JOHN T. NETLAND Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Union University EDUCATION Ph.D. English UCLA (19th-c. British Literature) M.A. English California State Polytechnic U., Pomona (Medieval; 18th-c. British) B.A. English Biola University ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Union University (2013 present) Chair, English Department, Union University (2008-2013) Director, English 101 Program, Calvin College (2005 2007) Chair, English Department, Calvin College (2002 2005) Director, Developing a Christian Mind (DCM) Program (First-Year Course, Calvin College) 1999 2002 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS Professor of English and Department Chair Union University 2008-2013 Ass t, Assoc., and Full Professor of English Calvin College 1989 2008 English Teaching Associate UCLA 1984-88 English Instructor (part-time) Cal Poly University, Pomona 1983-84; 1988 English Instructor (part-time) Biola University 1983-84 PUBLICATIONS Cultural Legacies of the Reformation: The Character of the Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction. Forthcoming in a collection of essays commissioned for the Reformation 500 Conference at Union University, March 2017. Re-writing the Death of Jesus: An Intertextual Reading of Shusaku Endo s Deep River. Christian Scholar s Review. Special Issue in Honor of Don W. King. 46.1 (Fall 2016): 65-78. The Very Language of Men : Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth s Poetry, KJV400: Legacy & Impact, ed. Ray Van Neste. Memphis, TN: Borderstone Press, 2012: 145-63. Beauty, Meaning, and Power: Bearing Witness in the Profession of Words in Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, ed. David S. Dockery. Nashville: B & H Academic, 2012: 175-198. From Cultural Alterity to the Habitations of Grace: The Evolving Moral Topography of Endo s Mudswamp Trope Christianity & Literature 59.1 (Autumn 2009): 27-48. (Awarded the Lionel Basney Award for best article in Volume 59) Who is My Neighbor? Reading World Literature Through the Hermeneutics of Love. Journal of Education and Christian Belief 11.2 (Fall, 2007): 67-82.
Shusaku Endo, The Literary Encyclopedia, 14 July 2007. The Literary Dictionary Company. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&uid=11811 A Tale of Two Cities: Teaching Writing, Minds in the Making: an e-collection from Calvin College. 2.1 (Fall 2005) http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/101/writingprogram/fsnetland.htm Of Philistines and Puritans: Matthew Arnold s Construction of Puritanism in Puritanism and its Discontents Ed. Laura Lunger Knoppers. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2003: 67-82. Editor, The DCM Reader. Acton, MA: Tapestry Press, 2001. From Resistance to Kenosis: Reconciling Cultural Difference in the Fiction of Endo Shusaku. Special Issue on Shusaku Endo. Ed. Jewel Spears Brooker. Christianity & Literature. 48.2 (Winter 1999): 177-94. Encountering Christ in Shusaku Endo s Mudswamp of Japan. In Historicizing Christian Encounters with the Other. Ed. John C. Hawley. London: Macmillan, 1998: 166-81. The Problem of Metaphor in Arthur Hugh Clough s Epi-Strauss-ium Victorian Institute Journal 23 (1995): 151-69. A Modest Apologia for Romanticism Christian Scholar s Review 25.3 (1995): 297-317. Response to Roger Lundin. Christian Scholar s Review 25.3 (1995): 322-25. Reading and Resistance: The Hermeneutic Subtext of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Christianity & Literature. 43.1 (Winter) 1993: 37-58. Linguistic Limitation and the Instress of Grace in The Wreck of the Deutschland. Victorian Poetry [Hopkins Centennial Observation Issue] 27 (1989): 187-99. DISSERTATION Coleridge, Hermeneutics, and Victorian Poetry 1989. UCLA. Advisor: G.B. Tennyson; Second Reader: Frederick L. Burwick Application of a Coleridgean paradigm of theological hermeneutics to an analysis of the hermeneutical implications in the poetry of Keble, R. Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, and Hopkins. BOOK REVIEWS Review of R. L. Brett s Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin. Calvin Theological Journal. 34.2 (1999): 486-489. Review of Jacques Chevalier s A Postmodern Revelation: Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse. Christianity & Literature. 47.4 (Summer 1998): 495-98. Review of E. P. Thompson s Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law. Christianity & Literature 44.2 (Winter) 1995: 232-34. Review of David P. Haney s Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation. Nineteenth Century Literature 49 (1994): 375-77.
Review of Richard Brantley s Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism: Wesley, Edwards, Carlyle & Emerson. Fides et Historia 25 (1993): 135-37. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS Past and Present in Endo s Silence, Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Calvin College, April 18-20, 2012. The Very Language of Men : Biblical Echoes in Wordsworth s Poetry, KJV 400: Legacy and Impact, Union University, September 15-17, 2011. "Effacing the Sublime: Shusaku Endo's Theology of the Suffering Mother," at the Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Trinity Western University, May 10-12, 2007. Can Christianity Grow in the Mudswamp of Japan? The Development of a Metaphor in the Fiction of Shusaku Endo, presentation at Biola University, La Mirada, California, April 26, 2006. Word and Sacrament in Shusaku Endo s Deep River, at the Western Conference on Christianity and Literature, Pepperdine University, March 10-11, 2006. Revisiting Victorian Biblical Hermeneutics, at the Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference on The Sacred and the Profane, Cornell University, April 16 18, 2004. R. H. Hutton and the Unveiling of God, at the 2004 Midwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, March 18 20, 2004 Response to Marshall Gregory s Pedagogy and the Christian Law of Love, at Christian Scholarship for What? An International Interdisciplinary Conference, Calvin College, September 29, 2001. From Absence to Presence: The Development of Swamp Imagery in Endo s Fiction, presented at Habitations of the Word: Art and the Spiritual Ecology of Place, co-sponsored by Image and the Conference on Christianity and Literature, October 20, 2000, Seattle Pacific University. Of Philistines and Puritans: Matthew Arnold and the Art of Religious Invective, presented at the Faculty Spring Conference on Christian Scholarship, Puritanism and its Discontents, Calvin College, May 1998. Teaching Shusaku Endo, presented at Conference 96: Festival of Faith and Learning, Calvin College, April, 1996. Encountering Christ in the Mudswamp of Japan, presented at the Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University, May 5-6, 1995. Angels in the House and Beyond: Contrasting Victorian Ideals of Womanhood in Margaret Hale and Sissy Jupe, presented at the Midwest Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois, Mar 31-April 1, 1995. Coleridge s Methodical Reader: Essays on the Principles of Method in Hermeneutical Context, presented March 6, 1992, The Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Central Michigan University. New Vintage or a New Label? Emerson and the Problem of Religious Forms, presented May 9, 1987, Western Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Univ. of Santa Clara.
