My Name is James Norton. I serve as Professor of English and Chair of the English Department. I have taught and held administrative appointments at Marian for over twenty years, including Dean of Liberal Arts and Director of Honors. My college teaching focuses on Literary Studies, Global Studies, and First-Year Studies. With the President’s Council, Student Life, and other campus agencies, I helped to develop “engaged learning” as central feature of Marian’s educational mission, which I practice in all my classes with my students.
· FYS 110 First Year Seminar
· ENG 112 Writing & Community
· ENG 123 Literary Perspectives
· ENG 224 British Literary Traditions
· ENG 330 Shakespeare
· ENG 340 World Literature
· ENG 354 British Romanticism
· ENG 457 War and Literature
I earned a BA in History from Asbury College, with minors in Philosophy and English, then an MA in English Literature from the University of Kentucky. Following research studies at Exeter College, Oxford University, England, I completed a Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, writing my doctoral dissertation on the Protestant Reformation’s impact on early British literature. My particular interest is in relations between religious traditions and the history of English and World literature.
Book Chapters
· “Horace Walpole’s Invention of English Gothic,” chapter in Literary Criticism: Horace Walpole, ed. Trudeau. NY: Centage Press, 2020.
· “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Ethics and Honor,” chapter in One State One Story: Frankenstein. IN: Indiana Humanities Council, 2017.
· “Marian University Honors Academy Vision and Mission,” chapter in Faith-Based Honors Programs at American Colleges and Universities. NY: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016.
· Mapping Indianapolis Undergraduate Civic Engagement, data publication w/Grace Baranowsk, IUPUI. IN: Campus Compact Research for Service Engagement, 2015.
· “The First British Gothic Novel: Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto1765,” chapter in Approaches to Teaching Gothic Literature, ed. Hoeveler. NY: MLA Press, 2003
· “John Buyan, John Locke, Aphra Behn,” chapter in Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution 1660-1729: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Baker. London: Greenwood Press, 2002.
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Refereed Articles
· “Hispanic Tutorial Project and Franciscan Civic Learning,” Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities Journal, Vol. 10.1, 2013.
· “Curiosity in Franciscan Teaching: First-Year Studies Program at Marian,” Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities Journal, Vol. 5.1, 2008.
· “Struggles and Heroism of Southern Life: Jame Chatham’s Sundays Down Home,” The North Carolina Literary Review, Vol. 10, 2001
· “Mythology and Interdisciplinary Teaching,” The Associator, Vol. 52, 2000.
· “Teaching Confession in John Milton’s Paradise Lost,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Vol. 7.7, 1999.
· “Confession in John Milton’s Paradise Lost,” English Language Notes, Vol. 36, 1999.
· “Restoration Theories of Confessional Theatre: Rymer, Collier, Congreve,” Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research, Vol. 31.1, 1998.
· “Advising English Majors: A Whole Language Approach,” The College English Association Critic, Vol. 6, 1998.
· “John Bunyan’s Grace Abounding,” The Explicator, Vol. 56.1, 1997.
