Date: 1/14/2022

Vitae

Aidan Holtan

Grayson College
Instruction Division
English
Denison, TX 75020
Office Phone: (903) 463-8697
holtana@grayson.edu

Education
B.A. English, 2011, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
M.A. Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies, 2013, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Ph.D. English, 2020, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Teaching Experience
I am prepared to teach the following courses: INRW 0310, ENGL 1301, ENGL 1302, ENGL 2311, ENGL
2322, ENGL 2323, ENGL 2327, ENGL 2328, ENGL 2332, ENGL 2333, ENGL 2341

I am presently teaching: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302

Professional Experience
August 2021—Present Grayson College
Professor of English
• Teaching composition and literature courses, including dual credit

August 2020—May 2021 Purdue University

Limited Term Lecturer
• Taught composition courses for Introductory Composition at Purdue
• English faculty member for the “Engineering in the World of Data” learning community

August 2014—August 2020 Purdue University

Graduate Teaching Assistant
• Taught composition courses for Introductory Composition at Purdue
• English faculty member for composition course integrated with introductory courses in Purdue
Polytechnic and the Communications department
Honors and Awards
2019–2020 Purdue Research Foundation Dissertation Grant: A year-long dissertation
completion fellowship granted by Purdue University
• $20,000

2015–2020 Purdue University English Department Quintillian Award: for excellence in

student evaluation scores.
• Received Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2020

2017–2018 The Thomas Ohlgren Award for Best Graduate Student Essay for “Reading
Dismemberment in the Monstrous and Hagiographic Bodies of Old English
Literature,” granted by Purdue Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS).

2018 Purdue University English Department Excellence in Teaching Awards,

Honorable Mention, Spring 2018.

2017 Purdue Graduate School Summer PRF Research Grant

• $3,332

2017 Promoting Research Opportunities to Maximize Innovation and Scholarly

Excellence (PROMISE) Award, granted by Purdue University
• Tier 2 (International Travel): $1,500

2016 Promoting Research Opportunities to Maximize Innovation and Scholarly

Excellence (PROMISE) Award, granted by Purdue University
• Tier 2 (International Travel): $1,500

2016 Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant, granted by Purdue

University
• Tier 3: $250

2012 Christine Fell Award for medieval postgraduates at the University of Nottingham,
granted by the University of Nottingham
• £1,000

2012 Friends of the University of Nottingham: America Scholarship, granted by the

Friends of the University of Nottingham
• $6,000

Association Memberships
Medieval Academy of America (MAA)
Hagiography Society
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Texas Community College Teachers Association (TCCTA)

Professional Presentations
Nov. 2021 LITCO Teaching Panel. Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

May 2021 “The Room Where It Happened: Feasting Spaces in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.
Nov. 2019 “Þæt wæs tācen sweotol: Dismemberment and Display in Beowulf and Grettis
saga.” LTC Forum Series. West Lafayette, IN.

Oct. 2019 “Creating Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching/learning Praxis with Design

Thinking, Communication, and Composition.” Co-authored with Sweta Baniya,
Christi Eden, Shawn Farrington, Derek Sherman, Liwei Zhang, Nathan Mentzer
and Dawn Laux. SIGDOC Conference. Portland, OR.

May 2019 “Bodies on the Border: Liminal Postmortem Displays in Beowulf.” International
Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.

Apr. 2019 “Eating Your Words: Feasting as Discourse in the Íslendingasögur.” Comitatus
Symposium. West Lafayette, IN.

Apr. 2019 Moderator for “Undergraduate Tolkien Roundtable.” Comitatus Symposium. West
Lafayette, IN.

Oct. 2018 “Þæt was tacen sweotol: Displaying Dismemberment in Beowulf.” Medieval
Association of the Midwest Conference. West Lafayette, IN.

May 2018 “Reading Dismemberment in the Monstrous and Hagiographic Bodies of Old
English Literature.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.

Apr. 2018 “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Integrated Curriculum, and Professional

Development.” Co-Authored with Amelia Chesley, Tejasvi Parupudi, Shawn
Farrington, Christi Eden, Sweta Baniya Nathan Mentzer, and Dawn Laux.
American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Illinois-Indiana Section
Conference. West Lafayette, IN.

Jan. 2018 “No Ifs, Ands, or Butts About It: The Decapitation of Glámr in Grettis Saga.” 2018
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference.
Chicago, IL.

July 2017 “Talking Heads: Monstrous and Hagiographic Decapitation in Old English
Literature.” International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK.

May 2017 Organizer for “Shifting Shape and Changing Form I and II.” Panels sponsored by
the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Purdue University. International
Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI.

July 2016 “Hostess or Huntress? Women and Agency in the Feasting Spaces of
the Íslendingasögur." International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK.

Mar. 2016 “The Educational Body in The Shewings of Julian of Norwich.” Indiana Medieval
Graduate Consortium. West Lafayette, IN.

Oct. 2015 “Geis and the Rise and Fall of Kingship in Beowulf.” Southeastern Medieval
Association. Little Rock, AR.

Mar. 2015 “Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Posthumous Messengers in Wace’s Roman de Brut.”
Indiana Medieval Graduate Consortium. Bloomington, IN.

Apr. 2013 “Body and Soul in Old English Poetry.” Anglo-Saxons on the Mind Symposium.
Nottingham, UK.
Publications and Papers
Baniya, S., N. Mentzer, D. Laux, A. Holtan, S. Farrington, C. Eden, D. Sherman, L. Zhang. “Creating
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching/learning Praxis with Design Thinking, Communication,
and Composition.” Proceedings of ACM SIGDOC Conference, Oregon, Portland, USA, Oct 2019
USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3328020.3353930.

“Writing Sanctity Upon the Body: The Scarification of Incorrupt Saints in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography.”
Disability and the Medieval Cults of Saints: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches, edited
by Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Pope Parker, and Alicia Spencer-Hall. Forthcoming.

Chesley, A., Parupudi, T., Baniya, S., Shawn Farrington, Aidan Holtan, Christy Eden, Dawn Laux,
Nathan Mentzer. “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Integrated Curriculum, and Professional
Development.” American Society for Engineering Education: IL/IN Regional Conference
Proceedings, 2018.

Languages
English, Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, and Latin.

Professional Development
Regular attendance at regional and national conferences; Participation at all college-wide training
activities.