JOHN ROGER PAAS William H. Laird Professor of German and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus Carleton College 1 Barren Down House Leg Square Shepton Mallet Somerset BA4 5LL UK 01749 - 939431
[email protected] EDUCATION: Bryn Mawr College 9/67-5/73 Ph. D. Hamilton College 9/63-6/67 B. A. (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa) DISSERTATION “The Seventeenth-century Verse Broadsheet: A Study of Its Character and TITLE: Literary-Historical Significance” MILITARY SERVICE: 9/69-8/71 EMPLOYMENT: Carleton College 1974-2015 Professor Northfield, MN Chair: 1985-88, 1999-2000, 2007-11 Bryn Mawr College 9/73-5/74 Part-time Assistant Bryn Mawr, PA Professor POSTGRADUATE National Endowment for the 1/04-9/04 GRANTS: Humanities, Fellowship Alexander von Humboldt 12/00-7/01 Senior Research Fellowship National Endowment for the 9/92-6/93 Humanities, Texts/Editions Visiting Fellowship 11/91-12/91 Beinecke Library, Yale Univ. NEH Travel to Collections 7/90 Fulbright Senior Research 9/88-7/89 Fellowship Carleton College Faculty 1/85-4/85 Development Grant Bush Foundation Faculty 9/78-12/78 Development Grant IREX Fellowship 3/78-6/78 Andrew W. Mellon 7/76-8/76 Foundation Summer Grant German Academic Exchange 6/75-8/75; 7/78-8/78; 7/83-8/83 Service (DAAD) Summer Grant PROFESSIONAL Gutenberg Society ORGANIZATIONS: Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreis für Barockforschung Sixteenth Century Society Society of German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (President, 1999) PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: The German Political Broadsheet 1600-1700. 14 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1985- 2017. ed., America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I.