Hostetler, Margaret

Associate Chair, Department of English

Office: Radford 221

Phone: 920-424-7281

Email: hostetle@uwosh.edu

Office Hours:  M 12:00-3:00 and by appt

Personal Statement

My research interests include 13th-century devotional literature, historical literary pragmatics, feminist theory, science fiction, linguistics, and reception theory. I enjoy teaching a wide range of courses on these and other topics.

Recommended Reading: 

• Aeneid, Virgil
• Mama Day, Gloria Naylor's
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
• Xenogenesis Trilogy, Octavia Butler

Degrees

• PhD, University of Washington, English - Medieval Literature
• MA, University of Washington, English - Medieval Literature
• BA, Linfield College, English

Courses Taught: 

• ENG101 College English I
• ENG110 Honors Composition
• ENG188 WBIS
• ENG210 Masterworks of Classical and Medieval Literature
• ENG211 British Literature I
• ENG281 Introduction to English Studies
• ENG301/501 Modern Grammars
• ENG302 Advanced Composition for the Humanities
• ENG332/532 Early Women Writers
• ENG340/540 Arthurian Legend and Romance
• ENG341/541 History of the English Language
• ENG346/546 Chaucer and His Age
• ENG351/551 Medieval Literature
• ENG383/583 Introduction of English Linguistics
• ENG384/584 Sociolinguistics
• ENG402 Internship
• ENG481 Seminar in English Studies
• ENG702 Language in Society
• ENG 712 Seminar in Women Writers
• ENG 795 Thesis
• ENG796 Independent Study

Selected Publications and/or Activities:

• “The Politeness of a Disciplining Text: Ideal Readers in Ancrene Wisse” forthcoming in The Journal of Historical Pragmatics (2012)
• “Reading the Letters of Heloise: A Devotional Curriculum for Medieval Nuns” Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 12 (2007 for 2005): 1-25.
• “The Characterized Reader in Hali Meidhad and the Resisting Reader of Feminist Discourse on Medieval Devotional Texts” The Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1 (2005): 87-111.
• “’Nimað eow bysne be þyssere Iudith’: Deictic Shifting and Didactic Christian Discourse in Ælfric’s Judith” Studia Neophilologica 76 (2004): 1-13.
• “’I wold thow wer closyd in an hows of ston’: Reimagining Religious Enclosure in the Book of Margery Kempe” Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 20.2 (2003): 71-94.
• “’Was it I that killed the babies?’: Children as Disruptive Signifiers in Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home” Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 42:1 (2001): 27-36.