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CURRICULUM VITAE

Pedro F. Campa

Education

PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, l973.Medieval and Golden

Age Spanish Literature Minor: Old French Language and Literature;

Graduate Studies in Portuguese.

Dissertation: ‘Lo medieval en la teoría literaria del Siglo de Oro.’

Director: Alberto Porqueras-Mayo.

Professional and Honorary Memberships

South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Sigma Delta Pi, Pi Delta

Phi, Pi Lambda Beta, Sociedad Numismática Española, Society of the

Seven Sages, American Academy of Research Historians on Medieval

Spain, Southeastern Medieval Association, American Tristan Society,

Société Rencesvals, Sociedad Emblemática Española, Modern Language

Association of America, International Courtly Literature Society, Society

for Emblem Studies, Renaissance Society of America.

Publications

Books

Emblemata Hispanica: An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Emblem Literature to the

Year 1700. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Durham, 1990. 248 pp. Covered in this

bibliography are diplomatic entries for all emblem books published from the beginning to the

end of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as a wide range of secondary sources on relevant

subjects, among them mythography, paradoxography, numismatics, fêtes, funerals, proverbs,

apothegms, antiquarianism, collecting, and pertinent studies in history and architecture.

Providing call numbers for library locations, information on facsimile reprints and microform

editions, this work is extensively indexed by date and place of publication, by printers and

booksellers, by authors and artists, and by dedicatee, as well as by subject.

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Reviewed in Norba-Arte. (Universidad de Extremadura) X, (1990), 273-275 by Julio García-Arranz; favorable review. In Dicenda (Universidad Complutense), Madrid) X (1991), 355-59 by Víctor Infantes de Miguel. ‘...es un libro que hacía falta, que hace falta y que hará falta durante mucho tiempo.’ In Goya. Revista de Arte. (Julio-Octubre, 1992) 383 by Santiago Sebastián-López. Very favorable review. In Emblematica. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies. VI, 2 (1992), 371-2 by Santiago Sebastián López. ‘This is a very solid work with appendices concerning dates and places of publication, publishers, artists, dedications and a general index of names. Scholars must be grateful to Pedro Campa for such a useful book for anyone dedicated to emblem research.’ p. 372.In Emblematica. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies. VII, 1 (1993), pp. 159-62 by John T. Cull ‘ Emblemata Hispanica is an extraordinarily useful tool that will prove to be an indispensable resource for all scholars interested in emblem studies in Spain of the Golden Age. Campa has produced an exhaustive and brilliantly executed bibliography that should be a stimulus to further research in the field.’ p. 162.

Edited books

Emblematic Images and Religious Texts. Studies in Honor of G. Richard Dimler. Eds.

Pedro F. Campa and Peter M. Daly. Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, Vol. 2.

Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2010, 364 pp. Features sixteen essays from

American and European scholars.

Emblem Studies in Honor of Peter M. Daly. Eds. Pedro F. Campa, Daniel Russell and

Michael Bath. Saecula Spiritalia 41. Baden Baden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 2002, 271 pp.

Features ten essays from American and European scholars.

Medieval Perspectives. Selected Proceedings of the XI Annual Conference of the

Southeastern Medieval Association. Pedro F. Campa Ed. with the assistance of Robert Vallier

and Charles Connell. New York: Full Stop Press, I, 1. 1986. 212 pp. Features 19 papers from the

conference proceedings with an introduction by Pedro F. Campa.

Articles and book reviews

Review of: Bérulle, Pierre. Pierre de Bérulle. Oeuvres Complètes. Vol IV. Correspondance.

Lettres 206-442. Eds. Michel Dupuy and Blandine Delabaye. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2010. In

Sixteenth Century Journal 43, 1, Spring 2012, 224-5.

Review of: Dieu à nostre commerce et société: Montaigne et la théologie.

Ed.Philippe Desan. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 444. Geneva: Librairie

Droz, 2008. In Sixteenth Century Journal 43, 2, Summer 2012, 558-9.

Review of: La Ville à la Renaissance. Espaces-Représentations-Pouvoirs. Actes XXXIXe

Colloque International d’Études Humanistes (Tours 1996). Eds. Marie-Luc Demonet and Robert

Sauzet. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2008. In In Sixteenth Century Journal 42, 3, Fall 2011,

838-40.

