works and World (English 236-The Study of a Literary Theme)
• Gothic Fiction and Film (English 236-The Study of a Literary Theme)
• Gothic Literature (English 236-The Study of a Literary Theme)
• British Literature Survey-Beginnings to Eighteenth Century (English 263)
• British Literature Survey-Romantics to Present (English 264)
• Chaucer (English 330)
• Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement (English 347)
• Victorian Poetry and Prose (English 348)
• The English Novel (English 349)
• Romanticism in American Literature (English 352)
• Gothic in Fiction and Film (English 380-Special Topics in English)
• Web Design for Humanities Students (English 380-Special Topics in English)
• Dickens (English 480-Seminar in Literature)
• The Gothic Novel: 1764 to Present (English 480-Seminar in Literature)
• Web Design for English Majors (English 480-Seminar)
• Romanticism and Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (Great Books 451)

Emory University, 1991-92. Visiting Assistant Professor

• Introduction to Literature (English 110)
• The English Romantic Novel (English 335)
• Dreams in Nineteenth-Century Novels (English 389-Special Studies Course)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986-91. Fully responsible for preparing, teaching and grading the following courses:

• American Literature, Beginning to 1950 (English 22)
• Introduction to Fiction (English 23)
• Advanced Composition (English 30)
• Argument and Rhetoric (English 2, 2A)
• Introduction to Composition (English 1)

Languages:

Reading knowledge of French, Latin, Spanish, and Old English.

Professional Organizations. Affiliations have included:

• Association of American Colleges and Universities
• Northeastern Victorian Studies Association
• Modern Language Association
• 19th Century Studies Association
• The Victorian Institute
• Popular Culture Association
• The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies