WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY



WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY

Professional Record

Faculty

NAME: Michael J. Giordano DATE PREPARED: 11/14/’16

OFFICE ADDRESS: 469 Manoogian DATE REVISED: 11/14/’16

OFFICE PHONE: 313 577-3002 HOME ADDRESS: 707 St. Clair Ave.

Grosse Pointe, Michigan 48230

HOME PHONE: 313 884-1734

DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE: Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

College of Arts and Sciences, WSU

PRESENT RANK & DATE OF RANK: Professor, 2010.

WSU APPOINTMENT HISTORY:

Year Appointed/Rank: 1976, Assistant Professor.

Year Awarded Tenure: 1983

Year Promoted to Associate Professor: 1983

Year Promoted to Professor 2011

CITIZEN OF: U.S.A.

EDUCATION:

Baccalaureate: B.S. Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 1967

Graduate: Master’s -University of Minnesota, 1972.

Ph.D. –University of Minnesota, 1975.

Signature:____________________________________________________

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS: The Ohio State University, 1975-76.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP:

The Modern Languages Association of America

Société Française des seiziémistes

The Renaissance Society of America

The International Society for Emblem Studies

Sixteenth Century Studies Society

HONORS/AWARDS:

Graduated With Honors, Seton Hall University, 1967.

Received Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Minnesota, 1967

Received: The President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, WSU, 1989.

Nominated for the WSU Probus Club Award, 1989

Nominated for the Faculty Recognition Award, 1992.

Nominated for WSU Graduate Mentor Award, 1999.

Received WSU Graduate Mentor Award, 2001.

Italian Heritage Society in Honor of Outstanding Cultural and Civic Contributions to

The Greater Detroit Community. 2001.

Board of Governers’ Award for Scholarship 2011

1. TEACHING:

A. Years at Wayne State 39

B. The Ohio State University 1

C. Courses taught at Wayne State in Last Five years:

Course load – one course per semester to facilitate

Graduate Advising (MA Programs in French, Italian, Spanish)

And Ph. D. in Modern Languages

Winter 2012 – On sabbatical

1. Undergraduate

Winter 2013, Fre 3300, Introduction to French and Francophone Literature

Fall 2014, Fre 4610, Introduction to Literary Textual Analysis

Winter 2010, Fre 4620 – Topics in Socio-Cultural Analysis

Fall 2009, Fre 3300 – Introduction to the Reading of French and Francophone Literature and

Culture

Winter 2009, Fre 6991 – Contemporary French Criticism and Literary Theory (Grad/Undergrad)

Fall 2009, Fre 3300 - Introduction to the Reading of French and Francophone Literature and

Culture

Fall 2008, Fre 6650 – French Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Literature (Grad/Undergrad)

Winter 2008, Fre 6510, French Sixteenth Century Literature (Grad/undergrad)

2. Graduate

Fall 2012, Fre 6510 – Sixteenth Century French Literature/Renaissance Lyric (Grad/Undergrad)

Fall 2013, Fre 8710, Seminar on the French Renaissance.

Winter 2014, Fre 6650 – French Eighteenth Century Literature L’âge des lumières.

Winter 2015, Fre 6991/7770 – Contemporary French Criticism and Literary Theory

Fall 2006, Fre 6691, Contemporary French Criticism and Literary Theory

(grad/undergrad)

Winter 2007, Fre 8710 – Seminar in the French Renaissance

Winter 2008, Fre 6510 - Sixteenth Century French Literature (grad/undergrad)

Fall 2008, Fre 6650 - French Enlightenment French Literature (grad/undergrad)

Fall 2009, Fre 7770 – Special Studies in French Literature

Fall 2010, Fre 6510 – Sixteenth Century French Literature (grad/undergrad)

D. Essays/Theses/Dissertations Directed

MA Essays:

-Eileen Nolan, “Scève et son Lecteur,” WSU, 1978.

-Maksoud Feghali, “Est-ce que la forme est aussi pédagogique que le fond

dans Gargantua et Pantagruel`?” WSU, 1978

-Francine Augier, “L’Originalité de la Saulsaye de Maurice Scève,” WSU,

1986.

-Margaret Spires, “Lire l’Apologie de Raimond Sebond de Montaigne,”

WSU, 1986.

-Kim Keppler, “L’Amitié Paradoxale entre Montaigne et La Boëtie,”

WSU, 1999.

- Maimouna Diakte, “L’Évangélisme chez Rabelais,” WSU, 2005.

-Ashley Voeks, « ‘Les Tragiques’ d’Agrippa d’Aubigné : La rhétorique

de la violence et la violence de la rhétorique, » Winter 2013.

