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1 April 2009 CURRICULUM VITAE Linda Hutcheon 8 High Park Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1S9, Canada (416) 604-9471 Centre for Comparative Literature Department of English Victoria College 170 St. George St. Bader Theatre, 3rd floor (416) 978-6616 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2M8, Canada. e-mail: [email protected] PERSONAL: Date of Birth: 24 August 1947 Citizenship: Canadian DEGREES: B.A., U. of Toronto, Honours Modern Languages and Literatures, 1969. M.A., Cornell U., Romance Studies, 1971. Ph.D., U. of Toronto, Comparative Literature, 1975. EMPLOYMENT: University Professor, University of Toronto, 1996- [Graduate Associate Faculty: Department of Art; Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama; Cinema Studies; Women and Gender Studies; Institute for Aging and Human Development; Sexual Diversity] Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 1988-96 Professor of English, McMaster University, 1985-88 Associate Professor of English, McMaster, 1982-85 Assistant Professor of English (adjunct appointments), McMaster, 1976-82 Visiting Professor, Graduate Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, 1980-81; 1981-82; 1984-85 2 Instructor, International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Victoria College, 1984 & 1990 Instructor, Interdisciplinary Seminar, Italian Association for Canadian Studies, University of Turin, Italy, 1989 Jay and Ruth Halls Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1995 Humanities Visiting Professor (with Michael Hutcheon), University of Georgia, Athens, May 1998. Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (with Michael Hutcheon), March 2003. Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Bloomington (with Michael Hutcheon), November 2004. Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Lectureship, University of Iowa (with Michael Hutcheon), October 2004. Graduate Program Committee, Univerdade Federal de Santa Catarina, Pos-graduacao em Letras, Literatura Brasileira e Teoria Literaria Continuing Senior Fellow (for life), Massey College, U of Toronto HONOURS: John P. Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto, 1988-89. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1990 Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, Concordia University, 1995 Finalist, 1997 Kurt Weill Prize for Opera: Desire, Disease, Death. Elected Second Vice-President, Modern Language Association, 1998 President, 2000 Northrop Frye Research and Teaching Award, University of Toronto, 1998. Rector’s Medal, University of Helsinki, 1998. Honorary Doctorate, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2000. George Watson Visiting Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia, 2001. Honorary Doctorate, University of Western Ontario, 2002. Finalist (one of five) for the Gold Medal, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003 Honorary Foreign Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003 Macleans Magazine, on of the “100 Leaders and Dreamers” , 2004 Honorary Doctorate, University of Ghent, 2005 Honorary Doctorate, McMaster University, 2005 Killam Prize in the Humanities, 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Memorial University, 2007 Honorary Doctorate, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2008 MAJOR RESEARCH AWARDS: Chancellor Jackman Program in the Arts, U of Toronto, support for three symposia on expanding interdisciplinarity through opera (with Caryl Clark), Humanities Initiative, Munk Centre for International Studies, 2002-3; 2008-9 Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), co-investigator with Mario Valdés, 1995-2000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grants: 1992-4 (with Michael Hutcheon); 1996-99 (with Michael Hutcheon); 2000-2003 (with Michael Hutcheon) 2004-2007 (with Michael Hutcheon) 3 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1992-93 Rockefeller Foundation, 1993 (Bellagio Residency) Connaught Research Fellowship, University of Toronto, 1991-92 Killam Research Fellowship, 1986-88 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Leave Fellowship, 1983-84 Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1979-81 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1972-75 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1969 (three other graduate awards, 1969-70; seventeen undergraduate awards, 1965-69) PROFESSIONAL: (a) Executive: President, Modern Language Association of America, 2000 First Vice-President, Modern Language Association of America, 1999 Second Vice-President, Modern Language Association of America, 1998 Committee on Long-Range Planning, Executive Council, Modern Language Association, 2006-8 Executive Committee, Division on Literature and the Other Arts, Modern Language Association, 2005- 2009 Executive Committee, Discussion Group on Opera as a Literary and Dramatic Form, Modern Language Association, 