William T McClellan
Assc Professor
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences
- Biography
- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Education
Ph.D., English, City University of New York Graduate School
MPhil, English, City University of New York Graduate School
AB, English, Syracuse University
Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
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Spring 2022 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2022 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Fall 2021 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2021 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2020 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Spring 2020 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2019 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2019 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2019 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2019 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Fall 2018 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Fall 2018 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
Fall 2018 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2018 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2018 | ENG | 4110 | Medieval Literature |
Fall 2017 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2017 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2017 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
Spring 2017 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2017 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2016 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2016 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Spring 2016 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2016 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2015 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Spring 2015 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2015 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2014 | ENG | 3950H | Honors - Topics In Literature |
Fall 2014 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
Fall 2014 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2014 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Spring 2014 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2014 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2014 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
Fall 2013 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2013 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Fall 2013 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2013 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2013 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2012 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2012 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2012 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2012 | ENG | 2800H | Hon Great Works of Lit I |
Spring 2012 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Fall 2011 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Fall 2011 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Fall 2011 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2011 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2011 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2010 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2010 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2010 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Fall 2009 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Fall 2009 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2008 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2008 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2008 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Spring 2008 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2008 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2008 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2008 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2007 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Fall 2007 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2007 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Spring 2007 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Fall 2006 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2006 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2006 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Spring 2006 | ENG | 5000 | Independent Study English I |
Spring 2006 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2006 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Fall 2005 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Fall 2005 | ENG | 4710 | Medieval Romance |
Fall 2005 | ENG | 2100 | Writing I |
Spring 2005 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2005 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Fall 2004 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2004 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2004 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Summer 2004 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2004 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2004 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Spring 2004 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Fall 2003 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2003 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Fall 2003 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Summer 2003 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2003 | ENG | 3010 | Survey of English Literature I |
Spring 2003 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Fall 2002 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Fall 2002 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2002 | ENG | 2150 | Writing II |
Summer 2002 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Spring 2002 | ENG | 4120 | Chaucer |
Spring 2002 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2001 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Fall 2001 | ENG | 3950 | Topics in Literature |
Fall 2001 | ENG | 2800 | Great Works of Literature I |
Books
McClellan, W. T. (2016). Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles
McClellan, W. T. (2012). The Reconstructive Consequences of Agamben's Commentary on Romans, revise and resubmit.
McClellan, W. T. (2005). "Ful Pale Face: Agamben's Biopolitical Theory and the Sovereign Subject in Chaucer's Clerk Tale". Exemplaria, , 17. 103 - 134.
McClellan, W. T. (1996). "A Codicological Analysis of the Quire Structure of MS HM140 and Its Implications for a Revised Ordinatio" . Text: Transactions of the Society for Texual Scholarship , 8. 187-198.
McClellan, W. T. (1994). "The Transcription of the Clerk's Tale in MS HM 140: Interpreting Texual Effects" . Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia , 89-103.
McClellan, W. T. (1992). "The Consequences of 'Treuth': Reading Two Versions of the Clerk's Tale" . Genre, University of Oklahoma, 153-178.
McClellan, W. T. (1990). "The Dialogic Other: Bahktin's Theory of Rhetoric" . Discourse Social/Social Discourse: Research Papers in Comparative Literature: Bakhtin and Otherness, McGill University, 233-249.
McClellan, W. T. (1989). "Lars Engle, 'Chaucer, Bakhtin and Griselda': A Response". Exemplaria, 499-506.
(1989). "Bahktin's Theory of Dialogic Discourse, Medieval Rhetorical Theory and The Multi-Voiced Structure of The Clerk's Tale" . Exemplaria, Published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, SUNY Binghamton, (461-488).
Book Chapters
McClellan, W. T. (2011). "Primo Levi and the History of Reception". In Pugliese, S. (Ed.), Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall (pp. 169-178, 277-78.). New York,USA. Fordham University Press.
