R. Allen Shoaf VITA

RICHARD ALLEN SHOAF

Alumni Professor of English

University of Florida

curriculum vitae

ADDRESSES

Professional 4338 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117310, UF, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310; 352.392-6650 x 264
Home 2016 NW 19th Lane, Gainesville, FL 32605-3917; 352.371-7149 or 352.317-0247 (CELL)
EMAIL ras@ufl.edu; alsastar@gmail.com; ras@rallenshoaf.net
FAX 352.392-0860 [also 352.371-7149 if I am alerted in advance]
World Wide Web rallenshoaf.net

EDUCATION

B. A. summa cum laude, “With Honors in the Arts and Sciences,” Wake Forest University 1970; B. A. Honours, The University of East Anglia 1972; M. A. Cornell University 1975; Ph. D. Cornell University 1977

DISSERTATION

“‘Mutatio Amoris’: Revision and Penitence in Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess.” Director: R. E. Kaske, late Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University

LANGUAGES (reading competence)

Latin, Italian, French (old and modern), Old and Middle English, German, Provençal

EMPLOYMENT

Cornell University, Teaching Assistant in the English Department

Courses Taught

1973-74 The Freshman Humanities Program, English 131
1974 (Fall term) seminar leader, English 201 (sophomore survey)
1975 Director of an Independent Study in the College Scholar Program

Yale University, Assistant Professor of English, 1977-1981

Courses Taught

1977-78 “Major English Poets” and “The European Literary Tradition”
1978-79 “Major English Poets”; “Chaucer and His Contemporaries”; “Reading Old Icelandic”
1979-80 “Major English Poets”; “The European Literary Tradition”; “Chaucer and His Contemporaries”; “The Gift of Adam: Medieval Language Theory”
1981-82 “Major English Poets”; “Dante and Chaucer”; “The Bible and Middle English Literature”

Yale University, Associate Professor of English, 1982-85

Courses Taught

1983-84 “Major English Poets”; “Chaucer” (lecture course); “Fin’amors Lyricism and Late Medieval Narrative”
1984-85 “Late Medieval Narrative and Modern Literary Theory” (senior seminar); “Chaucer” (graduate course); “Major English Poets”
1985 “Dante and Chaucer”; “Major English Poets”

The University of Florida, Professor of English, 1986-present

Courses Taught

1986 “Middle English” (Graduate Seminar); “Modern Literary Criticism”; “Chaucer” (Undergraduate and Graduate)
1987 “Writing about Literature”; “Survey of English Literature”; “Chaucer” (Undergraduate lecture course)
1988 “Middle English” (Graduate Seminar) both terms
1989 “Chaucer” (Undergraduate lecture course); “Middle English” (Graduate Seminar)
1990 “Studies in Middle English” (Undergraduate lecture course)
1991 “Middle English” (Graduate Seminar) both terms; “Survey of English Literature”; “Chaucer” (Undergraduate lecture course)
1992 “Studies in Middle English” (Undergraduate lecture course); “Survey of English Literature”; “Chaucer” (Graduate Seminar)
1993 “Studies in Middle English”; “The European Epic”; “Survey of English Literature”
1994 “Chaucer” (undergraduate and graduate seminars)
1995 “Chaucer” (undergraduate seminar); “Survey of English Literature” (Honors; in a computer-equipped laboratory classroom sponsored by UCET and IBM); graduate seminar in “Women in Medieval Literature”
Spring 1996 Sabbatical Leave
1996 “Studies in Middle English”; “Dante for English Majors” (Senior Seminar)
1997 “Early Modern Literature and the World Wide Web,” Special Topics Course; “Cultural Studies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period.”
1998 “Milton”; “Dante for English Majors”; “Sexuality in Medieval Literature”
1999 “Chaucer” (undergraduate and graduate)
2000 On research leave
2000-1 “Sexuality in Medieval Literature”; “Studies in Middle English” ; “Milton”; “Juxtology in Shakespeare”
2001-2 “Chaucer” (undergraduate); “Studies in Middle English Literature”; “Shakespeare and Method”
Summer 2002 “Dante” in the UF in Rome Summer School Abroad
2002-3 “Studies in Middle English”; “Milton”; “Shakespeare” (graduate level)
2003-4 “Shakespeare” (graduate level); “Studies in Middle English”; “Shakespeare”
2004-5 “Sexuality in Medieval Literature”; “Chaucer”; “Shakespeare: Rhetoric”; “Milton”
Fall 2005 Sabbatical Leave
Spring 2006 “Shakespeare: Rhetoric” (Graduate level)
Fall 2006 “Studies in Middle English Literature”; “Dante for English Majors”
Spring 2007 “Shakespeare: Rhetoric”; “Studies in Middle English Literature” (Graduate level)
Summer 2007 “Chaucer”
Fall 2007 “Chaucer”
Spring 2008 “Shakespeare: Rhetoric”; “Chaucer and the tre corone of Italy” (Graduate level)
Fall 2008 “Studies in Middle English”; “Dante for English Majors”
Spring 2009 “Sexuality in Medieval Literature: sorplus”; “Shakespeare: Rhetoric”
Fall 2009 “Chaucer”; “Shakespeare: Rhetoric”

Wake Forest University, Visiting Professor of English, Summer 2002

“Studies in Middle English”

TEACHING INTERESTS

Medieval and Renaissance poetry (English, Italian, French, Latin)
Literary Theory
Composition
Poetry writing

