Stephen Robert Slimp
5500 30th Place
Meridian, MS 39305
(601) 482-8731
Education:December, 1995: PhD. In English, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. (Dissertation: Samuel Johnson’s Christian Humanist
Poetry).
December, 1987: M.A. in English, BaylorUniversity. (Thesis:
Moral Character and the Importance of the Political Hero in the
Writings of Edmund Burke).
May, 1985: B.A. in English, University of South Carolina
(Columbia).
Awards:May, 2008: William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching,
University of WestAlabama
March, 2003 , University of WestAlabama
October, 2002: University Research Grant for $1000 for access to Chadwyck-Healey’s on-line database of the Patrologia Latina.
May, 1999: William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching,
University of WestAlabama.
December, 1996: , The University of West Alabama
May, 1995: Dissertation Fellowship, The GraduateSchool, The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
May, 1985: Graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Honors
College, University of South Carolina.
April, 1985: George A. Wauchope Award for English, University
Of South Carolina.
April, 1984: ; W. Gordon Belser Prize for English,
University of South Carolina.
Teaching1995-Present: Tenured Professor of English, The
Experience:University of WestAlabama. (Full responsibility for four
undergraduate and graduate courses per semester of
seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English literature, Shakespeare, Introduction to Literary Research, Introduction to Literature, andFreshman Composition, both in the general curriculum and theHonors Program.)
2000-Present: Adjunct Instructor of English, Mississippi State University-Meridian. (Full responsibility for one course per semester of upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare, Chaucer, and English literature from 1485-1832, seventeenth-century English literature, and Milton.)
1989-1994: Instructor of Freshman Composition and literature,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Full responsibility
for the complete range of Freshman Composition courses, from
Basic Writing through Advanced Expository Composition. Leader
of discussion sections in Shakespeare, with full responsibility for
grading and partial responsibility for composition of tests, quizzes
and paper assignments.)
1987-1989: Instructor in English composition, conversation, and
literature, Baiko Jo Gakuin College, Shimonoseki, Japan. (Full
responsibility, from designing to conducting all courses taught.)
1986-1987: Instructor of Freshman Composition, Baylor
University Department of English. (Partial responsibility for
designing, full responsibility for conducting each course taught.)
1985-1986: Tutor in the WritingCenter, BaylorUniversity
Department of English. (Lent support to instructors of
composition courses through individual tutorials on all aspects of
composition.)
Related Director of the Honors Program at The University of
Experience:West Alabama (2000-08); Chairman of the Lorraine McIlwain
Bell Trustee Professorship Selection Committee (1995-96; 1998-
2000); Member of the Department of Marketing and
Management Sciences Search Committee (1996-97); Member of
the Written English Proficiency Committee (1996-present);
English Majors Recruitment Committee (1996-present); Faculty
Release Time Policy Review Committee (1997); SACS Reaccreditation Steering Committee (2000-2002); Chair, SACS Faculty Committee (2000-2002); College of Education College Review Group (2001-2002); College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Review Group (2002-3); Department of Mathematics Search Committee (2002); College of Liberal Arts Academic Council (2004-2008); Univeristy Academic Integrity Committee (2009-present).
1991: Member of the Freshman Composition Committee,
Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
Papers and With John Cunningham, “The Less into the Greater: Emblem, Publications: Analogue, and Deification in The Merchant of Venice.” InThe
Merchant of Venice: New Critical Essays, ed. John W. Mahon and Ellen Macleod Mahon. New York: Routledge: 2002: 225-82.
“Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’” The Explicator 57 (Spring 1999): 179-81. Reprinted in Kirzner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, compact edition, 5th edition, New York: Thomson Wadsworth, 2004.
“A Poet’s Apprenticeship: Samuel Johnson’s School Translations.”
The Age of Johnson 9 (1998): 109-32.
“Sight and Insight: Irony in E.A. Robinson’s ‘Isaac and Archibald.’” Baiko Studies in English Literature 24 (1987):
141-48.
With Professor Mark Griffith, “Plato and Homer: Teaching Honors from Different Perspectives.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Memphis, TN, 18 April 2009.
“Substance and Accidents in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Man Is Hard to Find.’” Presented at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Covenant College, Chattanooga, TN 4 April 2009.
“Augustine and Milton: Images of the Trinity.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, Itta Bena, Mississippi, January 2005.
“Epistemology in Paradise Lost: Milton and Thomas.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Philological Association, Columbus, Mississippi, January 2004.
“Tragedy into Comedy: Homer and Shakespeare.” Presented
at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association,
TennesseeTechnicalUniversity, February 2000.
“Freedom and Constraint in Robert Herrick’s Hesperides”
presented at the Southern Conference on British Studies,
Birmingham, AL, November 19, 1998.
“The Textual Background of Burke’s Defense of the People of
India.” Presented at the 1994 BaylorUniversity Literary and
Academic Conference, BaylorUniversity, Feb. 13, 1994.
Languages:Latin, Greek, Old English, Spanish, German
References:Professor Christopher Armitage
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
(919) 962-4047
Professor Joe Taylor
Department of Languages and Literature
University of WestAlabama
Livingston, AL 35470
(205) 652-3470
Professor Dennis Mitchell, Chair
Division of Arts and Sciences
Mississippi State University-Meridian
1000 Highway 19 North
Meridian, MS 39307