Review of: Julio García Arranz. Symbola et emblemata avium. Las aves en los libros de

emblemas y empresas de los siglos XVI y XVII. A Coruña: SIELAE and Sociedad de Cultura

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Valle-Inclán, 2010. In Emblematica. An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, XXIX

(2012), 333-35.

Review of: Luis Gomes ed. Mosaics of Meaning. Studies in Portuguese Emblematics.

Glasgow Emblem Studies 13. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2009. In Emblematica. An

Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, XVIII (2010), 359-62.

Review of: A.S.Q. Visser. Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image. Brill’s Studies in

Intellectual History 128. Leiden: Brill, 2005. In Sixteenth Century Journal 42, 1, Spring 2011,

311-13.

‘Old revival and Later Survival: The Religious Emblem Book.’In Transmigrations. Essays

in Honour of Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles. Laurence Grove and Alison Saunders. Glasgow

Studies in the Emblem 14. Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2011, 47-68.

‘Devotion and Onomasiology: The Impresa of the Society of Jesus.’ In Emblematic Images

and Religious Texts. Studies in Honor of G. Richard Dimler. Eds. Pedro F. Campa and Peter M.

Daly. Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s

University Press, 2010, 1-28.

Review of: Leticia Alvarez Recio. Rameras de Babilonia. Historia cultural del

anticatolicismo en la Inglaterra Tudor. Acta Salmanticensia. Estudios históricos y geográficos,

134. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2006. In Sixteenth Century Journal 40, 4

(2009), 1260-61.

Review of: Pierre de Bérulle. Oeuvres Complètes. Vol IV. Correspondance. Lettres 1-201.

Eds. Michel Dupuy and Blandine Delabaye. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2006. In Sixteenth Century

Journal 40, 3 (2009), 920-21. Review of: Marco Ruffini. L'imprese del drago. Politica, emblematica e scienze naturali

alla corte di Gregorio XIII (1572-1585). Europa delle Corti 118. Centro studi sulle società di

antico regime. Biblioteca del Cinquecento. Roma: Bolzoni Editore, 2005. In Sixteenth Century

Journal 40, 3 (2009), 867-88.

Review of: Joseph Chorpenning Ed. Emblemata Sacra: Emblem Books from the Maurice

Sabbe Library. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University Press, 2006.In Sixteenth Century Journal

39, 4 (2008), 12-13. Review of: Marie Françoise Christout. Le Ballet de Cour de Louis XIV 1643-1672. Mise en

scène. Paris: Picard, 2005. In Sixteenth Century Journal 39, 3 (2008), 893-4. Review of: The Life of St. Francis de Sales in Symbols. Eds. Elizabeth Stopp and Terence

O'Reilly. With an Essay by Agnés Guideroni-Buslé. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's University press,

2006. In Sixteenth Century Journal 39, 2 (2008), 590-91. ‘Emblem Books in Russia.’ In Companion to Emblem Studies. Ed. Peter M. Daly. New

York: AMS Press, 2008, pp. 309-321; 568-572.

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Review of: The Jesuit Series. Corpus Librorum Emblematum, Part Four. Dimler, Richard

and Peter M. Daly. University of Toronto, 2005. In Sixteenth Century Journal 37, 4 (2006),

1220-21.

Review of: The Ratio Studiorum. The Official Plan for Jesuit Education. Ed. trans. Claude

Pavur. Saint Louis Institute for Jesuit Sources, 2005. In Sixteenth Century Journal 37, 3

(2006),842-843.

‘Romanian Icons: A Contribution to Balkan Art.’ In Romanian Medievalia. Vol.I-III

(2006), 187-202.

‘The Space Between Heraldry and the Emblem: The Case for Spain.’ Ed. Peter M. Daly. In

Emblem Scholarship. Directions and Development. Essays in Honor of Abe Hornstein. Imago

Figurata 5 Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, pp. 51-82.

‘Heraldry, Insignia, and the Rise of the Russian Emblem.’ In Emblem Studies in Honor of

Peter M. Daly. Ed. Michael Bath et al. Saecula Spiritalia 41. Baden Baden: Verlag Valentin

Koerner, 2002, 15-39.