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS (in reverse chronological order)

2009 appointed Extramural Reviewer for the appointment to the Chair of Medieval English Literature in the University of Berne
2007 Nominated for a CLAS Teacher of the Year Award
2007 Nominated for Distinguished Alumni Professorship
2006 Invited to give the Cobb Shakespeare Lecture, Doane College
2004 Nominated for a CLAS Teacher of the Year Award
2004 Invited to stand for the Richard W. Lyman Award in Humanities and Digital Computing of the National Humanities Center
2004 Named External Member of the Appointments Committee for the Chair in Medieval English Literature in the University of Geneva
2004 Plenary Speaker for the University of California — Santa Barbara Graduate Student Conference in Medieval Studies, April 16, 2004
2002 Plenary speaker at the Kennesaw State University Medieval Symposium, “Teaching Chaucer,” April 5, 2002
2002 Addressed the Department of English, Emory University, “The Crisis of Credentialing in the Academy,” April 4, 2002
2002 Paper at the Symposium in honor of Margaret Schlauch in Poznán, Poland at Adam Mickiewicz University, May 15, 2002
2001 Awarded UF post-tenure review salary increment
2000 Nominated to stand for election to the office of Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America
2000 Exemplaria awarded an OSCAR and named a KEY RESOURCE
2000 Plenary speaker at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, March 31-April 1, 2000
2000 Address the Medieval Studies Group of Wake Forest University, April 1, 2000
1998 Awarded (second) Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities, for 1999-2000
1998 Recipient of (second) T.I.P. (Teaching Incentive Program) Award
1998 Invited to teach as a sabbatical replacement for Prof. Dr. Margaret Enid Bridges in the Universität Bern in 1999
1998 Selected for a Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1997 Appointed to the Editorial Board of the CELJ Review of Learned Journals (a new on-line journal for reviewing academic journals).
1997 Invited by Northstar Interactive, an online research firm in New York, to participate on their research panel of online users.
1996 Winner of a UF Professorial Excellence Program (P.E.P.) Award in the inaugural year of the program
1996 Selected Distinguished Teacher in the Region (in the category of institutions granting the PhD) in the annual competition sponsored by SAADE (the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English); honored at SAMLA Meeting in November 1996
1996 Elected President of the Howe Society of the UF Smathers Libraries
1996 Biographee in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 13th edition.
1995 One of my WebPages chosen by LLC to feature in its video on the WWW
1995 Appointed Manager of the Publications Page of the Labyrinth WWW site maintained at Georgetown University by Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart
1995 Awarded Special Summer Stipend by the Office of Research, Technology, and Graduate Education (ORTGE) to compensate for NEH cancellation of Summer Stipends for 1996
1995 Selected as one of three UF Faculty to be recommended forward for an NEH Summer Stipend 1996
1995 Elected Vice President of the Howe Society of the UF Smathers Libraries
1995 Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Howe Society at the University of Florida (Smathers Libraries)
1994 Recipient of T.I.P. (Teaching Incentive Program) Award
1994 Awarded a University Sabbatical for 1996 to complete edition of Usk’s Testament of Love
1994 Appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of RET, Renaissance Electronic Texts (University of Toronto)
1994 Elected President of CELJ, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1994-1996
1993 Appointed to the Advisory Board of SEENET, the Society for Early English and Norse Electronic texts
1993 Invited to give the Plenary address to the Virginia Medieval Symposium, Fredericksburg, VA, 19 November 1993: “‘By His Contrarie Is Every Thyng Declared’: Love, Knowledge, and Violence in Medieval Poetry”
1993 Awarded Summer Research Development Award, University of Florida; Project: “Dante in Ynglyssh”: The Circulation of Italian Literature in England in the Late Middle Ages
1993 Invited to be “Honored Visiting Scholar,” University of Central Florida, 24 March, in conjunction with “Private Lives and Public Policy” Symposium
1992 Selected for a University-wide “Teacher of the Year” Award
1992 Selected for a Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
1992 Invited to lecture on a sponsored lecture tour at the Universities of York, Bristol, and Exeter and the Swansea and Cardiff Colleges of the University of Wales; invited also to viva a Cardiff PhD during the same trip
1992 Invited to lecture in the University of Bern
1991 Elected to the Vice-Presidency of the Council of Editor of Learned Journals (CELJ), the official society for over 400 academic and learned journals throughout the world
1991 Awarded Summer Research Development Award, University of Florida; Project: “Dante in Ynglyssh”: The Circulation of Italian Literature in England in the Late Middle Ages
1990 CELJ (Council of Editors of Learned Journals) awarded Exemplaria 2.1 “Honorable Mention” in the category “Best Special Issue of a Member Journal in 1990”
1990 Elected Alumni Professor of English in the University of Florida for a three-year term (1990-93)
1989 Selected as a biographee in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 22nd edition ([1991]: 672B)
1989 Invited to be one of two Plenary Speakers at the 7th biannual New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Sarasota, FL (March 1990)
1988 Named to the Editorial Board of the TEAMS Initiative for Middle English texts for teaching
1988 Appointed to the Editorial Board of Chaucer Review
1987 Nominated for position of Chair, Department of English, UF
1987 Invited to join AISLLI, L’Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana
1987 Awarded Summer Research Development Award, The University of Florida; Project: The Crisis of Convention in the “Commedia”
1987 Invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the 6th Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Charleston, SC (March 1988)
1987 Nominated to stand for election to the Office of Regional Representative of the American Association for Italian Studies
1987 Appointed UF representative to C.I.S.E. (Council for International Scholarly Exchange), Barnard College/Columbia University
1987 Appointed a Trustee of the C. Archibald and Alleyne Robertson Library Purchase Fund, UF
1986 Appointed UF liaison for CARA (Centers and Regional Associations) of the Medieval Academy of America and Dumbarton Oaks in the NEH “Visiting Byzantinist” pilot program; Speros Vryonis, Jr. (UCLA), was the UF visitor in 1988 (April 11-14)
1986 Appointed Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Department of English, UF (Term: 1987-1990)
1986 Awarded Summer Research Development Award, The University of Florida; Project: The Crisis of Convention in the “Commedia”
1986 Selected as a biographee in Contemporary Authors (119 [1986]: 337)
1985 Appointed Professor of English in The University of Florida
1985 A. Whitney Griswold Travel Grant, Yale College
1984 (Autumn) Triennial leave of absence, Yale College (with salary)
1984 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grant, Yale College
1982-83 Fellowship (Younger Humanist) of the National Endowment for the Humanities (sabbatical leave spent in Rome, Italy)
1981-82 Frederick W. Hilles Publications Fund Grant, Yale College
1981 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grant, Yale College
1980 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grant, Yale College
1980-81 Morse Fellowship, Yale College (sabbatical leave)
1979 A. Whitney Griswold Research Grant, Yale College
1976 Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Cornell University
1975 Class of 1916 Fellowship, Cornell University
1975 Icelandic Government Scholarship for study at Háskoli Islands
1970-76 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; William H. Danforth Fellowship; Secretary of State George C. Marshall Scholarship
1968-70 Guy T. Carswell Scholarships
1966-69 General Motors Scholarships
1966 National Wholesale Foundation Grant; North Carolina National Bank Scholarship; George Foster Hankins Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry (Norman, Oklahoma: Pilgrim Books, 1983); accessible as an electronic postprint at www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ras/currency/dccw.html

