Caroline D. Eckhardt
Department of Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone (8l4) 863-0589, Fax 814 863-8882
e-mail: e82@psu.edu
http://complit.la.psu.edu/
Education
1963 B.A., Drew University, Madison, New Jersey (English)
1965 M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington (Comparative Literature)
1971 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Comparative Literature);
dissertation title "Arthurian Comedy"
1976 Postdoctoral: NEH-sponsored seminar in palaeography, University of Pennsylvania
Academic Positions
1971-76 Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State
1976-85 Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State
1985— Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State
2004--- Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State
1986--- Head, Department of Comparative Literature, Penn State
1998--- Director, School of Languages and Literatures, Penn State
Jan 2002-June 03 Interim Director, Jewish Studies Program, Penn State
Publications
Books (Medieval Literature)
Essays in the Numerical Criticism of Medieval Literature, ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1980). Edited collection.
The Prophetia Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth: A Fifteenth-Century English Commentary, edited with an introduction by Caroline D. Eckhardt (Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1982). Edition of a previously unprinted Middle English text, based on the only known manuscript Chaucer's General Prologue, Vol. III of the New Chaucer Bibliography Series (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
Castleford's Chronicle, or the Boke of Brut, edited by Caroline D. Eckhardt. Volumes I and II. Early English Text Society, Original Series 305 and 306. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Volume III yet to come.) Edition of a long Middle English text, based on the only known manuscript, much of it not previously printed.
Other Separately-Bound Publications
The Wiley Reader, ed. with David H. Stewart and James F. Holahan (New York: John Wiley & Co., Inc., l976). Freshman English textbook.
Interdisciplinary Programs and Administrative Structures (University Park, PA:Center for the Study of Higher Education Monograph Series, l978). A study completed for an administrative project.
The Wiley Reader, Brief Edition, ed. with David H. Stewart (New York: John Wiley, l979). Revision of the freshman English textbook listed above.
Articles and Notes in Journals, Chapters in Books
"The Influences of the Church on Medieval Culture," in The Urbanization of Man, ed. Thelma S. Baker (Berkeley: McCutchan, 1972), 247-264.
"Canterbury Tales D.1554: caples thre," Notes and Queries, New Series 20 (August, 1973), 283-284.
"Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles," Chaucer Review, 8 (1974), 205-220. [Subsequently reprinted with revisions, see 2001 item.]
"Facts of Scholarly Publishing: Book-Length Works on Literature," with John B. Smith, PMLA, 89 (l974), 360-368. Supplementary note "New Scholarly Publishing Figures," PMLA, 89 (l974), 6l6.
"Biblical Imagery in Bernart de Ventadorn's Lo tems vai," Romance Notes, 15 (1974), 1-7.
"The Number of Chaucer's Pilgrims: A Review and Reappraisal," Yearbook of English Studies, 5 (1975), 1-18.
"The Date of the Prophetia Merlini Commentary in MSS Cotton Claudius B.VII and Bibliothèque nationale fonds Latin 6233," Notes and Queries, New Series 23 (April, 1976), 146-147.
"Teaching an Introduction to Comparative Literary Studies," Literary Research Newsletter, 2 (l977), 96-110.
"What Makes a Paper Publishable?" The French-American Review, 3 (l978-79), l-5.
"Towards a Functional Taxonomy of Composition," with David H. Stewart, College Composition and Communication, 30 (l979), 338-342. Reprinted in The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, eds. Gary Tate and Edward P.J. Corbett (New York: Oxford University Press, l981), l00-l06.
"Woman as Mediator in the Middle English Romances," Journal of Popular Culture,14 (1980), 94-107. Reprinted in Popular Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Josie P. Campbell (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ Press, 1986), 63-76.
"Another Historical Allusion in Mum and the Sothsegger," Notes and Queries, New Series 27 (December, 1980), 495-497.
"The First English Translations of the Prophetia Merlini," The Library, 6th Series, 4 (March, 1982), 25-34.
"The Prophetia Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Latin Manuscript Copies," Manuscripta, 26 (1982), 167-176.
"Two Notes on the Authorship of 'Jaufre': Sir Kay Gets the Bird; the King of Aragon Reigns," Romance Notes, 23 (1983), 1-6.
"The Medieval Prosimetrum, from Boethius to Boece," Genre, 16 (1983), 21-38.
