CURRICULUM VITAE. University of Oregon: Professor Head, Department of Romance Languages

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Calin 1 Name: Born: William Compaine Calin April 4, 1936, at Newington, Connecticut Education: Yale College and Sweet Briar Junior Year in France, A.B Summa cum laude. Yale Graduate School, Ph.D. Fall Teaching Positions: Dartmouth College: Instructor Assistant Professor Stanford University: Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor University of Oregon: Professor Head, Department of Romance Languages Université de Poitiers: Visiting Professor Exchange Professor Whitman College: Edward Arnold Visiting Professor University of Florida: Graduate Research Professor Florida Foundation Research Professor Fields of Specialization: Medieval Literature (epic, romance, allegory) French Poetry (Renaissance to the present) Franco-British Literary Relations, Middle Ages and Renaissance Literature in Breton, Occitan, and lowland Scots Medievalism Criticism

2 Calin 2 Professional Responsibilities and Offices: International Vice President, Association Internationale d'etudes Occitanes ( ). International Council ( ; ). President, American Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals ( ). Vice President ( ) and President ( ), International Guillaume de Machaut Society. Executive Board ( ). Conseil scientifique of the Centre International de l'ecrit en Langue d'oc (1996--). Executive Council ( ), Secretary (1980), and President (1981) of Medieval French Division, Modern Language Association. Executive Council ( ; ), Secretary (1988, 2000), and President (1989, 2001) of the Provençal and Catalan Division, Modern Language Association. Executive Council ( ), Secretary ( ), and President ( ), International Courtly Literature Society Division, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Advisory Board, International Society for the Study of Medievalism, Election to the American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, Oregon Representative, Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies ( ). Executive Council, Medieval Association of the Pacific ( ); Nominating Committee ( ); Chair, Program Committee ( ). Governing Council, Western Society for French History ( ). Member, Oregon Foreign Language Council ( ). Task Force, Governor's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, State of Oregon ( ). Board of Directors, Association of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers ( , ). Founding Member, Medieval Circle of Stanford.

3 Calin 3 Editorial Board Olifant Tenso Studies in Medievalism Escrituras medievally speaking Guest Editor, special issue of L'Esprit Créateur devoted to "The Future of Old French Studies." Grants: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Guggenheim Foundation Fellow ACLS Grant-in-Aid ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1968 American Philosophical Society 1970 Canada Federation in the Humanities Grant 1981 Fulbright Award 1982 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research NEH Summer Institute for Teaching of Literature and History 1985 Fulbright Senior Research Grant, France and United Kingdom, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

4 Calin 4 Honors: Lilly Foundation Lecture, Whitman College 1978 Invitation to Lecture at C.N.R.S. Colloquium, Rheims, 1978 Lecture at the Collège de France 1980 Visiting Professor in French Literature, University of Poitiers 1982 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge ; Life Member Edward Arnold Visiting Professor, Whitman College 1987 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, University of Maryland, April 1988 Interviewed by "La Quinzaine litteraire" (French literary magazine) concerning literature in Occitan and the Colloquium at Castries, 1989 Distinguished Guest Speaker, University of Miami, November 1991 Interviewed on French television concerning the Bordeaux lecture and the Manciet Colloquium, November 1992 Elected "Sòci dóu Felibrige," Honorary Membership in the historic Provençal literary society, 1993 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1997 Florida Foundation Research Professor, Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2000 Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto , 2008, 2009 A Festschrift volume, Cahier Calin. Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin. Eds. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery. Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011 First Brian Merrilees Memorial Lecture, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2015 Prizes: Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize, 1981, offered by the Institut Français de Washington, for A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. American Library Association Choice Award for one of The Outstanding Academic Books of 1984 for A Muse for Heroes. American Library Association Choice Award for one of The Outstanding Academic Books of 1995 for The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England.

5 Calin 5 Public Lectures: Stanford University; Foothill College 1965 Stanford University 1966 University of California, Santa Cruz 1969 Harvard University 1970 University of Oregon 1972 Whitman College 1978 University of Virginia (two); Washington University; University of Texas; UCLA 1979 Collège de France; University of Bologna; University of Padua; Trier University; University of Connecticut 1980 University of Antwerp; University of London; Oxford University; University of Edinburgh; University of Poitiers 1982 University of Southern California 1983 University of Oregon Forum Lecture; Cambridge University 1984 Oxford University; Cambridge University; University of London (two); University of Saint Andrews; University of Reading; University of Warwick; University of Antwerp; Würzburg University 1985 University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles; University of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University 1986 Whitman College (two); Washington State University 1987 University of Florida; Ohio State University; University of Maryland 1988 New York University; Fordham University; University of Miami; University of Florida Humanities Series 1991

6 University of Bordeaux; Whitman College; University of Oregon 1992 Calin 6 University of Kansas 1993 Harvard University; Hamilton College 1995 Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III); University of Edinburgh (three); Cambridge University 1997 University of Florida 2000 University of Georgia 2001 Arizona State University (two) 2002 University of Maryland 2004 University of Toronto (two) 2005 University of Florida 2006 Marquette University; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; University of Toronto 2009 University of Toronto 2015 Plenary Session/ Keynote Addresses: Société Internationale Rencesvals, Liège, Modern Literature Colloquium, West Virginia University, Société Internationale Rencesvals, Padua, International Courtly Literature Society, Utrecht, Colloque: Etudes Occitanes, Wégiment (Belgium), Colloque: Bernard Manciet, Bordeaux, International Conference on Medievalism, Leeds, Conference on Reading the Margins, University of Oregon, South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, Conference on Women and Medieval Writing, University of Western Ontario, International Conference on Medievalism, Hope College (Michigan), South Atlantic MLA, Birmingham, Colloquium on Marie de France, King's College (Ontario), Yale French Graduate Conference on Ethics and Literature, Yale University, 2012.

7 Calin 7 Books: The Old French Epic of Revolt: "Raoul de Cambrai," "Renaud de Montauban," "Gormond et Isembard." Geneva: Droz, pp. (with Michel Banamou) Aux Portes du Poème (anthology of 20th century verse). New York: Macmillan, pp. The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French "Chansons de Geste." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, pp. La Chanson de Roland. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, pp. A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, pp. Crown, Cross and Fleur-de-lis: An Essay on Pierre Le Moyne's Baroque Epic "Saint Louis." Saratoga: Stanford French and Italian Studies, pp. A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. This book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize in 1981, and the American Library Association Choice Award for In Defense of French Poetry: An Essay in Revaluation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. Hardcover and paperback. This book won the American Library Association Choice Award for Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. Hardcover and Paperback. The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. Hardcover and paperback. The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland: Essays in Criticsim. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. Also 120 articles and 230 papers and lectures, some delivered more than once.

8 Calin 8 Current and Future Research: Classic, Rococo, Preromantic: Readings in French Poetry of the Eighteenth Century Studies in Occitan Literature: The Baroque; the Felibrige Essays in Medievalism