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Allan H. Pasco Curriculum Vitae August 29, 2019 Personal Information Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures-Department of French & Italian University of Kansas 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard 2053 Wescoe Hall Lawrence, KS 66045-7590 Email Address: [email protected] Office Phone: (913) 796-9936 Message: (785) 864-9068 Orcid ID: 0000-0002-1732-5050 Biography Allan H. PASCO, Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, specializes in French literature and culture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and on ways literary attitudes reflect society, especially regarding crises initiated by wars and social movements. Professor Pasco, whose eleventh book recently appeared, has been appointed to ten editorial boards and awarded both the Outstanding Civilian Service Award by the United States government and the Palmes Académiques by the French government. Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America, he was recently recognized for lifetime, scholarly achievement. Of his most recent books, The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story focuses on how art reflects and infiltrates society. It accompanies the second edition of his anthology of French short stories. The preceding Balzac, Literary Sociologist considered how the great novelist made society an integral part of his artistic vision. More than seventy-five articles published in reviews like PMLA, the Revue d’Histoire Littéraire, and the Modern Language Review offer fresh insights into culture and literature. In addition, Professor Pasco regularly gives papers at well-respected conferences, and has frequently lectured across the United States and abroad, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand to Exeter College, Oxford and the Sorbonne. Education B.A., French Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA M.A., Romance Languages Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Ph.D., Romance Languages, French University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Dissertation/Thesis: “The Color-Keys to A la recherché du temps perdu” 2 Employment History Academic University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Hall Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, 1989-Present Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Professor of French, 1979-1989 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Visiting Professor of French, Fall 1979 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Assistant Professor of French, 1967-1973 Professional Memberships American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Modern Language Association (MLA) Honors/Awards/Honor Societies Phi Kappa Phi Phi Sigma Iota Chevalier, l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2018) Outstanding Civilian Service Award, United States Government (October 27, 2006) Listed in Directory of American Scholars under English Listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America (1999-present) Listed in the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Awards (2017-present) Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Professorship for Outstanding Teaching and Research, (2012-15). Honorable Mention (one of two) in the SEASECS Percy Adams article prize competition (2006). Chancellor’s Outstanding Mentor Award, University of Kansas (May 7, 2004). Graduate and Professional Association’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award for the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, in the Humanities, University of Kansas (May 7, 2004). Honored as an outstanding teacher at the fifth annual Teacher Appreciation Banquet, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Kansas (May 9, 2002). Jessie Marie Senor Cramer & Ann Cramer Root Cramer Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Research, U of KS (1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2017). Conference Visitorship, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (April 1998). Hall Center Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Kansas (Fall 1996). Distinguished Alumnus, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan (1988). Fellowships in support of dissertation student. Purdue University: 1988-1990, 1985, 1976- 1978. Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship (1985). Summer Grant, Purdue University (1974). Summer Grant, Lilly Library, Indiana University (1974). Summer Grants University of Chicago (1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71). 3 Teaching Key Words France; culture; literature Research Interests (Statement) I am particularly interested in the way close reading of literary works reveals not just meaning but also literary attitudes of society, especially regarding crises initiated by wars and social movements. Research Key Fields 18th-, 19th-, 20th-century French culture and literature, French Cultural Studies: 1761-1840 Research/Scholarly Work Publications Reviewed/Refereed Books: Pasco, Allan H. The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story: Masterpieces in Miniature. New York: Routledge, 2019. I am drawn to the force great short stories have, and I consider some of the reasons for their power. Pasco, Allan H. (2016) Balzac, Literary Sociologist. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *“Balzac, Literary Sociologist, the most important English-language book on Balzac in years, has at last given this author the place he deserves as a social historian. Allan Pasco shows how the myriad details in the structured design of La Comédie humaine build to a unified illustration of the society of Balzac¹s time. This impressive study will be an eye-opener for generations of readers.” Armine Kotin Mortimer (book jacket). *“The eminent Balzacian Allan H. Pasco examines a radically changed France depicted throughout the Scènes de la vie de province. With remarkable finesse, Pasco discerns in closely read texts the symptoms caused by the noxious atmosphere of the Restoration and July Monarchy, with which he composes a masterful clinical chart that allows peering into today’s social problems.” Anne-Marie Baron (book jacket). *In his meticulously conducted research, Allan Pasco argues that Honoré de Balzac was not only a storyteller: he was “a sociologist avant l’heure” (113) and “a competent historian” (234).—Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Interview, New Books Network, <http://newbooksnetwork.com/allan-h-pasco-balzac- literary-sociologist-palgrave- macmillan-2016> *“provides a broad cultural context that will appeal to literary scholars, historians, sociologists, and scholars of French literature at-large [and] establishes Balzac’s vital importance not only during the nineteenth century but also for his continued influence on contemporary ideas.”—Owen Heathcote. Courrier Balzacien 2016. *“Allan H. Pasco’s latest book is a fine, well-researched, eminently readable survey. The quality and originality of the individual chapters […] are enhanced by being incorporated into a presentation as a proto-sociologist. Highly recommended to students, academics, and readers of the nineteenth- 4 century novel.”—Owen Heathcote, Included on web site of Les Amis d’Honoré de Balzac. *“One of the most effective innovations of this study is that it considers these ten novels and shorter fictions in the order in which they appear in La Comédie humaine, thereby enabling Pasco to draw out new artistic and ideological connections between them […] Pasco’s fascination with the interconnectedness of the Scènes de la vie de province is illustrated to its best advantage. Impeccably finished and containing an extensive bibliography of critical material, this vibrant interdisciplinary study should prove a valuable reference for students and specialists alike.”—Andrew Watts. French Studies 72.1 (2018): 288-289. *[W]ell served by Pasco’s effortless and joyful erudition, […] the book and each of its individual chapters are invaluable additions to Balzacian criticism, and a timely reconsideration of the Scènes de la vie de province.”—Maxine Gergen. Modern Language Review 113.2 (2018): 406-07. *”Balzac, Literary Sociologist is a significant contribution to Balzac studies, especially for its fine-grained and richly erudite readings of an under-analyzed section of La Comédie humaine. The book artfully combines history, social science, and literary analysis to bring new clarity to Balzac’s view of provincial France and is destined to have broad appeal to expert researchers and novice undergraduates alike.—Scott Springer, Nineteenth-Century French Studies 47:1-2 (2018): 290. *“Eminently readable, this landmark publication shows like no other how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate and relevant insights into his turbulent society and our own.”—Juliana Starr. French Review 92.1 (2018): 261-62. *“Pasco displays the broad proficiency of a cultural historian and the meticulousness of a literary specialist, securing once again his place amongst top Balzacian scholars and dix-neuviémistes.”—Abbey Carrico, L’Esprit créateur 58.3 (Fall 2018): 144-45. *“Pasco’s monograph is an impressive piece of scholarship and a welcome addition to the world of Anglophone Balzac Studies. The book is an excellent resource not only for the wealth of knowledge that Pasco shares, but also for the new insight it brings to some of Balzac’s most misunderstood works.”— Rebecca Powers, Symposium Pasco, Allan H. (2010) Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. *“In this highly original work, Allan H. Pasco returns to the central preoccupations of his own oeuvre: novelistic forms and their rhetorics, viewed in the context of history. His close readings are as cogent as ever: powerfully theorized, intimate with the concrete particulars as well as unifying principles of the text,