Liam O. Purdon
Professor of English
PhD, Rice University
Communications 27
Doane College
Crete, NE 68333
(402)-826-8276
liam.purdon@doane.edu
Most important for me in the classroom is getting my students to think cogently and to express themselves clearly and convincingly in response to literary art. My primary interests are medieval literature, postmodern anarchism theory and application, and the history of European nations in the Caribbean.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Courses
Chaucer and the English Language (English 393), Shakespeare (English 392), Introduction to Fiction (English 237), The Writing Seminar (English 101), The Senior Seminar (English 495)
______________________________________________________________________________
Selected Publications
• Co-authored with Julian N. Wasserman, "Sir Guido and the Green Light: Confession in Sir Gawain and Inferno XXVII," Neophilologus 84 (2000): 647-66.
• "The Rite of Vassalage in Havelok the Dane," Medievalia et Humanistica 20 (1993): 25-39.
• "The Pardoner=s Old Man and the Second Death," Studies in Philology 89:3 (1992): 334-49.
• The Wakefield Master=s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
• Co-edited with Cindy Vitto, The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.