Paul E. Szarmach

EDUCATION

1963-

A.B.,Canisius College; 1964, A.M., Harvard University; 1968, Ph.D., Harvard University; Dissertation: "Selected Vercelli Homilies"

EXPERIENCE

2006-	Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America [from 9/1/06]
1994-2007	Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Western Michigan Univ. and Director, Medieval Institute (from 1/95; on leave 9/06-6/07)
1986-87	Acting Vice-Provost for Graduate Studies and Research (=Graduate Dean), SUNY-Binghamton
1986-94	Member, SUNY Research Foundation Board of Directors
1975-86, 1988-92	Director, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY - Binghamton
1983-94	Professor of English and Medieval Studies, SUNY - Binghamton
1975-83	Associate Professor, SUNY-Binghamton
1970-75	Assistant Professor, SUNY-Binghamton
1968-70	Instructor in English, U.S. Military Academy (concurrent with military service as junior officer)
1965-66, Fall 1966	Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS [SINCE 1987]

With Committee, NEH Division of Research Programs, Grant for Sources of Anglo- Saxon Literary Culture, 1987-89 (S147.913. with a $5,000 gift/match authorized); NEH renewal, 1990-92 ($158,226)

NEH Division of Education Programs, Grant for an Institute on Arthur of Avalon: Medieval and Modem, June 27-August 5. 1988 ($119,024)

NEH Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Travel to Collections. "An Edition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis," Summer 1989 ($750); "An Edition of Alcuin's De Ratione Animæ," Summer 1993 ($750)

Study Visit, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1993 (3300 DM)

NEH Division of Research Programs, Grant for An Edition of Alcuin's De Ratione Animæ, July 1, 1993 through December 31, 3994 ($49,000)

NEH Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), 1993-94 ($26.000)

Mini-Grant for "SASLC: A Continuation," from campus awards program, Summer 1993 ($1,000)

NEH Division of Research Programs, Travel Grants for participation in "Anglo- Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile," directed by A. N. Doane and P. Pulsiano, 1993-96 ($4,000)

NEH Division of Fellowships and Seminars, summer seminar on "New and Old Approaches to Beowulf and Old English Literature," June 19-July 28, 1995 ($76,189); held at Western Michigan univ.

With T. C. Graham, NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Old English in Its Manuscript Context," July 14-August 22, 1997 ($89,107): Western Michigan Univ. and Parker Library, Cambridge, England

NEH Division of Research and Education, summer institute on "Anglo-Saxon England," June 21-July 30, 1999 ($163,501): held at Western Michigan Univ.

Travel Grant from the Soros Foundation to support lectures at Loránd Eötcös Univ., Budapest, Hungary and Peter Pasmany Univ., February 25-March 4, 2000 (ca. $1,200)

Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christ! College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term 2000 [==Fall] in connection with a Professional Development leave from Western Michigan Univ.

With T. C. Graham, NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and Texts," June 25-August 3, 2001 ($128,298): Western Michigan Univ, and the British Library

Co-investigator with Robert Berkhofer (Principal Investigator) and Miranda Haddock (co-investigator), Teaching and Learning with Technology (WMU Internal Grant), "Canterbury and St. Denis: An Interdisciplinary Online Approach to Two Churches at the Intersection of Medieval Culture," June 1, 2002-May 31, 2003 ($24,927 direct)

NEH Division of Research and Education, summer institute on "Anglo-Saxon England," July 5-August 13, 2003 ($183,272): held at Trinity College, Cambridge in collaboration with the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

Distinguished Faculty Scholar (2003)

Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (awarded November 26,2004)

NEH Division of Research and Education, summer seminar on "Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England," July 3-Augusl 11, 2005 ($148,990): held at the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Corpus Christi College

Fellow of the Medieval Academy (2006)

Robert L. Kindrick CARA Service Award (2006)

NEH Division of Research and Education, Scholarly Editions Grants, for A Digital Edition of Cambridge, Pembroke College 25, co-PI with Thomas N. Hall; team includes D. Porter, R. Rushforth, K. Kiernan, and B. Muir; July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007, $100,000

PUBLICATIONS

Book-Length: [since 1990]

ed. with F. Biggs, T. Hill, asst. K. Hammond, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: A Trial Version, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 74 (1990). xli + 256pp.

ed. with D. G. Scragg, The Editing of Old English (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1994), ix + 317pp.

ed. with introd., Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Lives and Their Contexts (Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1996), xvii + 390pp.

ed. with J. Rosenthal, The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture, Studies in Medieval Culture 40 (1997), xx + 4S8pp. [Proceedings of 1991 ISAS Conference]

gen. ed. with M. T. Tavorniina and J. T. Rosenthal and with editorial committee C. ICarkov, P. Lefferts, and E. P. McLachlan, Medieval England: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998), Ixiv + 882 pp, [Named an Outstanding Reference Source for 3999 by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association]

ed. Old English Prose in the series Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 5 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000), xvii + 552 pp. [eleven classic reprints and five new articles]

coordinating ed., with Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and E. Gordon Whatley, Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, vol. 1, (Kalamazoo; Medieval Institute Publications, 2001), xlvi + 548 pp. [wrote Foreword]

In Progress: [2 editions, 1 collection, 1 book]

Periodicals and Series:

Editor, Old English Newsletter, 10 (1976)-29 (1996); Publisher, 30 (1996-)

Editor, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia 9 (1983), ii + 24pp.