2. The Poem as Green Girdle: “Commercium” in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Humanities Monographs Series of the University of Florida, Number 55 (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1984); accessible as an electronic postprint at www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ras/gawain/masterng.htm

3. Milton, Poet of Duality: A Study of Semiosis in the Poetry and the Prose (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985). Re-issued, with a new Preface, by the University Press of Florida on April 19, 1993.

4. Chaucer’s Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001).

5. Shakespeare’s Theater of Likeness (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2006).

Editions

1. Troilus and Criseyde (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2000).

2. The Testament of Love, by Thomas Usk, TEAMS Middle English Texts Series (METS) (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998).

Journal

Co-founding Editor of EXEMPLARIA: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: dates of service 1987 - 2008, volumes 1-20 inclusive.

Translation

The Testament of Love, by Thomas Usk, accessible at www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ras/modusk/musk/intro.htm

Collections

1. Guest Editor, Chaucer Review 21, 2 (Autumn, 1986): 85-309 (224 pages): Memorial volume for the late Professor Judson Boyce Allen, of the University of Florida, including essays by Robert Adams, John Alford, Emerson Brown, Jr., Helen Cooper, Mario A. Di Cesare, John Fleming, Patrick Gallacher, Margaret Gibson, George Kane, Robert Kaske, Jeanne Krochalis, Glending Olson, Strother Purdy, R. A. Shoaf, and Linda Voigts.

2. Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde —“Subgit to alle poesye”: Essays in Criticism (Binghamton: MRTS, 1992), a collection of essays by 16 Chaucerians, seven previously published and nine new.

Poetry

1. Simple Rules (1991). Augmented and revised version reissued 2007 (BookSurge).

2. Pied-Piper Philology. In MS, submission expected in 2010 (48 new poems, 69 pages).

Articles

Latin

1. “‘Certius exemplar sapientis viri’: Rhetorical Subversion and Subversive Rhetoric in Pharsalia IX,” Philological Quarterly 57 (1978): 143-54.

2. “Raoul Glaber et la ‘Visio Anselli Scholastici’,” Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 23 (1980): 215-19 (in French).

3. “Dormitory Dreams, or: Exegesis and the Frustration of an ‘Aethiop’,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982): 46-50.

Dante

4. “Dante’s colombi and the Figuralism of Hope in the Divine Comedy,” Dante Studies 93 (1975): 27-59.

5. “‘Auri Sacra Fames’ and the Age of Gold: Purg. 22, 40-41 and 148-50,” Dante Studies 96 (1978): 195-99.

6. “Dante’s Beard: Sic et Non (Purgatorio 31. 67),” in “Magister Regis”: Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske, ed. Arthur Groos with Emerson Brown, Jr., Thomas D. Hill, Giuseppe Mazzotta, and Joseph S. Wittig (New York: Fordham University Press, 1986), pp. 171-78.

7. “The Crisis of Convention in Cocytus,” Allegoresis: The Craft and Meaning of Allegory, ed. J. Stephen Russell (New York: Garland, 1988), pp. 157-69.

8. “‘Lo gel che m’era intorno al cor’ (Purgatorio 30. 97) and ‘Frigidus circum praecordia sanguis’ (Georgics II. 484): Dante’s Transcendence of Virgil,” 57-72, in Studi americani su Dante, ed. Gian Carlo Alessio and Robert Hollander (Milan: Angeli, 1989).

