CURRICULUM VITAE



CURRICULUM VITAE

Martin Camargo

Department of English

University of Illinois

608 S. Wright Street

Urbana, IL 6l80l

Office: (217) 244-7717

Home: (217) 607-2465

E-mail: martincamargo23@

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL l972–1978

Major: English

(no degree), École des Hautes Études, Paris, France 1974–1975

Latin Codicology (with André Vernet)

A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ l968–1972

Major: Philosophy

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2014-present

(Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs)

Professor of English, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign 2003-present

Professor of Medieval Studies 2004-present

Professor of Classics 2011-present

Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia 1992–2003

Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia 1985–1992

Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia 1980–1985

Assistant Professor of English, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa 1979–1980

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia 1978–1979

PUBLICATIONS

A. Books and Monographs

Essays on Medieval Rhetoric, Variorum Collected Studies Series. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. x + 324 pp. Thirteen previously published essays (1981-2003), with introduction, corrections, and indices.

Reviews: A. Luhtala, Scriptorium/Bulletin Codicologique 2014/01.

(Ed.) Poetria Nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, trans. Margaret F. Nims, rev. ed. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2010).

Reviews: Douglas Kelly, Speculum 86 (2011), 756-58; Traugott Lawler, JEGP 112 (2013), 124-27.

(Ed.) The Waning of Medieval “Ars Dictaminis.” Special issue of Rhetorica: vol. 19, no. 2 (Spring, 2001): 135-268. Editor’s Introduction (pp. 135-40) and five essays.

Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English “Artes Dictandi” and Their Tradition. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995. xiv + 256 pp.

Reviews: J. O. Ward, Parergon, n.s. 14.1 (July 1996), 277-79; L. G. G. Ricci, Studi Medievali, ser. 3, 37 (1996), 967-69; M. D. Johnston, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review (on-line), 8 March 1997; F. Quadlbauer, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 33.2 (1998), 233-36; E. Polak, Rhetorica 19 (2001), 128-30.

The Middle English Verse Love Epistle. Studien zur Englischen Philologie, n.s. 28. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1991. viii + 220 pp.

Reviews: A. Astell, JEGP 91 (1992), 561-63; N. F. Blake, English Studies 73 (1992), 560-61; H. A. Kelly, Speculum 68 (1993), 482-85; H. Hargreaves, Scriptorium (1993, for 1992), 77-78; D. Pezzini, /aevum 2 (1993), 455-57l; C.M. Meale, Archiv 230 (1993), 164-66; A. Classen, Mediaevistik 6 (1993), 505-8; H. L. Spencer, RES 45, no. 177 (1994), 87-88.

Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi. Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 60. Turnhout: Brepols, l991. 59 pp.

Reviews: E. Polak, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 54 (1992), 808-11; S. B., Medioevo Latino 14 (1993), 732; L. Shepard, Speculum 69 (1994), 812-13; G. C. Alessio, Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 37 (1994), 275-77; R. de Kegel, Deutsches Archiv 51 (1995), 588.

B. Articles and Chapters

"Rhetorical Argument in Thirteenth-Century Epistolary Theory," in Rhetorical Argumentation from the Vth Century BC to the Renaissance: Essays dedicated to Lucia Calboli Montefusco, ed. Maria Silvana Celentano, Pierre Chiron, Peter Mack (Hildesheim: Olms, 2015), pp. 319-28.

"Epistolary Declamation: Performing Model Letters in Medieval English Classrooms," in Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing, ed. Susan Green and Linda Mitchell, Huntington Library Quarterly, 79 (September, 2016), 1-20; French translation: "La déclamation épistolaire. Lettres modèles et performance dans les écoles anglaises médiévales," trans. Benoît Grévin, in Le dictamen dans tous ses états. Perspectives de recherche sur la théorie et la pratique de l'ars dictaminis (XIe-XVe siècles), Bibliothèque d'histoire culturelle du moyen âge 16, ed. Benoît Grévin and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 287-307.

"What Medieval Europeans Talked about When They Talked about Rhetoric," The Journal of International Rhetoric Studies 3 (2014), 43-56.

"Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Memorial Verses," in Inventing a Path: Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers, Nottingham Medieval Studies 56, ed. Laura Iseppi De Filippis (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 81-119.

“What Goes with Geoffrey of Vinsauf? Codicological Clues to Pedagogical Practices in England, c. 1225-c. 1470,” in The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom: The Role of Ancient Texts in the Arts Curriculum as Revealed by Surviving Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Disputatio 20, ed. Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward, and Melanie Heyworth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 145-74.

"In Search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lost 'Long Documentum,'" Journal of Medieval Latin 22 (2012), 149-83.

"Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34 (2012), 173-207.

"The Late Fourteenth-Century Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric," Philosophy and Rhetoric 45.2 (2012), 107-33.

(with Marjorie Curry Woods) "Writing Instruction in Late Medieval Europe," in A Short History of Writing Instruction from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, 3d ed. (New York and London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 114-47.

“From Liber versuum to Poetria nova: The Genesis of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Masterpiece," Journal of Medieval Latin 21 (2011): 1-16.

"How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer’s Pardoner,” in Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honour of John V. Fleming, ed. Robert Epstein and William Robins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), pp. 146-78.