"Recharting the Literary Map of the Americas," in New Literary Continents, ed. Anne Paolucci (New York: Griffon House, 1984), 16-25.
"The Art of Translation in The Romaunt of the Rose," Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 6 (1984), 41-63.
"An Aragonese King, a Norman Court, an Arabic Enemy: The Curious Historical Context of Jaufre," chapter in Courtly Romance, ed. Guy R. Mermier (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1984), 89-107.
"A Commonsensical Protest Against Deconstruction, or, How the Real World at Last Became a Fable," Thought, 60 (1985), 310-321.
"Another Manuscript of the Commentary on the Prophetia Merlini Attributed to Alain de Lille," Manuscripta, 29 (1985), 143-147.
"Prophecy and Nostalgia: Arthurian Symbolism at the Close of the English Middle Ages," chapter in The Arthurian Tradition, ed. Mary Flowers Braswell and John Bugge (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1988), pp. 109-126.
"Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetia Merlini and the Construction of Liège University MS 369C," Manuscripta, 32 (1988), 176-184.
"Merlin the Prophet: Bodleian Library Manuscripts," BBSIA, 35 (vol. for 1983, pub. l989), 221-236.
"Chaucer's Franklin and Others of the Vavasour Family," Modern Philology, 87 (1990), 239-248.
"The Figure of Merlin in the Middle English Romances," chapter in Comparative Studies in Merlin, ed. James Gollnick (Lewiston: Mellen, 1991), 21-40.
"The Presence of Rome in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 90 (1991), 187-207.
"The Meaning of 'Ermonie' in Sir Tristrem," Studies in Philology, 93 (1996), 21-41.
“The Canon of Theory: Response,” Comparative Literature Studies 34 (1997), 422-26.
“Genre,” chapter in A Companion to Chaucer, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 180-94.
“Constructing a Medieval Genealogy: Roland the Father of Tristan in Castleford’s Chronicle,” with Bryan A. Meer, MLN 115 (2000), 1085-1111.
“Havelok the Dane in Castleford’s Chronicle,” Studies in Philology 98 (2001): 1-17.
“Arthurian Comedy: The Simpleton-Hero in Sir Perceval of Galles,” chapter in Perceval/Parzival, ed. Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy (New York: Routledge, 2002), 237-252. Reprint with revisions of 1974 journal article (see above).
“Reconsidering Malory,” chapter in Fortunes of Arthur, ed. Norris J. Lacy. Cambridge: D.S.
Brewer, 2005, pp. 195-208.
“Old Fields, New Corn, and Present Ways of Writing about the Past,” chapter in Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization: The 2005 ACLA Report on the State of the Discipline, ed. Haun Saussy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), 139- 54.
(Committee publication) Corinne Scheiner, Briana Ragon, Alwin Baum, David Damrosch,
Caroline D. Eckhardt, Kathleen Komar, and Nathan Rouse. "Association of
Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature, 2005 Report on the
Undergraduate Comparative Literature Curriculum," Profession (2006), 177-97.
“One Third of the Earth? Europe Seen and Unseen in the Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century,” Comparative Literature (U of Oregon) 58.5 (2006): 313-38.
Reviews
"Lady of Ill Repute," rev. of The Lineage of Lady Meed, by John A. Yunck, in Satire Newsletter, 10 (1973), 86-88.
Rev. of Spenser and the Middle Ages 1976, ed. David A. Richardson, in Seventeenth- Century News (Fall, 1977), 82-83.
Rev. of Spenser: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern 1977, ed. David A.Richardson, in Seventeenth-Century News (Fall/Winter, 1979), 7l.
Rev. of Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust, by Paul de Man, in World Literature Today, 54 (1980), 70l.
Rev. of Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry, by Isabel Rivers, in Seventeenth-Century News (Spring, 198l), l6-l7.
Rev. of Speaking of Literature and Society and Sincerity and Authenticity, from The Works of Lionel Trilling, ed. Diana Trilling, in World Literature Today, 55 (198l), 477- 78.
Rev. of Monstres, démons et merveilles à la fin du moyen âge, by Claude Kappler, in Seventeenth-Century News (Spring/Summer, l982), 22.
Rev. of Alternative Pleasures: Postrealistic Fiction and the Tradition, by Philip Stevick, in World Literature Today, 56 (1982), 412.
Rev. of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism, by John Burt Foster, Jr., in World Literature Today, 57 (1983), l78.