—Appearing also, in English, in Lectura Dantis 5 (1989): 30-46.

9. “Purgatorio and Pearl: Transgression and Transcendence,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 32 (1990): 152-68, a special issue under the editorship of David Wallace, entitled Beatrice dolce memoria: Essays on the “Vita Nuova” and the Beatrice-Dante Relationship.

10. “‘Dante in Ynglyssh’: Chaucer and Pier della Vigna (Inferno 13 and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women),” in Dante and Modern American Criticism, a special number of Annali d’Italianistica, 8 (1990): 384-94.

11. “Ugolino and Erysichthon,” Dante and Ovid: Essays in Intertextuality, ed. Madison U. Sowell (Binghamton: MRTS, 1991), 51-64.

12. “Dante, the Codex, and the Margin of Error,” in The Use of Manuscripts in Literary Studies: Essays in Memory of Judson Boyce Allen, ed. Penelope B. R. Doob and Charlotte Morse (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992), pp. 1-17.

13. “‘Noon Englissh Digne’: Dante in Late Medieval England,” in Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies, ed. Theodore Cachey (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), 189-203.

14. “Narcissus Transhumanized: Paradiso, Canto 30.” A lettura dantis for the California Dante Commentary. Ed. Allen Mandelbaum and Anthony Oldcorn. Forthcoming 2010.

|15.| “Delivering Dante: Representations of Reproduction in the Commedia.” Mazzotta Festschrift 2010.

|16.| “Barking in Hell: Medieval Sign Theory in Dante’s Inferno.” Wasserman Denkschrift 2010.

Chaucer

17. “Notes Toward Chaucer’s Poetics of Translation,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 55-66.

18. “Stalking the Sorrowful H(e)art: Penitential Lore and the Hunt-Scene in The Book of the Duchess,” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 13-24.

19. “‘Mutatio Amoris’: ‘Penitentia’ and the Form of The Book of the Duchess,” Genre 14 (1981): 63-89.

20. “Dante’s Commedia and Chaucer’s Theory of Mediation: A Preliminary Sketch,” New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman, Ok: Pilgrim Books, 1982), pp. 83-103.

21. “Chaucer and Medusa: The Franklin’s Tale,” Chaucer Review 21, 2 (1986): 74-90.

— Reprinted in New Casebooks: Chaucer, Contemporary Critical Essays, ed. Valerie Allen and Ares Axiotis (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), pp. 242-52.

22. “‘Unwemmed Custance’: Circulation, Incest, and Property in the Man of Law’s Tale,” Exemplaria 2 (1990): 287-302.

23. “Troilus and Criseyde: The Falcon in the Mew,” in Typology and English Medieval Literature, Georgia State Literary Studies 7, ed. Hugh T. Keenan (New York: AMS Press, 1992), pp. 149-68.

24. “‘The Monstruosity in Love’: Sexual Division in Chaucer and Shakespeare,” Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), 183-94.

Middle English

25. “God’s ‘Malyse’: Conversion and the Structure of the Trope in Patience,” The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 11 (1981): 61-79.

26. “The Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Story of Britain’s David,” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 81 (1982): 204-26.

27. “‘Speche þat spire is of grace’: A Note on Piers Plowman B. 9. 104, AYearbook of Langland Studies 1 (1987): 128-33.

28. “The ‘Syngne of Surfet’ and the ‘Surfeit of Signs’ in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in The Passing of Arthur: Loss and Renewal in Arthurian Tradition, ed. C. Baswell and W. C. Sharpe (New York: Garland, 1988), pp. 152-69.

29. “‘Tho Love Made Him an Hard Eschange’ and ‘With Fals Brocage Hath Take Usure’: Narcissus and Echo in the Confessio Amantis,” Mediævalia 16 (1993): 197-209 (a special issue in honor of John Hurt Fisher).

Shakespeare

30. “‘For there is figures in all things’: Juxtology in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton,” in The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, ed. David G. Allen and Robert White (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 266-85.

31. “Hamlet: Like Mother, Like Son,” Journal x 4.1 (1999): 71-90.

|32.| “ ‘If imagination amend them’: Lucretius, Marlowe, Shakespeare,“ forthcoming in The Shakespearean International Yearbook 2010.

Milton

33. “ ‘Our Names are Debts’: Messiah’s Account of Himself (Paradise Lost 3. 238: “‘Account me man’“),” in Reconsidering the Renaissance, ed. Mario A. Di Cesare, Papers from the Twenty-Sixth Annual CEMERS Conference on “The Renaissance” (Binghamton: MRTS, 1992), pp. 461-73.

34. “The Syllable of Sin (in/en) in Paradise Lost and the Syllable of Men in The Prelude, 12-14,” in English Romanticism: Preludes and Postludes: Essays in Honor of Edwin Graves Wilson, ed. Donald Schoonmaker and John A. Alford (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1993), pp. 21-41.

35. “By winning words to conquer willing hearts”: Miltonic Strategies of Alliteration in Paradise Regained and Suggestions for Teaching Them.” MLA volume on Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and His Prose. Edited by Peter C. Herman (New York: MLA, 2007), pp. 185-88.

Literary Theory

36. “Medieval Studies After Derrida After Heidegger,” in Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Language in Medieval Thought and Literature, ed. Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Y. Roney (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989), pp. 9-30.

37. “The Play of Puns in Late Middle English Poetry: Concerning Juxtology,” in On Puns: The Foundation of Letters, ed. Jonathan Culler (London: Basil Blackwell, 1988), pp. 44-61.

