Professor David Wallace - Curriculum Vitae

David Wallace - Curriculum Vitae

Education and Work Experience
Honors and Grants
Publications
Audio Recordings and Broadcasts (TV, Radio)
Translation and Reviews
Lectures and Presentations
Teaching
Service
Professional Memberships

Education and Work Experience:

    Education:

    St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, 1978-83; Ph.D., 1983, English
    University of York, 1973-6; B.A., 1976, English and Related Literature
    Università Italiana per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, 1974, 1975, summer courses

    University of Pennsylvania Appointments:

    Chair, Department of English, 2001-2004
    Judith Rodin Professor of English, 1996-
    Director, Penn in London Program, 2000-2001
    Graduate Group in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
    Graduate Group in Religion
    Executive Committee, Center for Italian Studies

    University of Cambridge:

    Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge

    Other Work Experience:

    Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1991-96
    Assistant, Associate Professor, Dept of English, University of Texas at Austin, 1985-91
    Mellon Fellow, Dept of English, Stanford University, 1984-85
    Assistant Director of Studies in English, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, 1981-83
    Teacher of English, British School, Arona, Piedmont, Italy, 1977-78
    Lektor in English, Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig, 1976-77

Honors and Grants:

     President, New Chaucer Society, 2004-2006
     Visiting Professor, Dept English, King’s College, London, 2004-2005
     James Russell Lowell Prize, 1998 (best book by member of MLA)
     The Undergraduate Teaching Award, Dept. of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
     Senior Member, University College, Oxford, winter 1997
     MA (Honorary Degree), University of Pennsylvania, 1996
     Visiting Professorial Fellow, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, 1995; Member of High Table, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1995
     Bush Foundation Award, University of Minnesota, 1994-95
     Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Medieval Studies, 1991-96
     Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1989-90
     NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1988-89
     University of Texas Research Institute Awards, 1985, 1987, 1989-90
     Nominated by Graduate Student Association (Texas) for English Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, 1986, 1988
     Mellon Fellowship, 1984-85
     Research Fellowship, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, 1981-83
     Department of Education and Science Scholarship for Graduate Work, 1978-81
     Judith Wilson Scholarship for research in Florence, 1979
     Anglo-Austrian Friendship Society Award for German Studies, 1976
     Italian Institute Scholarship for Dante Studies, 1975


Publications:

Books:

Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing. Ed. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; revised paperback edition, 2002.

Medieval Crime and Social Control. Ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace. Medieval Cultures, vol 16. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997; paperback edition, 1999.

Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England. Ed. Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace. Medieval Cultures, vol. 9. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Giovanni Boccaccio: Decameron, Landmarks of World Literature Series. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100-c. 1375: The Commentary Tradition. Ed. A.J. Minnis and A.B. Scott, with the assistance of David Wallace. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988; revised edition (and paperback), 1991. My contribution includes translations of and commentary on Dante, Convivio II, i-xvi; Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Comedìa di Dante, accessus; Boccaccio, Trattatello in laude di Dante, I, 128-74; “Assessing the New Author: Commentary on Dante 1321-1375”; “Giovanni del Virgilio.”

Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio, Chaucer Studies xii. Cambridge, England: D.S. Brewer, 1985, pp. xiii, 209. Sections reprinted in Gaylord, 2001; Shoaf, 1992 (see below).

Book Series Founder and Editor:

“Medieval Cultures.” With Barbara A. Hanawalt and Rita Copeland, University of Minnesota Press. Forty-one volumes published.

Journal Edited:

Beatrice dolce memoria, 1290-1990: Essays on the “Vita nuova” and the Beatrice-Dante Relationship, a special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 32.1 (1990).

Articles and Chapters in Books:

“Brunetto Latini,” in Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2004), I, 160b-161b (with William Marvin).

“Chaucer and Deschamps, Translation and the Hundred Years’ War,” in The Medieval Translator, 8 (2003): 179-88.