Undergraduate Honors Essay Directed:

-Jamila Doppke, “La structure triangulaire de Huis Clos

de Jean-Paul Sartre.”

Dissertations Directed:

-Maksoud Feghali, “Le Phénomène de Construction et de Destruction

dans le Songe de Du Bellay,” WSU, 1988.

-Gabriella Scarlatta Eschrich, “The Italian Poets of the Disperata and the

French Neo-Petrarchan Baroque Poets,” WSU, 1998.

-Darlynn Griffin, “Repetition and Systematic Variation in Maurice

Scève’s Délie, WSU, 2006.

Dissertation Committee Member

Michael Martin, Dep’t of English, WSU

“The World of Light: Mysticism, Metaphysical Desire, and Encountering God

In English Writing: 1550-1700”

Directed by Ken Jackson

Defended Winter 2012

Cathy Hollingsworth, CMLLC

“Theological Existentialism in San Manuel Bueno, Martir”

Directed by Francisco Higuero

Defended, April 2013

Sarah Coulson, “Notions d’exclusion: l’histoire et la littérature,” CMLLC

Began Advising Fall 2013

May Bluestein, College of Education

Began Advising Winter 2014

Mandeta Gjata, CMLLC

Began Advising Winter 2014

E: Course of Curriculum Development: Creation of New Courses

French 0691 – Contemporary French Criticism – For French Grad and Undergraduates

Theory and practice of French Structuralism, Semiotics and Post

Structuralism emphasizing Saussure, Jakobson, Genette, Barthes, Kristeva,

Foucault, Derrida, and Lyotard. Brief introduction to Gilles Deleuze.

French 8720 – Seminar on the French Baroque – For Graduate Students

Interdisciplinary and interartistic approach to French Baroque and

Mannerist Literature, 1580-1660, emphasizing painting, sculpture,

Architecture in the contexts of Montaigne, D’Aubigné, Corneille, Béroalde

De Verville. and Neo-Petrarchan Poetry. Fall 1992.

French 4610 – Introduction à l’analyse littéraire textuelle – For Undergraduates

Tools for close analysis of French texts: Definition of period

genres and conventions, linguistic definition of the literary,

explication de texte, narratology, linguistic structure of poetry,

intertextuality, theory of drama, comparisons and contrasts of important

ideologies.

French 4620- Introduction to Socio-Cultural Problems –For Undergraduates

Use of the visual dimension of emblematics to identify socio-cultural

tensions such as pictorial and verbal epistemologies, law and morality,

Protestant and Catholic aesthetics, Classical and Mannerist ideologies,

group identity (heraldry) and individuality (impresa), personal property

and the King’s privilège. Students’ main texts are the digitized

emblematic sites of the University of Glasgow and the University of

Illinois.

French 3200 – French Conversation, Composition, and Comprehension

For Undergraduates

Students must hone communication skills by practicing diverse types

of discourses such as personal conversation, objective description,

scientific reporting, computer terminology, the compte rendu, commercial

French. Students are asked to interact formally by exchanging viewpoints

on current events and films, writing short biographies of one another,

engaging in debates, and joining in small teams to report on research

questions.

French 8711 – Seminar on the French Renaissance – For Graduate Students

“Aspects visuels de la literature française.”

Iconography, emblematics, and highly descriptive literary texts

Stressing. Differences between Classical, Mannerist, and Baroque

styles. Winter 2007.

French 6650 – French 18th Century literature –For advanced undergraduate and graduate

students.Central ideas of the French Enlightenment with roots in late 17th

century works. Students do in-depth reading assignments in preparation for

oral and written analyses on Cyrano de Bergerac, Pierre Bayle, Fontenelle,

Voltaire, Fontenelle, Voltaire, Marivaux, the Salon of Mme de Tencin,

Diderot, Rousseau. Display of and lecture on rare edition of Bayle’s

Dictionnaire Critique. Preparation of extensive bibliographies of primary

sources and secondary sources. Fall, 2008.

Curriculum Development

Served on the French Area Curriculum Committee. Wrote the recommendation for basic

course structuring. Contributed to a business minor in French. 1980.

Undergraduate Curriculum Revisions Committee – 2001-2002.

Chair, Graduate Program Revisions Committee. Intensive review of department graduate

program including mission statement, curriculum, course articulation, examinations, and

assessment, 2006-2007.

F. Course Materials: (unpublished)

Fre 4620, Winter 2010, Edited Digitized Materials on the Renaissance

Emblem. (See above under Fre 4620)

-Created course culture capsules on French Impressionism and Les Chateaux

de la Loire, 1978.

