About
I teach writing at MacEwan University. Here’s
my faculty page.
I am an experienced writer, editor, speaker, educator, and writing coach. I’m also a long-time WordPress and web content management systems (CMS) professional. I have over 15 years of experience planning, designing, building, supporting — and training people to effectively use — digital publishing tools for the greatest effect with their target audiences. As a media and communication professional with a Masters degree in English and over 10 years of teaching experience, I can translate complex ideas between many communities of expertise and lay audiences.
My graduate studies were in early modern literature and history with a focus on religion, politics, and print from 1400-1600.
A native of the Hudson valley region of east-central New York state, I’ve lived in the South, the Midwest, northern New Jersey, and Guam. I’m currently a permanent resident of Canada.
Publications
“Piers Plowman: Passus 17,” in
The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600, edited by Michelle M. Sauer, 327-29. New York: Infobase, 2008.
“Piers Plowman Tradition,” in Sauer, 330-31.
“The Shepheardes Calender: Maye Eclogue,” in Sauer, 402.
“Placing the Early Modern in Dialogue with the Postmodern: Christian Humanism in the Renaissance,” Chapter 3 in
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity, edited by Deborah Bowen, 30-48. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
Review of
Commonplace Books: A History of Manuscripts and Printed Books from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, by Earl Havens,
Sixteenth Century Journal 34:2 (2003): 610-11.
Review of
Writing and Society: Literacy, Print, and Politics in Britain, 1590-1660, by Nigel Wheale,
Sixteenth Century Journal 33:1 (2002): 290-92.
See https://macewan.academia.edu/DanKnauss for an up-to-date list.