“Commendatory Preface” to Martin L. Warren, Asceticism in the Christian Transformation of Self in Margery Kempe, William Thorpe, and John Rogers (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).

“Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters,” in The Public Intellectual, ed. Helen Small. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002: 62-88.

“Afterword,” Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England, ed. Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002: 207-14.

Response to “Colloquium: The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature,” in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 23 (2001), 473-519 (pp. 513-519).

“Italy,” in The Chaucer Companion, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).

“The Making of Troilus and Criseyde,” in Essays on the Art of Chaucer’s Verse, ed. Alan Gaylord (London: Routledge, 2001): 297-338.

“Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography, Periodization,” New Medieval Literatures, 3 (1999): 9-38

“Preface” to Alfred Thomas, Anne’s Bohemia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

“In Flaundres” - The Biennial Chaucer Lecture. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 19 (1997): 63-91.

“Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England and Chaucer's Emperice.” Litteraria Pragensia (1997).

“Breakthrough Books: Medieval Studies.” Lingua Franca (April/May 1997), p. 17.

“Brunetto Latini,” in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler and Grover A. Zinn. New York: Garland Press, 1995: 151-2.

“Boccaccio, Giovanni,” in The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. M. Groden and M. Kreiswirth (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994): 101-2.

“Dante in English,” in The Cambridge Dante Companion, ed. Rachel Jacoff. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993: 237-58.

“Chaucer and the Absent City,” in Chaucer's England, ed. Barbara Hanawalt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992: 59-90.

“Chaucer and the Filostrato,” in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: “Subgit to alle Poesye” - Essays in Criticism, ed. R.A. Shoaf. Pegasus Paperbooks series, no. 10. Binghampton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992: 257-67.

“Writing the Tyrant's Death: Chaucer, Bernabò Visconti, and Richard II,” in Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature, ed. Anna Torti. Cambridge, England: Boydell and Brewer, 1991: 117-130.

“Carving Up Time and the World: Medieval-Renaissance Turf Wars.” Historiography and Personal History, 1990-91 Working Papers, no. 11, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (24 pp.).

“'Whan she translated was': a Chaucerian critique of the Petrarchan Academy,” in Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530, ed. Lee Patterson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: 156-215.

“Chaucer's Body Politic: Social and Narrative Self-Regulation,” Exemplaria, 2.1 (1990): 221-40.

“Cleanness and the Terms of Terror,” in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives of the “Pearl” Poet, ed. R.J. Blanch, M. Youngerman Miller, and J. Wasserman. Troy, NY: Whitston Press, 1990: 95-106.

“Pilgrim Signs and the Ellesmere Chaucer,” New Chaucer Society Newsletter, 11.2 (Fall 1989): 1-3.

“Men in Medieval Feminism,” Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 6 (Fall 1988): 16-17.

“Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Boccaccio's rakel hond,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 88 (1987): 27-30.

“Chaucer's Continental Inheritance: The Early Poems and Troilus and Criseyde,” in The Cambridge Chaucer Companion, ed. Piero Boitani and Jill Mann. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1986: 19-37.

“Chaucer and the European Rose,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings, no. 1, 1984: Reconstructing Chaucer. Knoxville, Tennessee: New Chaucer Society, 1985: 61-67.

“Mystics and Followers in Siena and East Anglia: A Study in Taxonomy, Class, and Cultural Mediation,” in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, ed. Marion Glasscoe. Cambridge, England: Boydell and Brewer, 1984: 169-91.

“Chaucer's Ambages,” American Notes and Queries, 23, i & ii (Sept./Oct. 1984): 1-4.

“Chaucer and Boccaccio's Early Writings,” in Chaucer and the Italian Trecento, ed. Piero Boitani. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1983; paperback 1985: 141-62.

“Some Amendments to the Apparatus of Robinson's Works of Chaucer,” Notes and Queries, n.s. 30 (1983): 202.

