Heather Maring

Associate Professor,

English

Ross-Blakley Hall 347 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
Mail code: 1401

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

In her research, Heather Maring explores the way that early English poems draw upon oral, literary, and ritual forms of signification for their meaning. Her book Signs that Sing: Hybrid Poetics in Old English Verse was published in 2017 with University Press of Florida (http://upf.com/book.asp?id=MARI001) and reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS), Speculum, and The Medieval Review (TMR). She has articles in English Studies, Studies in Philology, Oral Tradition, and The Midwestern Modern Language Association Journal (MMLA).

Her other specialties are poetry, poetics, and oral traditions. Her poems have appeared in The Southeast Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and other journals. She also served as a contributing editor on UNESCO’s project to create a "Manual on Oral Traditions and Expressions."

Education

Ph.D. English (Literature and Creative Writing), University of Missouri-Columbia
M.F.A. Poetry, University of Iowa

Publications

Signs that Sing: Hybrid Poetics in Old English Verse. (University Press of Florida, 2017)
“Performing Pearl.” Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl. Eds. Jane Beal and Mark Bradshaw Busbee. Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. New York: Modern Language Association, 2017.
“Toward a Ritual Poetics: Dream of the Rood As a Case Study.” Oral Tradition, 26 (2012): 391-410. Special Issue ed. by Lori Ann Garner and Scott Garner (“A Festschrift for John Miles Foley”).
“Bright Voice of Praise: An Old English Convention.” Studies in Philology 108 (2011): 299-319.
"Two Ships Crossing: Hybrid Poetics in The Dream of the Rood". English Studies (2010).
"Oral Tradition." Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales (2007).
. . Review of: How Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century (2007).
"'Never the Less': Gift-Exchange and the Medieval Dream-Vision Pearl." The Midwest Modern Language Association Journal (2005).
"350 Sydney." The Southeast Review (2005)."
Heather Maring. "Oral Traditional Approaches to Old English Verse." Oral Tradition (2003).
"Taco Bell, Hannibal, Missouri." Valparaiso Poetry Review (2003).

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 221	Survey of English Literature
ENG 494	Special Topics
ENG 531	Old English Literature

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 413	History of English Language
ENG 240	Intro to Narrative Studies

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 315	Medieval Lit in Translation
ENG 597	Graduate Capstone Seminar

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 413	History of English Language
ENG 335	American Poetry

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 444	Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture
ENG 601	Job Market Workshop

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 221	Survey of English Literature
ENG 494	Special Topics
ENG 530	Old English

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 601	Job Market Workshop
ENG 632	Adv Studies Med/Ren Lit/Cultur

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 221	Survey of English Literature
ENG 349	Global Literary Studies

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 791	Seminar
ENG 531	Old English Literature

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 413	History of English Language
ENG 335	American Poetry

2020 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
ENG 791	Seminar
ENG 315	Medieval Lit in Translation

Service

Research, Creative Activities, and Social Committee, Member (2009 - 2010)
Old English Reading Group, ACMRS, Facilitator (2006 - 2008)
Come Home to English, Homecoming 2008, Co-host of Vernissage Gallery Opening (2008 - 2008)
English Graduate Student Association, Presenter (2008 - 2008)
Research, Creative Activities, and Social Committee, Member (2007 - 2008)

Expertise Areas