Robert Schichler, Ph.D., Professor, English

Contact Information:
Phone:  870.972.2243
Office:  Wilson Hall 305
Email: rschich@astate.edu

 

 

 

Education:
B.A. English, SUNY-Geneseo, 1974
M.A. English, SUNY-Geneseo, 1978
Ph.D. English, Binghamton University, 1987

Specialties:
Medieval Studies, Old and Middle English Literature, Medieval Latin, the Old Norse Saga, British Romantic Poetry, Beowulf, Dante, Chaucer, Blake, Lawrence and Huxley

Courses Regularly Taught:
Medieval Literature
British Literature to 1800
British Novel
Introduction to Poetry and Drama
Romantic Literature
Topics in British Literature
British Authors through the Renaissance
British Authors from the Renaissance through the Romantic Period
British Authors since the Romantic Period

Research:
Editor, "Abstracts of Papers in Anglo-Saxon Studies." An annual feature published for the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association of America, in the journal Old English Newsletter. Vols. 20-36 (1986-2003).

"Heorot and Dragon-Slaying in Beowulf." Proceedings of the Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Conference 11 (1986): 159-75.

Assistant Editor, Mediaevalia. A Special Issue: Ovid in Medieval Culture. Vol. 13 (1989, for 1987).

"Buffalo Bull." Viet Nam Generation 3.4 (1992): 41-45.

"As Whiteness Fades to Fallow: Riding into Time in Beowulf." In Geardagum 14 (1993): 13-25.

King of the Once Wild Frontier: Reflections of a Canal Walker. Rochester, NY, 1993.

Editor, Lady in Waiting: Poems in English and Spanish, by M. H. Rojas. Rochester, NY, 1994.

"Glæd Man at Heorot: Beowulf and the Anglo-Saxon Psalter." Leeds Studies in English 27 (1996): 49-68.

"Understanding the Outsider: Grendel, Geisel, and the Grinch." Popular Culture Review 11.1 (2000): 99-105.

"From 'Whale-Road' to 'Gannet's Bath ': Images of Foreign Relations and Exchange in Beowulf." Reading Medieval Studies 28 (2002): 59-86.

"Ending on a Giant Theme: The Utrecht and Harley Psalters, and the Pointed-Helmet Coinage of Cnut." Intertexts: Studies in Early Insular Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach. Ed. Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck. Tempe, AZ, 2008. 241-54.

Current Project:
I am continuing my investigation of the interrelationship of literature, representational art, and coinage in England and Scandinavia during the reigns of Cnut, Harold I, and Harthacnut.

I am also examining the appearance and treatment of biblical and apocryphal themes in the works of D. H. Lawrence.

Honors/Awards:
Arkansas State University Faculty Award for Scholarship, 1993-1994

"Pick of the Month" in Small Press Review, June 1994: Lady in Waiting