“Chaucer and the Poets of the 'Pieno Trecento',” Comparison, 13 (1982): 98-119.

“Inside East Germany,” The Tablet, 231 (1977): 859-60, 884-5.

Audio Recordings and Broadcasts (TV, Radio):

Adviser to Granada Television program on the Black Death.

Readings of Chaucer’s poetry and interview with Charles Bernstein on Chaucer. Recorded at the University of Pennsylvania, 17 May 2004: Listen to the recording online.

Contribution to “The Art of Laziness,” produced by Paul Quinn. On classical and medieval otium and busynesse. Radio 3, 10.05 p.m., 29 February 2004.

“God’s First Englishman.” The Sunday Showcase for BBC Radio 3 (all UK), Sunday 20 April, 2003, 5.45-6.30. Written and Presented by David Wallace, produced by Paul Quinn. A program on the local and international cultures of the Venerable Bede. Edited from 15 hours of location interviews at Jarrow, Wearmouth, Sunderland, South Shields, Lindisfarne, the Inner Farne, the British Library and other locations; studio interviews. Available on CD; listen to an excerpt from the broadcast here.

Radio: “The History of Stupidity.” Interview in New York; written and presented by Patrick McGuinness, with Susan Sontag and Umberto Eco. Broadcast on 29 December 2002. Available on CD.

Radio: Interviewed for program “The Anti-Renaissance Show,” with Terry Jones. BBC Scotland. Broadcast throughout UK on 9, 16, 23 March 2002.

Television: Advisor to the History Channel for feature on medieval instruments of torture (2002).

Radio: “Valentine’s Day,” interview and phone-in with Marty Moss Coan, Radio Times, WHYY, Philadelphia, 14 February 2001.

Academic Adviser, “Who Killed Chaucer?” Proposal submitted to BBC TV in Fall 1998, with Alan Eirera (Director), Terry Jones.

“Chaucer” - 4 hours live as talking head, Radio 3 special, October 2000 (600th anniversary of Chaucer’s death). Other interviews on related theme with Seventh Day Adventist Radio, Utah NPR.

Penn Campus Representative, Gramercy Pictures, “Elizabeth.”

“Geoffrey Chaucer,” conversation with Toni McNaron as part of correspondence course Engl. 3111, “Survey of English Literature.” Department of Independent Study, Continuing Education and Extension, University of Minnesota. Recorded 20 May 1994. Available on tape.

“Italian Currents,” Soundings, National Public Radio, 3 June 1990. A discussion of the formative influence of Italian on English literature. Available from the National Humanities Center as Soundings Tape 503.

Translation and Reviews:

Translation:

Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Ashes of Gramsci, trans. and intro. by David Wallace. Peterborough, England: Spectacular Diseases, 1982.

Reviews (selected):

Alan Bray, The Friend. In progress, Speculum.

James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Revolution. Review essay, forthcoming in JMRS.

Derek Pearsall, ed., Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English, 1377-1575. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 69 (2000), 140-1.

Erik Kooper, ed., Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 21. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1994. Reviewed in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 18 (1996), 234-8.

Carol Meale, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reviewed in The Review of English Studies, NS 46 (1995), 388-9.

John E. Dotson, trans., Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Venice: The “Zibaldone da Canal.” MRTS, 98. Binghamton, NY: MRTS, 1994. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 65 (1996), 155-6.

Franco Buffoni, I racconti di Canterbury: un opera unitaria. Milan: Guerini, 1991. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 63 (1994), 137-9.

Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. Reviewed in Speculum, 69 (1994), 156-8.

Hans Grotz, La storiografia medioevale: Introduzione e sguardo panoramico. Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 1993. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 63 (1994), 371.

Carol Lansing, The Florentine Magnates: Lineage and Faction in a Medieval Commune. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 62 (1993), 185.