“Special Delivery: Were Medieval Letter Writers Trained in Performance?,” in Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages, ed. Mary Carruthers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 173-89.

“Grammar School Rhetoric: The Compendia of John Longe and John Miller,” New Medieval Literatures 11, special issue on “Medieval Grammar and the Literary Arts,” ed. Chris Cannon, Rita Copeland, and Nicolette Zeeman (2009): 91-112.

“Introduction to the Revised Edition," in Poetria Nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, trans. Margaret F. Nims, rev. ed. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2010), pp. 4-16.

“Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford,” in New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric, International Studies in the History of Rhetoric 1, ed. Laurent Pernot (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 375-84; Bulgarian translation: “Oratori v cherno: benediktinskite monasi i vazrazhdaneto na retorikata v srednovekoven Oksford,” in Novi izsledvania po istoria na retorikata, trans. Loran Perno and Lilia Metodieva (Sofia: Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Press, 2010), pp. 346-55.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers; or, Where Chaucer Learned How to Act,” New Medieval Literatures 9 (2007): 41-62.

“If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them; or, When Grammar Met Business Writing (in Fifteenth-Century Oxford),” in Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present, eds. Carol Poster and Linda C. Mitchell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), pp. 67-87.

“Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link?,” in The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition, ed. Virginia Cox and John O. Ward (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 267-88.

“Chaucer’s Use of Time as a Rhetorical Topos,” in Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook, ed. Scott Troyan (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 91-107.

“Defining Medieval Rhetoric,” in Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O. Ward, ed. Constant J. Mews, Cary J. Nederman, and Rodney M. Thomson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 21-34.

“The Pedagogy of the Dictatores,” in Papers on Rhetoric V: Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Dictamen, Poetria and Cicero: Coherence and Diversification,” Bologna, 10-11 Maggio 2002, ed. Lucia Calboli Montefusco (Rome: Herder, 2003), pp. 65-94.

“The Book of John Mandeville and the Geography of Identity,” in Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination, ed. David A. Sprunger and Timothy S. Jones (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002), pp. 67-84.

“Tria sunt: The Long and the Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi,” Speculum 74 (1999), 935-55.

“’Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam’: Neoplatonism and Rhetoric in Saint Augustine’s De doctrina christiana,” Rhetorica 16 (1998), 393-408.

“Two Middle English Carols from an Exeter Manuscript,” Medium Aevum 67 (1998), 104-11.

“’Si dictare velis’: Versified Artes dictandi and Late Medieval Writing Pedagogy,” Rhetorica 14 (1996), 265-88.

“Where’s the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and Reading/Writing Between the Lines,” Disputatio 1 (1996), 1-17.

“Rhetorical Ethos and the ‘Nun’s Priest’s Tale,’” Comparative Literature Studies 33 (1996), 173-86.

“Betweeen Grammar and Rhetoric: Composition Teaching at Oxford and Bologna in the Late Middle Ages,” in Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy, ed. Winifred Bryan Horner and Michael Leff (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995), pp. 83-94.

“Beyond the Libri Catoniani: Models of Latin Prose Style at Oxford University ca. l400,” Mediaeval Studies 56 (1994), 165-87.

“A Twelfth-Century Treatise on Dictamen and Metaphor,” Traditio 47 (1992), 161-213.

“The Consolation of Pandarus,” The Chaucer Review 25 (1991), 214-28.

“The Varieties of Prose Dictamen as Defined by the Dictatores,” Vichiana, ser. 3, 1 [Proceedings of the International Conference on Rhetoric, Camigliatello Silano, Italy, ll-l3 September l989] (Naples: Loffredo Editore, 1991, for 1990), pp. 61-73.

“Toward a Comprehensive Art of Written Discourse: Geoffrey of Vinsauf and the Ars Dictaminis,” Rhetorica 6 (l988), l67-94.

“Oral-Traditional Structure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry, ed. John M. Foley (Columbus, OH: Slavica Press, l987), pp. 121-37.

“Issy’s Sisters,” James Joyce Quarterly 24 (1987), 362-65.

“The Libellus de arte dictandi rhetorice Attributed to Peter of Blois,” Speculum 59 (l984), l6-4l.

“Medieval Rhetoric from St. Augustine to the Scholastics,” in The Seven Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages, ed. David Wagner (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, l983; paperback edition, 1986), pp. 96-l24.

“The English Manuscripts of Bernard of Meung’s Flores dictaminum,” Viator l2 (l98l), l97-219.

“The Finn Episode and the Tragedy of Revenge in Beowulf,” Studies in Philology 78 (l98l), l20-34.

“The Metamorphosis of Candace and the Earliest English Love Epistle,” in Court and Poet, ed. Glyn S. Burgess (Liverpool: Cairns, l98l), pp. l0l-ll.

“The Verse Love Epistle: An Unrecognized Genre,” Genre l3 (l980), 397-405.

“A Good Idea, in Theory: Why Mathias of Linköping's Poetria Fell Short in Practice,” Rhetorica (forthcoming, 2017; 27 ms. pp.).

C. Contributions to Reference Works and Anthologies

"Rhetoric (2): Virgil in Medieval Rhetoric," in The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. 1081-82.

“Ars dictaminis and Ars dictandi,” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) p. 138.