‘Addenda et Corrigenda to Emblemata Hispanica.’ In: Emblematica. An Interdisciplinary

Journal for Emblem Studies, XI (2001), 327-76.

‘L'Age d'Or des Emblèmes.’ In L'Epoque de la Renaissance. Crises et essors nouveaux

(1560-1610). Amsterdam: Johns Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000, vol. 4, 200-10.

‘Terms for Emblem in the Spanish Tradition.’ In Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque

Symbol Theory 1500-1700. Ed. John Manning. New York: AMS Press, 1999, 13-26.

‘Carlos Rojas y el arte de la memoria.’ In Literatura, arte, historia y mito en la obra de

Carlos Rojas.’ Ed. Cecilia Castro Lee. Bogotá: Universidad Central, 1998, 25-36.

‘The Spanish and Portuguese Adaptations of Pía Desideria.’ In Emblematic Perceptions.

Essays in Honor of William Hecksher. Saecula Spiritalia 36. Baden-Baden: Verlag Valentin

Koerner, 1997, 43-60.

‘La génesis del libro de emblemas jesuita.’ In Actas del Congreso Internacional de

Emblemática. Ed. Sagrario López Poza. La Coruña: U. de la Coruña, 1996, 42-60.

‘Los derechos de los Indios: Vitoria, Suárez, y las Crónicas.’ Actas del Congreso Beresit II.

Cofradía Internacional de Investigadores de Toledo. Toledo: Imprenta Provincial, 1992, pp.

331-46.

‘Camilo José Cela-Translation of passage from Mazurka para dos muertos .’ The Literary

Review . Special Issue. The Literature of Democratic Spain. Spring 1993. Vol. 36. Number 3,

286-91.

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‘Diego López's Declaración Magistral de las emblemas de Alciato : A Seventeenth Century

Spanish Humanist View,’ In Studies in Andrea Alciatus in Honor of Virginia Woods Callahan .

New York: AMS Press, 1989, pp. 223-48.

Review of: Victoria Cirlot. Tristán e Iseo. Barcelona: PPU, 1984. In Cahiers de

Civilisation Médiévale, 21 (1988), 197-98. (in French)

‘Henry Green's Notes Towards a Catalogue of Emblem Books,’ Emblematica. An

Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, I, 2(1987), 341-44.

Review of: Ann Shaver Tr. and Ed. of Tristan and the Round Table ,(Binghamton:

Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1982 in Tristania, 11 (Autum 1985-Spring 1986),

1-2, 57-59.

‘Apuntes para 'el yo no soy nadie,' la iconografía de la muerte y la inmortalidad en la obra

de Carlos Rojas.’ In En torno al hombre y a los monstruos. Ensayos críticos sobre la novela de

Carlos Rojas. Eds. Christopher Soufas and Cecilia Lee. Studia Humanitatis. Washington: Scripta

Humanistica, 1987, pp.30-43.

‘Aspectos de la decadencia francesa en la obra de Gabriel Miró.’ In Prosa Hispánica de

Vanguardia. Ed. Fernando Burgos. Madrid: Orígenes, 1986, pp. 233-44.

Review of: Duncan Moir, Ed., Francisco de Bances Candamo, Theatro de los theatros. In

Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. (Pto. Rico) Año III, No. l-2 (l973), 96-97.

Review of: Isabel Hernández de Norman. La novela romántica en la Antillas. In Revista

de Estudios Hispánicos. (Pto. Rico) Año III, No. l-2 (l973), 96-97.

‘The Spanish Tristán Ballads’ in Tristania, (Autumn 8l-Spring 82), 7, No. l-2, 60-69.

‘Quinto Enio en la preceptiva literaria del Siglo de Oro’ in Estudios Clásicos (Madrid),

C.S.I.C., 24, (l980), l43-49.

‘The Spanish Tristán: State of Research and New Directions.’ Tristania. 3, (l978), 36-45.

‘The Defense of Poetry in Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetic Theory’ in The

Proceedings of the 23rd M.I.F.L.C., (Eastern Kentucky University Press: Richmond, l976), pp.

90-95.

Submitted to appear

Articles:

‘James Astry's Royal Politician: Saavedra Fajardo in English’ for The English Emblem in

the Early Modern Period. Collected Essays. New York: AMS Press.