David Aers, ed., Culture and History 1350-1600: Essays on English Communities, Identities, and Writing (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992). Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 62 (1993), 335-7

Thomas C. Stillinger, The Song of Troilus: Lyric Authority in the Medieval Book (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Reviewed in Annali d'italianistica, 11 (1993), 303-5.

C. David Benson, Chaucer's “Troilus and Criseyde.” London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. Reviewed in Speculum, 67 (1992): 626-9.

Giovanni Tobacco, The Struggle for Power in Medieval Italy: Structures of Political Rule, trans. Rosalind Brown Jenson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 61 (1992): 181.

Caroline D. Eckhardt, Chaucer's General Prologue to the “Canterbury Tales”: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 to 1982, The Chaucer Bibliographies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990. Reviewed in Medium Aevum, 61 (1992): 129-30.

Bonvesin de la Riva, Volgari Scelti, trans. Patrick S. Diehl and Ruggero Stefanini. New York: Peter Lang, 1987. Reviewed in Romance Philology, 45 (1992): 457-60.

Piero Boitani, ed. The European Tragedy of Troilus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly, 44 (1991): 157-60.

Robert Pogue Harrison, The Body of Beatrice. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Reviewed in Speculum.

J.H. Burns, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350-1450. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Reviewed in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 11 (1989): 194-202.

Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa Visione. Bilingual Edition, trans. Robert Hollander et al. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986. Reviewed in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 9 (1986): 193-5.

Howard Schless, Chaucer and Dante: A Revaluation. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1984. Reviewed in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 8 (1986): 145-49.

Kenelm Foster, Petrarch: Poet and Humanist. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1984. Reviewed in New Blackfriars, 65 (1984): 487-89.

Selected Lectures, Presentations, and Organizing (since 1994):

“France, Italy, England,” in “A Europe of Nations” session (with Kevin Brownlee). New Chaucer Society Conference, Glasgow, 19 July 2004.

“Topophilia.” Medieval Institute Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8 May 2004.

“Epistole Seniles, Griseldis,” at “The Complete Petrarch: A Life’s Work (1304-1374),” University of Pennsylvania, 17 April 2004.

“Canaries.” Plenary at conference “Ideas, Visions, and Images: Tales from the Middle Ages,” Southern Connecticut State University, 8 November 2003.

Inaugural invitee in Distinguished Visitor series, British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 17-18 October 2002. Two seminars and public lecture.

“Passages to Surinam,” plenary talk at “Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England” Conference, King’s College, London, 9 November 2002; and plenary concluding roundtable discussion.

“Ahi, Genovesi!” Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, December 2002.

“Genres of Travel,” MLA Conference, New York, 29 December 2002.

“Chaucer: the Poet as Ethiop.” Medieval Academy of America Conference, New York, 5 April 2002.

“How to Keep a Job.” Presentation for new Assistant Professors, sponsored by TEAMS, 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 3 May 2002.

Respondent to Session “The Heart of the Dragon: Chinese Medieval Cities,” Kalamazoo, 2 May 2002.

Respondent to session on “Old Historicisms (Hegel, Marx, and Tout),” Kalamazoo, 2 May 2002.

Plenary respondent to conference “The Cultures of Papal Avignon (1309-1378),” University of Minnesota, 25-27 April 2002.

“Chaucer: the Poet as Ethiop,” Medieval Academy of America, New York, 4 April 2002.

“Nigra sum, sed formosa,” University of Maryland, 26 October 2001.

“Surinam.” Borders Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, 3 October 2001.

“Chaucer, Deschamps, and the Hundred Years War,” Conference on Medieval Translation, University of Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, 23 July 2001.

“Chaucer, Hughes/Plath, and David Dabydeen,” plenary speaker at Chaucer Conference, University of York, 2 June 2001.

“A public debate on historicist method: synchronic and diachronic approaches.” With/contra Paul Strohm, Oxford University, 29 May 2001.

“Premodern Places: Calais,” Cambridge University, 23 May 2001.

