Bruce R. Magee

Education

Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 1996

• Comparative Literature.  GPA 3.818
  Major Literature: English.
  Minor Literatures: Greek, Latin.
  Other Languages: German, Hebrew.
  Dissertation Title. The Amazon Myth in World Literature. 

Th.D. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988

• GPA 2.88 (out of a possible 3.00)
  Major: New Testament and Greek.
• Minor: Church History.
  Dissertation Title. A Rhetorical Analysis of First Corinthians 8:1-11:1 and Romans 14:1-15:13.
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M.Div. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1983

• GPA 2.978 (out of a possible 3.00)
  Major: Biblical Studies.
  

B.A. Louisiana Tech University, 1980

• GPA 3.98
  Major: History.
  

Research and Articles

Workman, James. Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. 2nd ed. Charleston: Query & Evans, 1804. Stephen Payne and I have an upcoming edition of the play to be published by ULL Press. We have finished the editing process, but do not know exactly when it will be published.

High School ELA 11^th-Grade Unit on Samuel Clemens’ “Mardi Gras Letter.” (https:// louisiana-anthology. org/ texts/ twain/ clemens--letter--resources.html). Co-editor with Stephen Payne. 2012-Present. Ongoing project.

The Louisiana Anthology. (https:// louisiana-anthology.org/). Co-editor with Stephen Payne. 2012-Present. Ongoing project. We currently have over 9,000,000 words by 240 authors.

The Louisiana Anthology Podcast. (https:// louisianaanthology. blogspot. com/). Co-host with Stephen Payne. 2013-present. We currently have 516 episodes posted, covering Louisiana literature, culture, history, music, food, etc.

The Louisiana Anthology Cookbook. (https://louisiana anthologycookbook. blogspot.com/). Co-editor with Stephen Payne. 2014-present. We currently have 672 recipes, most of them from old Louisiana cookbooks that my technical writing students have updated into modern recipe format.

“Faith and Fantasy in ‘Young Goodman Brown’.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, 2003.

“‘Young Goodman Brown’ and Pilgrim's Progress.” Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, 2002.

Conference Presentations

“The Ursuline Correspondence.” 65^th Louisiana Historical Association Annual Meeting. Alexandria, March 17, 2023. (Presentation with Stephen Payne.)

“Mariaze Djabe.” 14^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 17, 2022. (Presentation with Stephen Payne.)

“Huey Long — Bogeyman or Superman?” 13^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 25, 2021. (Presentation with Stephen Payne.)

“Losing Louisiana in the Classroom.” 12^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 19, 2020. (Presentation with Stephen Payne.)

Liberty in Louisiana. 11^th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, September 20-21, 2019. (Presentation with Stephen Payne.)

“Mr. Pontillier’s Problem.” PCAS/ACAS (The Popular Culture Association in the South, and The American Culture Association in the South Conference). New Orleans, October 4-6, 2018.

“Literary Landscapes in Chopin's ‘At the ’Cadian Ball.’” 9th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, October 2017.

“Twelve Years a Slave in the Louisiana Anthology.” (With Stephen Payne). Solomon Northup Symposium. LSUA. Alexandria, LA. February 2014.

“The Anthology of Louisiana Literature.” (With Stephen Payne). 5th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference. Natchitoches, October 2013.

“Teaching Latin Using the Internet.” LCA (Louisiana Classics Association). Lake Charles, 2001.

Fiction reading. Mississippi Philological Association. Hattiesburg, MS. 1998.

“Kiss of the Amazon Woman: An Analysis of Kleist’s Penthesilea.” SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association). Dallas, TX. 1997.

“Lost Amazons of the New World.” GEMCS (The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies). Dallas, TX. 1995.