Rev. of Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography, by Stephen G. Nichols, Jr., in Christianity and Literature, 33 (1984), 60-62.
Rev. of The Tradition of Return: The Implicit History of Modern Literature, by Jeffrey M. Perl, in World Literature Today, 59 (1985), l63.
Rev. of Le Roman de Thèbes, trans. by John Smartt Coley, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 9 (1987), 203-206.
Rev. of The Vision of Tyndale Edited from British Library MS Cotton Caligula A.II, by Rodney Mearns, in Speculum, 63 (1988), l93-l95.
Rev. of J.D. North, Chaucer's Universe, in Speculum, 66 (1991), 928-930.
Rev. of Geoffrey Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde from the Text of A.C. Baugh, ed. R.A.Shoaf, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 14 (1992), 205-207.
Rev. of Earl Miner, Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature, in World Literature Today, 67 (Winter 1993), 244.
Rev. of Julia C. Crick, The "Historia regum Britannie" of Geoffrey of Monmouth, IV: Dissemination and Reception in the Later Middle Ages, in Speculum, 69 (1994), 450-52.
Rev. of Sarah Stanbury, Seeing the Gawain-Poet, in Medievalia et Humanistica.
Rev. of Charlotte C. Morse, Penelope R. Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods, eds., The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 16 (1994): 229-31.
Rev. of David Howlett, British Books in Biblical Style, in Speculum, 75.3 (2000): 700-02.
Participation in Professional Meetings; Speaking Engagements
Organized a Special Session on Number Symbolism in Medieval Literature, Modern Language Association, 1974.
Organized a panel on Publication Ethics, Modern Language Association, 1975.
"Research and Publication in the Humanities," Penn State Research Orientation Conference, 1977.
"Writing for Journal Publication," Penn State Fall English Conference, 1977.
"What Makes a Paper Publishable?" Modern Language Association, 1977.
"Towards a Functional Taxonomy of Composition," with David H. Stewart, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1979.
Organized a Special Session on Chaucer as Translator and Technical Writer, Modern Language Association, 1979.
"Publication Processes and Ethics," Modern Language Association, 1979.
"An Odyssey for Comparatists," Rutgers University, 1979.
"The Undergraduate Curriculum," American Comparative Literature Association, 1980.
"A Fifteenth-Century English Commentary on the Prophetia Merlini," International Medieval Congress, 1980.
"Cluster-Group Literatures," Modern Language Association, 1980.
"The Courtly Context of Jaufre," International Medieval Congress, 1981.
"New Literary Continents," Columbia University, 1981.
"The Arthurian Ideal in Literature and Politics at the Close of the English Middle Ages," International Medieval Congress and Medieval Academy of America (joint meeting), 1982.
"The Post-Chaucerian Poem The Floure and the Leafe," Modern Language Association, 1982.
"Integrating and Internationalizing General Education," Penn State Conference on General Education, 1982.
"Manuscript Evidence for the Circulation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Merlin Prophecies," International Medieval Congress, 1983.
"Thomas Castleford and His Chronicle," International Medieval Congress, 1986.
"Style and Sources in Thomas Castleford's Chronicle," International Medieval Congress, 1987.
"Chaucer's General Prologue, 1900-1982," International Medieval Congress, 1987.
"The Presence of Rome in English Medieval Chronicles," Modern Language Association, 1987.
"Merlin in Thomas Castleford's Chronicle and Other Middle English Chronicles," International Medieval Congress, 1988.
"The Neglected Pilgrims of Chaucer's General Prologue," Modern Language Association, 1988.
"Chapter Divisions in the Göttingen Manuscript of Castleford's Chronicle," International Medieval Congress, 1989.
"Variation in the Handwriting of Individual Scribes," International Medieval Congress, 1990.
"The Interpretive Valences of Anonymity," American Comparative Literature Association, 1992.
"Five Chronicle Versions of Lear," International Medieval Congress, 1992.
"The Question of National Standards in Comparative Literature: Journal Publications," Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature, 1992.
"Africa in the Medieval Brut Chronicle Tradition," American Comparative Literature Association, 1993.
"Late Medieval Book Production: Variation in Book and Chapter Divisions in Multiple Copies of Texts," International Medieval Congress, 1993.
"Gender and Genre: Romance Characteristics in Castleford's Chronicle," International Medieval Congress, 1994.