“Sons of Genoa: Humanism, Slavery, and the Invention of New Worlds,” University of Birmingham, 19 March 2001.

Colloquium at St. Andrews University, Scotland on medieval intellectuals. Cancelled due to flooding, rail disasters, and foot and mouth, 12 March 2001.

“Sons of Genoa: Humanism, Slavery, and the Invention of New Worlds,” University of Bristol, 1 March 2001.

“Chaucer in Genoa: Humanism and Slavery in Fourteenth-Century Genoa,” London Old and Middle Research Seminar, Institute for English Studies, Senate House, London, 31 January 2001.

Organizer and Chair, “Mysticism and Mental Health,” a session sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, May 1999.

“Dante in Somerset.” Oxford University, 10 March 1999.

“Chaucer and Italy: A Public Debate with Warren Ginsburg.” Organized by Robert Hanning, chaired by Mary Carruthers, Columbia University, 21 November 1998.

Local Organizer, Medieval Academy of America CARA Conference, University of Pennsylvania, 24-26 September 1998.

Workshop for Graduate Students, University of Michigan, 19 September 1998.

“Literary History of Britain.” University of Michigan, 18 September 1998.

“Visualizing Lynn.” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8 May 1998.

Chair, “Women Mystics: Comparative European Perspectives,” Kalamazoo, 7 May 1998.

“Chaucer and the Slave Trade.” Columbia University, 8 April 1998.

“Dante in Somerset. And Further Problematics of medieval/Renaissance Periodization.” University of Sussex, 10 March 1998.

“Interdisciplinarity: Medieval Studies.” Roundtable “Not in My Department,” Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University, 27 February 1998.

“Chaucer and the Slave Trade.” University of Colorado, 31 October 1998.

“Literary History of Britain, 1066-1547.” Harvard University, 2 October 1997.

“Dante in Somerset.” Medieval/Renaissance Group, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1 October 1997.

“Chaucer, the Slave Trade, and Italian Humanism.” Annual Collation, Graduate Program, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 18 September 1997.

“Problematics of Periodization: Medieval/Renaissance.” Medieval Studies Program, University of Bristol, 20 March 1997.

“Trecento Humanism, Absolutism, Culture, and Slavery.” University of Exeter, 13 March 1997.

“Petrarch, Boccaccio, Humanism, Slavery.” Italian Studies, University of Bristol, 27 February 1997.

“Chaucer Studies: Possible Futures.” Keynote Lecture, Current Perspectives in Chaucer Research Conference, University of York, 25 January 1997.

“Rhetoric, Violence, and Domestic Space.” Gender and Space in the Middle Ages Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 7 January 1997.

“Contested Theories in the Classroom: historicism, Lower-Case.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington DC, 30 December 1996.

“Boccaccio, Petrarch, Humanism, Slavery.” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C., 29 December 1996.

“Periodization: medieval/Renaissance.” University of Pennsylvania, 9 October 1996.

“In Flaundres.” History of the Book Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, 7 October 1996.

“In Flaundres.” Biennial Chaucer Lecture, New Chaucer Society Conference, Los Angeles, July 1996.

“Chaucer's Dullest Tale.” University of Pennsylvania, 14 February, 1996.

“Guild Culture in Fourteenth-Century England.” Joint presentation with Miri Rubin. Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, 3 May 1995.

“Petrarch and the Feminine: Humanism and Tyranny.” Graduate Research Seminar, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge, 7 March 1995.

“Rhetoric and Domestic Violence in Chaucer.” Graduate Research Seminar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 1 March 1995.

Organizer of conference (with Barbara Hanawalt): “Medieval Crime and Social Control.” University of Minnesota, 17-18 February, 1995.

“Rhetoric and Domestic Violence (Chaucer's Melibee and the Manciple's Tale).” Medieval Studies Program and Department of English, University of Wisconsin, 2 February 1995.

“The Myghty Man's Seduction.” Modern Language Association of America, San Diego, 30 December 1994.