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‘Eschatology, Soteriology and Trickery of Death in Spanish Funeral Emblems’ for Emblems

of Death in the Early modern Period. Ed. Monica Calabritto. Cahiers d' Humanisme et

Renaissance (Genève: Droz). Manuscript accepted for publication.

Reviews:

XVIIème Siècle, Revue. (Special issue). Les Jésuites dans l’Europe savante In Sixteenth

Century Journal. No. 237, No.4 (Octobre 2007).

Castaldini, Alberto Ed. Antonio Possevino. I Gesuiti e la Loro Eredità Culturale in

Transilvania. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu. Vol. 67. Roma: Instituto Historico

S.J., 2009.

In progress

Book

Horozco, Juan de. Emblemas morales (Zaragoza: Alonso Rodríguez, 1604). A facsimile

edition with introduction and notes for Imago Figurata. Turnhout: Brepols (under contract)

Articles

‘ Heraldry and the Emblem: Notes for the History of a Relationship.’ invited article for

Coats of Arms. Journal of Heraldry, London.

Reviews

Chinchilla, Perla and Antonella Romano Eds. Escrituras de la modernidad. Los jesuitas

entre cultura y retórica y cultura científica. México: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2008.

Hernández Franco, Juan. Sangre limpia, sangre española. El debate de los estatutos de

limpieza de sangre (siglos XV-XVII). Madrid: Cátedra, 2011.

Roldán-Figueroa, Rady. The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569). Studies in

the History of Christian Traditions 150. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Professional Papers

‘The Covarrubias Brothers: The Emblem Establishment in Sixteenth-Century Spain’ at the XLV

International Congress on Medieval Studies, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14, 2011.

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‘Book presentation for Emblematic Images & Religious Texts’ at the Ryan Library, St. Charles

Borromeo Seminary, St Joseph’s University, Philapelphia, PA, March 23, 2010.

‘James Astry’s Royal Politician and the Perils of Translation’ at the XLIV International

Congress on Medieval Studies, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 2009. ‘Eschatology, Soteriology and the Fear of Death in Spanish Funeral Emblems’ at the

Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Miami, FL, March 23,

2007.

‘Heraldry and the Emblem: Notes for the History of a Relationship.’ at The Seventh International

Conference for Emblem Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 16,

2005.

‘Symbols for an Empire: The Development of Russian Emblematics.’ invited paper for The

Slavic Medieval Consortium at the LX International Congress on Medieval Studies,

WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7, 2005.

‘Emblems and Prayer Books: The Survival of a Genre’ at the XXXIX International Congress on

Medieval Studies, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 2004.

‘Romanian Icons: A Contribution to the History of Balkan Art’ at the XXXVIII Congress on

Medieval Studies, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10, 2003.

‘The Space Between: Heraldry and the Emblem.’ Delivered at the XXXVI International

Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2001.

‘Literary Translation: the Mechanics of a Humble Craft’ UTC Council of Scholars presentation.

April, 2001.

‘Spain and Emblem Theory: Foreign Sources and Home-Spun Models.’ Delivered at the XXXV

International Congress on Medieval Studies, WNU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2000.

‘The Politics of French Furniture.’ UTC presentation for French Week, 2000.

‘Insignia, Heraldry and Decorations: The Rise of the Russian Emblem’. Delivered at the

XXXIV International Congress on Medieval Studies, WMU, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7,

1999.

‘Lope’s Maria Estuarda:: Propaganda and Political Realities’. Invited paper at the Southern

Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November, 1998.

‘Medieval Spanish Imprese: The Royal Origins of a Renaissance Genre’. Delivered at the

annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America at Indiana University,

Bloomington, April, 1997.

‘The Novels of Carlos Rojas and the Art of Memory’. Invited paper delivered at the Southern

Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 1996.

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Respondent at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium for Noel Fallows’ ‘Wounds and Healing in

Spanish Medieval Tournaments,’ May, 1996.

‘La génesis del libro de emblemas jesuíta.’ An invited plenary session delivered at el Primer

Simposio Internacional de Literatura Emblemática Hispánica. La Coruña, Spain,

September 17, 1994

‘Antiquarianism in the Creation of the Spanish Impresa.’ Delivered at The Annual Meeting of

the Renaissance Society of America. University of North Texas. Southland Center Hotel,

Dallas TX, April 8, 1994.