With Christopher Kleinhenz, General Editor of "Garland Studies in Medieval Literature" (formerly Garland Monographs) [series now ended]

General Editor, SUNY Press Medieval Studies (1987-)

Olim Member, Editorial Board: Mediaevalia, Studies in Short Fiction

With Carl T. Berkhout and Joseph B. Trahern, General Editor of "Basic Readings on Anglo-Saxon England" [series ended 2002 as a publication of Garland and its successors]

With Christian Zacher, General Editor of "Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time"

General Editor, Mediaevalia, volumes 15-19

Articles: [since 1990]

"Ælfric's Women Saints: Eugenia," in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature: A Collection of Critical Articles, ed. H. Damico and A.H. Olsen (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 146- 57

"The Latin Tradition of Alcuin's Liber de Virtutibus et Vitiis, cap. xxvii-xxxv, with Special Reference to Vercelli Homily XX," Mediaevalia, 12 (1989 for 1986), 13-41

"Visio Pacis: Jerusalem and Its Meanings," in Typology and English Medieval Literature, ed. H. Keenan, Georgia State Literary Studies, 7 (1992), pp. 71- 87

"Cotton Tiberius A.iii arts. 26 and 27," in Words, Texts and Manuscripts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Helmut Gneuss...," ed. Michael Korhammer, et al. (Woodbridge, 1992), pp. 29-42

"The (Sub-) Genre of the Battle of'Maldon," The Battle of Maldon: Fiction and Fact, ed. J. Cooper (London, 1993), pp. 43-61

"St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite," in Holy Men and Holy Women… (listed above), pp. 353-65

"The Recovery of Texts," in Reading Old English Texts, ed. K. O'B. O'Keeffe. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997). pp. 124-45

"Alfred, Boethius, and the Four Cardinal Virtues," in Alfred the Wise, ed. J, Roberts and J. Nelson (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997), pp. 223-35

"Abbot Ælfric and His Rhythmical Prose in the Computer Age," in New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse, ed. S. L. Keefer and K. O'B. O'Keeffe, (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998), pp. 95-108

"Æðelflæd: mise en page," in Words and Works: Essays in Honor of Professor Fred C. Robinson, ed. N. Howe and P. Baker (Toronto: Univ, of Toronto Press, 1998), pp.105-26

"Anthem: Auden's Cædmon's Hymn," for Studies in Medievalism, ed. T. A. Shippey and R. Utz, (Tumhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 329-40

"A Preface to Alcuin's De Ratione Animae, Mainly Textual," in The Man of Many Devices, Who Wandered Full Many Ways...: Festschrift in Honor of János M. Bak, ed. Balas Nagy and Marcell Sebok (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999), pp. 397-408

"A Return to Cotton Tiberius A.iii, art. 24," in Text and Gloss: Studies in Insular Language and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer, ed. Helen Conrad-O'Briain, Amie Made D'Arcy, and V. John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), pp. 166-81

"Alcuin, Alfred and the Soul," for Manuscript, Narrative, and Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton, ed. Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis (Bucknell Univ. Press, 2000), pp. 127- 48

"Ælfric and the Problem of Women," in Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy, ed. Jane Roberts and Janet Nelson, King's College London Medieval Studies 17 (London, 2000), pp. 571-90

"The Timaeus in Old English," in Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies Presented to Jane Roberts, ed. C.J. Kay and Louise M. Sylvester, Costerus n.s. 133 (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Editions Rodopi b.v., 2001), pp. 255-67

"Pembroke College, arts. 93-95," in Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory ofJ.E. Cross, ed. Thomas N. Hall with assistance from Thomas D, Hill and Charles D. Wright (Morgantown: West Virginia Univ. Press, 2002), pp. 295-325

"Ælfric Revises: the Lives of Martin and the Idea of the Author," in Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B Iving, Jr., ed. Mark Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003), pp, 38-61

"Editions of Alfred: the Wages of Un-Influence," in Early Medieval English: Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 252 (Tempe, 2002), ed. Elaine Treharn and Susan Rosser, pp. 135-4

"Alfred's Soliloquies in Cotton Tiberius A.iii (art. 9g, fols 50v-5 lv)," in Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard (Toronto, Buffalo and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2005), vol. 2, pp.153-79

"'The Poetic Turn of Mind' of the Translator of the OE Bede," in Anglo-Saxons: Studies Presented to Cyril Roy Hart, ed. Simon Keynes and Alfred P. Smyth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006), pp. 54-68

"An Apologia for the Meters of Boethius," in Naked Wordes in English, Medieval English Mirror 2 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005), ed. Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, pp. 107-36

At Press: [two]; Completed: [four], In Progress: [two]

Notes, Shorter Articles, Reviews, etc.: [about 39]; In preparation: [four]

Electronic Publishing:

ed. Edmund of East Anglia, website through Old English Online Editions, publ. 2003 athttp://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/edmund/… and continuing

Other Professional Writing: [six pieces]

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Papers Presented, Panels Participated: [58]

Organizing Professional Activities: [multa et varia]

Lectures and Talks: [some 39]

Manuscripts and Proposals reviewed: [multa et varia]

Other: NEH panelist, program reviewer, program consultant