-Created a video on Baroque and Mannerist Art, 1992

-Assemble and distribute reproductions of emblems, imprese, and blazons

For French 4260.

-Develop “Key Ideas” handouts for every class meeting in literature

G. Directed Studies:

Seventeen since 1993.

H. Yearly Organization of Language Translation Exams for MA and Ph. D. Students in CMLLC and other departments. Twenty five since 2007.

I. As Graduate Advisor, I have organized 25 Master’s Exams and 8 Ph. D.

Exams in the last five years.

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II. RESEARCH:

A. Research in Progress, Not funded:

Book:

“The French Renaissance Anatomical Blazon and its Cultural Correlates:

Comparative Literature, Emblematics, Mannerism, Descriptive Anatomy,

Mannerism, Emblematics, Nominalism.”

B. Internally Funded Grants and Awards

Funded

The President’s Enhancement Award for Research In the Humanities. Sponsored by the Vice President for Research, Winter 20012.

“Wayne State University Membership of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.” Co-Recipient of Humanist-Grant-In-Aid with Professor Arthur Marotti, Department of English, WSU. April 1989. $1000.00.

“Béroalde de Verville and the French Renaissance. A grant awarded by the Graduate School, in conjunction with ORSP for book subvention. August, $1620, August 1989.

“Scève: Icon and Text.” Faculty Research Award, WSU. March 1990. $4000.00

“The Emblematic Sonnets of Du Bellay’s Songe.” International Travel Grant, WSU. For scholarly paper at the Glasgow International Emblem Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. Combined WSU, Department, College, and Graduate School Support, June 1990. “ $700.00.

Small Research Grant, Graduate School in Conjunction with ORSP. Travel Grant For Scholarly Paper at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference. December 1993. $650.00.

“Northwest Airlines-Richard Van Dusen Memorial, Domestic Travel Fund.” Awarded by the WSU Graduate School. For scholarly paper delivered at The Third International Emblem Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. August 1993. $500.00.

Grant Writing Award, WSU College of Liberal Arts. For Completion of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowship Applications. June 1993. $2000.00.

Small Research Grant, WSU Graduate School. For presentation of scholarly paper at the 47th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky. April 1994.

$650.00.

Small Research Grant, WSU Graduate School. For presentation of scholarly paper at the 48th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, Kentucky. April 1995. $650.00

“ The Influence of Memory as a Visual Phenomenon in the Early Modern Lyric: Maurice Scève’s Délie. Wayne State University Humanities Center Fellowship Award. April 1996. $7000.00.

College of Liberal Arts Graduate Student Recruitment Award. Spring/Summer.1997. $1500.

“ Maurice Scève: Philosopher of the Transitional.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (April 1997.) Small Research Grant, WSU Graduate School. Research Travel Support. Winter 1997. $250.00.

“Nominalism and Maurice Scève’s Blason de la gorge. “ Invited Paper by the French Department, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland. Fall 2001. Small Research Grant, WSU Graduate School. Research Travel Support. November 2001. $250.00.

Externally Funded Grant

C. Fellowships/ Grants/Special Awards

External Grant

“Québec Today: The Urban Culture: A Public Symposium.” Co-Principal Investigator with Professor Richard Vernier. Awarded by the Michigan Council on the Humanities, April 1986. $2000.00.

2. PUBLICATIONS:

A. Scholarly Books Published:

1. Authored:

The Art of Meditation and the French Renaissance Love Lyric:

The Poetics of Introspection in Maurice Scève’s ‘Délie, objet de

plus haulte vertu.’ Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

668 pp.

2. Co-Authored with Janis Pallister:

‘Le Moyen de parvenir’ of Béroalde de Verville: Bibliographic Notes.

Bibliothèque 17, monograph series of the journal Papers in Seventeenth-

Century French Literature. Director: Wolfgang Leiner. Paris, Seattle,

Tubingen, 1981.

Referred: In Press

B. Maurice Scève: Oxford E-Annotated Bibliographies. 82 pp.

Will appear in December 2015.

C. Chapters Published (refereed)

“The Emblem in Andrea Alciato and the Impresa in Maurice Scève.” In The Sides of the North. An Anthology in Honor of Yona Pinson. Ed. Tamar Cholcman and Assaf Pinkus. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2015 pp. 42-55.

“Bronzino’s Art of Emblazoning: The Young Man with a Book,

Lucrezia Panchiatichi, Saint Bartholomew, and Laura Battifferi,”

In Agnolo Bronzino The Muse of Florence, ed. Liana De Girolami Cheney.

Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2014, pp. 337-370.