2002-2006. Committee on Amendments, Modern Language Association, 2001-3. Chair, Committee on Professionalization of Ph.D.s, Modern Language Association, 2000-2002. Executive Committee, Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Language Association, 1998-2002. Chair, Subcommittee to Select Editor of PMLA, 1995-96 and 1999 Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee, Modern Language Association, 1994-96 Executive Council, Modern Language Association, 1993-96 Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Issues, Modern Language Association, 1995 Executive Committee, Division on Prose Fiction, Modern Language Association of America, 1992-96 (Chair: 1995) Elections Committee of the Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association of America, 1987-89. Commission on Procedures, International Comparative Literature Association, 1986-90 Co-ordinating Committee, Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes, ICLA, 1990-97 Advisory Board, "Representing Narrative", UBC Institute of Advanced Studies, 1996- Membership Committee, American Comparative Literature Association, 1986-88. Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 1981-83. Member-at-large of Executive, Association of Canadian University Teachers of English, 1979-81. Organizing Committee, International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Victoria College, 1982; 1984; 1990 institutes. President, Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1981-82 (Executive Member 1980-84) Board of Trustees, Centre for Italian Canadian Studies, University of Toronto, 1986-90. Co-Chair, Toronto Wagner Society, 1996-99 Associate Member, Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Guelph, 1997- National Consultative Committee, HOLIC (History of the Literary Institution in Canada), Alberta, 1987-91 International Advisory Board, Research Institute for Postmodern Studies, Beijing University, P.R. China, 1991- Special Member, Graduate Program, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil, 1996- 4 Research Council, Humanities, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden, 1999- Executive Committee, International Association for Literary Theory and Criticism, 2000- (b) Editorial Work: Associate Editor: University of Toronto Quarterly, 1993- Associate Editor: Recherches Sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry, 1982-84 Series Co-editor: Culture/Theory, University of Toronto Press 1990-97 (53 books published) Series Co-editor: Medicine and Culture, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995-98 Medicine and Literature, University of Illinois Press, 2000- Editorial Board: PMLA, 1990-92 Modern Language Quarterly, 1999- Modern Fiction Studies, 1993- Contemporary Literature, 1992- Textual Practice, 1987-2002 CLIO, 1994- Symbolism, 1996- The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 1992- Arachne, 1994- New Novel Review, 1992-95 Texte, 1982- English Studies in Canada, 1984-94 Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 1986-1999 Essays on Canadian Writing, 1992- Canadian Poetry, 1987- Italian Canadiana, 1984-90 Signature, 1989-92 Parallax (U.K.), 1994- Muae: A Transcultural Journal, 1995- UTEL (electronic) 1997- Comparative Literature 2001- Quaderni d’Italianistica 2003- Contemporary Women Writers 2007- AmeriQuests 2006- The Wagner Journal 2007- Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 2007- Comparative Critical Studies 2007- Neo-Victorian Studies 2007- Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 2008- English (UK) 2008- Occasion 2008- Senior Editorial Committee: Semiotic Review of Books 1990-98 International Advisory Panel: Journal of the Royal Musicological Association (UK) 2007- Advisory Editor: Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 1987- Lexicon of Contemporary Literatures in English, 1987- Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, 1987-92 5 "Transatlantic Perspectives" series, Francke Publishers, Germany, 1992- (c) Organizer: “Monster Opera: Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Opera Exchange Symposium (Munk Centre for International Studies Humanities Initiative, Jackman Humanities Institute, Canadian Opera Company), October 2008 “Love and Liberation: Beethoven’s Fidelio” , Opera Exchange Symposium (Munk Centre for International Studies Humanities Initiative, Jackman Humanities Institute, Canadian Opera Company), January 2009. “’antique Fables and Fairy Toys’: Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Opera Exchange Symposium (Munk Centre for International Studies Humanities Initiative, Jackman Humanities Institute, Canadian Opera Company), May 2009 Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Opera Exchange Symposium (Munk Centre for International Studies Humanities Initiative and the Canadian Opera Company), May 2008 Janáček’s From the House of the Dead, Opera Exchange Symposium (Munk Centre for International Studies Humanities Initiative and the Canadian