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LANCE SCHACHTERLE Curriculum Vitae (January 2012) LANCE SCHACHTERLE Curriculum Vitae (January 2012) (home) (office) 32 Massachusetts Avenue Salisbury Labs 027 Worcester, MA 0l602-2123 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (508) 752-4564 Worcester, MA 0l609 508) 831-5514; fax 831-5715; email: [email protected] EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT B.A., Haverford College, l966. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Junior year. Graduated magna cum laude with High Honors in English. Awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study, l966-67. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, l970. Dissertation topic: "Charles Dickens and the Techniques of the Serial Novel"; adviser, Clyde de L. Ryals. Assistant Professor of Humanities (English), l970. Associate Professor of Humanities (English), l975. Professor of Humanities (English), l98l- Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Division, 1985-1994. Director, London Project Center, 1985-1994. Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, 1990-1995 Assistant Provost for Academic Initiatives, 1993-1996 Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, 1996-2002 Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, 2002-2009 HONORS Companion (Fellow), Institution of Electrical Engineers (London), 1988. Sterling Olmsted award from the Liberal Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (contributions to Liberal Education within Engineering Education), 1995 Member (elected), American Antiquarian Society, 1995. SCHOLARSHIP AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST TEXTUAL EDITING—Editor in Chief, “The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper” (2002-) Since l98l I served on the permanent staff of the Cooper Edition as an associate textual editor reporting to James Franklin Beard (Editor-in-Chief) at Clark University. In 1990, I was appointed to the Editorial Board, chaired by Professor Kay Seymour House, who succeeded Professor Beard. These positions involved advisory responsibilities for volumes presently planned or under way. In 2002 I was appointed Editor in Chief of the edition, succeeding Professor House, and also joined the Advisory Board, ex officio. To date, the following titles have been published under my editorship; seven more are in advance preparation and under contract. 2002. The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, edited by James Elliott, Lance Schachterle and Jeffrey Walker. 2004. Afloat and Ashore; or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, edited by Thomas and Marianne Philbrick. Two volumes. 2009. Ned Myers; or, A Life before the Mast, edited by Robert and Karen Lentz Madison. 2010 The Water-Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas, edited by Thomas and Marianne Philbrick. I also serve as senior Advisory Editor to Literature and the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries (AMS Press; edited by Jeffrey Walker and Matthew Wynn Sivils). LEAR was awarded the honor of “best new journal” in 2010 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. In July 2007 to July 2009 I served as the first president of the reorganized James Fenimore Cooper Society. SCIENCE AND LITERATURE In the early 1980's, I worked with colleagues to establish an inter-disciplinary scholarly organization to promote discussion of the relationships between literature and science. This initiative led to the inauguration of the Society for Literature and Science (SLS) in 1985, at the 17th International Congress of the History and Philosophy of Science at Berkeley, California. At that meeting, I was elected first president of SLS. In that capacity, I organized all administrative, governance and legal arrangements for this incorporated, non-profit organization. I also served as general chair for the first SLS annual conference in October 1987. I remain a member of the Society, and of the Executive Committee. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE At the invitation of Peter Lang Publishers, New York, I established a scholarly series of monographs entitled "WPI Studies in Science, Technology, and Culture,” which has published the following titles: Nina Toren, Science and Cultural Context: Soviet Scientists in Comparative Perspective (1988). Wolhee Choe, Toward an Aesthetic Criticism of Technology (1989). Joseph W. Slade, Thomas Pynchon (revised and enlarged edition) (1990). Stephen Robert Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards (1991). John Freund, Broken Symmetries: A Study of Agency in Shakespeare's Plays (1991). Earl G. Ingersoll, Representations of Science and Technology in British Literature since 1880 (1992). Simon Laflamme, La Societe Integree: De la Circulation des Biens, des Idees et des Personnes (1992). Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle and Louis Mackey, The Meritorious Price Of Our Redemption by William Pynchon (1590-1662), A Facsimile Edition of the 1650 Original with an Introduction and Editorial Apparatus (1992). Jeffrey J. Folks, Southern Writers and the Machine: Faulkner to Percy (1993). John Rae and Rudi Volti, The Engineer in History (1993; revised 2001). Jane Robinett, This Rough Magic: Technology in Latin American Fiction (1994). Carl W. Hall, The Age of Synthesis: A Treatise and Sourcebook (1995). Duane H. Larson, Times of the Trinity: A Proposal for Theistic Cosmology (1995). Ann Kelleher, Learning from Success: Campus Case Studies in International Program Development (1996). Laura Menides and Angela Dorenkamp, editors. “In Worcester, Massachusettts: Essays On Elizabeth Bishop (2000). Richard Worthington, Rethinking Globalization: Production, Politics, Actions (2000). Ann Marie Roos. Luminaries of the Natural World: Perceptions of the Sun and Moon in England, 1400-1720. (2001) Angel A. Rivera. Eugenio Maria de Hostos y Alejandro Tapia y Rivera: Avatares de una modernidad caribena. (2001) David Ollis, Kathryn Neeley and Heinz Luegenbiehl, editors. Liberal Education in 21st Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC2000 Criteria (2004). Michael Edmond Donnelly. The Use of Science & Technology in Service to Children in the Courts (2006). James P. Hanlan, Kent Ljungquist and Rodney Obien. Notes on Woodbury and Company (2007) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS (EDITED) Literature and Technology, ed. Mark L. Greenberg and Lance Schachterle. [Introduction, ten essays, and bibliography] Research in Technology Studies, vol. 5 Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh Univ. Press, 1992. The Meritorious Price of our Redemption by William Pynchon (1590-1662): A Facsimile Edition of the 1650 Original with an Introduction and Editorial Apparatus, ed. by Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle and Louis Mackey. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992. TEXTUAL EDITIONS Cooper's The Pioneers. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle and Kenneth Andersen; Historical Introduction and Notes written by James Franklin Beard. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Center for Editions of American Authors; published by the State University Press of New York, l980. Reprinted in paperback for classroom use, Viking-Penguin, 1988. Cooper's The Deerslayer. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle, Kent Ljungquist and James Kilby; Historical Introduction and Notes written by James Franklin Beard. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Center on Scholarly Editions; published by the State University Press of New York in l987. Reprinted in paperback for classroom use, Viking-Penguin, 1987. Both these volumes are reprinted in the two-volume set of The Leather-Stocking Tales published by the Library of America in the spring of 1985. Cooper’s The Spy. Text and apparatus prepared by James P. Elliott, Lance Schachterle and Jeffrey Walker. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Committee on Scholarly Editions; published by the AMS Press, NY, 2002. Cooper’s The Bravo; A Venetian Story. Text and apparatus prepared by Lance Schachterle and James A. Sappenfield; Historical Introduction by Kay Seymour House; Explanatory Notes by Anna Scannavini. A volume in the Cooper Edition and sealed by the Committee on Scholarly Editions; published by the AMS Press, NY, 2011. ARTICLES "Bleak House as a Serial Novel," Dickens Studies Annual, l (l970), 2l2-24. "The First Key to Gulliver's Travels," Revue des langues vivantes, 38 (l972), 37-45. "The Serial Publication of R. S. Surtees's Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities," Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 20 (l973), 8-l3. "Oliver Twist and its Serial Predecessors," Dickens Studies Annual, 3 (l974), l-l3. "The Three l823 Editions of Cooper's The Pioneers," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 84 (l974), 2l9-32. "Cooper's Attitude Toward England," Proceedings of the l982 Cooper Conference, State University College of Oneonta, New York. "Textual Editing and the Cooper Edition," Proceedings of the 1984 Cooper Conference, State University College of Oneonta, New York. "What Really Distinguishes the 'Two Cultures'?" Annals of Scholarship, 4 (Fall 1986), 83-84. "Technology, Pynchon, and the Meaning of Death," Lehigh University Technology Studies Working Papers Series, 1986. "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Defenses: Twain and the Text of The Deerslayer," Studies in the American Renaissance 1988, 401-417, with Kent Ljungquist. "Bandwidth as Metaphor for Consciousness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," Studies in the Literary Imagination, 22 (Spring 1989), 101-17. "Surveying the Fields: Literature and Science in the United States--Some Preliminary Results," PSLS, 5 (November 1989), 1, 4-6. "The Metaphorical Allure of Modern Physics: An Introduction" in Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology and Culture, ed. by Joseph Slade and Judith Y. Lee (Ames, IO: Iowa State Press, 1990), 177-84. "Cooper's The Spy and the Possibility of
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