Introduction, translation, and annotation of excerpt from Tria sunt, in Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475, ed. Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) pp. 670-81.

”Vinsauf, Geoffrey of (fl. 1208-1213),” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 56, pp. 555-56.

“Ars Dictaminis” and “Epistolary Rhetoric,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, ed. Thomas O. Sloane (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 50b-52a, 257b-61a.

“Ars Dictaminis,” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition, ed. Theresa Enos (New York and London: Garland, 1996), pp. 36-38.

“Ars Dictandi/Dictaminis,” in Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, ed. Gert Ueding, Vol. l (Tübingen: Niemeyer, l992), l040-46.

(with James J. Murphy), “The Middle Ages,” in The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric, revised edition, ed. Winifred Bryan Horner (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1990), pp. 45-83.

"Geoffrey of Vinsauf," in The Encyclopedia of British Medieval Literature, ed. Sian Echard and Robert Rouse (Wiley-Blackwell) (2 pp.; forthcoming)

D. Book Reviews

Wenzel, Siegfried. Medieval Artes Praedicandi: A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure, Medieval Academy Books, 114. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. The Medieval Review 16 (February, 2016):

Peter Travis, Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun's Priest's Tale (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009). Review of English Studies, n.s. 61 (2010), 807-8.

Alberico di Montecassino, Breviarium de dictamine, ed. Filippo Bognini (Florence: Galluzzo, 2008). Speculum 85 (2010), 924-26.

James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

(Aldershot, Hampshire & Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2005).

Rhetorical Review 6:1 (2008), pp. 5-7, .

J. J. Anderson, Language and Imagination in the Gawain-Poems (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005). JEGP 107 (2008), 133-35.

Haye, Thomas, Oratio: Mittelalterliche Redekunst in lateinischer Sprache, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 27 (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, 1999). The Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2002), 227-29.

Tilliette, Jean-Yves, Des mots à la parole. Une lecture de la Poetria nova de Geoffroy de Vinsauf (Geneva: Droz, 2000). Rhetorica 19 (2001), 422-24.

J. Stephen Russell, Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). JEGP 100 (2001), 126-28.

William M. Purcell, ‘Ars poetriae’: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1996). Speculum 74 (1999), 243-45.

John O. Ward, Ciceronian Rhetoric in Treatise, Scholion and Commentary, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 58 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1995). Speculum 73 (1998), 1173-75.

Suzanne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998), 315-17.

Transmundus, Introductiones dictandi, ed. and trans. Ann Dalzell (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995). Rhetorica 16 (1998), 333-35.

Gabriele Knappe, Traditionen der klassischen Rhetorik im angelsächsischen England (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1996). Rhetorica 16 (1998), 233-35.

Martin Irvine, The Making of Textual Culture: ‘Grammatica’ and Literary Theory, 350-1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Modern Philology 94 (1997), 500-503.

Emil J. Polak, Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, volume 1: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Eastern Europe and the Former U.S.S.R., Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 8 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993); volume 2: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America, Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, 9 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994). Journal of Medieval Latin 6 (1996), 250-53.

Franz Josef Worstbrock, Monika Klaes, Jutta Lütten, Repertorium der Artes dictandi des Mittelalters. Teil I. Von den Anfängen bis um 1200, Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 66 (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1992). Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 38 (1995), Comptes Rendus: 91*-92*.

Robert L. Kindrick, Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric, Garland Studies in Medieval Literature, 8 (New York and London: Garland, 1993). Speculum 70 (1995), 163-65.

Douglas Kelly, The Arts of Poetry and Prose, Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 59 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991). Rhetorica 12 (1994), 229-32.

Rita Copeland, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (1994), 237-39.

Ann W. Astell, The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990). JEGP 91 (1992), 220-22.

Matheus Vindocinensis, Opera, 3: Ars versificatoria, ed. Franco Munari (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1988). Speculum 66 (1991), 199-200.

Marjorie Curry Woods, ed., An Early Commentary on the Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf (New York and London: Garland, 1985). Speculum 63 (l988), 736-38.

J. F. Galván Reula, ed., Estudios literarios ingleses: Edad media (Madrid: Cátedra, 1985). Speculum 63 (l988), 396-97.

John H. Fisher, Malcolm Richardson, and Jane L. Fisher, eds., An Anthology of Chancery English (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984). Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985), 191-94.

E. Other Professional Publications

“The State of Medieval Studies: A Tale of Two Universities.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005), 239-47. Contribution to Colloquium: Administrative Perspectives on Chaucer Studies.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

"High Concept but Low Traction: A Failed Experiment in Late Medieval Rhetoric." Twentieth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Tübingen, Germany. July, 2015.

"John of Limoges on the Rhetoric of Letter Writing: Not Your Typical Dictator." The Medieval Academy of America. Notre Dame, IN. March, 2015.

"Geoffrey of Vinsauf Reads Mathias of Linköping." New Chaucer Society. Reykjavik, Iceland. July, 2014.

"Persuasion in Medieval Epistolary Theory: The Case of Tria sunt." Illinois Medieval Association. Chicago, IL. February, 2014.

"Chaucer and the Late Fourteenth-Century Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric." Seventeenth International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Siena, Italy. July, 2010.

"Masterpiece and Metonym: The Genesis of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria nova." Twenty-fourth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May, 2010.

