Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
31 Years of Service
Dr. Burlbaw earned a B.A. in History from the University of Albuquerque, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M upon graduation and has served the university for 31 years. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty and served one year as Interim Department Head. He served as a member of the Faculty Development Leave Committee for 20 years, the last 10 as Vice-Chair. Dr. Burlbaw was active in other campus organizations such as Melburn G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the Center of Digital Humanities Research. He has provided leadership in a variety of professional organizations: Central Texas Historical Association (Charter Board Member), South Texas Historical Association (Vice-President), Organization of Educational Historians (President), Society for the Study of Curriculum History (Executive Secretary, 30 years), and Mu Chi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society (Chapter Counselor, 30 years). He was awarded the Mussellman Award for Service by Kappa Delta Pi in 2018. His research has focused on programs related to schools from 1880 to 1950 in Colorado and Texas, especially New Deal Program in Texas. During his tenure at Texas A&M he has chaired over 600 Masters degree committees and supervised 47 doctoral dissertations as well as serving on over 100 other graduate committees. He and his wife, Bonnie, will continue to live in Bryan, TX, where Dr. Burlbaw will be active in community programs.
Associate Professor
Department of Performance Studies and Director, Religious Studies Program
Donnalee Dox is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. She is Head of the Department of Performance Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies. She currently serves as Interim Head of Performance Studies, and has served as the Associate Director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Her research focuses on religion and the human body. In addition to a monograph, The Idea of the Theatre in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth Century (University of Michigan Press, 2004), she has published articles on medieval intellectual history, middle eastern dance, modern postural yoga, neo-shamanism, and contemporary spiritual performance. Her work has appeared in Theatre Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, The Journal of Religion and Theatre, Theatre Research International, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ecumenica, and TDR as well as in collections of essays, including the groundbreaking Acts of Faith: Religion, Theatre, and Performance (Routledge, 2011). Her monograph, Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm of Performance is forthcoming (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
Professor, Department of English and Department of International Studies
Craig Kallendorf (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A&M University. His work centers on book history in the early modern period, with a focus on the classics and the relationship between media and content. He is the author of three bibliographies on the Roman poet Virgil, catalogues of rare book collections at Princeton and the University of Texas, and four monographs, the most recent of which (The Protean Virgil: Material Form and the Reception of the Classics) is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press in March, 2015. Professor Kallendorf is president of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies and immediate past president of the Vergilian Society; he is also a member of the Grolier Club and will give the Bibliographical Society of America’s annual lecture at its January, 2015 meeting as part of Bibliography Week in New York City.
Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Visualization, College of Architecture
Tim McLaughlin joined the faculty of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture in September 2007 and became Head of the new Department of Visualization in January 2008. He continues to hold that position.
Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M Tim worked in the visual effects industry at Industrial Light & Magic, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. in San Francisco, California where he led teams of artists and research scientists developing processes and producing groundbreaking award winning visual effects for films. His credit list includes 15 theatrically released feature film projects including Mars Attacks! (1996) Star Wars: Episode I (1999), Van Helsing (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005). The work of Tim’s technical artists contributed directly to Science & Technology Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences being given to teams of ILM researchers in 1998, 2001, and 2013. These awards represent the highest film industry recognition for technical excellence.
At Texas A&M, Tim’s undergraduate teaching area involves collaborative student projects that include computer animation production techniques and visual storytelling. His graduate teaching and research work focuses on developing animation systems for character articulation and deformation.
Associate Professor, Department of History and Associate Director, Center of Digital Humanities Research
Email: daniel.schwartz@tamu.edu
Daniel L. Schwartz is Associate Professor of History and affiliate faculty with the Religious Studies Program. He is the director of Syriaca.org and the editor of Syriaca.org’s SPEAR project (Syriac Persons, Events, and Relations), an online prosopographical research tool. He is the author of Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia and the editor, with Neil McLynn and Arietta Papaconstantinou, of the forthcoming Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Early Christian Studies. He is currently working on a book on crowds in Late Antiquity.
Associate Editor, World Shakespeare Bibliography and Instructional Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Katayoun Torabi is Associate Editor of the World Shakespeare Bibliography and Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She specializes in Old and Middle English Literature, with research and teaching interests in the Digital Humanities. Her most recent publications include “if (not “Quantize, Click, and Conclude”) {DigitalMethodsInMedievalStudies();},” (in Meeting the Medieval in a Digital World, 2018); “Two New Approaches to Exploring Monstrous Landscapes in Beowulf and Blickling Homily XVII,” (Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol. 31, 2016); and “Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) at Texas A&M University: Using Aletheia to Train Tesseract,” (ACM Document Engineering Proceedings, 2013). Her current research centers on the connection between purgation and incarceration in the early Christian tradition. She is working on a book project that explores literary representations of post-mortem carceral spaces in the Middle Ages and the ways in which otherworldly prisoners–such as dead pagans, excommunicates, restless ghosts, and devils–engage with their spaces of punishment in medieval narratives.
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
Dr. Warren’s areas of specialization include medieval and early modern literature and culture; female spirituality; transnational approaches to literature (especially England, France, and Spain); and intersections of gender, religion, and nationality.
After earning her Ph.D. in English from Indiana University in 1997, Dr. Warren taught for two years in a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before becoming an assistant professor of English at Utah State University in 1999. In 2003, she moved to Florida State University, where she was promoted to full professor in 2008. In 2011 she came to Texas A&M University as professor of English and head of the English Department.
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