The Catholic University for Independent Thinkers

Associate Professor of English
Location: Braniff Buidling, Room 314
Office Phone: 972-721-4115
amoran@udallas.edu
B.A. University of Dallas
M.A. College of William and Mary
Ph.D. Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas
"The Apotropaic Marriage of Sulfur and Mercury in The Alchemist." The Ben Jonson Journal 20.1 (May 2013).
"In Medias Res, at Work and Prayer: Augustine and The Tempest." Critical and Cultural Transformations: The Tempest, 1611 to the Present. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Tobias Döring (Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, forthcoming).
"From Maurice to Mohammad: Othello, Islam, and Baptism." Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds. Ed. Linda McJannet and Bernadette Andrea (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011),21-34.
"'What were I best to say': Hasty Curses and Morean Deliberation in Richard III." Moreana 48:183-184 (Summer 2011): 145-61.
"Hamlet's Envenomed Foil" in Hamlet: Ignatius Critical Edition, ed. Joseph Pearce. Ft. Collins, CO: Ignatius Press. (2008).
"Eating and Synaesthesia in The Winter's Tale." Religion and the Arts 9:1-2 (2005): 38-61.
"John Kennedy Toole's Brilliant Failure." The St. Austin Review (March 2005): 21-23.
Literary Tradition I, II, III, IV
Shakespeare
Dante
Early Modern Literature
Medieval Literature
Renaissance Drama
Waugh and the Post-War West
Jonson and the Tribe of Ben
Shakespeare's representations of Reformation-era religious controversies, his metadrama,
and the relationship between the two
Dante
Evelyn Waugh
Ben Jonson