‘Heresy and Orthodoxy in Spanish Emblems.’ An invited paper delivered at the McGill

Symposium on Emblem Studies. McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 13, 1994.

‘And if they are not animals... Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Theological Perspectives of

the Spanish on Native Americans.’ Delivered at the Symposium ‘Aliens, Apes and

Artificial Intelligence: Who is a Person in the Post-Modern World?’ The Southern

Humanities Conference. University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, February

13, 1993.

‘A New Emblem Book Rediscovered: Juan de Orozco's Symbola (1601) Delivered at the 28th

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,

MI, May 8, 1993.

‘Pia Desideria in Spanish and in Portuguese: Pedro de Salas and Pereira Veloso.’ Delivered at

the Third International Emblem Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA,

August 18, 1993.

‘Terms for Emblem in the Spanish Tradition.’Delivered at Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque

Symbol Theory (1500-1700). An International Research Symposium. University of

Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, May 1, 1992.

‘Vitoria, Suárez, y las Crónicas: los Derechos de los Indios en la Conquista de América.’

Delivered at the Conferencia de la Cofradía Internacional de Investigadores de Toledo.

Beresit II. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, October 9, 1992.

‘The Spanish Alciato: Daza's Translation.’ Delivered at the Second Intenational Conference on

Emblem Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, August 15, 1990.

‘Jerónimo Nadal's Evangelicae Imagines and Jesuit Emblem Books’ Delivered at the Second

Intenational Conference on Emblem Studies, University of Glasgow , Glasgow, Scotland,

August 16, 1990.

‘Early Manuscript Emblem Books and the Birth of the Spanish Impresa.’ Delivered at the 25th

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11, 1990.

‘La prosa breve de Julián del Casal.’ Delivered at the 39th Mountain Interstate Foreign Language

Conference, Clemson University, Clemson SC, September 29, 1989.

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‘L'imprese di Paolo Giovio: Concetti pittorici ed stilo anticuario.’ Invited paper delivered at the

American Association for Italian Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, April 16,

1988.

‘Diego López, and Alciato in Spain.’ Invited paper for an Alciato Symposium held at Princeton

University, Princeton, NJ, September 24, 1988.

‘El arte en las novelas de Carlos Rojas: una visión de conjunto.’ Delivered at the 38th Annual

Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,

TN, October 8, 1988.

‘Las artes visuales en la novelística de Carlos Rojas.’ Delivered at the Philological Association

of the Carolinas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greenboro, NC, March 14,

1987.

Invited participant in ‘Mesa Redonda: Humor y tragedia en las literaturas hispánicas.’ with

Carlos Rojas (Emory) and Manuel Mantero (U. of Georgia) in International Conference on

Wit and Humor in Literature and the Visual Arts. Atlanta, GA, November 8, 1986.

‘Early Renaissance Proto-Emblem Books with some Remarks on Medieval Spanish

Imprese.’Twelfth Annual South Eastern Medieval Association, University of Georgia,

Athens, GA, October 25, 1986.

‘Jerónimo Nadal's Emblems and Loyola's Spiritual Exercises ‘ 36th Mountain Interstate Foreign

Language Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, October 11, 1986.

Respondent to Marylyn Stone's ‘ Women, Men and Emotions in Las Siete Partidas,’ and to

Connie Scarborough's ‘ The Cantigas de Santa María as Indicator of Women's Economic

Realities,’ at the Thirteenth Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at The University of the

South, Sewanee, TN, April 11-12, 1986.

‘Emblems in Fête and Funeral Books of the Spanish Golden Age.’ Delivered at the 20th

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 9, l985.

‘Towards a Critical Definition of 'emblema', 'empresa', 'jeroglífico,' and 'enigma ' in the Spanish

Golden Age.’Delivered at the Thirty-Fifth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language

Conference at Furman University, Greenville, SC, October 3-5, 1985.

‘Aspectos de la decadencia francesa en la obra de Gabriel Miró.’ Delivered at the Symposium

on Hispanic Vanguard Prose at Memphis State University, Memphis TN, April 6, l985.