“Rhetoric, Politics, and Domestic Violence.” 9th International Congress, New Chaucer Society, Dublin, 25 July 1994.

“Periodization/Territorialization; Medieval/Renaissance.” Plenary speaker in session “Theory and/of the Period, or: Are the Middle ages Over Yet?” Sponsored by Exemplaria. 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 7 May 1994.

“Rhetoric and Domestic Violence in Chaucer.” 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 6 May 1994.

“Graduate Studies in Britain and the USA: Comparative Perspectives” (seminar); “The Miller's Tale” (undergraduate lecture); “Chaucer, Good Women, and Anne of Bohemia” (research seminar), Charles University, Prague, 13-20 April 1994.

“Cultural and Political Forms under the Visconti in Late Trecento Lombardy,” as part of colloquium “Medieval Theatricality,” Reiners Stiftung/Bad Homburg, Germany, 29 March 1994.

Respondent to conference (with Robert Brentano, UC Berkeley): “Strangers in the Middle Ages,” University of Minnesota, 25-26 February 1994.

Respondent to conference: “The Rules of the Game: Regulations of Medieval Life and Their Translation into Practice,” Indiana University, 18-19 February 1994.


Teaching:

     University of Pennsylvania:

   E20: Major British Writers, 1350-1660
     E25: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
     E220: Medieval Women and Writing
     E225: Chaucer, Bruegel, Bosch
     E225: Medieval Chivalry, Masculinity, Romance
     E310: Troy to Camelot (English Honors)
     E325: Painting, Poetry, Politics: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (General Honors)
     E531: Passages from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Graduate)
     E710: Denationalizing the English Middle Ages (Graduate)
     E715 (Comp Lit 714, French 635), with Kevin Brownlee: Anglo-French Literatures in Medieval European Contexts.
     E725: Topics in Chaucer
     Preceptorial, “Wallace: the Man and the Myth.” On Braveheart.

     University of Minnesota:

     R 3111: Survey of British Literature, Part 1
     R 3218: Medieval Literature in Translation
     R 3241: Shakespeare
     R 5215: Fifteenth-Century Literature; Middle English Literature
     R 5221: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
     R 8210 (with B. Hanawalt): Representing Class in Fourteenth-Century England
     R 8220: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

    University of Texas, Stanford University, Cambridge University:

    Undergraduate: Composition and Reading in World Literature (freshman honors); Masterpieces of World Literature (lower division; 200 students); Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Readings in Dante; Medieval Literature in Translation; Middle English Literature; Passages from Chaucer to Shakespeare (upper division honors); Conference Course in Literature and Language; senior thesis, English honors; senior thesis, Humanities Program; tutorials on English, French, Italian, Latin, and German texts.

    Graduate: Numerous seminar courses on Chaucer, with particular emphasis on links with Italy, historiography, political science, English and European history, feminism and gender studies; Medieval English Literature; Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch.

Service:

     University of Pennsylvania:

     Chair of English, 2001-2004
     University Study Abroad Advisory Committee for the United Kingdom and Ireland (Provost's Task Force on Study Abroad), 2002-
     Member of Arts, Humanities, and Society Committee (Strategic Plan) and contributor to final document “The Humanities: Meaning in a Time of Cultural Conflict”
University Personnel Committee (SAS), 1999-2000
     Graduate Education Committee (SAS), 1999-2000
     Executive Committee, Dept of English, 1999-2000
     Graduate Education Committee (SAS), 1999-2000
     Executive and Admissions Committees, Comparative Literature, 1998-2000
     Organizer (with E. Freedgood), History of the Book Seminar, 1998-89; 24 meetings
     Chair, Search Committee for junior medievalist, Dept English (1998-89)
     Organizer, Rosier Lecture, 1998
     Promotion, tenure, or third-year review committees: Farah Griffin, English/African American Studies (Chair); Nida Surber, English; Joseph Farrell, Classics.
     Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (1997-98)
     Member, Faculty Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania Press (1997-2000)
     Graduate Student Language Exam (German), 1997
     Undergraduate Adviser to 11 Freshmen; Adviser to a number of medieval/Renaissance concentrators, Department of English