38. “Literary Theory, Medieval Studies, and the Crisis of Difference,” in Reorientations: Literary Theory, Pedagogy, and Social Change, ed. Bruce Henricksen and Thaïs Morgan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 77-92.

39. “All Information is Already in Formation: The Internet and Learned Journals,” in The Politics and Processes of Scholarship, ed. L. Lenker and J. Moxley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995), 97-104.

40. “From Clio to JHMuse^©: On the Muse of Digitalia,” in The Post-Historical Middle Ages, ed. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico (New York: Palgrave, 2009), 215-28.

Encyclopedia Entries

1. “The Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Old and Middle English Literature, ed. Jeffrey Helterman and Jerome Mitchell (Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1994), vol. 146: 328-36.

2. “Critical Approaches to Middle English Literature,” Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, ed. Paul Szarmach and M. Teresa Tavormina (New York: Garland, 1998), pp. 220-23.

3. “Commedia: Allegory and Realism,” The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard H. Lansing (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 194-97; also seven other entries on various topics (pp. 10: Albero da Siena; 141: Capocchio; 298: Demophoön; 355-6: Erichtho; 433: Geri di Bello; 648: Niccolo of Siena; 800: Stricca).

4. “The Politics of Medieval English Literature.” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Edited M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. Pp. 232-34.

5. “Thomas Usk.” Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. Edited David Scott Kastan, et al. (Oxford: OUP, 2005), 5:201-3.

Newsletters

1. English, UF, Annual Newsletters for Alumni, 1990-93, Fall and Spring issues.

2. CELJ Newsletter, founder and first editor, Volumes 1 & 2, Numbers 1 & 2 (1994-1995).

Review Essays

1. “The ‘Threshing Floor’ of Recent Dante Studies,” Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 1 (1988): 58-68.

2. “Rose Oser Sero Eros: Recent Studies of the Romance of the Rose,” Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 5.1 (1996, for Spring 1994): 1-9; accessible as a WWW postprint at www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ras/rosev.htm

Book Reviews

1. John Gardner, The Poetry of Chaucer, Modern Philology 77 (1980): 317-20.

2. Hennig Brinkmann, Mittelalterliche Hermeneutik, Speculum 57 (1982): 123-25.

3. William Anderson, Dante the Maker, Speculum 57 (1982): 344-46.

4. F. Anne Payne, Chaucer and Menippean Satire, Speculum 57 (1982): 451-52.

5. Winthrop Wetherbee, Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on “Troilus and Criseyde”, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85 (1986): 102-104.

6. Larry Sklute, Virtue of Necessity: Incompletion and Narrative Form in Chaucer’s Poetry, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85 (1986): 443-45.

7. Teodolinda Barolini, Dante’s Poets: Textuality and Truth in the AComedy”, Speculum (1986): 1016.

8. Robert Payne, Geoffrey Chaucer, Second Edition, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 9 (1987): 247-49.

9. Piero Boitani, ed., Chaucer and the Italian Trecento, Italica 64 (1987): 309-10.

10. Jutta Grub, Das Lateinische Traumbuch im Codex Upsaliensis C 664 (9. JH.): Eine frühmittelalterliche Fassung der lateinischen Somniale Danielis-Tradition in the series Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale 31 (1988): 275.

11. Eugene Vance, Mervelous Signals: Poetics and Sign Theory in the Middle Ages, Speculum 63 (1988): 480-83.

12. Susan Crane, Insular Romance, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1988): 437-39.

13. Nicholas Howe, The Old English Catalogue Poems, Genre 21 (1988): 117-18.

14. Ronald R. MacDonald, The Burial Places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton, Annali d’Italianistica 6 (1989): 289-91.

15. Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness, Envoi 1 (1988): 305-309.

16. Robert M. Jordan, Chaucer’s Poetics and the Modern Reader, Modern Language Quarterly (1990, for June, 1988): 279-81.

17. Roberta L. Payne, The Influence of Dante on Middle English Dream Visions, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 320-22.

18. Patrick Gallacher and Helen Damico, Hermeneutics and Medieval Literature, Anglia 109 (1991): 479-82.

19. Robert Edwards, Ratio and Invention in Medieval Poetry, Modern Philology 89 (1992): 387-90.

20. B. Rosenthal and P. Szarmach, Medievalism in American Culture, Anglia 110 (1992): 271-73.

21. Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante’s Journey of Sanctification, Italica 69 (1992): 256-58.

22. Perez Zagorin, Milton: Aristocrat and Rebel: The Poet and his Politics, Choice (June 1993): 175.

23. Richard Kay, Dante’s Christian Astrology, Choice (October 1994): 211.

24. Steven Botterill, Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the “Commedia”, Choice (January 1995): 213.

25. James Paxson, The Poetics of Personification, Style 29 (1995): 158-61.

26. Margo Swiss and David A. Kent, Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance, Choice (July/August 1995): 32-6087.

27. Lana Cable, Carnal Rhetoric: Milton’s Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire, Choice (December 1995): 33-1979.

28. Prue Shaw, ed. and trans., Dante MONARCHIA, in The Medieval Review: 96.8.2.

29. Monica Brzezinski Potkay and Regula Meyer Evitt, Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Choice (October 1997): 35-0790.

