CURRICULUM VITAE
Martin Camargo
Department of English
University of Illinois608 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 6l80l
Office: 217-***-****
Home: 217-***-****
E-mail: ***************@*****.***
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana, IL l972 1978
Major: English
(no degree), Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France 19741975
Latin Codicology (with Andre Vernet)
A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ l968 1972
Major: Philosophy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor of English, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign 2003-present
Professor of Medieval Studies 2004-present
Professor of Classics 2011-present
Professor of English,
University of Missouri-Columbia 19922003
Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia19851992
Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia19801985
Assistant Professor of English, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa19791980
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Columbia19781979
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books and Monographs
(Ed.) Poetria Nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, trans. Margaret F. Nims, rev. ed. (Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2010).
Reviews: Douglas Kelly, Speculum 86 (2011), 756-58.
(Ed.) The Waning of Medieval Ars Dictaminis. Special issue of Rhetorica: vol. 19, no. 2
(Spring, 2001): 135-268. Editor s Introduction (pp. 135-40) and five essays.
Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English Artes Dictandi and Their
Tradition. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995. xiv + 256 pp.
Reviews: J. O. Ward, Parergon, n.s. 14.1 (July 1996), 277-79; L. G. G. Ricci, Studi
Medievali, ser. 3, 37 (1996), 967-69; M. D. Johnston, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review (on-line),
8 March 1997; F. Quadlbauer, Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 33.2 (1998), 233-36; E. Polak,
Rhetorica 19 (2001), 128-30.
The Middle English Verse Love Epistle. Studien zur Englischen Philologie, n.s. 28.
Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991. viii + 220 pp.
Reviews: A. Astell, JEGP 91 (1992), 561-63; N. F. Blake, English Studies 73 (1992), 560-
61; H. A. Kelly, Speculum 68 (1993), 482-85; H. Hargreaves, Scriptorium (1993, for 1992),
77-78; D. Pezzini, /aevum 2 (1993), 455-57l; C.M. Meale, Archiv 230 (1993), 164-66; A.
Classen, Mediaevistik 6 (1993), 505-8; H. L. Spencer, RES 45, no. 177 (1994), 87-88.
Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi. Typologie des sources du moyen age occidental, 60.
Turnhout: Brepols, l991. 59 pp.
Reviews:
Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in the Medieval Classroom. Seventeenth
Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Montreal, July,
2009.
How (Not) to Preach: Thomas Waleys and Chaucer s Pardoner. Sixteenth International
Congress, The New Chaucer Society. Swansea, July, 2008.
Special Delivery: Were Medieval Letter Writers Trained in Performance Annual meeting,
The Medieval Academy of America. Vancouver, BC, April, 2008.
Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford. Sixteenth Biennial
Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Strasbourg, July, 2007.
Medieval Rhetoric Delivers. Fourth International Conference for the Study of Piers
Plowman. Philadelphia, May, 2007.
What Goes with Geoffrey of Vinsauf: Codicological Clues to Pedagogical Practices in
England, ca. 1225-ca. 1470. International conference: Classics in the Classroom. Sydney,
July, 2006.
The Poetria nova in its English Context: Medieval Manuscripts as Guides to Classroom
Practice. Planning Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric.
Strasbourg, July, 2006.
Medieval Rhetoric Delivers. Twentieth Annual Conference, American Society for the
History of Rhetoric. Boston, November, 2005.
What s in a Name: The Titles of Medieval Arts of Poetry and Prose as Indices of
Reception. Fifteenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of
Rhetoric. Los Angeles, July, 2005.
Who Wrote the Tria sunt Planning Conference, International Society for the History of
Rhetoric. Chamonix, July, 2004.
How the Tria sunt Was Made and Why. Thirty-ninth International Congress on Medieval
Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, 2004.
Panel: The Hermeneutics of Textual Invention. Thirty-ninth International Congress on
Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, 2004.
Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictines at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages. Annual meeting,
The Medieval Academy of America. Seattle, April, 2004.
How the Anonymous Tria sunt Defined Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford. Third
International Conference for the Study of Piers Plowman. Birmingham, July, 2003.
Pedagogy and Play in the Medieval Rhetoric Classroom. Fourteenth Biennial Conference,
International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Madrid/Calahorra, July, 2003.
Speech is Broken Air : The Problem of Communication in the Middle Ages. Eighty-sixth
Annual Meeting, National Communication Association. Seattle, November, 2000.
How the Anonymous Tria sunt Defined Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford. Planning
Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Krakow, July, 2000.
Defining Medieval Rhetoric. Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy of America. Austin,
April, 2000.
Follow the Figures, or the Metamorphoses of Marbod s De ornamentis verborum. Sixth
Biennial Conference, Early Book Society. Glasgow, July, 1999.
Time as Rhetorical Topos in the Canterbury Tales. Eleventh International Congress, The
New Chaucer Society. Paris, July, 1998.
