CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: William Compaine Calin Born: April 4, 1936, at Newington, Connecticut
Education: Yale College and Sweet Briar Junior Year in France, 1953-57. A.B. 1957. Summa cum laude. Yale Graduate School, 1957-1961. Ph.D. Fall 1960.
Teaching Positions:
Dartmouth College: Instructor 1960-62. Assistant Professor 1962-63.
Stanford University: Assistant Professor 1964-65. Associate Professor 1965-70. Professor 1970-73.
University of Oregon: Professor 1973-88. Head, Department of Romance Languages 1976-78.
Université de Poitiers: Visiting Professor 1982. Exchange Professor 1984.
Whitman College: Edward Arnold Visiting Professor 1987.
University of Florida: Graduate Research Professor 1988-- Florida Foundation Research Professor 1998-2001.
Fields of Specialization:
Medieval Literature (epic, romance, allegory). French Poetry (Renaissance to the present). Occitan (Provençal) and modern Breton literature. Franco-British Literary Relations, Middle Ages and Renaissance. Medievalism.
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Professional Responsibilities and Offices:
International Vice President, Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (1993-2002). International Council (1981-84; 1989-93).
President, American Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals (1973-76).
Vice President (1985-87) and President (1987-89), International Guillaume de Machaut Society. Executive Board (1996-99).
Conseil scientifique of the Centre International de l'Ecrit en Langue d'Oc (1996--).
Executive Council (1978-82), Secretary (1980), and President (1981) of Medieval French Division, Modern Language Association.
Executive Council (1986-1990; 1998-2002), Secretary (1988, 2000), and President (1989, 2001) of the Provençal and Catalan Division, Modern Language Association.
Executive Council (1989-95), Secretary (1989-90), and President (1990-91), International Courtly Literature Society Division, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Advisory Board, International Society for the Study of Medievalism, 2006.
Election to the American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, 1991.
Oregon Representative, Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies (1981-88).
Executive Council, Medieval Association of the Pacific (1975-78); Nominating Committee (1977-78); Chair, Program Committee (1986-87).
Governing Council, Western Society for French History (1981- 84).
Member, Oregon Foreign Language Council (1980-88).
Task Force, Governor's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, State of Oregon (1980-82).
Board of Directors, Association of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers (1977-79, 1983-84).
Founding Member, Medieval Circle of Stanford.
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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 1957-60 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1963-64 ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1963-64 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 1984-85 NEH Summer Institute for Teaching of Literature and History 1985 Fulbright Senior Research Grant, France and United Kingdom, 1987-88 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1996-97
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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 1984-85; Life Member 1985-- 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, 1998-2001 Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2000 Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto 2004-2005, 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.
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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
University of Bordeaux; Whitman College; University of Oregon 1992
University of Kansas 1993
Harvard University; Hamilton College 1995
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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, 1976. Modern Literature Colloquium, West Virginia University, 1979. Société Internationale Rencesvals, Padua, 1982. International Courtly Literature Society, Utrecht, 1986. Colloque: Etudes Occitanes, Wégiment (Belgium), 1989. Colloque: Bernard Manciet, Bordeaux, 1992. International Conference on Medievalism, Leeds, 1994. Conference on Reading the Margins, University of Oregon, 1994. South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, 1995. Conference on Women and Medieval Writing, University of Western Ontario, 2000. International Conference on Medievalism, Hope College (Michigan), 2000. South Atlantic MLA, Birmingham, 2000. Colloquium on Marie de France, King's College (Ontario), 2005. Yale French Graduate Conference on Ethics and Literature, Yale University, 2012.
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Books:
The Old French Epic of Revolt: "Raoul de Cambrai," "Renaud de Montauban," "Gormond et Isembard." Geneva: Droz, 1962. 235 pp.
(with Michel Banamou) Aux Portes du Poème (anthology of 20th century verse). New York: Macmillan, 1964. 126 pp.
The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French "Chansons de Geste." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1966. 271 pp.
La Chanson de Roland. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. 183 pp.
A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. 264 pp.
Crown, Cross and Fleur-de-lis: An Essay on Pierre Le Moyne's Baroque Epic "Saint Louis." Saratoga: Stanford French and Italian Studies, 1977. 77 pp.
A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 514 pp. This book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize in 1981, and the American Library Association Choice Award for 1984.
In Defense of French Poetry: An Essay in Revaluation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. 208 pp.
The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 587 pp. Hardcover and paperback. This book won the American Library Association Choice Award for 1995.
Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 399 pp. Hardcover and Paperback.
The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 267 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, 2014. 417 pp.
Also 120 articles and 230 papers and lectures, some delivered more than once.
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