30. Chaucer: Life and Times (CD-ROM), Primary Source Media, 1995, Choice (October 1997): 35-0764.

31. Amilcare Iannucci, ed., Dante: Contemporary Perspectives, Choice (November 1997): 35-2018.

32. Chadwyck-Healey, English Prose Drama: The Full-Text Database, Choice (February, 1998): 35-3166.

33. Angela Esterhammer, Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake, The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography 1999.

34. Murray McGillivray, Chaucer’s “The Book of the Duchess”, Choice (December 1998): 36-2032.

35. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works Now Newly Imprinted (Kelmscott Press, London, 1896) (CD-ROM from Octavo), Choice (April 1999): 36-4347.

36. Alison Milbank, Dante and the Victorians, Choice (June 1999): 36-5537.

37. Lynn Forest-Hill, Transgressive Language in Medieval English Drama: Signs of Challenge and Change, Choice (December 2000): 38-2013.

38. Hermann Pleij, Dreaming of Cockaigne, trans. Diane Webb, Choice (October 2001): 39-0701.

39. Princeton Dante Project, Choice (Fall 2001): 38Sup-180.

40. John M. Hill & Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, ed. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony: Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2002): 555-59.

41. Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 101 (2002): 240-2.

PAPERS READ (in chronological order)

1. “Mutatio Amoris: Ovid, Chaucer, and the Book of the Duchess,” The Medieval Academy of America Meeting, Toronto, 20-22 April 1977

2. “The Occasion of the Book of the Duchess,” MMLA, Chicago, 12 October, 1977

3. “The Visio Anselli Scholastici,” NEMLA, Albany, NY, 15 February 1978

4. Organizer, Medieval Latin Section, NEMLA, Hartford, CT, 12 March 1979

5. Panelist on the Program “Contemporary Literary Theory and Chaucer” (Chair: Morton W. Bloomfield), The New Chaucer Society, 10-11 April 1980

6. “Dante and Narcissus: A Reading of the Three Cantos 30,” Lecture before the Italian Department, The University of Wisconsin, 19 November 1980

7. “The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Lecture before the English Department, Marquette University, 24 November 1980

8. “Troilus and Criseyde 2. 813-903: Antigone’s Lyric and the Problem of Intentionality,” The New Chaucer Society, San Francisco, 15-17 April 1982

9. “Dante’s Beard,” The Annual Meeting of the American Association of University Professors of Italian, 14 April 1984

10. “The Crisis of Convention in the Commedia,” The Comparative Medieval Literature Section of the MLA, Washington, D. C., 28 December 1984

11. “The Gawain-Poet and the Hermeneutics of the Knot,” The Fifth Annual Citadel Conference on Literature, 14-16 March 1985

12. “The Franklin’s Tale: Chaucer and Medusa,” The Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 29 October 1985

13. “The Franklin’s Tale: Chaucer and Medusa,” The Chaucer Section of the MLA, Chicago, 28 December 1985

14. “Ice and Avarice: The Iconography of Treachery (Inferno 31-34),” Special section of the MLA on Dante, Chicago, 27 December 1985

15. Organizer, Panel on “Chaucer and Dante,” 1986 Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Pennsylvania, 20-23 March 1986

16. “‘Unwemmed Custance’: Circulation, Incest, and Property in The Man of Law’s Tale,” Mellon Foundation Conference on the Middle Ages, Rice University, 14-15 February 1986

17. “The Franklin’s Tale: Chaucer and Medusa,” The Annual Meeting of The Medieval Academy of America, 17-19 April 1986, Albuquerque, New Mexico

18. “Economy and the Teaching of Middle English Literature,” The Annual Meeting of the South Central MLA, New Orleans, LA, 31 October 1986

19. “The ‘Syngne of Surfet’ and the Surfeit of Signs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Paper for the 8th Annual Barnard College Conference on the Middle Ages, “Arthur through the Ages,” 15 November 1986

20. “Purgatorio and Pearl: Transgression and Transcendence,” The Middle English Section of the MLA, New York City, 28 December 1986

21. “‘Lo gel che m’era intorno al cor’ (Purgatorio 30. 97) and ‘Frigidus circum praecordia sanguis’ (Georgics II. 484): Dante’s Transcendence of Virgil,” The Medieval Italian section of the MLA, New York City, 29 December 1986

22. “‘Our Names are Debts’: Messiah’s Account of Himself (Paradise Lost 3. 238: “‘Account me man’“),” 1987 CEMERS Conference on “The Renaissance,” SUNY, Binghamton, N.Y., 17 October 1987

23. Chair and Organizer of English I Division of SAMLA, Atlanta, Georgia, 7 November 1987.

24. “‘For There Is Figures in Everything’: A Theory of Duality in English Poetry from Chaucer to Milton,” Keynote Address, 6th Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Charleston, S. C., 10-12 March 1988

25. “‘Unwemmed Custance’: Circulation, Incest, and Property in The Man of Law’s Tale,” conference entitled “History / Text / Theory: Reconceiving Chaucer,” University of Rochester, 21-23 April 1988

26. “Dante’s pertugio,” the 23rd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 1988

27. “The Poetics of Interruption in Dante’s Comedy,” the Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America in Boston, 20 May 1988

28. Organizer, Colloquium Session on “Statius and Chaucer,” Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, 9-13 August 1988, Vancouver, B. C.

