Academics
Carla A. Arnell
Associate Professor
English Department
Phone 847-735-5272
E-mail arnell@lakeforest.edu
Specialization
Classical and Medieval Literature
History of the British Novel
Genre Theory
Interests
Medievalism in British Literature; Medieval Women Mystics; Religion and Contemporary Fiction; Literature and Ethics; the Oxford Inklings
Education
Ph.D. in English, Northwestern University
M.A. in English, Northwestern University
A.B. in English and Classics, summa cum laude, Augustana College (Rock Island, IL)
Courses Taught
English 100: English Composition
English 110: Introduction to Literature
English 210: Ancient and Medieval Literature
English 211: Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Literature
English 235: Creative Writing
English 300: Medieval Studies - Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
English 300: Medieval Studies - The Arthurian Tradition
English 306: The English Novel
First-Year Studies 179: Representations of Justice in Literature
Articles
"From the Internet Age to the Middle Ages: The Medieval Courtly Love Tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and The.Powerbook" has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Studies in Medievalism.
"Wild Writing: Holy Stigmata and the Aesthetics of Sacred Pain in Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy" will appear in a forthcoming issue of the journal Christianity and Literature.
"Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: Tale Telling and the Trial of Personal Experience and Written Authority in Fowles's Maggot." Modern Language Review 102.4 (October 2007).
"Earthly Men and Otherworldly Women: Gender Types and Religious Types in Jeanette Winterson's 'Atlantic Crossing' and Other Short Fiction." Journal of the Short Story in English 45 (February 2006).
"So Familiar, Yet So Strange: Mythic Fragments of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Iris Murdoch's Green Knight." Mythlore 24.93 (2004).
"On Beauty, Justice, and the Sublime in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces," Christianity and Literature, Autumn 2002 (Volume 52, Number 1).
"Myth, History, and Medievalism in John Fowles Maggot." Mythes, Croyances et Religions 18 (2000): 61-73.
"Romancing the Stone: Mysticism as a Guide to Moral Reflection in Iris Murdoch's Green Knight." Studia Mystica 21 (2000): 126-149.
Invited Talks
"From the Middle Ages to the Internet Age: The Medieval Courtly Love Tradition in Jeanette Winterson's The.Powerbook." The Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Medievalism, The University of Northern Iowa, October 2002.
"The River and the Stone: Religious Action and Imagery in Joy Kogawa's Obasan," Forty-Third Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2001.
"On Beauty, Justice, and the Sublime in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., December 2000.
"'Trust me. I'm telling you stories': Faith, Doubt, and the Problems of Storytelling in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion," Forty-First Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1999.
"Vital Symmetries and Fruitful Branchings: Tracing Perceval's Romance in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit," Thirty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999.
"So Familiar, Yet So Strange: Reconfiguring Medieval Romance in Iris Murdoch's Green Knight," Thirty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1998.
Popular Work
Keynote Address, NU Directions Conference for Graduate Students. Northwestern University. November 18, 2006.
"Why Johnny Isn't Reading--or Is He?". Letter to the Editor. The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 10, 2004.
"Saving Quotes to Live By." Letter to the Editor. The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 22, 2001.
Awards and Honors
William Dunn Award for outstanding teaching and scholarly promise. Lake Forest College. Spring 2007.
Lake Forest College Hotchkiss Fellowship. Competitive one-semester leave awarded for teaching excellence and scholarly promise. Fall 2006.
Augustana College Research Foundation Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research. Senior Thesis on "The Use and Abuse of Old Women in Aristophanic Comedy." November 1991.
Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Chapter of Illinois, Augustana College, April 1991.