William Marderness

Job Title: Full-Time Lecturer

Phone: (631) 632-3253

E-mail: wmardern@ms.cc.sunysb.edu

Office Location:Hum. 2044

Office Hours

Education: Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts, English (Comparative Literature), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 2001 Master of Arts, Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, 1993 Master of Arts, Bachelor of Arts, English, English, California State University at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1991, 1989

Courses Taught: Advanced Analytical and Argumentative Writing (Writing 381; one course) The Bible as Literature (English 261; one course) Christianity (Religious Studies 270; ten courses) Intermediate Writing A (Writing 102; thirty-seven courses) Intermediate Writing B (Writing 103; one course) Introduction to the Writing Process (English Composition 100; two courses) Introductory Writing (Writing 101; twenty-seven courses) Literary Analysis and Argumentation (English 204; one course) Mythology in Literature (English 260; one course) Writing Workshop (English Composition 101; two courses)

Professional Interests: Classical rhetoric and literature, composition, literary theory, mythology

Presentations:

• “Barthes’s Myth as a Comprehensive Vision.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, London, England, June 5, 2009.
  
  
• “Does Bultmann Demythologize or Remythicize?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, Boston, November 25, 2008.
  
  
• “What Is Cliché?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the SUNY Council on Writing, Stony Brook, New York, April 26, 2008.
  
  
• “Chinese/American Autobiographical Identities.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 28, 2007.
  
  
• “Chinese Layered Narrative in the American Classroom?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, 21 March 2007.
  
  
• “Reading the Narrative Between Arts/Media/Politics.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Freiburg, Germany, 8 June 2006.
  
  
• “Informal Writing, Creative Thinking.” Paper presented at “Getting to ‘Aha!’: Teaching Creativity at SUNY, A SUNY Faculty Conference,” New York, 31 March 2006.
  
  
• “Literacy and Pedagogical Strategies: 1876–1929.” Session chaired at the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, 23 March 2006.
  
  
• “Obedience of Faith: The Intersection of Grace and Law in Paul’s Letters.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Helsinki, Finland, 6 June 2005.
  
  
• “Heaven and Hell Re-mythicized.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, 21 May 2004.
  
  
• “Longinus’s Sublime: The Representation of the Numinous.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, England, 27 May 2003.
  
  
• “Between History and Legend: The Mirabal Sisters of Julia Alvarez.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 4 June 2002.
  
  
• “Repeatable Beginnings: Eliade’s Myth as a Semiological System.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Atlanta, 2 May 2001.

Publications:

• How to Read a Myth. Series in Philosophy and Literary Theory. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, Humanity Books, 2009.
  
  
• Review of Between Woman, Man and God: A New Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, by Hagith Sivan. Review of Biblical Literature (November 2008). http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4509_5938.pdf.
  
  
• “Edgar Rice Burroughs.” In Facts on File, Bibliography of American Fiction: 1919–1988, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 1991.