29. “Literary Theory, Medieval Studies, and the Crisis of Difference,” the second Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, 7-10 August 1989, Cardiff, Wales, UK

30. “Purgatorio and Pearl: Transgression and Transcendence,” The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 22 February 1990, Notre Dame, IN

31. “Dante and Fourteenth-Century English Poetry,” the 8th Biannual Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 8-10 March 1990, New College of USF, Sarasota, FL

32. “Ugolino and Erysichthon,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Virginia, 19-21 April 1990, Charlottesville, VA

33. “Literary Theory and Medieval Studies in the Classroom,” Panel sponsored by TEAMS at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 9-13 May 1990

34. “‘Dante in Ynglyssh’: Chaucer and Pier della Vigna (Inferno 13 and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women),” at the LSU Conference on ALa chose médiévale,” Baton Rouge, LA, 6-10 October 1990.

35. “Ugolino, Erysichthon, and Bocca degli Abati,” Division of Medieval and Renaissance Italian, MLA, 28 December 1990

36. “‘Tho Love Made Him an Hard Eschaunge’: Narcissus in the Confessio Amantis,” 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 1991.

37. “Speaking improprie: Dante, Chaucer, and Boccaccio,” seminar for the Yale Boccaccio Institute, 5 July 1991.

38. “Chaucer, theologus-poeta?,” for the Chaucer Division of the MLA, 30 December 1991.

39. “Speaking improprie: Dante, Chaucer, and Boccaccio,” lecture for the Medieval Studies Group, Wesleyan University, 22 April 1992.

40. “Speaking improprie: Dante, Chaucer, and Boccaccio,” for the Manhattan College Dante Seminar, 23 April 1992.

41. Participant on the Panel on the Tale of Melibee and Panel on “Academic Journals and Chaucer Studies” at the Biannual Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Seattle, WA, August 1992.

42. “Speaking improprie: Dante, Chaucer, and Boccaccio,” Lecture at the University of Miami, 8 October 1992.

43. “Speaking improprie: Dante, Chaucer, and Boccaccio,” Lecture at Florida Atlantic University, 9 October 1992.

44. “Metaphor and Computers in Dante and Chaucer,” for the English Department, University of Central Florida, 24 March 1993.

45. “in/en: The Syllable of Sin in Paradise Lost,” for the Symposium on “Private Lives and Public Policy,” University of Central Florida, 26 March 1993.

46. “Chaucer, theologus-poeta?,” SEMA, New Orleans, LA, 24 September 1993.

47. “‘Noon Englissh Digne’: Dante in Late Middle English Culture,” University of Notre Dame Center for Medieval Studies Conference on “Dante and His Influence,” 29-30 October 1993.

48. “By His Contrarie Is Every Thyng Declared”: Love, Knowledge, and Violence in Late Medieval Poetry,” Plenary Address, Virginia Medieval Symposium, U. of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, 19 November 1993.

49. Presided over the CELJ Session, “Gonzo Scholarship: Policing Electronic Journals,” at the 1993 MLA, Toronto, 27 December 1993.

50. Organizer, two sessions sponsored by Exemplaria (seven speakers) for the 9th New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, FL, 10-12 March 1994.

51. “Let’s Be Really PC! Personal Computers, the Internet, and the Future of Learned Journals,” Conference on the Politics and Processes of Scholarly Publishing, U. of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, 12-14 March 1994.

52. “The Electronic Revolution,” Panel for the English and American Literature Section (EALS) of the American Library Association, Annual Convention, Miami Beach, FL, 26 June 1994.

53. Organizer, Panel on “Psychoanalysis and Chaucer: The Next Century,” for the 9th Biannual Congress of the International New Chaucer Society, Dublin, Ireland, 23-27 July, 1994.

54. Participant, “Editors’ Roundtable,” the 9th Biannual Congress of the International New Chaucer Society, Dublin, Ireland, 23-27 July, 1994.

55. Organizer, CELJ panel for MLA 1994, San Diego, panel entitled “Refereeing and/as GatekeepingCThe Question of Legitimation in Academic Publishing.” Panelists: Eugene Hollahan, Editor, Studies in the Literary Imagination; Jeffrey Kittay, Publisher, Lingua Franca; Holly A. Laird, Vice President, CELJ; and D. G. Myers, List-Manager of Philosophy and Literature’s electronic list, PHIL-LIT.

56. Respondent, “Spenser at Kalamazoo,” 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 6 May 1995.

57. “Electronic Textuality and Medieval Studies,” for the Simpson Summer School in Medieval Studies, Mary Washington College, 17 July 1995.

58. Participant on the Panel, “Chaucer and the Digital Revolution,” at the Biannual Congress of the International New Chaucer Society, Los Angeles, CA, 27 July 1996.

59. Participant on the Panel “Electronic Journals: The Future is Now,” for the CELJ session at SAMLA in Atlanta, 14 November 1997.

60. “The Body With(out) Walls: Pyramus and Thisbe in Chaucer and Gower,” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 1998.

61. “Governing Metaphors,” The Medieval Academy of America, Georgetown University, 10 April 1999.

62. “Chaucer and the Anxiety of Circulation,” lecture at the Universities of Berne, Fribourg, Geneva, and Lausanne between November 29 and December 6, 1999.

63. “‘My joly body schal a tale telle’: Chaucer and the Anxiety of Circulation” and “‘Take al my good and lat my body go’: Chaucer’s Response to the Anxiety of Circulation” — for the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, 30 March - 2 April 2000.

64. “Chaucer’s Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales,” Wake Forest University Medieval Studies Group, 3 April 2000.