‘Arias Montano and the Transition from Allegory to the Emblem.’ Delivered at the Symposium

on Emblem Research, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, January l4, l985.

‘Mythology in Golden Age Emblem Books.’ Delivered at the l984 Convention of the Modern

Language Association of America, Washington DC, December 29, l984.

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‘The Death of Tristan: Pagan Rituals and Christian Rites.’ Delivered at the l0th Annual

Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Eastern Kentucky University,

Richmond KY, October 6, l984.

‘Benito Arias Montano, Precursor of Spanish Emblem Literature.’ Delivered at the 37th Annual

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, April 28,

l984.

‘Indexing Spanish Emblems: A Chapter in Golden Age Iconography.’ Delivered at the South

Atlantic Modern Language Association annual meeting, Atlanta GA , October 28, l983.

‘Emblems as a Source of Inspiration in Spanish Golden Age Literature.’ Delivered at the 33rd

Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

and State University, Blacksburg VA, October l5, l983.

‘Courtly Love in Spanish Literature, the Obsolescence of a Term.’ Respondent Professor

Eleanor Minkarah. Delivered at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and

Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, May l3, l983.

‘Gabriel Miró and the Aesthetics of Pathology.’ Delivered at the Seventy-Eighth meeting of the

Tennessee Philological Association at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, February

l983.

‘Tristan and the Rites of Violence.’ Delivered at the Southeastern Medieval Association

Conference at Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, October l6, l982.

‘Poet Prophets in Spanish Golden Age Poetic Theory.’ Delivered at the 32nd Mountain Interstate

Foreign Language Conference at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, October 7,

l982.

‘Pictorial and Emblematic Concepts in Garcilaso's Poetry.’Delivered at the 31st Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference at Richmond KY, October 8, l98l.

‘The Spanish Tristán Romances.’ Delivered at the Tristan Studies Symposium, XVI International

Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 9, l98l.

‘The Medieval Theory of the Origin of Poetry and Its Prevalence in Spanish Artes Poeticae.’

Delivered at the Southeastern Medieval Association Conference at Lexington KY, March 4,

l978.

‘La emblemata en la Teoría Poética Española del Siglo de Oro.’ Delivered at the 26th Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Blacksburg VA, October l4, l976.

‘El 'brevis esse laboro' en la Literatura Española del Siglo de Oro.’ Delivered at the 26th

Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Boone NC, October l0, l975.

‘La claridad y la oscuridad en la estética de Siglo de Oro.’ Delivered at the 24th Mountain

Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Clemson SC, October ll, l974.

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‘The Sephardim in the Spanish Golden Age.’ Delivered at Beth Sholom Orthodox Congregation,

Chattanooga TN, February 24, l974.

‘The Defense of Poetry in Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetic Theory. The Platonic and

Patristic Argument.’ Delivered at the 23rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language

Conference at Richmond KY, October 6, l973.

‘The Origins of French Naturalism.’ Nineteenth Century Symposium at the University of

Tennessee at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, TN, Delivered on March l2, l973.

‘Alonso de Ercilla y la historiografía francesa en el siglo XVIII.’ Symposium celebrating the IV

Centennial of La Araucana. at the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. Delivered

December 5, l969.

Grants, Awards, Conferences, Offices Held…

2009 Reappointed to the Editorial Board of Emblematica. A Journal for Emblem Studies.

Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Journal Imago. Univ. of Valencia.

2004 Session organizer for the XXXIX International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 2004.

2003 Session organizer for the XXXVIII International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2003.

2002 Session organizer for the XXXVII International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 2-5, 2002.

2001 Session organizer for the XXXVI International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 3-6, 2001.

Session Chair and Commentator for the Romance Philology Session at the Sewanee

Medieval Colloquium

2000 Session organizer for the XXXV International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2000.

1999 Session organizer for the XXXIV International Congress in Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1999.

Session Chair at the MIFLC held at UTC, October, 1999.

Served as a reviewer for the Canadian Council for the Humanities, McGill-Queens

University Press, and Toronto University Press.

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1998 Appointed to the Editorial Board of Imago Figurata, a series of editions and

monographs published by Brepols in Leiden, Belgium. The press has published two

editions, and three monographs to date (1999).

