Benjamin Saltzman

Benjamin A. Saltzman University of California, Berkeley 322 Wheeler HallDepartment of English Berkeley, CA 94720benjaminsaltzman@berkeley.edu 310.562.1893Curriculum Vitae9 May 2011 Education — Ph.D. Candidate Joint Ph.D. in English and Medieval Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: The Texture of Secrecy: Hermeneutics and Concealment in Early Medieval England Dissertation Director: Professor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe — B.A. in English with a minor in Classical and Medieval Studies, summa cum laude Pforzheimer Honors College, Pace University, New York, NY (2007) Publications – Scholarly Articles — “Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity ” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41.2 (2011): 251-91 — “William Morris’s ‘Golden Wings’ as a Poetic Response to the ‘Delicate Sentiment’ of Tennyson’s ‘Mariana,’” Forthcoming, Victorian Poetry 49.3 (2011) Publications – Reviews, Brief Notices, and Poetry — Review of Peter Baker, Introduction to Old English , Second Edition (Blackwell, 2007) Comitatus 39 (2008): 229-30 — Review of Magnús Fjalldal, Anglo-Saxon England in Icelandic Medieval Texts (Toronto, 2005) Comitatus 38 (2007): 222-24 — “On the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium: A Brief Report on a (New) New York Community” Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland Newsletter 22 (2006): 5-6 — Two poems: “On Salmagundi” and “A hard lesson to learn,” Aphros Literary Magazine 46 (2006): 57-58 Fellowships — Block Grant Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate Division & Dept. of English (2011-2012)Merit-based fellowship for one year of dissertation research — Beazell Fellowship, UC Berkeley Department of English (2008-2010) — Full College Scholarship and Stipend, Speech and Debate, Pace University (2003-07) Honors, Grants, and Awards — Joseph E. Pryor Graduate Fellowship, Alpha Chi National Honor Society (2011)$5,000 — Barbara H. Kurtz Award, UC Berkeley Department of English (2010)$2,000 Awarded for an overall academic record that the faculty judges to be most outstanding — Benjamin Putnam Kurtz Prize, UC Berkeley Department of English (2010)$1,000 Best graduate student essay: “The Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care ” — Kirk Underhill Graduate Paper Prize, Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley (2010)$600 Best graduate student essay: “The Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care ” — Pre-dissertation Research Grant, Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley (2010)$3,500 Manuscript research at Durham Cathedral, Cambridge University, and the British Library Benjamin A. SaltzmanPage 2 Honors, Grants, and Awards (Continued) — Paleography Working Group Grant, UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (2010-11)$950 — Graduate Student Workshop Travel Grant (2009)$1,400 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) biennial meeting, Newfoundland — Summer Research Grants, UC Berkeley Department of English (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012)$3,000 — Founder’s Prize, Medieval Association of the Pacific- $250 Runner-up for best graduate student paper, MAP Conference, UCLA (2007) — Research and Travel Grant, Pforzheimer Honors College (2006)$1,000 Manuscript research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library Conference Presentations — “The Reflexivity of Forgetting in Alfred’s Pastoral Care ” (Forthcoming)46 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (2011)Special Session: “Cognitive Approaches to the Middle Ages” — Opening Remarks: “On Reading in the Present: Sei Sh ō nagong and the Old English Deor ”“Reading the Middle Ages” International Medieval Studies Conf., UC Berkeley (2011) — “Thoreau’s ‘Walking’: Towards a New Middle Age”Berkeley-Stanford Conference, UC Berkeley (2010) — “Suspicion, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutics of Elene ” Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium Conference, Harvard University (2010) — “IUDEX: Integrating Underlying Digital Editions eXperiment” (Poster)International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Memorial University, Newfoundland (2009) — “Seized Secret: The Silence of the Stolen Slave in Ine’s 53rd Law”Berkeley-Stanford Conference, Stanford University (2009) — “The Stolen Being: An Inquiry into Slavery, Theft, and Testimony in Anglo-Saxon Law” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ASU (2008) — “Tracing Goscelin’s Spiritual Friendship: The Legacy of Late Anglo-Saxon Sherborne and its Subversive Rules of Confraternity”Medieval Association of the Pacific, UCLA (2007) — Opening Remarks: “On Friendship and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England” Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Rutgers University (2006) — “ Cor unum et anima una : The Symbolic Order of Friendship in Anglo-Saxon Rules of Confraternity” Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, Rutgers University (2006) Teaching Experience — Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Professor Maura Nolan, English 45A “Literature in English: Through Milton” (F. 2010)Professor Steven Justice, English 45A “Literature in English: Through Milton” (Sp. 2011) — Volunteer debate teacher and coach for underprivileged high school studentsSecondary School for Law, Brooklyn, NY (2004-07) — Faculty Assistant for Pace University, Civic Engagement Courses (Sp. 2004 and F. 2005) Benjamin A. SaltzmanPage 3 Digital Humanities and Technology — Participant in the ISAS Workshop on Digital Technology and Anglo-Saxon England (2009) — Academic websites designed and maintained:graduatemedievalists.org (Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley)bsc.stanford.edu (Berkeley-Stanford Conference) Professional Service — Chair, Conference Organizing Committee, “phi · lol · o · gy” the 8 th Annual ASSC Conference (2012) — Co-chair, Conference Organizing Committee, “Reading the Middle Ages,” UC Berkeley (2011) — Co-chair, Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley (GMB) (2009-2011) — Co-founder and Co-coordinator, Colloquium on the Practice of Reading, UC Berkeley (2010-11) — Founder and Coordinator, GMB Research Workshops, UC Berkeley (2009-11) — Founder and Coordinator, Paleography Working Group, UC Berkeley (2008-11) — Coordinator, 55 th , 56 th , and 57 th Annual UC Berkeley Beowulf Marathon (2009-2011) — Participant, ISAS Digital Technology and Anglo-Saxon England Workshop, Newfoundland (2009) — Research Assistant to Professor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe, UC Berkeley (2009) — Member, Conference Organizing Committee for the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (2006-07) scribd. scribd. scribd. scribd. scribd. 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