"The Job Market in Comparative Literature," American Comparative Literature Association,1995.
“The Dating of Castleford’s Chronicle,” International Medieval Congress, 1997.
“Change and Comparative Literature: Impacts on the Graduate Curriculum,” American Comparative Literature Association, 1998.
“Havelok the Dane in Castleford’s Chronicle?” International Medieval Congress, 1998.
“The Shape of the Job Market: Initiatives on Behalf of Non-Academic Careers for Humanists,” American Comparative Literature Association, 1999.
“The Alleged Murder of ‘Lytyl Saint hewe’: Accusations against the Jews in the Vernacular Chronicles,” International Medieval Congress, 1999.
“The Arthurian Material in Castleford’s Chronicle,” International Medieval Congress, 2000.
“ International Students in Comparative Literature Graduate Programs: Problems and Opportunities,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2001.
“Arthurian and Other Aberrations in the Petit Bruit,” International Medieval Congress, 2001.
“Reconsidering Malory," Fourteenth Annual Medieval Studies Conference, Pennsylvania State University, 2002.
“Late Medieval Arthurian Chronicles as Border Writing?” International Medieval Congress, 2002.
“Age Delineations in Late Medieval Chronicles,” American Comparative Literature Association, 2003.
Organized and chaired a session on “The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing.” Speakers: Pauline Yu (President of ACLS), Haun Saussy (Stanford, former member of Stanford UP board), Mary Murrell (literature editor at Princeton University Press). Modern Language Association, 2003.
“Old Fields, New Corn, and New Ways of Writing about the Past,” paper in plenary session. American Comparative Literature Association, University of Michigan, April 2004.
Organized and chaired two sessions for the Medieval Chronicles Society at the International Medieval Congress, 2004.
Oganized and chaired a Special Session on “New Institutional Forms of Comparison.” Speakers: Gayatri Spivak (Columbia), Katie Trumpener (Yale), William Moebius (U/Mass). Modern Language Association, 2004.
Organized 2 sessions (and chaired one of them) for the Medieval Chronicles Society at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2005.
Organized a Special Session, on behalf of the ADPCL, on “Comparative Literature, World Literature, and the Curriculum.” Speakers: Elaine Martin (U of Alabama), Alexander Dunlop (Auburn), Nina Berman (Ohio State), John Burt Foster (George Mason). Modern Language Association, 2005.
Organized the Spring 2005 meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, held at Penn State (primary responsibility for organizing this annual meeting, along with a local conference committee).
“Medieval Ideas of Europe,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 2006.
"Historiography in Comparative Literature," Modern Language Association, 2006.
“Chronicling the Range of Arthurian Quests,” Medieval Studies Conference, Penn State, March 2007.
“Love and Death in Medieval Chronicles,” American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.
Organized a Panel on “Grant Writing in the Humanities” on behalf of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL). Speakers: Pauline Yu (President, ACLS); Ross Shideler (UCLA, representing NEH experience); Tim Wright (Fulbright Program Officer). American Comparative Literature Association, 2007.
“Reading Fructus Temporum in the Framework of the Prose Brut,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2007.
Research Grants
Grants during graduate study from the Regents of the State of New York and the University of Michigan Rackham Fellowships Fund.
Summer Fellowship in Palaeography, supported through NEH, ACLS, and the University of Pennsylvania, 1976, support for attending 6-week program.
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State, summer 1979. Travel funds to England.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections Program, 1984, $500. For research on early manuscripts of the tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth (Belgium).
American Philosophical Society, Proposal for Preparation of an Edition of Thomas Castleford's Chronicle, summer 1988, $2,100. Travel-and-research grant to Germany for work on a 14th-century chronicle.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1988, $3500. Travel-and- research grant to Germany for work on a 14th-century chronicle.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-aid, for photography for Castleford's Chronicle project, 1988, $1400.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections, 1990, $750. For work on a 14th-century chronicle (Germany).
Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1991, about $3,500 (funds paid in German marks), for research on chronicle in Germany.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1991, faculty advisor to Younger Scholars Grant ($1800 to student, $400 to faculty member), for supervision of advisee Bryan Meer's project on Castleford's Chronicle.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1993, $58,800, Division of Research, Editions Projects. Funds for released time, graduate assistant, and travel in connection with my research on Castleford's Chronicle.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1995, faculty advisor to Younger Scholars Grant ($2000 to student, $500 to faculty member), for supervision of advisee Mara Shimskey's project on criteria for the production of medieval manuscripts.