The Genesis Complex: A Pedagogical Experiment in Bible as Literature, with Virginia Doland and Timothy Brubaker, April 14-15, 1983, Western Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Loma Linda Univ. OTHER PRESENTATIONS The Transformation of Prince Hal into King Henry V, The Joseph E. Martin Shakespeare Circle, Jackson, TN, January 14, 2016 From Tablets to Tablet: How The Technologies Of Writing Affect The Ways We Read. Town and Gown Lecture. Union University. February 23, 2015. Responding to Changes in Higher Education, Fall Faculty Workshop, Union University, August 14, 2014. Our Cultural Mandate: Union s Distinctive Mission as a Christian College, Collegium II (New Faculty Orientation), Union University, January 21, 2014 Redemption in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Joseph E. Martin Shakespeare Circle, Jackson, TN, January 17, 2014. Musings on the Future of Higher Education, The Journal of the Union Faculty Forum, Vol. 33 (Fall, 2013): 2-17. Chapel Talk: Counsel Without Knowledge: Job 38-41, Union University, Nov. 6, 2013 Presentation to the University School of Jackson Honor Society Induction Ceremony, Jackson, TN, February 27, 2013. Lectures on the Liberal Arts, Gateway Core Course, Union University, Fall Semesters 2010-2012. Presentation on Shusaku Endo to the Union University English Department Reading Series, Sponsored by the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Nov. 8, 2011 Presentation on As You Like It, The Joseph E. Martin Shakespeare Circle, Jackson, TN, November, 2011. Guest Lecture on Shusaku Endo s Mothers, Shadows and Japanese Aesthetics, Honors Community, Union University, April 23, 2011 The Discipline of Confession, Presentation at the Brookside Christian Reformed Adult Education Hour, March 25, 2007. Presentation on Shusaku Endo s The Samurai for the Calvin College Reading Group in World Christianity, February 10, 2006. Enchanted by Narnia, Presentation at the Lakeside Church Adult Education Hour, January 15, 2006. How Stories Can Prepare us for The Story: The Chronicles of Narnia, Presentation at the Brookside Christian Reformed Church Adult Education Hour, December 18, 2005. Shusaku Endo: A Probing Japanese Christian Author, Calvin Academy for Lifelong Learning, October 4 November 1, 2005. The Romantic Invention of Nature, at the 2004 Midsummer Fest at Calvin College, July 16, 2004.
Presentation on Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, Grand Haven Book Club, April 8, 2004. Presentation on Charlotte Brontë s Jane Eyre, Grand Haven Book Club, March, 2003. What Should a Christian Do about Harry Potter? Presentation at Brookside Christian Reformed Church Adult Education Hour, January, 2002. Presentation on Thomas Hardy s Jude the Obscure, Grand Haven Book Club, October, 1999. The Heart in Pilgrimage, Reflections on Prayer, Brookside Christian Reformed Church Adult Education Series, Oct. Nov. 2000. The Heart in Pilgrimage, Reflections on Prayer, Brookside Christian Reformed Church Adult Education Series, Oct. Nov. 1999 Meditations with the Poets, Brookside Christian Reformed Church Adult Education Series, October December 1998. Presentation on Shusaku Endo s Silence at the Grand Haven Book Club, November 13, 1997. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS Newell Innovative Teaching Award, Honorable Mention 2011 Pew Research Fellowship, Union University 2009 MacGregor Award 2001 Calvin Summer Seminar in Christian Scholarship: Puritanism and its Discontents Calvin College Summer, 1997 Calvin Research Fellowship Calvin College 1993-94 Calvin Summer Research Fellowship Calvin College 1995, 1998, 2002 Occasional Fellowship U. of Chicago Midwest Faculty Seminar Summer 1991 President's Dissertation Fellowship UCLA 1988-89 Ronald E. Freeman Memorial Prize UCLA 1988-89 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Advisory Editor, Renewing Minds (2012-2014) Christianity and Literature Publications Committee (2011-2012) Manuscript reviews for Religion and Literature (May, 2012), Journal of Education and Christian Belief (March, 2006); Pedagogy (October, 2006); Christianity & Literature (November, 2006) Regional Director, National Board of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1996-98 Web Site Manager, Conference on Christianity and Literature web site 1997-2000 Consulting Planner, Conference on Christianity and Literature Midwest Regional, Univ. of Wisconsin, La Crosse, March 30-April 1, 1996