     University of Minnesota:

     Chair, Search Committee for Chair, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, 1993-94
     Graduate Admissions Committee (English Department), 1991-93, 1995-96.
     Selection Committee, Doctoral Dissertation Special Grants (university-wide), 1994
     Selection Committee, Foster Wheeler Grants (Physical Sciences), 1994
     Executive Committee, Center for Medieval Studies, 1991-94
     Executive Committee, Germanic Philology, 1994-
     Two Book MA Exam, 1993-94
     Graduate Studies Committee, 1991-94
     Chair, Grievance Committee, 1991-92 (English Department)
     Committee to Review Center Directors (College of Liberal Arts), 1993
     Search Committee, Winton Chair (College of Liberal Arts), 1991-92
     Organizer, Frenzel Chair Lectures: Derek Pearsall (Harvard), 10.7.91; Allen Frantzen (Loyola, Chicago), 2.7.92; Dyan Elliot (Indiana) and Paul Strohm (Indiana), 3.6.92; Helen Cooper (Oxford) and Gabor Klaniczay (Budapest), 5.5.92; Malcolm Parkes (Oxford), 10.2.92; James J. Murphy (UC, Davis), 10.23.92; Sarah Kay (Penn and Cambridge), 2.22.93; Larry Scanlon (Wisconsin), 12.2.93; Steven F. Kruger, 2.3.94.

     National and International:

     Advisory Board, PMLA, 2003-2006
     Council Member, Dante Society of America, 2002-2005
     2000-2003: Member of External Oversight Committee, Department of English, Columbia University. Made recommendations for all senior appointments while Department is in receivership. Worked by e-mail and met about 4 times a year.
     Chair, Lowell Prize Committee, Modern Language Association of America, 2002. Ran process that sees committee of five read 90 books to find one winner; wrote citations.
     Chair, Appointment Committee for Executive Director, New Chaucer Society, and for Editor, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1996-97.
     Final Selection Committee, National Humanities Center, 1994.
     National Research Council, Survey of Graduate Programs in English (respondent; evaluated 50 programs).
     Assessor of grant applications: National Endowment for the Humanities, National Humanities Center (1989-98, 2002- ), Australian Humanities Research Council, Woodrow Wilson Center, American Philosophical Society (1998- ); Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program (Harvard), 2003.
     Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature Division Executive Committee, Modern Language Association of America, 1996-2000; Chair 1999.
     Chaucer Division Executive Committee, MLA, 1989-93; Chair 1992.
     Trustee, New Chaucer Society, 1992-96.
     Nominations Committee, New Chaucer Society Trustees, 1986, 1988, 1992 (Chair).
     John Nicholas Brown Prize Committee, Medieval Academy of America, 1992-94.
     Faculty Advisory Board, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997-2000.
     Faculty Advisory Board, University of Texas Press, 1990-91.
     Frequent editorial reader and consultant for Cambridge University Press.
     Editorial board, Figurae, Stanford University Press.
     Editorial reader/adviser for Blackwells, U. California Press, U. Chicago Press, Longman, U. Minnesota Press, U. Nebraska Press, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Binghampton), Oxford University Press, Penn State University Press, U. Pennsylvania Press, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press, State University of New York Press, University of Texas Press, Allegorica, Chaucer Review, Mediaevalia, Medium Aevum, PMLA, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, TSLL.

Memebership in Professional Organizations:

    American Association for Italian Studies
    American Boccaccio Association
    Amnesty International
    Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana
    Dante Society of America
    Medieval Academy of America
    Modern Language Association of America
    New Chaucer Society
    Renaissance Society of America
    Society for Italian Historical Studies

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