"From Liber versuum to Poetria nova: The Evolution of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Masterpiece." Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2010.

“Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in the Medieval Classroom.” Seventeenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Montreal, Canada. July, 2009.

“How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer’s Pardoner.” Sixteenth International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Swansea, UK. July, 2008.

“Special Delivery: Were Medieval Letter Writers Trained in Performance?” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Vancouver, Canada. April, 2008.

“Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford.” Sixteenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Strasbourg, France. July, 2007.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers.” Fourth International Conference for the Study of Piers Plowman. Philadelphia, PA. May, 2007.

“What Goes with Geoffrey of Vinsauf?: Codicological Clues to Pedagogical Practices in England, ca. 1225-ca. 1470.” International conference: Classics in the Classroom. Sydney, Australia. July, 2006.

“The Poetria nova in its English Context: Medieval Manuscripts as Guides to Classroom Practice.” Planning Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Strasbourg, France. July, 2006.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers.” Twentieth Annual Conference, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Boston, MA. November, 2005.

“What’s in a Name?: The Titles of Medieval Arts of Poetry and Prose as Indices of Reception.” Fifteenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Los Angeles, CA. July, 2005.

“Who Wrote the Tria sunt?” Planning Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chamonix, France. July, 2004.

“How the Tria sunt Was Made—and Why.” Thirty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2004.

Panel: “The Hermeneutics of Textual Invention.” Thirty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2004.

“Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictines at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages.” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Seattle, WA. April, 2004.

“How the Anonymous Tria sunt Defined Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford.” Third International Conference for the Study of Piers Plowman. Birmingham, UK. July, 2003.

“Pedagogy and Play in the Medieval Rhetoric Classroom.” Fourteenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Madrid/Calahorra, Spain. July, 2003.

“‘Speech is Broken Air’: The Problem of ‘Communication’ in the Middle Ages.” Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting, National Communication Association. Seattle, WA. November, 2000.

“How the Anonymous Tria sunt Defined Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford.” Planning Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Krakow, Poland. July, 2000.

“Defining Medieval Rhetoric.” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Austin, TX. April, 2000.

“Follow the Figures, or the Metamorphoses of Marbod’s De ornamentis verborum.” Sixth Biennial Conference, Early Book Society. Glasgow, UK. July, 1999.

“Time as Rhetorical Topos in the Canterbury Tales.” Eleventh International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Paris, France. July, 1998.

“Putting Rhetoric in Its Place: Turf Wars in Fifteenth-Century Oxford.” Thirty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l998.

“‘Colores rethorici seriatim’: An Unknown Work by Matthew of Vendôme?” Twelfth Annual Conference, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chicago, IL. November, 1997.

“The Long and the Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi.” Twenty-fourth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. St. Louis, MO. October, 1997.

“The Ars dictaminis in Context: Oxford in the Late Middle Ages.” Eleventh Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Saskatoon, Canada. July, 1997.

“Mandeville’s Travels and the Geography of Identity.” Thirty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l996.

“Past and Present: The Making of a Late-Medieval Composition Textbook.” Twenty-second Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. St. Louis, MO. October, 1995.

“’Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam’: Neoplatonism and Rhetoric in Augustine’s De doctrina christiana.” Tenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Edinburgh, UK. July, 1995.

“An Oxford Forma dictandi of the Late Fourteenth Century.” Fourth Biennial Conference, Early Book Society. Nottingham, UK. July, 1995.

“Where’s the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and Reading/Writing Between the Lines.” Ninth International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Dublin, Ireland. July, l994.

“Rhetorical Ethos and the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” Twenty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l994.

“’Si dictare velis’: Versified Artes dictandi and Late Medieval Writing Pedagogy.” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Knoxville, TN. April, l994.

“Medieval Rhetoric and Chaucerian Tragedy: A New Look at the Genre of Troilus and Criseyde.” Twenty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l993.

“Troilus and Criseyde and The Merchant’s Tale: Intertextuality as Resistance.” Eighth International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Seattle, WA. August, 1992.

“Troilus and Criseyde and the Rhetoric of Narrative.” Seventh Annual Conference, Medieval Association of the Midwest. Warrensburg, MO, September, 1991.

“Composition Teaching at Oxford and Bologna in the Late Middle Ages.” Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Baltimore, MD. September, 1991.

“Composition Teaching in the Middle Ages: An Ars Grammatica or an Ars Rhetorica?” CCCC Convention. Chicago, IL. March, l990.

“The Genres of Prose According to the Twelfth- and Thirteenth Century Dictatores.” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Madison, WI. April, l989.

“Fixed Form and Lyric Genre: The Case of Gower’s Cinkante Balades.” Twenty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l989.

“Geoffrey of Vinsauf and the Ars Dictaminis.” Fifth Biennial Congress, The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Oxford, UK. August, 1985.

“A Twelfth-Century Treatise on Metaphor and Dictamen from Tours.” Conference on Twelfth-Century Genres. Davis, CA. March, l98l.

“The Metamorphosis of Candace and the Earliest English Love Epistle.” Triennial meeting, International Courtly Literature Society. Liverpool, UK. August, l980.

“’To Alisaunder. . . gretynges, par amoure’: The Letters of Darius in Kyng Alisaunder.” Annual meeting, Mid-America Medieval Association. Kansas City, MO. March, l979.