« Explication de texte : Sexualité cosmique et apocalypse du sujet amoureux dans le dizain 62. » In Maurice Scève ou l’emblème de la perfection enchevêtrée : Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (1544). Invited essay on Maurice Scève for a critical anthology of essays to prepare French students in France for their 2013 Concours de l’agrégation du second degré: Section lettres modernes. Sous la direction de Bruno Roger Vasselin. Série XVIe siècle français. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2012, pp. 261-277.

“The Blason Anatomique and Related Fields: Emblematics,

Nominalism, Mannerism, Descriptive Anatomy as Illustrated

By Maurice Scève’s Blason de la gorge.” In An Interregnum of the

Sign: The Emblematic Age.” Ed. David Graham. Glasgow:

Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2001. pp. 121-148.

“Maurice Scève’s Délie (1544): The Impresa and the Humanization

of Meditation.” In The Jesuits and the Emblem Tradition. Ed.

Marc van Vaeck and John Manning. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999.

pp. 11-23.

Transgression and Castration in Béroalde de Verville’s

Le Moyen de parvenir. A Reading of ‘Chapitre General.’”

In Studies on Béroalde de Verville. Ed. Michael J. Giordano.

Paris; Tubingen: Biblio 17, 1992. pp. 109-138.

“Béroalde de Verville: A Recent Bibliography: 1981-1991.”

In Studies On Béroalde de Verville. Ed. Michael J. Giordano.

Paris: Tubingen: Biblio 17, 1992. pp. 139-147.

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C. Editorships of Books

Studies On Béroalde de Verville. Paris; Tubingen: Biblio 17, 1992.

Ed. Michael J. Giordano. 147 pp.

D. Journal Articles Published:

1. Refereed:

“Gilles Deleuze’s Concept of Emblematics in Le Pli: Leibniz et

le Baroque.” Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for

Emblem Studies. Vol. 15 (2007), pp. 145-169.

“Reverse Transmutations: Béroalde de Verville’s Parody of Paracelsus

in Le Moyen parvenir: An Alchemical Language of Skepticism in

the French Baroque.” Renaissance Querterly, 56 (2003), pp. 88-137.

“Revaluing the Master’s Degree,” Topic: The Future of Doctoral Education

in Foreign Languages and English. Publications of the Modern Languages

Association of America, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 1271-1273.

“Scève’s Délie: The Imprese, Mythological Periphrasis, and the Style

of the Individual Dizain.” In Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal

For Emblem Studies. Vol. 8, No. 1 (1994), pp. 61-79.

“The Emblematic Dimension of Du Bellay’s Songe: Definition

and Problems.” Studi Francesi, 114 (1994), pp. 425-444.

“The Relation Between Montaigne’s Du Repentir and De Mesnager

sa Volonté: Conscience in Public Life. Montaigne Studies, Vol. III,

No. 2 (1991), 182-199.

“Le Texte Visuel de la Délie de Maurice Scève.” Lendemains, No. 58

(1990), pp. 48-59.

“Du Bellay’s Songe and the Ambiguity of Narrative Authority,”

Oeuvres et Critiques., Vol. XI, No. 1 (1986), pp. 61-77. A special

edition on hermeticism in the anniversary edition of this journal.

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“Re-reading Des Cannibales: ‘Veritable tesmoinage’ and the Chain

of Supplements.” Neophilologus, No. 1 (1985), pp. 25-33.

“Aphasia, Surrogate Discourse, and Maurice Scève’s Délie.”

Language and Style, Vol 16, No 3 (1983), pp. 262-283.

“Scève’s imprese: Typology and Functions.” Romanic Review,

Vol. LXXIII (1982), pp. 13-32.

“Délie’s Title Page impresa: The Question of Textual Relevance.”

Philological Quarterly, 61:4 (1982), pp. 467-480.

“Reading Délie: Dialectic and Sequence.” Symposium, Vol. 34,

No. 2 (1980), pp. 155-167.

“Scève’s Dizain 278: Advertisement As Retraction: Scève’s Poetics.”

Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 1980, pp. 151-161.

“Ignatian Meditation and the Scevian Dizain.” Degré Second.

No. 3 (1979), pp. 13-37

E. Papers Published in Conference Proceedings:

1. Refereed:

“Emblem and Exemplum in Maurice Scève’s Délie, object de plus haulte vertu

(1544). In The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet. Ed. Simon

McKeown. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010,

pp. 412-425. (Third Time reported)

“Icon and Symbol: A reappraisal of the Resemblance Debate.”

In Semiotics 1981.Ed. John Deely and Margot Lenhart. New York:

Plenum, 1983. pp. 29-37.