65. “The Crisis of Credentialing in the Academy,” Emory University, April 4, 2002.

66. “‘The text ful hard is, soth, to fynde’: Teaching Chaucer in Cyberspace,” Kennesaw State University, April 5, 2002

67. “‘Moral’“ Gower and “‘Mural’“ Chaucer,” Symposium in Honor of Margaret Schlauch, Adam Mickiewicz University, May 15, 2002.

68. “Dante’s Comedy, Chaucer’s Troilus, Henryson’s Testament: A B and C, ‘a pregnant argument’,” Wake Forest University, October 1, 2003.

69. “Dante’s Comedy, Chaucer’s Troilus, Henryson’s Testament: A B and C, ‘a pregnant argument’,” UC-Santa Barbara, April 10, 2004.

70. “Dante’s Comedy, Chaucer’s Troilus, Henryson’s Testament: A B and C, ‘a pregnant argument,’“ University of Bern, November 20, 2004.

71. “Sword vs. Scabbard: Representation of the Feminine in Malory’s Morte darthur, University of Mary Washington, April 10, 2005.

72. “Virgil and Child,” International Medieval Studies Congress, University of Leeds, July 11, 2005.

73. “Chaucer, Poet of the Spiritual World,” Medieval Academy of America Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 13, 2007.

74. “Virgil and Child,” Tra Amici, Symposium in honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta, University of Mary Washington, March 27-30, 2008.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Delivering Dante. Representations of Reproduction in the Commedia (article)
Chaucer, Shakespeare, and “Two Distincts, Division None” (article)
“Sword or Scabbard? Women in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur” (article)
“‘If imagination amend them’: De rerum Natura and A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (article)
“The Meaning Has a Meaning”: The Difference Between Barabas and Shylock (article)

REFEREEING

I have served as a referee 53 times,

for the university presses of

California (three times)

Florida (eleven times)

Michigan

Minnesota

Pennsylvania (three times)

Princeton (three times)

Stanford

SUNY (twice)

Tennessee

Toronto (three times)

and for St. Martin’s Press

and for the journals

Allegorica (twice)

Assays

Chaucer Review (four times [as of 2000])

Florilegium

Genre

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association

Papers on Language and Literature

South Atlantic Review (five times [as of 2000])

Speculum (twice)

and Studies in the Age of Chaucer (four times [as of 2008])

EXTRAMURAL EVALUATIONS

I have evaluated candidates for promotion and/or tenure 55 times, at the

Universities of Alberta

Arizona and

Arkansas–Fayetteville

Auburn

Baruch College–CUNY

Barnard College–Columbia University

Bates College

UC–Davis

UC–Irvine

UCLA (twice)

UC–Riverside (twice)

UC–Santa Barbara(twice)

Carnegie Mellon University

the University of Colorado–Boulder

Cornell University

Creighton University

Emory University

Florida Atlantic University

Fordham University–College at Lincoln Center

the University of Hawaii

Hofstra University

the University of Illinois–Urbana

Indiana University (twice)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

University of Kentucky

Lehigh Universitynt>

Louisiana State University (three times)

McGill University

Marquette

Mary Washington College

the University of New Orleans (twice)

Northern Illinois University

Queen’s College–CUNY

the State University of New York—Binghamton

the University of Notre Dame

the University of Oklahoma

Purdue University

Pomona College

the University of Rochester (twice)

Stetson University

the University of South Carolina

Syracuse University

the University of Texas–Austin

Trinity College, Hartford

Tulane

University of Vermont

Virginia Commonwealth University

and George Washington University

UNIVERSITY SERVICES

At Yale

Undergraduate Prizes Committee (1979); Departmental Representative in Morse College (1979); Junior Faculty Appointments Committee (1981); Morse Fellowship Committee (1983); Committee on Lectures and Social Arrangements (1983); Yale College Executive Committee (1983-84); Committee on Senior Essays and Special Projects (1985); Committee on Residential College Seminars (1985)

At Florida

Graduate Studies Committee (1986); appointed Co-ordinator of Graduate Studies for a 3-year term (July 1, 1987 - June 30, 1990); elected to the Search Committee (external appointment) for new Department Chair (1987); Departmental representative to College committee on Summer Research Development Awards (1988); appointed to Faculty Senate in CLAS (1988); appointed to “Institutional Goals and Effectiveness Committee” (1991); appointed to the Creative Writing Search Committee 1992 (poetry search); elected to the Chair Search Committee (1993); appointed to University Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships Committee (1993); elected to Tenure and Promotion Committee and appointed Chair thereof (1994); appointed to the Advisory Committee on Information Technologies (1994); appointed to Medievalist Position Search Committee (1994); appointed to the inaugural R.I.P Committee (Research Initiative Program) in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (1997); Chair, Tenure and Promotion Committee, 1998; Member (full professor) Professorial Excellence Program Selection Committee, 1998; Member of Search Committee for junior medievalist position in the Department of History, 1998; Committee on CLAS Teaching and Advising Awards, 1999.

SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

The Dante Society of America (sometime member of the Dante Prize Committee); MLA; The Medieval Academy of America; The New Chaucer Society; The Milton Society of America (Life Member); Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Beta Kappa

PERSONAL

Born 25 March 1948, in Lexington, North Carolina; married to the former Judith Patricia McNamara, of Tacoma, Washington; two children, Brian (09/20/78) and Elaine (11/13/86)

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Last Update: November 2009