Wisconsin Lutheran College/ 8800 West Bluemound Road/ Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226/ /

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1 ERIK ANKERBERG Wisconsin Lutheran College/ 8800 West Bluemound Road/ Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226/ / Professional Experiences and Institutional Service 2004-Present Wisconsin Lutheran College (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Assistant Provost (2014-Present) Coordinates accreditation and assessment policies and practices on campus. Facilities work of Academic Cabinet, which includes all college deans Greenfield Chair of Christian Leadership Studies ( ) Chair, School of Modern Languages and Member, Academic Council ( ) Led English department s revision of its curriculum (2011). Led English department s introduction of writing emphasis (2011). Developed new inter-disciplinary programs by coordinating partnerships among schools in the College of Arts and Sciences and between School of Modern Languages and Schools in the College of Professional Studies. Developed internship opportunities for English majors and minors. Initiated English department s alignment of ENG 101 curriculum (2012-Present). Initiated English department s revision of ENG 498 to assess major goals, as well as academic goals (2012-Present). Director of Honors Program (2011-Present) Designed inter-disciplinary great books honors program (wlc.edu/honors). Led implementation of honors program serving 21 students in its first year and 26 students in its second year. Co-chair, self-study committee for accreditation process and upcoming Higher Learning Commission campus visit (2012-Present) Member, College Strategic Planning Committee (2011-Present) Organizer, visits by Neil Curry, Dr. David Rogner, and Dr. Michael McCanles to campus (2010-Present)

2 Campus contact, Council of Independent College s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE) (2008-Present) Co-chair, Faculty Affairs Committee ( ) Member, Ad Hoc General Education Committee ( ) Participated in the rewriting of college s academic goals. Participated in the redesigning of college s general education curriculum. Member, Assessment Committee ( ) Member, Summer Reading Committee ( ) Professor of English (2013-Present) Associate Professor of English ( ) Assistant Professor of English ( ) Implemented use of literacy circles in survey and upper-level literature courses. Initiated travel study courses and longer-term study opportunities for students in the United Kingdom. Implemented use of oral exams in classes. Developed and taught inter-disciplinary course ART/ ENG 400 Contemporary Trends in Art and Literature with Professor Paul Burmeister. Developed and implemented prototype inter-disciplinary Foundations courses that synthesized ENG 101, COM 101, COL 101, and COL 102. Authored initial draft syllabi and course materials for new COL 101 and COL 201 courses Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Visiting Instructor of English Concordia University (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Assistant Professor of English and Chair, General Studies Council and Academic Policies Committee ( ) Concordia University (Mequon, Wisconsin) Instructor of English Martin Luther High School (Greendale, Wisconsin) English Teacher

3 Education 2003 Ph.D. Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Primary Field: English Renaissance Literature Secondary Field: Pre-1900 American Literature 1996 M.A. Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 1992 B.A. Concordia University (River Forest, Illinois) Professional Development 2014 Participant, Harvard University s Management Development Program and Council of Independent Colleges Senior Leadership Academy Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for College Teachers: George Herbert & Emily Dickinson at the University of Chicago Fellow, Thrivent Fellows Program Participant, The Council of Independent Colleges program for department chairs Participant, week-long course Holiness of God as Contained in the Book of Leviticus taught by Rev. Dr. John Kleinig. Recent Courses and Teaching Fields British Literature 1 and 2 American Literature 1 Literary Criticism Contemporary Trends in Art and Literature Expository Writing Professional Writing Foundations of a Liberal Arts Education Living with the Arts Major British Authors, 17 th Century Medieval and Renaissance Literature Methods in Teaching Secondary English Renaissance and Reformation Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature Shakespeare 1 and 2 Undergraduate Research

4 Research Interests Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne and George Herbert William Shakespeare John Milton Intersection of Renaissance Literature and Reformation Theology Literature and aesthetics Core curricula and interdisciplinary studies Publications Ankerberg, Erik. The Poetry of Wallace Stevens and the Purposes of Ardor. Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association. 17 (2013): Print. Ankerberg, Erik. Early Modern Biblical Commentary and the Iconic Roles of Priest and Poet. Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association. 16 (2012): Print. Ankerberg, Erik. Johann Gerhard and George Herbert: The Veiled Lutheran and the Irenic Writer. Reformation & Renaissance Review. 8.3 (December 2006), p Print. Ankerberg, Erik. You Taught the Book of Life My Name: Johann Gerhard, George Herbert and the Inscription of Holy Baptism. Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology (Reformation 2003), p Print. Ankerberg, Erik. The Function and Fulfillment of the Sacerdotal Office in Paradise Lost. The Cresset (Easter 1999), p Print. Ankerberg, Erik and Veith, Gene Edward. The Classical Education Movement and Lutheran Schools. Lutheran Education (November/ December 1999), p Print. Ankerberg, Erik. Theological Literacy and Lutheran Education. Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology. 8.1 (Epiphany 1999), p Print. Review Ankerberg, Erik. Rev. of Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany, by Anna Linton. Lutheran Quarterly 24:2 (Summer 2010): Print. Presentations The Poetry of Wallace Stevens and the Purposes of Ardor. Vaughan Colloquium, Brecon, Wales, UK, The Evolution of the First-Year Experience Course: Understanding One s Vocation (with Dr. David Brightsman). Conference on Vocation in Undergraduate Education:

5 Enriching the Theological Exploration of Vocation, Council of Independent Colleges, The Stone and the Guest George Herbert and the Turn Toward Modernism. Conference on Structures in The Temple/ The Structure of The Temple, College of Charleston, Johann Gerhard, George Herbert, and the Shimmering of Chaos in Early Modern Prayer (Revised). Sixteenth-Century Conference, Cincinnati, Johann Gerhard, George Herbert, and the Shimmering of Chaos in Early Modern Prayer. Conference on Prayer and Performance as Acts of Belief and Symbolic Communication in the Late Medieval and Renaissance Period. University of Aarhus, Denmark, Happy is he, whose bottom is wound up : The Herbert Family and a Tradition of Spiritual Care. Conference on Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, Traditions. Gregynog, Wales, UK, Early Modern Biblical Commentary and the Iconic Roles of Priest and Poet. Vaughan Association Colloquium, Brecon, Wales, UK and Conference on Biblical Interpretation. Society for Reformation Studies, Westminster College, Cambridge, UK, Thou art the channel my soul seeks : Holy Baptism and the Clothing of Christ. Conference on Ideals and Values in the Seventeenth-Century. Durham University, UK, Foundations: Vocational Exploration in the General Education Curriculum. Conference on Vocation in Undergraduate Education: Extending the Theological Exploration of Vocation, Council of Independent Colleges, George Herbert, William Butler Yeats, and the Trajectory of Beauty. Conference on George Herbert s Living Legacies George Herbert s Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, One Creation Will Not Suffice Our Turn : Herbert and the Vocations of the Baptized. Conference on George Herbert s Living Legacies George Herbert s Pastoral: Poetry and Priesthood, Past and Future, Sarum College, Salisbury, UK, Johann Gerhard and George Herbert: The Veiled Lutheran and the Irenic Writer. Society for Reformation Studies, Eirenicism in the Reformation, Westminster College, Cambridge, UK, Aaron s drest : George Herbert and the Iconic Roles of the Priest and Poet. Center for Early Modern Studies Conference: Icons and Iconoclasts: The Long Seventeenth Century, 1603 to 1714, University of Aberdeen, UK, A heart/ Too great for what contains it : Coriolanus as Reformation Tragedy. Seventeenth Waterloo Conference on Elizabethan Theatre: Religion and Theatre, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2005.

6 A Creation Every Moment : The Anticipation of Judgment and Rescue in Herbert s Nature. Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Campbellsville University, Turned Inside Out: The Movement Through the Texts of Johann Gerhard and George Herbert. Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Bluffton College, You Taught the Book of Life My Name: Johann Gerhard, George Herbert, and the Inscription of Holy Baptism. Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dayton, Faith Puts Me There With Him. Michigan Council of Arts and Sciences Annual Conference, Central University Michigan, Actions Speak Loudly Through Words: The Relationship Among Language, Action, and Morality in Owen Wister s The Virginian. Spiritual Frontiers 2000, Brigham Young University, The Function and Fulfillment of the Sacerdotal Office in Paradise Lost. Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Campbellsville University, Current Projects Happy is he, whose bottom is wound up : The Herbert Family and a Tradition of Spiritual Care has been accepted to be included in a volume of essays from the Locating George Herbert: Family, Place, Traditions conference. Johann Gerhard, George Herbert, and the Shimmering of Chaos in Early Modern Prayer has been submitted for consideration to be included in the book of essays from the Prayer and Performance as Acts of Belief and Symbolic Communication in the Late Medieval and Renaissance Period conference. Value Beyond What Men Call Valuable : Literacy and the Living Legacy of a Liberal Education has been submitted to Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. George Herbert, William Butler Yeats, A. S. Byatt, and the Trajectory of Modernism has been submitted to Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature & Culture. My book proposal for Between Restlessness and Rest: The Efficacy of External Things in the Works of Johann Gerhard and George Herbert has been submitted to Pickering and Chatto Press. Service (At-large) 2012-Present Prose Editor, Scintilla: The Journal of the Vaughan Association Present Associate Editor, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature & Culture.