Invited Encyclopedia Entry:

“Noël Du Fail,” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul Grendler. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999, Vol. 2,

pp. 220-221

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H. Book Reviews Published:

1. Academic Journals:

Béroalde de Verville : Le Palais des curieux. Édition critique par Véronique Luzel. Textes

Littéraires Français. Genève : Droz, 2012, 780 pp. Renaissance Querterly, Vol. 66, No. 2

(Summer 2013), pp. 632-634. (Second time reported)

Elizabeth Hodges, Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers,

2008. H-French Review, Vol. 10 (2010), PP. 551-555.

Corinne F. Wilson and Colette H. Winn, eds. La Pucelle d’Orléans restituée par Béroalde de

Verville: Sous le sujet de cette magnanime Pucelle est représentée une fille vaillante,

chaste, sçavante et belle. Textes de la Renaissance 143. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur,

2008. 430 pp. Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXII, No. 3 (2009), pp. 886-888.

Laurence Grove. Emblematics and Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Descartes, Tristan,

La Fontaine and Perrault. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 2000. (EMF Critiques).284 pp.

Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, Vol. XXX, 59, Fall 2003, pp. 546-551.

Gilles Corrozet: ‘Hecatongraphie’ (1544) et Les Emblesmes Du ‘Tableau de Cebes.’(1543).

Avec une étude critique par Alison Adams. Genève: Droz, 1997. 273 pp. Bibliothèque

d’Humanisme et Renaissance, Vol. 60 (1998), pp. 872-876.

Olivier de Magny: Les Trois Premiers Livres des Odes de 1559. Édition critique par

François Rouget. Genève: Droz, 1995. 375 pp. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance,

Vol. 59 (1997), pp. 202-204.

Jules-César Scaliger: La Poétique Livre V .Le Critique. Présentation, Traduction, et Notes de

Jacques Chomerat. Genève: Droz, 1994. 414 pp. Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance,

Vol. 58 (1996), pp. 789-794.

A Scève Celebration: ‘Délie’: 1544-1994. Ed. Jerry Nash. Anma Libri, Saratoga, California,

1994. Stanford French and Italian Studies 77. Modern Philology, Vol. 94, No. 2 (1996), pp.

222-225.

Deborah N. Losse. Sampling the Book: Renaissance Prologues and the French ‘Conteurs.’

Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto, 1994. The Sixteenth-Century

Journal, XXVII/2 (1996), pp. 503-504.

Kenneth Lloyd Jones and Marc Van Der Poel, eds. Les ‘Orationes Duae in Tholosam’ d’Étienne

Dolet. Introduction, Fac-Similé, Notes. Genève: Droz, 1992. The Sixteenth-Century Journal,

Vol. XXVI, 4 (1995), pp. 1069-1070.

André Tournon, Michel Bideaux, Hélène Moreau. Histoire de la littérature française du XVIe

siècle. Paris: Nathan, 1991. The French Review, Vol. 69, No. 1 (1995), pp. 133-134.

Steven Rendall, Distinguo: Reading Montaigne Differently. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Criticism, Vol.XXXVI (1994), 139-143.

William Panici, Three French Short-Verse Satirists: Marot, Magny, and Du Bellay.

New York: Garland, 1990. The French Review, Vol. 66, No. 2 (1992), pp. 328-329,

Ilana Zinguer, ed. Intro, Notes. Béroalde de Verville: ‘Le Moyen de parvenir’ Nice: Centre de la

Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine, 1985. The French Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 (1989), pp.

158-159.

Mitchell Greenberg, Detours of Desire: Readings in the French Baroque. Columbus: The Ohio

State University Press, 1984. Criticism, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 107-112.

Jeanne Haight, The Concept of Reason in French Classical Literature, 1635-1690.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Seventeenth-Century Newsletter, (1984),

XLII, p. 71.

Ambroise Paré, On Monsters and Marvels. Trans., Intro., and Notes by Janis Pallister. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (1983), pp. 111-112.

L. Papers Presented:

1. Invited and/or Refereed Internationally or Nationally:

“L’écu héraldique et le corps de la femme dans les Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin (1543) avec, pour point de départ, deux blasons de Maurice Scève.” Invited paper at the Conference titled Maurice Scève: Le poète en quête d’un langage,” Paris, en Sorbonne/au Palais du Luxembourg,” October 14, 2016.

“The Blason anatomique du corps feminin and the Roman and Neo-Latin Traditions.” Presented at the 10th International Conference of The Society for Emblem Studies, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiek, Germany, July 31, 2015.