“The Sources of Peter of Blois’ Libellus de arte dictandi rhetorice.” Annual meeting, Southeastern Medieval Association. Nashville, TN. April, l979.

“Game as Metaphor: Vida’s Scacchia Ludus and Pope’s Game of Ombre.” Annual meeting, Midwestern Branch of American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Columbia, MO. October, l979.

“The Verse Love Epistle: An Unrecognized Genre.” Annual convention, Modern Language Association (Division: Middle English Language and Literature, excluding Chaucer). San Francisco, CA. December, l979.

Organizer, Respondent, or Moderator:

Panel Co-chair, "Global Rhetorics." The Second International Forum on Communication Studies of Language and Rhetoric. Qufu, China. October 2013.

“Rhetoric and History.” Twelfth International Congress, The New Chaucer Society. London. July, 2000. (co-organized panel and responded to ten short papers presented)

“What Killed the Ars Dictaminis? and When?” Twelfth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Amsterdam. July, 1999. (organized session and responded to four papers presented)

Organizer and Chair, “Self, Law, and the Other in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” Annual meeting, Medieval Association of the Midwest. Emporia, Kansas. September, 1994.

Session Leader, “The Possibility of a Wittgensteinian Criticism.” Annual convention, Modern Language Association. New York. December, l983.

INVITED PAPERS AND LECTURES

"El Argumento Retórico en la Teoría Epistolar Medieval." Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. October, 2015.

"Chaucer y el Renacimiento de la Retórica Anglo-Latina en Oxford." Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. October, 2015.

"Rhetorical Argument in Medieval Epistolary Theory." Opening Plenary Lecture. Biennial Congress of the Brazilian Society of Rhetoric. São Paulo, Brazil. September, 2014.

“Rhetoric Instruction at Oxford University at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century: Different Paths, Similar Destinations.” Peking University. Beijing, China. October, 2013.

“Training in Rhetoric, Medieval and Modern, West and East.” Qufu Normal University, China. October, 2013.

“What Medieval Europeans Talked about When They Talked about Rhetoric.” Plenary Lecture. The Second International Forum on Communication Studies of Language and Rhetoric. Qufu, China. October, 2013.

“'And if a rethor koude faire endite': When Chaucer Met Rhetoric." Annual Schick Lecture, Indiana State University. Terre Haute, IN. January, 2013.

“Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in Medieval English Classrooms.” Queen Mary University of London, UK. March, 2012.

"In Search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lost 'Long Documentum.'" The Warburg Institute. London, UK. February, 2012.

"Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric." Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol. Bristol, UK. February, 2012.

"The Treatise Called 'Tria sunt' and the Revival of Rhetorical Studies at Oxford in the Late Fourteenth Century." Visiting Fellows Colloquium, All Souls College. Oxford, UK. January, 2012.

"Chaucer and the Oxford Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric." Medieval English Research Seminar, Oxford University. Oxford, UK. January, 2012.

"In Search of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lost 'Long Documentum.'" J. R. O'Donnell Lecture in Medieval Latin Studies. Centre for Medieval Studies. Toronto, Canada. October, 2011.

“The Late Fourteenth-Century Renaissance of Anglo-Latin Rhetoric.” Plenary Lecture. Eighteenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Bologna, Italy. July, 2011.

Panel: "Do We Know Enough About Medieval Rhetoric?" Forty-sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2011.

Panel: "Do We Know Enough About Medieval Rhetoric?" Twenty-fourth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May, 2010.

“Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in Medieval English Classrooms.” Medieval Studies Spring Lecture. Eastern Illinois University. Charleston, IL. March, 2010.

"Rhetoric as Medieval Episteme." Featured Speaker. Biennial Convention, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. San Diego, CA. November, 2008.

“Grammar School Rhetoric: The Compendia of John Longe and John Miller.” The Medieval Schoolroom and the Literary Arts: Grammar and its Institutions. Cambridge, UK. July, 2008.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers: Pedagogy and Performance in and beyond the Medieval Classroom.” Keynote Address. Annual conference: Texts and Contexts. Columbus, OH. September, 2006.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers: Pedagogy and Performance in and beyond the Medieval Classroom.” International conference: Classics in the Classroom. Sydney, Australia. July, 2006.

“Where Chaucer Learned How to Act.” ‘Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche’: A Celebration of John Fleming, Scholar, Teacher, Friend. Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. June, 2006.

“Pedagogy and Performance in the Medieval Classroom.” Interdisciplinary conference: Rhetoric Beyond Words. Balliol College. Oxford, UK. March, 2006.

“Medieval Rhetoric Delivers: Pedagogy and Performance in and beyond the Medieval Classroom.” Plenary Lecture. Annual Convention, Medieval Association of the Pacific. Salt Lake City, UT. March, 2006.

“Who? What? When? Where? How? and Why?: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of Rhetoric at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages.” Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL. March, 2004.

“Medieval Rhetoric: What Was It and Why Should We Care?” University of Texas. Austin, TX. October, 2002.

“Medieval Ars dictaminis and Ars poetriae: Two Arts or One?” International Conference on Dictamen, Poetria and Cicero: Coherence and Diversification. Bologna, Italy. May, 2002.

“Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link?” Ciceronian Rhetoric in its Medieval and Renaissance Commentary Traditions. Christ’s College. Cambridge, UK. July, 2000.

“Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford.” Nineteenth Biennial Conference, The Rhetoric Society of America. Washington, DC. May, 2000.

“What Has Geoffrey of Vinsauf to do with Civic Education?” Biennial Convention, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chicago, IL. November, 1999.

Seminar on the Ars Dictaminis. Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. October, 1999.

“Who? What? When? Where? How? and Why?: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of Rhetoric at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages.” Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. October, 1999.

“What Was Medieval Rhetoric Before Rhetoric in the Middle Ages?” Twelfth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Amsterdam, Netherlands. July, 1999.

“What Was Medieval Rhetoric Before Rhetoric in the Middle Ages?” Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l999.

“Medieval Rhetoric: What Was It and Why Should We Care?” Distinguished Rhetoricians Lecture. Texas Woman’s University. Denton, TX. February, 1999.

“Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of Rhetoric in Late-Medieval England.” University of Warwick. Coventry, UK. May, 1997.

“The Tria Sunt in Its Context: Rhetorical Training in Late-Medieval England.” University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. April, 1997.

“Who? What? When? Where? How? and Why?: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of Rhetoric at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages.” Michaelmas Term meeting, Oxford Medieval Society. Oxford, UK. November, 1996.

“Editing the Ars dictaminis.” Annual Scholarly Meeting, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. San Antonio, TX. November, 1995.

“Rhetoric in the Fourteenth Century.” Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, IL. April, 1994.

Plenary Session (Panel, with Giles Constable and Mark Johnston): “Influences of Classical Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of the Middle Ages.” Seventh Annual Conference, Medieval Association of the Midwest. Warrensburg, MO. September, 1991.

“The Varieties of Prose Dictamen as Defined by the Dictatores.” Università della Calabria, Convegno Internazionale, La Retorica: Stato della ricerca, Prospettive, Metodi. Camigliatello Silano, Italy. September, l989.

“Beyond the Cato Book: Models of Latin Prose Style in the Oxford Arts Course.” Twenty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l988.

“The Consolation of Pandarus.” Twenty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, 1987.

“Toward a Comprehensive Art of Written Discourse: The Legacy of Geoffrey of Vinsauf.” University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI. April, 1986.

“How Rhetorical are Middle English Verse Epistles?” Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l982.

“Oral-Traditional Structure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Seventeenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, MI. May, l982.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Edition and translation of rhetorical treatise Tria sunt [Pseudo-Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi (long version)]: finished manuscript under review by press

Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford: The 'Tria sunt' in its Context (book)

“Two Rhetorical Textbooks from Fourteenth-Century Oxford” (book): proposal under review by press

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

(External)

All Souls College, Oxford, Visiting Fellowship: Hilary Term, 2012

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($24,000): 2000

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship ($20,000): l996-1997

American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad ($500): 1994

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship, renewal ($3,755): l990

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Subvention ($3,000): l990

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship ($30,000): l987-1988

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant ($550): l985

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship ($l2,000): l984

Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fellowship (Chapel Hill): l979

Fulbright Research Fellowship (Paris): 1974-1975

(Internal)

Big 12 Fellowship, Office of Minority Affairs and Faculty Development, University of Missouri ($1,400): 2002

Summer Research Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($7,000): 2000

Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($700): 1999

Research Council Grant, University of Missouri ($2,999): 1998

Research Grant, University of Missouri Research Board ($23,055): 1996-1997

Summer Research Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($7,000; declined): l996

Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($500): 1994

Subvention, University of Missouri Research Board ($4,500): 1994

Travel Grant, Research Council, University of Missouri ($l,044): l990

Faculty Foreign Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($600): 1989

Funded Research Leave, University of Missouri: l987-1988

Travel Grant, Research Council, University of Missouri ($950): l986

Faculty Foreign Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($400): l985

Summer Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($4,397): l984

Research Council Grant, University of Missouri ($400): 1983

Summer Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($4,171): l98l

Travel Grant, Capstone International Program Center, University of Alabama ($500): 1980

Summer Grant, Research Grants Committee, University of Alabama ($2,700): l980

University of Illinois Dissertation Fellowship: l976-1977

University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship: l972-1973

OTHER AWARDS

Robert L. Schneider Award for Teaching and Service in the Department of English: 2008

Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity ($3,000): 2001

Honorary Member, Senior Common Room, Keble College, Oxford: 1996-1997

William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence ($10,000): 1996

Wakonse Scholar ($2,000): 1995

Wakonse Teaching Fellow: 1994

Gold Chalk Award for Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education: 1993

Phi Kappa Phi: l973

TEACHING

A. Courses Taught:

University of Illinois

(Undergraduate Courses)

Medieval Chivalry, East and West

Troilus and Criseyde, from Benoît de Sainte-Maure to John Dryden (honors seminar)

Writing about Literature: The Literature of Purgatory

Introduction to Fiction

(Upper Division Courses)

Troilus and Criseyde: Love and Loss in Medieval Troy

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

(Graduate Seminars)

Medieval Literary Theory

The Pearl Poet

Writing Instruction from Classical Antiquity to Renaissance Humanism

Chaucer the Metapoet

21st-Century Chaucer

The Medieval Lyric: Form/Function/Context

University of Missouri

(Undergraduate Courses)

