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Eureka College was founded by abolitionists from Kentucky who were members of a religious movement known as the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and were committed to providing young people a broad, liberal education. These pioneers believed in an education infused with values as a basis for leadership. Chartered by the Illinois Legislature in 1855, Eureka was the first college in the state and third in the nation to admit men and women on an equal basis. Eureka College was designated by the National Park Service as a Campus Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places in June 2010.

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Dr. Adrian Whitacre

Assistant Professor - Anglophone Literature

awhitacre@eureka.edu | (309) 467-6335

Education: PhD English Literature, Indiana University, 2019

MA English Literature, Indiana University, 2016

BA English, Anderson University, 2012

Department: Humanities

Office: Burrus Dickinson 301

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Medieval literature, werewolves, posthumanism, identity and the body, queer studies, speculative fiction, medievalism, Star Trek

TEACHING INTERESTS:

I love to explore new and fascinating things in the classroom: to seek out new life and new literatures, to boldly go where I have not gone before. My once and future courses include: composition, intro to fiction, critical theory, murder mysteries, fanfiction, wealth and inequality, mythology, Vikings, pre-1700 literature, medieval romance, Beowulf in translation, and cults and conspiracy theories.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

“Change and Identity: The Medieval Werewolf and the Layered Body.” 2019. Indiana University, PhD dissertation.

“Queer Pregnancy on the Medieval Sacred Stage,” presented at The Medieval Academy of America. Indiana University, April 2021.

“Looking in the Mirror: The Negotiation of Franchise Identity in Star Trek: Discovery.” Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery. Edited by Sabrina Mittermeier and Mareike Spychala. Science Fiction Texts and Studies Series. Liverpool University Press, 2020.

“The Body That Is Not One: Overclothing as Bodily Transformation in Topographia Hibernica.” Essays in Medieval Studies 34, 2019, p. 99-112.

“‘What Beast This Skin Covers’: Literalizing Allegories of the Body in Guillaume de Palerne,” presented at the International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds, July 2019.

“‘Throw a Punch and Kiss a Girl’: Gender and Sexualization in the Kelvin Timeline." The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams’ Final Frontier. Edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington. McFarland, 2019, p. 99-114.

“The Translation of Transformation: A Comparison of Bisclavret and Yonec with the Norse Bisclaret and Jonet." Le Cygne: The Journal of the International Marie de France Society 4, no. 1, January 2018, p. 25-45.

“How to Re-Translate a Werewolf,” presented at the 21st Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. University of Toronto, July 2018.

ABOUT:

Inveterate midwesterner, originally a Hoosier. Many Star Trek opinions, will share them at the slightest provocation (consider this an invitation or a warning). Ask me about my cat. They/them.

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