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Gregory Roper received his PhD from the University of Virginia. In addition to his role as associate professor, he is also the current dean of students. 

• B.A. 911爆料网
• M.A. University of Virginia
• PhD University of Virginia

• Literary Tradition I, II, III, IV
• Medieval Literature, Medieval Drama
• Critical Theory
• Chaucer I and II
• Gawain-poet
• Creative Nonfiction

Gregory Roper, PhD has interests in Middle English literature, rhetoric and composition, literary theory, and pedagogy. He has published essays on Medieval penitential manuals and their influence on late Medieval literature, on the  Canterbury Tales , and on teaching survey courses and literary theory. He has published a book using ancient and medieval notions of imitation to help students write better entitled  The Writer's Workshop . He also enjoys advising students about career plans and graduate school.

• Mastering the Four Arguments. Washington, DC: Regnery Books.  Forthcoming in 2024.
• A Life Well-Lived: A Student Guide to the Education of the Whole Person. 911爆料网, 2023.
• Due Santi and the 911爆料网: Un Piccolo Paradiso.  The History Press, 2020. 
• The Writer鈥檚 Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing.  Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2007.

• 鈥淧hilip Neri (1515-1585 CE) at the Catacombs of S. Sebastiano, the Chiesa di San Girolamo della Carita, the Basilica di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, and the Chiesa Nuova.鈥�  People and Places of the Roman Past: An Educated Traveler鈥檚 Guide. Ed. Peter Hatlie.  ARC Humanities Press, 2018.    
• 鈥淩everencia Irreverente : Una Aproximacion a La Cultura Occidental a Trav茅s del Cuento 鈥楨l Capellan De Monjas鈥� de Chaucer.鈥� (Irreverent Reverence: An Approach to Western Culture Through Chaucer鈥檚 Nun鈥檚 Priest鈥檚 Tale). Estudios 116 (Primavera 2016), 113-128. Translation into Spanish by Carlos Gutierrez Lozano.
• 鈥淔rom Nothing to Being: Medieval Lyric and Poetic Form as Entelechy.鈥� The Prospect of Lyric. Ed. Bainard Cowan.  Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Press, 2012, 77-94.
• 鈥淏righten the Corner Where You Are: How I Found A Way to Marry Teaching and Research and Just Maybe Be Happy.鈥� Studies In Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 11 (Fall 2003): 15-24.
• 鈥淢aking the Students Do the Teaching: Problems of 鈥楤rit Lit Survey I.鈥欌�� Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 9 (Spring 2002): 39-58.
• 鈥淒ropping the Personae and Reforming the Self: The Parson鈥檚 Tale and the End of The Canterbury Tales.鈥� Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson鈥檚 Tale. Ed. David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000, 151-175.
• 鈥淭he Middle English Lyric 鈥業鈥�, Penitential Poetics, and Medieval Selfhood.鈥� Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 42 (1994): 71-103.
• 鈥淧earl, Penitence, and the Recovery of the Self.鈥� Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 164-186.
• 鈥淟etting the Students Ask the Questions: Teaching Milton and the New Historicism.鈥� Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 3 (1992): 47-63.