Exposition

Introduction to Poetry

Introduction to Drama

Medieval Literature: The Chivalric Romance (honors seminar)

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (honors humanities sequence)

Rereading/Revisualizing Malory and Dante (honors seminar)

(Upper Division Courses)

Chaucer Survey

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Medieval English Literature

Medieval Encounters with the Other (Writing Intensive)

Structure of American English

History of the English Language

Introduction to Literary Study (Writing Intensive)

Troilus and Criseyde, from Benoît de Sainte-Maure to John Dryden

The Capstone Experience (Writing Intensive)

(Graduate Seminars)

Chaucerian Narrative: Dream Vision and Romance

Chaucer as Imitator and Innovator

Chaucer and Critical Theory

Chaucer’s Minor Works

Chaucer and the Rhetoricians

Middle English Narrative: The Dream Vision and the Romance

The Pearl Poet

Medieval Drama

Middle English Dialects and Early Modern English

Middle English Lyric Poetry

History of Rhetoric from Augustine to Ramus

Writing for Publication

Medieval Literary Theory

Writing Instruction from Classical Antiquity to Renaissance Humanism

Poetry and Purgatory: The Literary Legacy of a Medieval Invention

B. PhD Dissertations:

University of Illinois

1. Directed or (*) Codirected:

Jessica Wong (current)

Andrew Hall (current)

Julia Smith, “'My Makyng Thow Wryte More Trewe': Rhetorical Chorus in Medieval and Digital Spaces" (2014)

*Pei-lin Wu, “Aesop's Fables in China: The Transmission and Transformation of the Genre” (2012; Comparative and World Literatures)

*Kathie Gossett, “From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning Composition” (2008)

2. Committee Member:

Erin Chandler (current)

Kyle Williams (current)

John O'Neil (current)

Ann Hubert (2015)

Jill Clements (2014)

Jill Fitzgerald (2014)

Kimberly Fonzo (2013)

Cory Holding (2012)

Stephanie Clark (2010)

Amity Reading (2009)

Kristen Nash (2009)

Lesley Allen (2008)

Outside Reader

Kyle Thomas (Theatre)

External Member:

Joseph Turner (University of Delaware; 2014)

Edwina Maxine Thorn (History; University of Bristol, UK; 2014)

3. Ph.D. Special Field Committees:

Sara Weisweaver (chair, current)

Coral Lumbley (chair, current)

Sarah Sutor (chair, current)

Max Webb (current)

Kate Norcross (2014)

Jessica Wong (chair, 2013)

Andrew Hall (chair, 2013)

Erin Chandler (2012)

Jill Fitzgerald (2011)

Kyle Williams (2010)

Julia Smith (chair, 2010)

John O'Neil (2010)

Jill Hamilton (2010)

Ann Hubert (2010)

Kimberly Koch (2009)

Pei-lin Wu (Comparative and World Literatures, 2009)

Stephanie Clark (2007)

Amity Reading (2006)

Lesley Allen (2005)

University of Missouri

1. Directed or (*) Codirected:

*David Metzger, “Geometry and Rhetoric in Aristotle and Lacan” (1991)

Melissa Deutsch, “Man Cannot See Her: Rhetoric and the American Woman Playwright” (1994)

*Richard Glejzer, “Invention, Instrumentality and Sexuation in Chaucer and Lacan” (1994)

Martha Patton, “The Construction of Ethos in Science Writing” (1994)

John Pendergast, “St. Augustine and the Rhetoric of Obscurity” (1994)

Carol Poster, “Writing the Ineffable: A Rhetoric of Philosophic Discourse” (1994)

Timothy Spence, “The Rhetoric of Prayer in Fourteenth-Century England” (2003)

Denise Stodola, “Transitional Materials: Crossing the Boundaries Between Medieval and Modern Conceptions of Writing as a Step Toward Constructing a Pedagogical ‘Masterpiece’ in the Composition Classroom” (2003)

2. Second Reader:

Ward Parks (1983), Adam Davis (1991), Nancy Hadfield (1992), Charles Lee (1992), Hee Oyck Yoon (1992), Xingzhong Li (1995), Lori Peterson (2000), Jill Burkindine (2004)

3. Outside Reader:

Donald Fleming (History, 1985), Walter Berry (Art History, 1993), Mary Beth Frieden (Romance Languages, 2001)

4. Committee Member:

Donald McNamara (1983), Kyle Glover (1985), Terry Irons (1991), Patrick Shaw (1992), Gregory Pulliam (1995), Catherine Quick (1995), Kathleen Welch (1997), Heather Maring (2005)

External Reader

Alexander Ames: Department of English, Saint Louis University (2007)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

International Society for the History of Rhetoric: Governing Council (1997-2001); Chair, Conference Program Committee (1999-2001, 2005-07); Member, Conference Program Committee (2003-05); Vice-President (2009-11); President (2011-13); Chair, Nominating Committee (2013-15)

Medieval Academy of America: Publications Advisory Board, 2004-08 (chair, 2006-07); Nominating Committee, 2004-05