McClellan, W. T. (2005). "Primo Levi, Georgio Agamben, and the New Ethics of Reading,". In Pugliese, S. (Ed.), The Legacy of Primo Levi (pp. 147-152). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
McClellan, W. T. (2000). "'Me thynketh It a Thyng Impertinent': Inaugurating Dialogic Discourse in the Prologue to the Clerk's Tale". In Hill, J. (Ed.), Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages (pp. 149-163). U of Farleigh Dickinson.
McClellan, W. T. (1998). "A Postmodern Performance: Counter-reading Chaucer's 'Clerk's' Tale and Maxine Hong Kingston's 'No Name Woman'". In Paxon, J., Tomasch, S., & Cooper, L. (Eds.), The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays in Performativity, Semiotics and History in Chaucer and the Drama (pp. 183-196). Cambridge. D.S. Brewer.
McClellan, W. T. (1992). "Radical Theology or Parody in a Marian Lyric of MS Harley 2253". In Sinnreich-Levi, D., & Sigal, G. (Eds.), Voices in Translation (pp. 157-168). New York. AMS Press.
Presentations
McClellan, W. T. (2009, April 30). The Reconstructive Consequences of Agamben's Commentary on Romans. Glossing is a Glorious Thing: The Past, Present and Future of Commentary. CUNY Graduate Center: City University of New York, New York.
McClellan, W. T. (2007, February 28). Primo Levi's Engagement with Dante's 'Ulysses Canto' in Survivial in Auschwitz. Holocaust Educators Network. New York, NY: CUNY Graduate Center.
McClellan, W. T. (2007, May 31). Chaucer and the Ethics of Reception: Reading 'The Clerk's Tale' Today. 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Western Michigan University.
McClellan, W. T. (2007, April 30). Primo Levi and the History of Reception. Answering Auchwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism After the Fall. Hempstead, NY: Hofstra University.
McClellan, W. T. (2002, May 31). Modern theorists and the Cultural Capital of the Middle Ages: Bakhtin and Agamben. 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
McClellan, W. T. (2002, October 31). Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamaben and the New Ethics of Reading. "If This Is a Man": The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi. Hofstra University
McClellan, W. T. (2001, May 31). The Mirabilis, Alexis Fresco, and the Topographical Imagination of Medieval Rome. 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
McClellan, W. T. (2000, May 31). The Fate of Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale' in the Fifteenth Century. 35th Annual Interantional Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
McClellan, W. T. (1997, February 28). They dauncen: Gendered Representations of Death and Desire and the Performance of Subjectivity in The Franklin's Tale. Medieval Club Conference. CUNY Graduate Center
McClellan, W. T. (1994, April 30). 'All Shook Up': Reading Traditional Texts in the Technological Culture of Postmodernity. Seminar Conference "The Engaged Humanities," Institute for Medical Humanities. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
McClellan, W. T. (1993, June 30). Deconstructing/Reconstructing Textual Transmission: A Codicological Analysis of MS HM 140. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Graduate Center/CUNY
McClellan, W. T. (1992, May 31). The Dialogic of The Clerk'sTale: Writing, Power and the Subjugation of Women. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan
McClellan, W. T. (1990, March 31). Bakhtin's Dialogic, Lyotard's Differend and the Problematics of Representation in a Multi-Cutural Universe,. Bakhtin: Dialogic Dimensions of Text, Thought and Performance. CUNY Graduate Center
McClellan, W. T. (1989, November 30). Bakhtin, Lyotard and Dilemmas of the Postmodern Sublime. Cultural Studies: Problems and Applications Marxism Now: Traditions and Differences. Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst
McClellan, W. T. (1989, September 30). Respondent to Jacques Derrida, "Where Does Theory Stand Today. Public Lecture. CUNY Graduate Center
McClellan, W. T. (1989, March 31). Rhetoric and Dialogics. Cultural Studies Seminar Workshop. CUNY Graduate Center
McClellan, W. T. (1989, April 30). Bakhtin, Lyotard and the Kantian Thematic of the Sublime. Cultural Studies: Theologies of Confusion. CUNY Graduate Center
McClellan, W. T. (1989, May 31). "Bakhtin and Chaucer" Debate with Lars Engle. Exemplaria, International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Michigan: .
