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Visiting Associate Professor of English

• Office: Sitterly House 303
• Campus Extension: 3344
• Email:  mfoys@drew.edu

Education and Degrees:   B.A., Drew University (1990); M.A., Ph.D Loyola University Chicago (1993, 1998)

Arrived at Drew: 2008

Areas of Specialization: Old & Middle English literature; critical theory, New Media studies, digital scholarship

Courses taught:  ENGL 21B, RYEO (Medieval); ENGL 121 Literary Theory and Practice;  ENGL 127 / Approaches to Literature: King Arthur, Then and Now; ENGL 126: 1066 And All That: Medieval Conquest in Literature, Art, and Film; ENGL 170: Chaucer, ENGL 140: Digital Narratives

Current Research Interests:
• The intersection of medieval studies and media studies
• Media ecology/archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
• Medieval maps – nature and function
• Historiographic treatments of both the death and survival of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.
• Chaucer and the Jewish communities of London

Fun Fact: WFTDA-certified referee (Level 2) for Gotham Girls Roller Derby

Recent Publications:
Virtually Anglo-Saxon: New Media, Old Media, and Early Medieval Studies in the Late Age of Print. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida), 2007 (290pp).
    * 2008 Finalist for the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize, awarded Honorable Mention
    * 2007 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Book Publication Prize

The Digital Edition of the Bayeux Tapestry (Woodbridge/Leicester: Boydell & Brewer/SDE), 2003 [CD-ROM].
    * 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
    * 2005 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists [ISAS] Best Edition Publication Prize

"Transmediating the Book through Beowulf and Samuel Pepys” Essays and Studies -- Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts ed. Elaine Treharne  (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer), forthcoming, 2010.

"Pulling the Arrow Out: The Legend of Harold's Death and the Bayeux Tapestry" The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer), forthcoming 2009.

"An Unfinished Mappamundi from Late Eleventh-Century Worcester: CCCC 265 and the Evidence for a Family of Late Anglo-Saxon Maps." Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006): 271-284.

"The Virtual Reality of the Anglo-Saxon Mappamundi." Literature Compass 1 (Blackwell) (2004): ME 016, 1-14.

On Teaching:  "Classes that aren’t conversations are usually boring."