Modern Language Association: Member, Delegate Assembly, l988-90, 2011-14

Editor for Middle English, JEGP, 2009- 2015

Advisory Board, JEGP, 2015-present

Editorial Board, JEGP, 2003-09

Editorial Board, Disputatio, 1995-99

Editorial Board, Rhetorica, 1998-2002, 2003-present

Editorial Board, Vieira - Journal of the Portuguese Society of Rhetoric, 2015-

Advisory Committee, PMLA, 2012-15

Advisory Board, Classical and Modern Literature, 1999-2003

Essays editor, The Missouri Review, l98l-87, l989-90

Referee for Advances in the History of Rhetoric; Chaucer Review; Classical and Modern Literature; Exemplaria; Mediaeval Studies; PMLA; Rhetorica; Rhetoric Review; Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Speculum; Studies in the Age of Chaucer; Bedford/St. Martin’s; Brill; Cambridge University Press; Catholic University of America Press; Cornell University Press; Garland Press; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; University of Missouri Press

External reviewer: English Department, University of Northern Iowa (2001); English Department, University of Texas-Austin (2007); English Department Journals, University of Iowa (2007); Research in English Language and Literature, Eight Public Universities in Taiwan (2007); English Department, The Ohio State University (2009); Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas-Austin (2010)

Consultant on Promotion and Tenure Cases:

[to associate professor] Boston College, Indiana University Northwest, University of Texas-Austin, University of Kentucky, University of Virginia, University of Toronto, Yale University;

[to full professor] University of Minnesota, Kent State University, SUNY-Albany, University of Denver, University of Alabama, New York University, University of California-Davis, University of Bristol (UK), Ball State University, University of Oregon

Humboldtian on Campus, 2008-2010, 214-present

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE APPOINTMENTS

University of Illinois

(English Department)

Department Head, 2003-08

Committees: Grade Review (chair, 2009-10), Graduate Admissions (2009-10), Grievance (chair, 2009-10; 2012-13), Library (2009-10), Graduate (2010-11), Writing Studies (2010-11)

(College of LAS)

Interim Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs (2014-15)

LAS Bylaws Committee (2012-13)

Interim Head, Department of the Classics (2011)

Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee (2010)

Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Classics Department (2009, 2010)

Chair, IEI Administrator Review Committee (2009)

LAS Executive Committee, 2006-2008 (vice-chair, 2007-08), 2013-14

Search Committee, Head of Classics Department, 2006-07, 2007-08

Medieval Studies Advisory Committee, 2005-08, 2009-11

LAS Humanities Council, 2003-2008 (chair, 2005-06)

Graduate Programs Committee, Center for Writing Studies (2003-11)

(Urbana-Champaign Campus)

Review of Student Code on Academic Integrity Task Force, 2008-13

Academic Caucus, 2005-06

University of Missouri

(Department)

Department Chair: 2000-03

Director of Graduate Studies: 1990-93

Course Coordinator, English 60 (Exposition): 1984-85

Director, English Honors Program: l982-83

Course Director, English 2 (Poetry): l978-79

Committees: Advisory (Chair, 1993-94), Awards (Chair, 1997-2000), Graduate Studies (Chair, 1990-93), Undergraduate Studies, Lower Division Studies, Honors (Chair, 1982-83), Lecture (Chair, 1986-87), Screening, Hiring (Chair, 1986-87, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1997-98), Linguistics, Elections (Chair, l990), Public Relations, Library, Salary Advisory (Chair, 1998), Personnel, Teacher Evaluation, Rhetoric/Composition, Curriculum.

Task Forces: Ad Hoc Salary Oversight, Course Implementation, Salary Structure and Procedures, Curriculum Revision.

(College)

Medieval & Renaissance Studies Committee: l980-84, l986-87, l989-96, 1997-2003 (Chair, 1991-96, 1998-2000)

Arts & Science Linguistics Committee: 1980-84, 1985-87, 1989-96, 1998-2003

Arts & Science Interdisciplinary Studies Committee: l990

Arts & Science Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising Committee: 1991-92

Arts & Science Promotion, Tenure and Membership Committee: 1994-96 (Chair, 1995-96)

(Campus)

Honors College Council: l982-83

Graduate Faculty Senate: l984-87, 1989-95 (Chair, Humanities Sector: 1986-87, 1991-93)

Campus Representative, Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities: l984-87

Graduate School Fellowships and Scholarships Committee: l986-87, 1993-95

Selection Committee, Chancellor’s Awards for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity: l986-87

Access Enhancement Program (summer internship for potential minority graduate students), Advisory Board: 1991-93

Graduate School Advisory Committee on Graduate Student Recruitment, Marketing, and Enrollment: 1992-93

Research Council, referee: 1992, 1994; member 1994-96, 1997-99

Intercollegiate Athletics Committee: 1994-96, 1999-2002

Office of Research Advisory Committee: 1998-99

Faculty Fellow, Office of Research: 1999-2000

Department Chairs and Directors Steering Committee, 2000-03

Space Planning Advisory Committee, 2001-03

(University System)

Research Board: 1999

President’s Leadership Development Program, 2000-01

MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association

Medieval Academy of America

New Chaucer Society

International Society for the History of Rhetoric

American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Rhetoric Society of America

Early Book Society

American Friends of the British Library

American Association of University Professors

American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Campus Faculty Association

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