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Degree Major Emphasis Institution Year
Ph.D. English Baylor University 2004
M.A. English Baylor University 1999
B.A. English LeTourneau University 1997

鈥辞尘辫辞蝉颈迟颈辞苍
鈥ntermediate Composition
鈥ritish Literature to 1750 (Survey I)
鈥�17th Century British Literature
鈥�18th and 19th Century British Poetry
鈥ritish Novel to 1900
鈥hakespeare Studies
鈥ajor Authors: Medieval
鈥.S. Lewis & Inklings
鈥esearch Seminar
鈥ritish Literature Seminar
鈥he English Epic
鈥riting in Context

鈥enaissance British literature (16th and 17th centuries)
鈥nglo-Saxon literature
鈥.S. Lewis

鈥djunct Instructor, McLennan Community College, Waco, Texas, Summers 2002 & 2003. Taught "American Literature I," "Basic Grammar and Composition I," and "Freshman English II."
鈥raduate Student Instructor, Baylor University, Fall 1998 - Spring 2004. Taught "Thinking and Writing," "Thinking, Writing, and Research," and British Literature Survey.

PUBLICATIONS:
"Skilled at Delay: George Herbert's 'Justice (1).'" The Explicator Journal (1 Sept 2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2023.2253554

"Finding Wisdom: George Herbert's Response to Proverbs 9 in 'Church-musick,' 'Christmas,' and 'Love' (III)." George Herbert Journal 35.1-2 (Fall 2011-Spring 2012): 82-96. [pub. 2014]

鈥淕eorge Herbert鈥檚 鈥楥lasping of Hands.鈥欌�� The Explicator Journal 71.3 (2013): 169-72.

鈥溾�楽how that thy brests can not be dry鈥�: Unsatisfied Longing in George Herbert鈥檚 Nursing Mother and Child Imagery.鈥� George Herbert Journal 34.1-2 (Fall 2010-Spring 2011): 34-54.

鈥淭he Providential Detective in Mary Elizabeth Braddon鈥檚 Lady Audley鈥檚 Secret.鈥� Literature and Belief 33.1 (Spring 2013): 1-21.

鈥溾�楽omething Understood鈥�: Sacramental Imagination and the Communion of Saints in the Fantasy of Chesterton, Lewis, and Rowling.鈥� In Pursuit of Truth: A Journal of Christian Scholarship. 9 Feb. 2011. Web. http://www.cslewis.org/journal/author/jennifer-newton/

PRESENTATIONS:
鈥淐leaning the House of the Soul: George Herbert鈥檚 Latin Poem 鈥楳artha: Mary鈥� in Theological and Literary Context.鈥� Texas Medieval Association. Denton, TX. 4 October 2014.

"Teaching the 4 Cardinal Virtues Through Edmund Spenser's Britomart in the Faerie Queene." SW Conference on Christianity & Literature. Houston Baptist University. Houston, TX. 21 Sept 2013.

鈥淭he Divine Wisdom Narrative from Proverbs Seen in Three Poems from Herbert鈥檚 The Temple.鈥� Herbert in Charleston Conference. George Herbert Society. Charleston, SC. 8 March 2013.

鈥溾�楢t first thou gav鈥檚t me milk鈥�: Images of Maternal Nourishment in George Herbert鈥檚 Poetry.鈥� George Herbert Society International Interdisciplinary Conference. Newtown, Wales, UK. 15 October 2011.

鈥淏ecoming an Adventurous Traveler: Lessons from C.S. Lewis鈥檚 Fiction.鈥� Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA. 21 September 2011.

鈥淢emorable Lessons from Shakespeare鈥檚 Romeo & Juliet.鈥� Redlands Shakespeare Festival. Redlands, CA. 13 May 2010.

鈥溾�楽omething Understood鈥�: Sacramental Imagination and the Communion of Saints in the Fantasy of Chesterton, Lewis, and Rowling.鈥� Oxbridge 2008: C.S. Lewis Summer Institute. C.S. Lewis Foundation. Cambridge, England. August 2008.

"Dumbledore's Humor as Sacramental Hope: Harry Potter in the Tradition of G.K. Chesterton." Lumos 2006, Harry Potter Educational Fanon, Las Vegas, NV. July 2006.

"Faith, Remembrance, and Holy Communion: Glimpses of the Sacrament in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair." Through the Wardrobe: Engaging Fantasy in the Arts and Popular Culture. Christianity and Culture Conference, 91猫先生, Riverside CA. March 2006.

"'The Best Monument': The 1722 Poems on Several Occasions as Pope's Elegy to Parnell." South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Padre Island, Texas. February 2002.

"'Oh! Let Thy Pearle, Lord, Cabbinet in Mee': Edward Taylor's Use of the Cabinet-Treasure Image in the First Series Preparatory Meditations." Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Waco, Texas. September 2001.

"Of Cuckoos and Cocks: Chaucer's Birds in The Parliament of Fowls and The Nun's Priest's Tale." Texas Medieval Association, Waco, Texas. September 2000.

Mission Hills Church
Mission Viejo, CA

鈥logging about literature: readingtheoldbooks.blogspot.com
鈥ravel to the British Isles
鈥ystery novels
鈥lassic films
鈥arried with young child

"It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books."

-C.S. Lewis, "On the Reading of Old Books"