• 鈥淭he Lives of Persons on Campus: What It Means to Consider Students as Persons and Not Individuals.鈥� DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture 23rd Annual Fall Conference: 鈥淒ust of the Earth: On Persons.鈥� University of Notre Dame, November 1, 2023.
• 鈥淭he Student As Creature: An Approach to Student Life.鈥�  DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture 22nd Annual Fall Conference: 鈥淎nd It Was Very Good.鈥�  University of Notre Dame, November 12, 2022.
• 鈥淗ow to Teach Anything.鈥�  National Conference of the Institute for Catholic Education (ICLE), St. Paul, MN, July 28, 2021.
• 鈥淐lassical (and Catholic) Education and Friendship: The Good of Looking Together Upon Something Good.鈥� deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture 20th Annual Fall Conference: 鈥淚 Have Called You Friends.鈥�  University of Notre Dame, November 8, 2019.
•  鈥淟iterature鈥檚 Power and Chaucer鈥檚 Critique.鈥�  Keynote address, the National Conference of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (ICLE), Washington, DC, July 24, 2019.
• 鈥淭he Scent of the Text: Entente, Emotion, and Narrative in The Summoner鈥檚 Tale.鈥�  52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2017.
• 鈥淭eaching Is An Act of the Imagination: Accessing Your Own Best Resources to Become A Better Teacher.鈥� Roundtable presentation on Becoming Great Teachers in Graduate School at the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 2017.
• 鈥淭he Shrew and the Prodigal: Medieval Biblical Drama and Shakespeare鈥檚 Taming.鈥� 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses.  Dallas, Texas, April 22, 2017.
• ""'Han ye a figure thane determinat'?: Private Space, the Body, Entente, and Confession in the Friar's Tale." 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14, 2016.
• 鈥�"Irreverent Reverence: An Approach to Western Culture through Chaucer鈥檚 Nun鈥檚 Priest鈥檚 Tale.鈥�  Conference on Tradicion y Humanismo, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, August 19, 2015.
• 鈥�"Teaching Chaucer as an Introduction to Literary Study.鈥� 14th Biennial Congress of The New Chaucer Society, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2004.  
• 鈥淭he Post-Postmodern Chaucer: Confessional Word as Deed in Chaucer鈥檚 Last Tales.鈥�  Texas Medieval Association Annual Conference, University of St. Thomas, October 3, 2002.
• 鈥淐onfessional Rhetoric in Chaucer鈥檚 Last Tales: Fulfillment and Transformation.鈥�  13th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Boulder, Colorado, July 19, 2002.
• 鈥淢edieval Religion and Postmodern Theory: Words and the Word.鈥� 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2001.
• 鈥淭eaching Penitential Personhood.鈥� 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2001.
• 鈥淭he Problems with the Postmodern Performance of Penance.鈥� 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2000.
• 鈥淭he Parson鈥檚 Tale as a Door to Teaching Concepts of Medieval Christian Culture.鈥�  35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2000.
• 鈥淧oetic Enjambment, Order, and Violation in the Gawain-poet.鈥�  34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, 1999.
• 鈥淭he Perils of Postmodern Penance: Reading Postmodern Readings of Medieval Confession.鈥�  34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1999.
• 鈥淲alking the Point: Hypertext, Ideology, Postmodernism, and Medieval Studies.鈥� 32nd  International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,  May 8, 1997.
• 鈥淲ays of Improving 鈥楨ng Lit at Mach 5鈥�.鈥� Midwest Modern Language Association 37th Annual Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 8, 1996.
• 鈥淪elf and Subject: Foucault and Medieval Penitential Practice.鈥� Midwest Modern Language Association 36th Annual Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, November 4, 1995.

• 鈥淲riting As Imitation,鈥� 鈥淭he Four Questions of a Liberal Education,鈥� 鈥淪tasis Theory As a Guide to Teaching Argumentation.鈥� Intensive workshops in Professional Development at the Colegio San Jos茅, C谩jica, Colombia, August 1-5, 2022.  
• 鈥淪tasis Theory: Teaching Writing Using the Four Arguments.鈥�  National Conference of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (ICLE), Washington, DC, July 25, 2019.
• 鈥淯sing Stasis Theory in the Middle and High School Classroom.鈥�  Keynote speaker, Rocky Mountain Teachers鈥� Summit, Colorado Christian University, Denver, CO, April 13, 2019.
• 鈥淎n Introduction to Stasis Theory.鈥�  Organizer, Presenter, and Instructor. The Covenant School, Dallas, TX, September 11, 2018.
• 鈥淭eaching Dispositio and Elocutio.鈥� Organizer, Presenter, and Instructor.  A two-day workshop for The John Adams School, Sacramento, CA, August 2-3, 2018.
• 鈥淭eaching Stasis Theory and the Four Arguments.鈥�  Organizer, Presenter, and Instructor.  A five-day workshop for the Great Hearts Schools, North Phoenix Preparatory, Phoenix, AZ,  July 23-27, 2018.
• 鈥淪tyle Is Not Simply Ornament: A Rhetoric of Style.鈥�  Invited presentation at a three-day seminar on rhetoric and the teaching of writing, The Great Hearts Schools, Phoenix, AZ, April 20-22, 2016.