“The Art of Printing and the Textual Interest of Maurice Scève’s Délie, object de plus haulte vertu: 1544”. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America. Sponsored by the “History of the Book, Paleography, and Manuscript Tradition.” Washington, D.C., March 24, 2012.

“The Art of Poetry in the Sixteenth-Century French Emblem,” The Ninth International Meeting of the Society for Emblem Studies, University of Glasgow, June, 2011.

“ The 1543 Angelier Edition of Blasons anatomiques du corps feminen [sic]. The Annual Renaissance Society of America Meeting, Venice, Italy, April 2010.

“Important Distinctions between the Emblemata of Andrea Alciato and the Devices of Maurice Scève.” The Annual Meeting of the Sixteenth-Century Studies Society, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009.

“The Emblematic Poetry of History in Maurice Scève’s ‘Délie.’ The Eighth International Meeting of the Society for Emblem Studies. Winchester College, Winchester, England, July 28-August 1, 2008.

“Agnolo Bronzino’s Art of Emblazoning: Saint Bartholomew, The Young Man with a Book, Lucrezia Panchiatichi, and Laura Battiferri.” The Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 2008.

“Gilles Deleuze’s Concept of Emblematics in Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque (1988). The Seventh International Conference for the Society of Emblem Studies, July 2005, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“The Sister Arts: A Comparison between the Mannerism of Agnolo Bronzino and Maurice Scève.” Joint Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America and The Society for Renaissance Studies, University of Cambridge, England, April 2005.

“Emblematic Discourse in the Meditative Works of Saint Augustine.” Annual Meeting of Renaissance Society of America, New York, April 2004.

“The Emblematic Dimension of Maurice Scève’s Historical Dizains.” The Sixth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies. La Coruna, Spain, September 2002.

“Nominalism and Maurice Scève’s Blason de la gorge.” Invited paper by the French Department of the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, November, 2001.

“The Blason and Related Fields: Emblematics, Anatomy, Nominalism, and Mannerism.” Annual Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, March 2000.

“Maurice Scève’s Blasons and the Development of Délie.” The Fifth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, Munich, Germany, August 1999.

“Proto-Emblematic Writing: Maurice Scève’s Blason de la gorge.” Symposium on Emblematics, Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, May 1998.

“Maurice Scève, Philosopher of the Transitional.” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, April 1997.

“Maurice Scève’s Délie: The Imprese and the Humanization of Meditation.” The Fourth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, Leuven, Belgium, August 1996.

“The Visual Rhetoric of Meditation: Scève’s Délie and Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises.” The Forty-Eighth Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, April, 1995.

“From Religious to Profane Meditation: Augustine as Meditative Model for Scève’s Délie.

Forty-Eighth Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1995.

“Emblematic Strategies in Du Bellay’s Songe.” Forty-Seventh Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1994.

“Scève’s Délie: The Imprese, Mythological Periphrasis, and the Style of the Individual Dizain.”

The Third International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, University of Pittsburgh, August 1993.

“The Emblematic Discourse of Du Bellay’s Songe: The Dissonance between Ethos and Practice.”

The Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 1993.”

“The Baroque Poetry of Béroalde de Verville.” The Annual Kentucky Foreign Language, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1992.

“Renaissance Iconography: The Emblematic Discourse of Du Bellay’s Songe.” The Third International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, The University of Glasgow,

Glasgow, Scotland, August 1990.

“The Homology between Device and Dizain in Maurice Scève’s Délie.” A special session of the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1990.

“Renaissance Iconography: Emblem and Poem in Scève’s Délie. Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, July, 1989.

“The Relationship between Montaigne’s Du repentir and De mesnager sa volonté: Conscience in Public Life.” International Conference on “The Order of the Book: Montaigne’s Essais.” The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 1988.

“Jakobson’s Communication Model: The Problem of Narrative Authority.” Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Penn State University, October 1985.

“Emblematic Discourse as Substitute Language: Periphrasis in Scève’s Délie. The Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1984.

“Re-reading Montaigne’s Des Cannibales: ‘Veritable tesmoignage’ and the Chain of Supplements.” The Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Snowbird, Utah, October 1983.

“Aphasia, Surrogate Discourse, and Maurice Scève’s Délie.” The Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, SUNY, Buffalo, October, 1982.

“Icon and Symbol: A Reappraisal of the Resemblance Debate.” The Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, November 1981.

“Emblematic Discourse in French Literature of the Sixteenth-Century.” The Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of French, Cincinnati, November 1981.

“Scève’s Dizain 278: Advertisement as Retraction: Scève’s Poetics.” The Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1977.