Participation in Administrative/Programmatic Grants (various roles, not PI)
USIA Linkage 3-Year Support, Institutional Grant to Penn State University, 1983, $50,000
Fulbright Institutional Proposal for Scholar-in-Residence from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, 1984, about $20,000 in U.S. funds.
Department of Education (Federal), Secretary's Discretionary Program for Foreign Languages, Establishment of an Advanced Curriculum in Chinese, 1985, $19,000.
Fulbright Institutional Proposal for Scholar-in-Residence from the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1986, about $21,000 in U.S. funds.
Department of Education (Federal), Secretary's Discretionary Program for Foreign Languages, Summer Intensive Language Institute for High School Students, 1987, $125,000.
Department of Education (Federal), Secretary's Discretionary Program for Foreign Languages, Summer Intensive Language Institute for High School Students, 1988, $109,000. Renewal grant (see item just above).
Fulbright Institutional Proposal to bring a Scholar-in-Residence from Seoul National University, Korea, 1990-1991, about $36,000 plus travel in U.S. funds.
Japan Foundation, Faculty Expansion Grant, 1994-1997, estimated $103,868.
Association of Asian Studies, Northeast Asia Council / Ford “Border Crossings in the Regions” Grant, 2002-2003, with Reiko Tachibana, $1500.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Focus Grant, “Literatures of the Asian Diaspora,” 2002-2004, with Reiko Tachibana, $25,000.
Awards
“Class of 1933” Award for Excellence in the Humanities, Penn State, 1996
Service to the College Award, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State, 2007
University Service and Administrative Responsibilities at Penn State (selected list)
1973-77, 1978-84, 1984-98, 1998-2002, 2002-2007 University Faculty Senate (Elected Member): Several times served as the Liberal Arts College representative to the Senate Council; other Senate committee service (Faculty Affairs Committee, Committee on Committees and Rules [vice-chair 1998-00], Academic and Physical Planning Committee [vice-chair 1991-92], Special Committee on Privacy Policy, Subcommittee on B.A. Degree Requirements 2000-2002, 2005-06; Senate Committee on Undergraduate Education [2003-2005]; Joint Conference Committee [Curricular Affairs and Undergaduate Education] to Review the GI Requirement [2003-2004]; Subcomittee to Review the B.A. [2003-2004]; Curricular Affairs Subcommittee to Review GI Proposals [2003-2005]; Ad Hoc Committee on First Year Seminars (ch. Rob Pangborn), Fall 2006; Task Force on First Year Seminars, 2007 (ch. Kim Steiner)
1974-75, 77-78 College Policy Committee, Liberal Arts
1975-77 Associate Director, Comparative Literature Program
1976-77 Freshman Seminar Project, College of the Liberal Arts, Initiator and Co-chair (with Isabel Knight, History)
1976, 78 Faculty Intern, Office of the Vice-President for Undergraduate Studies
1977-79 Agenda Committee, Department of English
1977-86 Director, Comparative Literature Program (this academic unit then became a department and I became its founding department head in 1986)
1978-79 Governance Committee, Department of English
1978-80, 83-84, 85-86, 92-95 Member, Advisory Board of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies (member representing the Faculty Senate)
1978-79 Search Committee for Head, Department of English
1978-79 Faculty Associate, Center for the Study of Higher Education
1978-85 Interdepartmental Council on Languages and Literatures (group including all the language and literature departments at Penn State); chair, 1987-79
1981-82 Member, Search Committee for Dean, College of Arts and Architecture
1981-82 Member, Steering Committee, the President's Conference on General Education
1982-83 Member, University Review Committee for Research Initiation Grants
l983-84 Member, Search Committee for Dean, College of the Liberal Arts
1984-85 Senior Planning Officer, College of the Liberal Arts
1984-- Administrative Committee, College of the Liberal Arts
1986-87 Consultative Committee for the Arts in General Education
1986-89 Curricular Affairs Committee, College of the Liberal Arts
1987-92 Associate Director, Summer Intensive Language Institute (High School Component)
1987-89 Faculty Advisory Committee to the President of the University (7-member group chosen by University election)
1990 Faculty Committee to Review the University Scholars Program (Honors Program)
1991 Chair, Liberal Arts Committee on Area Studies and International Programs
1991-92 Asian Area Studies Committee
1990-94 Education Abroad Advisory Committee
1993-98, 2005-06 Institutional Representative for the CIC Less Commonly Taught Languaages (FLEP) Awards
1993-95 Liberal Arts Research Committee
1993-95 Provost's Screening Committee for Summer Stipends / Howard Proposals
