Russell Ganim

111-A Phillips Hall 878 Kennedy Parkway The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52246 Iowa City, IA 52242 Cell: (402) 217-4377 Phone: (319) 335-2911 [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Higher Education

1992 Ph.D. French Language and Literature, University of Virginia

1987 M.A. French Language and Literature, University of Virginia

1983 A.B. French, Grinnell College, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Administrative Appointments

2011-present The University of Iowa, Director, Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

2001-2011 The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Faculty Appointments

2011-present Professor of French, The University of Iowa

2007-2011 Professor of French, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1999-2007 Associate Professor of French, The University of Nebraska- Lincoln

1993-1999 Assistant Professor of French, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA (Selected)

DIVISION OF WORLD LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

• Director, Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures (DWLLC) (2011-present)

• Chair, Department of German (2013-present)

• Chair, Department of French and Italian (2016-present)

• Administrative Head, American Sign Language Program (2013-present)

• Chair, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures (2011-2016)

• Developed and/or promoted international collaborations between the University of Iowa and academic institutions in China, Japan, Korea, Russia, France, Spain, and Germany (2011-present)

• Principal Investigator: Korea Foundation Establishment of Assistant Professor Grant for Korean Linguistics, Literature, and Culture (2018-present)

• Administrative Sponsor, US Department of Education (UISFL) grant to develop partnership with Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow) (2016- 18)

• Co-Administrative Sponsor, Japan Foundation Institutional Grant (2015-present)

• Secured approval and funding to establish King Sejong Institute at the University of Iowa (community-based courses and activities related to Korean language and culture) (2014)

• Principal Investigator: $100,000 US State Department Grant to develop an Educational Exchange Center with Hebei Normal University (China) (2013) Grant closed (2014)

• Part of UI delegation to China to promote collaboration, recruit students, and connect with alumni. (2013)

• Developed and continued collaborations with Korea University, Ewha Woman’s University (Korea), The University of Seoul, Korea University, Kyung Hee University, the Korea Foundation, and the King Sejong Institute (2012-present)

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FACULTY SENATE AND OTHER SHARED GOVERNANCE SERVICE

• Faculty Senate Past President (2019-10)

• Faculty Senate President (2018-19)

• Faculty Senate Vice President (2017-18)

• Faculty Council (Executive Committee of Faculty Senate) (2016-present)

• Faculty Senate (2016-present)

• Member, UI Budget Review Board

• Chair, Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee to review the Office of the Vice President for External Relations (Fall 2019)

• Member, Path Forward Working Group on Research (present)

• Budget Refinement Workgroup - State Appropriations

• Member, Faculty Senate Task Force on Catastrophic Leave (present)

• Chair, Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee to review the Office of the Vice President for External Relations (Spring 2018)

• Member, Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Committee to Remove AAUP Sanctions (2016- 2018)

• Member, Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Values (2016-present)

• Member, Central Services Review Committee for Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (2017-18)

• Chair, Provost’s Committee to review University College (2017)

• Co-Chair, Humanities Advisory Board (2015-18)

• Co-Chair, Data Collection Subcommittee, ACE Evaluation Committee (Spring 2018-present)

• Faculty Advisor and Facilitator, NEH Next Generation Ph.D. Planning Grant, (2016-17)

• Member, Strategic Planning Development Group, Provost’s Office (2015-16)

• College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Assembly Officer: Secretary (2014- 15), Chair (2015-16), Past-Chair, (2016-17)

• Student Success Review Committee, Provost’s Office, 2016

• UI Graduate Council (2015-2018)

• Chair, Provost’s Committee to review UI Main Library (2014)

SCHOLARSHIP (Selected)

Publications

Book: Renaissance Resonance: Lyric Modality in La Ceppède’s Théorèmes. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1998. Faux Titre Series ISBN 90-420-0484-3.

Co-edited volumes: Origines : Actes du 39e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature (10-12 May, 2007). Eds. Russell Ganim and Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Tübingen: Guntar Narr Verlag: 2009. ISBN: 978-3-8233-6480-1.

Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. Eds. Jeff Persels and Russell Ganim. Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004. ISBN: 0 7546 41163.

The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne L. Birberick, and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002. ISBN 90-420-1449-0.

Articles: “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Annotation and Self-Exegesis in Ceppède.” In Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature. Ed. Francesco Venturi. Leiden: Brill (2019): pp. 263-83.

“Fleur rebelle, fleur royale: The Friendship of Lady 5

Oscar and Marie Antoinette in The Rose of Versailles.” Neohelicon (2019): https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2459-1194

“Rebuilding ‘Iowa Nice’ in Shared Governance: From Sanction to Collaboration.” With Sandra Daack-Hirsch Frank Durham, Edward Gillan, and Justine Kolker. AAUP (2019): https://www.aaup.org/article/rebuilding-“iowa-nice”- shared-governance-sanction- collaboration#.XVLRmi2ZNuU

“État Présent: The Study of Seventeenth-Century French Literature in North America.” With Roland Racevskis, et al., French Review. 91.2 (2017): pp. 13-34, esp., pp. 20-22.

“Napoleonic Mode: The 1802 Edition of La Fontaine’s Fables.” Early Modern French Studies 38.2 (2016): pp. 164-77.

“Tristan dans le Middle-West américain.” In Tristan autour du monde. Special edition of Cahiers Tristain L’Hermite. Ed. Laurence Grove. 37 (2015, Appeared 2016): pp. 97-99.

“Criminality, Performance, and the Search for Paradise: The Appropriation of Othello in Les Enfants du Paradis.” Dalhousie French Studies 102 (Summer 2014, Appeared 2015): pp. 9-24.

“The Great Chain of Being: Life, Literature and Meaning in Paul Contant’s Jardin et Cabinet Poétique.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième. Special Volume in collaboration with the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Eds. Jérôme Brillaud and Holly Tucker. 15.2 (2014): pp. 63-81. “Male Models: Galanterie and Libertinage in La Fayette and Laclos.” French Review 85.6 (2012): pp. 1124-1134. “Autre temps, autres mœurs; altérité et identité dans le Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.” Neohelicon 39.1 (2012): pp. 203-21. “The Destruction and Re-Creation of Obscenity in Seventeenth- Century Pornographic Prints.” Obscénités 6

renaissantes. Eds. Guillaume Peureux, Hugh Roberts, and Lise Wajeman. Geneva: Droz (2011): pp. 423-38. “Truth and Consequences: French and the Profession.” Post-Francophile: Stories from the Professional French Masters Program. Ed. Ritt Deitz. Madison WI: Incidence Editions (2010): pp. 27-34.

“Aretino’s Legacy: L’Ecole des filles and the Pornographic Continuum in Early Modern France.” Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century. Religion, Ethics, History in the French Long Seventeenth Century. Eds. William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang (2007): pp. 161–73.

TEACHING

Variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on French language, literature, and culture. Recent curricular development has focused on popular culture, including a successful Honors First Year Seminar on Star Trek.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Selected)

Editorial Board: French Literature Series, University of South Carolina, 2016-present.

Book Reviewer: French Studies, Cahiers Élisabéthains, The Sixteenth Century Journal, French Review, Renaissance Quarterly.

Grant Evaluator: British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

External Evaluator: Professional French Masters Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, the University of Oklahoma, School of Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures, University of Calgary, Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Arkansas.

Tenure and Promotion Reviewer: University of Toronto, University of Kansas, University of Iowa (while at 7

Nebraska), University of Central Florida, University of Alabama, Swarthmore College, Michigan State University, Hope College.

Peer Reviewer: Higher Learning Commission.

Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Advisory Committee on Less Commonly Taught Languages (Mellon-funded initiative organized by University of Chicago and Michigan State University, 2016-present).

BTAA-ACM (Associated Colleges of the Midwest) Advisory Board on collaboration between Big Ten and ACM institutions (Mellon-funded, 2013-15)

BTAA Academic Leadership Fellows Program (2012-13)