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Professor of English, Emeritus

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Present	Humanities Coordinator, Illinois Wesleyan University
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English Language and Literature

Medieval Studies, Comparative Literature, and History of Cartography

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London
J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography Recipient
British Academy/Newberry Library Fellowship Recipient
Elected to the Council of the Society for the History of Discovery
Kemp Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence, 2011

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English House, Office 204
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL 61701
309-556-3649

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Articles (9)

Hugh of St Victor (1096–1141) and Anglo-French Cartography

Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (2013)

Recent research in England and France on twelfth- and thirteenth-century cartography posits Hugh of St Victor as an important source ...

Speaking the Map: Teaching with the Hereford Map

Geotema: Organo Ufficiale dell' Associazione Geografi Italiani (2007)

Historians of cartography long have suggested that the Hereford Mappa Mundi was created as a teaching tool, or at least ...

The Original Placement of the Hereford Mappa Mundi

Imago Mundi (2004)

Although antiquarians, historians of cartography, palaeographers and art historians have written about the Hereford mappa mundi for more than three ...

Review: The Rhetoric of Power in the Bayeux Tapestry, by ...

The Medieval Review (1999)

In the preface to her study of the much-discussed Bayeux Tapestry, Suzanne Lewis, professor of art history at Stanford University, ...

"I'm gonna git Medieval on your ass": Pulp Fiction ...

Studies in Popular Culture (1997)

Daniel Terkla and Thomas L. Reed, Jr.

Rarely does contemporary film offer any zippy ephemera to grace the office doors of medievalists, since film-makers like Quentin Tarantino ...

The Revolution is Being Televised: Pedagogy and Information Retrieval in ...

College & Undergraduate Libraries (1997)

Daniel Terkla and Steve McKinzie

In this period of rapid and ongoing technological change, teaching undergraduates sophisticated research skills demands more than the traditional library ...

Cut on the Norman Bias: Fabulous Borders and Visual Glosses ...

Word and Image (1995)

Harold Godwinson, King of England for nine months in 1066, was undeniably an assertive opportunist - albeit a brave one ...

A Basochien Proto-Drama and its Mariological Context: L' Adovocacie Nostre-Dame

Medieval Perspectives (1991)

This essay, which is excerpted from a longer initial study of L’Advocacie Nostre Dame, is primarily expository and exploratory in ...

Byron's Underground Manfred

The Comparatist (1990)

The Bayeux Tapestry: New Approaches

Daniel Terkla, Michael J. Lewis and Gale R. Owen-Crocker

From Amazon: The Bayeux Tapestry, perhaps the most famous, yet enigmatic, of medieval artworks, was the subject of an international ...

The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations

Daniel Terkla, Martin K. Foys and Karen Eileen Overbey

From Amazon: In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has moved beyond studies of its sources ...

Contribution to Book

Informal Catechesis and the Hereford Mappa Mundi

The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel (2008)

Contribution to Book

The Oxford Companion to World Exploration (2007)

Selections by the author: Marco Polo, 165-167; William of Rubruck, 357; Ludovico de Varthema, 322-324.

Contribution to Book

Impassioned Failure: Metaphor, Memory and the Drive toward Intellection

Imagining Heaven in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (2000)

Contribution to Book

Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encylopedia (2000)

Selections by the author: Martin Behaim, 55-56; lignum aloes, 342-343; Psalter Map, 505-506.

Contribution to Book

Divina Commedia(The Divine Comedy)

Epics for Students : Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics (1997)

Furnishing the Soul: Medieval Maps, Meditation, and Metaphor

Professor Dan Terkla with Illinois Wesleyan University provides a new context in which to think about how some world maps ...

Intertwinglement; or a Request by Way of a Story

Kemp Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence (2011)