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Curriculum Vitae
Translations from French and German
Reader's Reports - Scholarly Studies
Description and Samples of Fiction
CURRICULUM VITAE
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E-Mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University, l963-67. Ph.D., l967, Romance Languages and Literatures.
Dissertation: Elite and Peuple in Fontenelle. Director: J. L. Gossman.
Johns Hopkins University, l962-63. Graduate study in Philosophy.
Université de Lille (France), l96l-62. Graduate study in Philosophy.
University of Colorado, l957-61. B.A., Summa Cum Laude in General Studies, Magna Cum Laude in Philosophy, l96l.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- The American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize (for translation of Alain Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy), 2017.
- The French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (for the translation of Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte), 2015.
- Finalist, French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (for translation of Grégoire Chamayou, Les Chasses à l'homme), 2013.
- Finalist, French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize (for translation of Pascal Bruckner, Perpetual Euphoria), 2012.
- Modern Language Association of America, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, 2005 (for translation of Harald Weinrich, Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting).
- The National Jewish Book Council's Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award (for translation of Marcel Bénabou, Jacob, Menahem, and Mimoun: A Family Epic), 1999.
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), 1995. Research on translation.
- NEH Fellow, Center for Research on Translation, SUNY-Binghamton, 1993.
- Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, l988.
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellowship, Postgraduierten Programme, Theorie der Literatur und der Kommunikation, Universität Konstanz (Germany), l980-8l, l98l-82.
- NEH Fellow, "Toward a Theory of the Humanities" conference, University of Southern California, l977.
- NEH Fellow, School of Criticism and Theory, University of California, Irvine, l977.
- Grantee, University of Oregon Workshop on Teaching Composition, l975.
- Visiting Scholar in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-73.
- University of Oregon Summer Faculty Research Award, l969.
- Danforth Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, l962-67.
- Gilman Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, l964-67.
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, l962-63.
- Fulbright Scholar, Université de Lille, l96l-62.
- Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship, President's Award, Rotary Scholarship, etc., University of Colorado.
POSITIONS HELD
1. Teaching
Professor Emeritus, Romance Languages, University of Oregon, 1997--; Professor, 1979-1997; Associate Professor, 1972-1979; Assistant Professor, 1967-1972.
Guest Professor, Universität Konstanz, l98l.
Seminar leader, NEH Summer Seminar ("The Production of Deviancy in Nineteenth-Century France"), l987.
2. Editorial
Editor Emeritus, Comparative Literature; Editor, l990-1997; Associate Editor, l978--1990; Assistant Editor, l972-78.
Editorial Board and Advisory Committee, Montaigne Studies , l989--. Editor-in-chief, Montaigne Studies, Vol. 5 ("Of History," 1994).
3. Consultant/ Reader
Harcourt Trade Publishers, HarperCollins/Ecco, St. Martin's Press, Dana Press, Cornell University Press, University of Nebraska Press, Columbia University Press, Princeton University Press, New York University Press, University of California Press, Melville House, Armand Colin (Paris), Plon-Perrin (Paris), C. H. Beck (Munich), Words Without Borders, Bloomsbury Publications.
4. Administrative (University of Oregon)
Co-Director, Comparative Literature Program, 1983-1992
Director, General Literature Program, 1976-1980
Director, General Humanities Program, 1978-1979
5. Related to Translation
Presiding Officer, Translation Section, MLA, 1995
Member, Executive Committee, Discussion Section on Translation, Modern Language Association of America, 1997-98.
Selection Committee, Aldo Scaglione Translation Prize, MLA, 1997-1998.
Animateur, Atelier de Traduction, MJC Montauban (France), 2008-
Animateur, Atelier traduire la sociologie et l'anthropologie, ATLAS/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2018.
N. B.: For a list of my translations and other publications, click
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For a description and samples of my fiction, click HERE