2. Invited and/or Refereed Locally/Regionally:

“ Bronzino’s Art of Emblazoning: Young Man with a Book, Lucrezia Panciatichi, Saint Bartholomew, and Laura Battiferri.” Presented at the Wayne State University Humanities Center, November, 2011.

“A Reading of Charles Baudelaire’s Poem ‘Le Flacon’: Symbolism and Aesthetics.” A lecture sponsored by the “Cercle Français,” Department of Romance Languages, Wayne State University, Winter 2008.

“An Interartistic Comparison: The Portraits of Agnolo Bronzino and the Poetry of Maurice Scève.” Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Wayne State University, March 28, 2007. New material added to the Cambridge Conference Paper.

“The Visible and the Sayable in Selected Visual Media of the Renaissance.” The Humanities Center, Wayne State University, April 2004.

“The Sixteenth-Century French Blason as the Intersection of Key French Cultural Phenomena.” The Humanities Center, Wayne State University, April 2000.

“The Influence of Memory as a Visual Phenomenon in the Study of the Early Modern Lyric.”

The Humanities Center Fellows Conference, February 1997.

“Rimbaud et Alchimie.” Invited Lecture addressed to students of French 874, Seminar on Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Invitation extended by course instructor Professor Charles Stivale, Fall, 1997.

“French and Italian Skepticism of the Baroque Period.” Invited lecture addressed to students in Italian 668. Invitation extended by the course instructor Professor Andrea DiTommaso, Winter 1996.

“The Emblematic Sonnets of Joachim Du Bellay’s Songe.” Liberal Arts Forum, Wayne State University, February, 1991.

“French Renaissance Metaphysical Poetry.” Invited lecture extended by the Department of Romance Languages, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green ,Ohio. Spring 1985.

L Other Scholarly Work:

1. Organizer of National Conference

“Symposium on Emblematics.” Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, May 15-16, 1998. In addition to organizing and participating in this conference, I secured financial support from member institutions of the Consortium.

3. Special Session Organizer/Chair at National and International Conferences:

“Emblematik und Repräsentation,” 10th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany, July 321, 2015.

Organizer, “Early Modern Emblems in England, Scotland, France, and Germany”

Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Venice, Italy, May 2010.

Chair, “Proto-Emblematics.” The Eighth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies,” Winchester College, Winchester, England, Summer, 2008

Chair, “Aspects of French Emblematics,” The Seventh International Conference of the Society of Emblem Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2005.

Workshop Co-Chair, “Status of the Master’s Degree on the National Level,” a special meeting of the Modern Languages Association Conference “On the Future of Doctoral Education,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 1999.

Organizer/Chair, “Problems in the Theory and Practice of the French Renaissance Lyric.” The 48th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1995.

Chair, “Emblems and Propaganda,” The Third International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies, University of Pittsburg, August 1993.

Chair, “Semiotics and Literature.” Special Session of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Semiotoc Society of America, Fall, 1986.

Chair/Organizer, “Politics and Semiotics: Pluralism versus Totalism.” Special Session of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of The Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco, Fall 1988.

Chair/Organizer, “Irony and Narrative Technique in Béroalde de Verville’s Le Moyen de parvenir.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1979. Also made introductory presentation “Reading Strategies of Le Moyen de parvenir

Chair/Organizer, “The European Sonnet and its Assimilation of Diverse Genres.”Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America,” Chicago, 1977.

4. Wayne State University Humanities Center

Working Groups in the Humanities and Arts

Participant in the “Folds Group”

Intensive study and research group on Gilles Deleuze’s Le Pli: Leibniz et le Baroque

And Related Works

Organized an Chaired by Professor Charles Stivale, WSU

Fall 2002-Fall 2004

IV. SERVICE IN LAST FIVE YEARS:

C. 1. Graduate School:

Compiled data on the Graduate Programs of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures for the National Research Council Report on

Modern Languages. Fall2006-Winter 2007.

2. Humanities Center:

Chair, Humanities Center Faculty Fellows Conference, March 2007.

5. Departmental Service:

Chair, Graduate-Professional Scholarship Selection Committee, Winter 2015

Department Liaison for CLAS Scholarship Applications for Master’s Students, Fall 2014

Coordinator for Ph. D. Assessment Report, 2015

Coordinated Assessment Reports, first two rounds, for the Ph. D. Program. On-going for third report.

Graduate Advisor for MA Programs (French, Italian, Spanish) – 1990-present.

Graduate Director for Ph. D. Programs – 1990-present.

Member, Graduate Committee, 2001-present.

Author, “Graduate Handbook for Faculty and Students” Revisions in 1997, 2002, 2003, 2005-present.