Session organizer for the XXXIII International Congress on Medieval Studies,

Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 1998.

Chaired a session at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium.

1997 Session organizer for the XXXII International Congress on Medieval Studies,

Kalanazoo, MI, May 8-11, 1997.

Session organizer for the meeting of the Renaissance Society of America at Simon

Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.

1996 Session organizer for the XXXI International Congress on Medieval Studies,

Kalanazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1996.

1995 Attended the Federal workshop for Oral Proficiency under a grant sponsorship at Ohio

State University to acquire the expertise to administer the OPI interview.

1994 Acting Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at UTC.

1993 Session organizer for two sessions (6 papers) at the XXVIII International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1993.

1992 Organizer with Peter M. Daly, ANB Chair of Excellence in the Humanities UTC, and

John Manning, Queen's University, Belfast for Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque

Symbol Theory (1500-1700). An International Research Symposium. University of

Tennessee at Chattanooga, May 1-3, 1992

1991 Session organizer for a the Annual Meeting of The Renaissance Society of America.

Duke University, Durham. NC, April 11-13, 1991.

Session organizer for two sessions (6 papers) at the XXIII International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1991.

Member of the rank and tenure Committee for the Italian Department at The University

of Illinois at Chicago Circle.

1990 Session Chair for ‘Spanish Emblems,’ and Member of the Organizing Committee for

The Second International Emblem Conference held at the University of Glasgow ,

Glasgow, Scotland, August 14, 1990

Session organizer for two sessions (6 papers) at the XXIII International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 1990.

1989 Appointed to co-editor of Tristania (with William C. Mc Donald, Univ. of Va), volume

XIII was produced.

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Session organizer for the Tristan Society, and for the Society for Emblem Studies (12

papers) at the XXIV International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May

4-7, 1989.

Summer research grant award to work at The Princeton University July-August 1989.

1988 Session organizer for two sessions (6 papers) at the XXIII International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 1988.

Appointed Editor for Tristania, volumes XI and XII were produced at this time.

1987 Session organizer for three sessions (9 papers) at the XXII International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 1987.

1986 Grant recipient (from The Tennessee Higher Education Commission) of an educational

grant to conduct a summer institute to improve teaching skills for High School teachers,

November 13, 1986.

Elected President of the North American branch of the Society for Emblem Studies.

Session organizer for two sessions (6 papers) at the XXI International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 1986.

Summer research grant award to work at The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,

DC. July 11-24, 1986.

l985 Conference Organizer and Director for the IX Southeastern Medieval Association

meeting at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October l0-l2.

Elected to the Executive Council of the South Eastern Medieval Association for a three

year term.

Program Director for The First International Tristan and Isolde Conference. October 10-

12, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Session organizer for 3 sessions (9 papers) at the XX International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 9-12.

Session chairman for ‘General Session’ at l8th Annual Conference of the Tennessee

Philological Association meeting at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, February

23.

Nominated from the College of Arts and Sciences, UTC to receive NEH Summer

Stipend.

Summer research at The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

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l984 Member and reader for a dissertation committee in the Department of Foreign

Languages at Catholic University of America (since Fall l984).

Session organizer for 3 sessions (papers), XIX International Congress on Medieval

Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 10-13.

Session chairman for ‘The Humanities as Propaganda’, Southern Humanities

Conference, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, February 3.

Named bibliography editor for the Emblematica, a biannual review published by A.M.S.

Press and devoted to European Emblem Literature.Member of the Editorial Board of

Emblematica.

Summer research at The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

l983 Member, Nominating Committee, Southeastern Medieval Association.

Outside Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Romance

Languages, University of Denver.

Named Participant in long-range project of The Index Emblematicus headed by

Professor Peter Daly, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Seminar, ‘Syllabus Construction’ taught by English Department, Western Michigan

University.

l982 Named Assistant Editor, Tristania, a journal devoted to Tristan Studies.

Awarded Research Grant by University of Chattanooga Foundation to begin indexing

Spanish emblem books of the XVI and XVII centuries.

Awarded stipend to attend seminar, ‘Writing Across the Curriculum’ taught by English

Department, Western Michigan University.

l98l Awarded General Education Grant to develop a course ‘Literature and the Exile

Experience’ for University General Education credit.