H.WayneMartindale
Professor
Onfacultysince1981
OnLeaveforAcademicYears2006-2007and2007-2008.
Wayne.Martindale@wheaton.edu
Education
Ph.D.English,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside(1979)
M.A.English,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside(1973)
B.A.English,CaliforniaBaptistCollege(1968)
ProfessionalandPersonalInterests
PersonalinterestsincludeC.S.LewisandhiscircleandChina.Wheatonhaspresentedmewithnumerousopportunitiesfortravelandserviceovertheyears,incudingEngland(9times)andRussia(2times),butthemostlife-changinghasbeensabbaticals(1989&1995)andsummersteachinginChina(2002and2005).
CoursesTaught
ENGL105-LiteratureoftheModernWorld
ENGL216-BritishLiterature:17th-20thCentury
ENGL353-18th-CenturyLiterature
ENGL355-RomanticPeriod
ENGL433-VariedLiteraryTopics:C.S.Lewis
ENGL494-SeniorSeminar
ENGW104-WritingEffectiveProse
MembershipinProfessionalSocieties
ConferenceonChristianity&Literature
Research
MuchofmyresearchhasrevolvedaroundC.S.Lewis,includingrecentcolaborativeprojectswithstudentsthathavebeenespeciallyrewarding.FrommyteachingpostinBeijing,IwillbejoiningtheWheaton-in-AsiaprograminMay2007toteachaquadcourseonAsianLiterature(autobiography).
RecentPublicationsand/orPresentations
BeyondtheShadowlands:C.S.LewisonHeavenandHell,CrosswayBooks(2005).
"Romantics"inTomMartin,ed.,ReadingtheClassicswithC.S.
Lewis,GrandRapids,MI:Baker,2000.
BookReview:TerryLindvall.SurprisedbyLaughter:TheComicWorldofC.S.Lewis.Nashville:Nelson,1996.InChristianScholar'sReview,XXVII:4,Summer1998.
RefereeforChristianScholar'sReviewspecialissue(fall1998)onC.S.Lewis.
"C.S.Lewis:ReluctantChurchman"inTouchstone(1998,reprintedfrom1988;furtherreprintedbySIRSforelectronicretrieval).
"JohnDryden,""PercyByssheShelley,""Enlightenment,""Immortality,""Myth,""Supernatural,""Johnson's'LifeofFox,'"articlesinC.S.LewisCompanion,JeffreySchultz,ed.,1998.
Conferenceorganizerfor"C.S.LewisandtheLiteraryTradition"centenarycelebrationofLewis'birth,Writing&LiteratureConferenceatWheatonCollege,September1998.
"Shadowlands:InadvertantEvangelism,"inC.S.Lewis:LightbearerintheShadowlands,AngusMenuge,ed.,Crossway,(1997).
"Christianity&Culture:TheChinaChallenge,"forConcordiaUniversity,(WI)FallSpeakerSeriesonChristianity&Culture(October1996).Revisedandacceptedforchapterinbook.
BookReview:JanineGoffar.C.S.LewisIndex.LomaLinda,CA:LomaLindaU.Press,1995.InSeven13(1996):103-104.
"TheChroniclesofNarnia"inMagill'sGuidetoScienceFictionandFantasyLiterature:SalemPress(1995).
Sabbatical(fall1995):PekingUniversity,includedgradcourse:"UsingLiteratureinTESOL."
JourneytotheCelestialCity:GlimpsesofHeaveninGreatLiteraryClassics,editor,Moody(1995).
"LongingforHeaven:C.S.Lewis'sTheGreatDivorce"inJourneytotheCelestialCityMoody(1995).
StaleyLectureratRobertsWesleyan.LecturesonC.S.Lewis(1994).
Bookreview:DavidDowning'sPlanetsinPeril:ACriticalStudyofC.S.Lewis'sRansomTrilogyinChristianScholar'sReview(1994).
"SamuelJohnsonontheRunawayImagination"inTouchstone(1991).
"C.S.LewisonGenderLanguageintheBible"inTouchstone(1990).
TheQuotableLewis,coeditor,Tyndale(1989).CornerstoneBookoftheYear.
"C.S.Lewis:ReluctantChurchman"inTouchstone(1988).
"ConflictingViewsofSelfinRichardson'sClarissa,"paper,MidwestModernLanguageAssociation(1983).
"JosephAddison:AMoralVoiceinaSecularAge":paperatConferenceonChristianity&Literature(1982).
AssistantBibliographerforChristianityandLiterature(1982-85).
"Swift's'ADescriptionoftheMorning,'"inMasterplotsII,Pasadena,CA:SalemPress,(forthcoming).
ScholarlyWorkAbroad:GreatBritain,Ireland,China,Russia
Talks:over50onChinaand25onLewisinlastdecade(includingradio&TV).