1993-96 Liberal Arts Strategic Planning Committee
1994- East Asian Studies Committee
1995-96 Chair, Search Committee for Director of Institute for the Arts & Humanistic Studies
1997 Chair, Search Committee for Associate Dean of the Graduate School
1995-98 Faculty Advisory Committee to the President of the University (7-member group chosen by University election)
1995-97 Special Committee on General Education
1997-00 Advisory Board for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Relations
1997-98 Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Screening Committee for Interdisciplinary Dissertation Grants
1998-00 University Committee on Honorary Degrees
1998-- Chair, School of Languages and Literatures Advisory Board
2000 College of the Liberal Arts / College of Arts and Architecture, Screening Committee for NEH Summer Stipends applications
1998-02, 03-07 Medieval Studies Committee (Chair, Fall 1999); Medieval Studies Center Advisory Board
2000-03 Graduate Council (representative of the University Faculty Senate)
2003-05 Advisory Board, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
2003--- Institutional Representative to the Task Force on Less Commonly Taught Languages, CIC (“Big 10 Universities” Consortium)
2004-07 Faculty Advisory Committee to the President of the University (7-member group chosen by University election)
2004-05 Chair, Search Committee for Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
2004-05 Member, AD-14 (Department Head’s Periodic Review) Committee to review Thomas A. Hale, Head, Department of French and Francophone Studies
2005-06 Member, English Department Search Committee for Anglo-Saxon Position
2005-06 Member, Jewish Studies Program Search Committee for Post-Doctoral Position
2005--07 Member, Latina/o Studies Committee
2005-- Advisory Board, Center for Language Acquisition
2006--07 Co-chair (with Chip Gerfen) of Headship Search Committee for Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
2006--07 RA-10 Academic Integrity Committee (Office of the Senior Vice President for Research)
External Professional Service (selected list)
1974-86 Co-editor, Journal of General Education (edited 48 issues of a quarterly )
1975-78 Executive Committee, Conference of Editors of Learned Journals
1980-83 Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association (national election)
1982-86 Executive Committee, Division on Medieval Comparative Literature, Modern Language Association (national election; chair of the Division 1986; program chair 1985)
1980-86 Chair, Student Affairs Committee, American Comparative Literature Association
1984-85 Nominating Committee, New Chaucer Society
1986- Editorial Board, Comparative Literature Studies
1986-89 Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association (national election)
1989 Medieval Academy of America and ACLS: Travel Grant Committee (committee to review the ACLS Travel Grant applications delegated to the Medieval Academy for evaluation)
1992 Nominating Committee, American Comparative Literature Association (national election)
1989-93 Fulbright National Screening Committee for Faculty Grants (Research and Lecturing) in Comparative Literature (national chair, 1992)
1993-96 Executive Committee, Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL) (national election); National Secretary, 1993-2002
1994 NEH Panel, Publication Subventions Program, Washington D.C.
1995 Medieval Academy of America: chair, John Nicholas Brown Prize Committee (committee to award annual book prize)
1995 NEH Panel, Dissertation Grants Program
1996 Member of External Review Committee, Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia (on behalf of the ADPCL)
1997 Chair of External Review Committee, Curriculum in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of the ADPCL)
1998-- Member of Editorial Board of Medieval Chronicles Series, published by Boydell and Brewer
1999 NEH Panel, Fellowships Program, Washington D.C.
2000 NEH Panel, Fellowships Program, Washington D.C.
2001-- Associate Editor, Comparative Literature Studies
2001-- Advisory Board, American Comparative Literature Association (national election
2001-05, ADPCL representative 2006--)
2005-06 Member of External Review Committee, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
2002-07 President, Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature
Occasional reader or consultant for the National Endowment for the Humanities, for various publishers ( Modern Language Association Publications, University of Illinois Press, Penn State Press, John Wiley & Sons, Heath and Company, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, Norton, Blackwell, Boydell and Brewer, others), and article referee for journals (Chaucer Review, Speculum, Comparative Literature Studies, others).
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