Julie Bruneau
Degrees
B.A., English, Colby College; M.Ed., Secondary Education, University of Hartford; M.A., English, University of Colorado – Denver; Ph.D., Medieval English Literature and Language, University of Notre Dame
Profile
The focus of Julie’s academic study has been early literature about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, but her interests extend into many fields, such as archaeology, rewriting classics, Wales, why things are funny, how people teach and learn, and whether there needs to be a separation between reading and writing for fun and the kinds of reading and writing we do in schools. Julie has worked occasionally in the University Writing Program since 2003 and with the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning since 2006.
Recent Scholarly Activity
Dialogue Group Leader and Presenter, “Teaching at a Small College." Wakonse Conference on College Teaching,
Shelby, Michigan, 2011.
“Fairy Tales and Nationalism,” invited speaker for a Mellon Seminar sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship
in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame, 2010.
“Truth, Sex, and Divine Poetics in Alan of Lille's De Planctu Naturae” in Women and the Divine in Literature
before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis (Victoria: University of Victoria, 2009).
“The Changing Student ‘Self’ at a Religious Liberal Arts College: Assessing and Adjusting the First-Year
Writing Curriculum.” International Society for Scholarship on Teaching and Learning, Indiana University,
2009.
Faculty Editor (with Tyler Falk, student editor) of Exposition 24, a collection of exemplary student essays
taught in Expository Writing, Goshen College, 2009.
“Virtual Communities” (on using Facebook as a medium for extending classroom learning), Wakonse
Conference on College Teaching, Shelby, Michigan, 2008.
“‘A sin of which you know nothing has done you great harm’: Perceval’s Mother and the Sins of Forgetting,”
for the panel Ironic Sin at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan,
2008.