Ph. D. Review and Revision – Winter 2006-Fall 2009. Service includes drafting new Department regulations for French, German, and Spanish majors and minors.

MA Graduate Committee- Drafted Policy Rubrics for all MA Programs in the Department, Fall, 2008.

Author, “Graduate Primer for Faculty and Students,” Winter 2008.

Personnel Committee, Italian Search, Winter 2006.

Promotion and Tenure Committee - 2008, 2010-11, 15

Salary Committee: 2008-2010, 2015.

Department Policy Committee, 2009, 2010-11, 2012-13-14-15

Chair, Rumble Selection Committee, Winter 2013-2014-2015.

Faculty Mentor to New Untenured Members of the Department – 2007-2010

Completed the Ph. D. Program Section of the Department Self-Study (Winter 2011)

University Service

Committee Member, WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Office of the Provost, Winter 2013.

3B. Department and Community Service

Co-organizer with Kate Paesani, French Poetry Contest and Awards Day. This a 35 year tradition in the French Area--one of the main Department activities that honors our undergrads and grads for academic excellence and creativity. Students’ family and friends attend. Recent keynote speakers were:

2003 Irvin Reid, President WSU.

2004 Robert Thomas, Dean of CLAS, WSU.

2005 Donald Spinelli, Associate Dean of CLAS, WSU.

2006 – One year hiatus.

2007 Steven Salley, Dean, The Graduate School, WSU.

2008 Margaret Winters, Professor of French and Chair of CMLLC

2009 Donald Haase, Associate Dean, CLAS

2010 Janine Lanza, Professor of History, WSU.

2011 Alina Cherry, Assistant Professor, French, CMLLC

2012 Wayne Raskind, Dean, CLASS

2014 Torya Blanchard Schoeniger, Owner, “Good Girls Go To Paris Crêpes Restaurant”

A. Positions Held in Professional Associations in Last Five Years:

Re-elected as International Advisory Board Member, Society for Emblem Studies, Summer 2014

International Advisory Board, Society for Emblem Studies, 1999-present.

Executive Committee Member (Wayne State Chapter) of the Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1995-present.

Liaison between Wayne State University and the Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, 1995-present.

Advisory Board, Montaigne Studies. 1988-94.

B. Service to the Profession

Review of the 10th International Conference for the Society for Emblem Studies, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany, 27 July—1 August, 2014. Published in The Society for Emblem Newsletter, No. 56, January, 2015, pp. 9-12.

Contributor to The Newsletter of the International Society for Emblem Studies: “Summary of the Ninth International Emblem Conference: ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward. ‘ University of Glasgow. June 27-July 1, 2011. “ Newsletter Jubliee Edition No, 50, January 2012, pp. 6-9.

F. Professional Consultation:

Book Evaluator, Specular Reflections: The Miroir in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Ed. Nancy Frelick, University of Bristish Columbia. For Cursus Mundi Book Series, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Publication by Brepols in Belgium, Report to be sent March 2014

Grant Evaluator, “Mirrors of Desire: Text and Transference in Early Modern France.” (Author’s name confidential). Department of French, University of British Columbia. Evaluated for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2006.

Grant Evaluator, “Complete Works of Pontus de Tyard.” (Author’s name confidential.) Department of French, University of Toronto, Canada. Evaluated for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 1997.

Grant Evaluator, “Textuality and Transference: Discourses of Desire and Knowledge in the French Renaissance.”(Author’s name confidential). Department of French, University of British Columbia, Canada. Evaluated for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 1995.

Tenure and Promotion Evaluator. (Applicant’s name confidential.) Department of French, University of British Columbia. Evaluated for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1994.

Consultant, Seminar Selection Committee, NEH Summer Poetry Seminar for Teachers.

Conducted by Professor Richard Vernier, Wayne State University. 1993.

Consultant, Seminar Selection Committee, NEH Summer Poetry Seminar for Teachers

Seminar conducted by Professor Richarl Vernier, 1991.Wayne State University.

G. Journal Editorial Activity: Article Referee:

“Formulating God: The Ongoing Place of Theology in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.” For Culture, Theory, and Critique. June 19, 2011.

“Scève the Obscure: Rhetoric of Deception in Délie emblem 7 Narcissus and dizain 60.” For Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, May 2009.

“Love’s Mortal Battle: Poetry and Emblems in Maurice Scève’ Délie.” For Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies. September 2009. (author anonymous)

“Maurice Scève and the Feminized Lover of the Courtly Petrarchan Love Lyric.” For Publications of the Modern Languages Association of America. November 2005.

“Girardian Echoes in Contemporary French Culture and Society.” For Culture, Theory, and Critique. August, 2002.

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