McClellan, W. T. (1988, April 30). Bakhtin and Postmodernism: Narrative Text As Dialogic Discourse. Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Ohio State University
McClellan, W. T. (1987, November 30). Dialogic Discourse and the Problematics of Translatio in The Prologue to the Clerk's Tale. Mid-Hudson MLA. Marist College
McClellan, W. T. (1987, May 31). Radical Theology or Parody in Marian Lyric of MS Harley 2253. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
McClellan, W. T. (1987, April 30). Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogic Discourse and Medieval Rhetorical Theory. Medieval Academy of America Meeting. University of Toronto
McClellan, W. T. (1986, October 31). Dialogics As a Theory of Rhetorical Discourse and Its Grounding in Social Evaluation. Colloquium. CUNY Graduate School
McClellan, W. T. (1986, May 31). The World Upside Down: The Typology of Chaucer's Parodic Discourse. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University
McClellan, W. T. (1985, December 31). The Parodic Voice of Grotesque Realism in the Second Ending of The Clerk's Tale. Helaine Newstead Medieval Studies Seminar. CUNY Graduate
McClellan, W. T. (1985, October 31). Dialogic Discourse and A New Rhetorical Model. The Semiotic Study Group. CUNY Graduate School
McClellan, W. T. (1985, November 30). Bakhtin's Discourse Typology and Some Questions Concerning Oral Narratives. Hunter- Brookdale Institute on the Humanities, Arts and Aging. Hunter College
McClellan, W. T. (1984, November 30). Translatio and the Announcement of Double -Voiced Discourse in The Prologue of the Clerk's Tale. Helaine Newstead Medieval Studies Seminar. CUNY
McClellan, W. T. (1980, December 31). Polyphonic Narrative Voicing: Apostrophe and Dialectic in the Merchant's Tale. Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association. Marist College
Reviews
McClellan, W. T. (2006,January 1). Lynn Staley, 2005, Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II, Pennslyvania State University Press,. Speculum .
McClellan, W. T. (1999,January 1). Jill Ricketts, Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of "The Decameron" from Giotto to Pasolini. Cambridge University Press, 1997 .
Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
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Presidential Excellence Award | Baruch College, CUNY | 2005 | Distinguished Teaching |
Administrative Reassigned Time | Student Advisement 4 Hours (2 hours per semester) |
College
Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
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Evening Student Advisor | Present | ||
Faculty Senate | Committee Member | Present | |
Student Poetry Revel | Organizer | Present | |
Faculty Senate | Committee Member | Present | |
First Year Composition Task Force | 8/31/2008 | ||
Composition Committe | 8/31/2006 | ||
Curriculum Committee | 8/31/2002 | ||
Subcommittee of Curriculum Committee on Program Development | Committee Chair | 12/31/1994 | |
Curriculum Committee | Secretary | 8/31/1993 | |
Committee on Academic Standing | 8/31/1992 | ||
Committee on Cultural Studies | 6/30/1992 | ||
Presidential Scholarship Award | Committee Member | 3/31/1991 | |
Dept Secretary | 8/31/1988 |
University
Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
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Steering Committee | Representative for Baruch College CUNY English Forum Craduate Center | 4/1/1993 | 3/31/1994 |
Ogranizing Committee | Representative for Baruch College CUNY English Forum, Graduate Center | 4/4/1993 | 3/31/1994 |
Public
Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
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Medieval Club of New York | Member | Present | ||||
Modern Langauage Association | Member | Present | ||||
The Medieval Academy of America | Member | Present | ||||
Committee on the English Major, English Department, Baruch | Organizer and Member | 1/1/2000 | 12/31/2002 | |||
Organizing Committe, Series of Six Colloquia, Bakhtin: Radical Perspectives | 10/1/1986 | 11/30/1986 | ||||
Helaine Newsread Medieval Studies Seminar | Speaker and Committee Member | 1/1/1978 | 12/31/1985 |