Putting Rhetoric in Its Place: Turf Wars in Fifteenth-Century Oxford. Thirty-third
International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, l998.
Colores rethorici seriatim : An Unknown Work by Matthew of Vendome Twelfth Annual
Conference, American Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chicago, November, 1997.
The Long and the Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf s Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et
versificandi. Twenty-fourth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. St. Louis,
October, 1997.
The Ars dictaminis in Context: Oxford in the Late Middle Ages. Eleventh Biennial
Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Saskatoon, July, 1997.
Mandeville s Travels and the Geography of Identity. Thirty-first International Congress
on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, l996.
Past and Present: The Making of a Late-Medieval Composition Textbook. Twenty-second
Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies. St. Louis, October, 1995.
Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam : Neoplatonism and Rhetoric in Augustine s De doctrina
christiana. Tenth Biennial Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric.
Edinburgh, July, 1995.
Medieval Rhetoric: What Was It and Why Should We Care University of Texas. Austin,
Texas, October, 2002.
Medieval Ars dictaminis and Ars poetriae: Two Arts or One International Conference on
Dictamen, Poetria and Cicero: Coherence and Diversification. Bologna, May, 2002.
Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link Ciceronian
Rhetoric in its Medieval and Renaissance Commentary Traditions. Christ s College,
Cambridge, July, 2000.
Rhetoric in Late-Medieval Oxford. Nineteenth Biennial Conference, The Rhetoric Society
of America. Washington, DC, May, 2000.
What Has Geoffrey of Vinsauf to do with Civic Education Biennial Convention, American
Society for the History of Rhetoric. Chicago, November, 1999.
Seminar on the Ars Dictaminis. Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Cambridge, MA, October, 1999.
Who What When Where How and Why: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of
Rhetoric at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, October,
1999.
What Was Medieval Rhetoric Before Rhetoric in the Middle Ages Twelfth Biennial
Conference, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Amsterdam, July, 1999.
What Was Medieval Rhetoric Before Rhetoric in the Middle Ages Thirty-fourth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, l999.
Medieval Rhetoric: What Was It and Why Should We Care Distinguished Rhetoricians
Lecture. Texas Woman s University. Denton, Texas, February, 1999.
Who What When Where How Why: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of Rhetoric
in Late-Medieval England. University of Warwick. Coventry, May, 1997.
The Tria Sunt in Its Context: Rhetorical Training in Late-Medieval England. University
of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, April, 1997.
Who What When Where How and Why: Circumstantial Evidence for the Teaching of
Rhetoric at Oxford in the Late Middle Ages. Michaelmas Term meeting, Oxford Medieval
Society. Oxford, November, 1996.
Editing the Ars dictaminis. Annual Scholarly Meeting, American Society for the History
of Rhetoric. San Antonio, November, 1995.
Rhetoric in the Fourteenth Century. Northern Illinois University. DeKalb, Illinois,
April, 1994.
Plenary Session (Panel, with Giles Constable and Mark Johnston): Influences of Classical
Rhetoric in the Rhetoric of the Middle Ages. Seventh Annual Conference, Medieval
Association of the Midwest. Warrensburg, MO, September, 1991.
The Varieties of Prose Dictamen as Defined by the Dictatores. Universita della
Calabria, Convegno Internazionale, La Retorica: Stato della ricerca, Prospettive, Metodi.
Camigliatello Silano, Italy, September, l989.
Beyond the Cato Book: Models of Latin Prose Style in the Oxford Arts Course. Twenty-
third International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May,
l988.
The Consolation of Pandarus. Twenty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies,
The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, 1987.
Toward a Comprehensive Art of Written Discourse: The Legacy of Geoffrey of Vinsauf.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, April, 1986.
How Rhetorical are Middle English Verse Epistles Annual meeting, The Medieval Academy
of America. Kalamazoo, May, l982.
Oral-Traditional Structure in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Seventeenth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute. Kalamazoo, May, l982.
WORK IN PROGRESS
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
(External)
All Souls College, Oxford, Visiting Fellowship: Hilary Term, 2012
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship ($24,000): 2000
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship ($20,000): l996-1997
American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad
($500): 1994
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship, renewal ($3,755): l990
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Subvention ($3,000): l990
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship ($30,000): l987-1988
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant ($550): l985
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship ($l2,000): l984
Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Fellowship (Chapel Hill): l979
Fulbright Research Fellowship (Paris): 1974-1975
(Internal)
Big 12 Fellowship, Office of Minority Affairs and Faculty Development, University of
Missouri ($1,400): 2002
Summer Research Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($7,000): 2000
Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($700): 1999
Research Council Grant, University of Missouri ($2,999): 1998
Research Grant, University of Missouri Research Board ($23,055): 1996-1997
Summer Research Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($7,000; declined):
l996
Faculty International Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($500): 1994
Subvention, University of Missouri Research Board ($4,500): 1994
Travel Grant, Research Council, University of Missouri ($l,044): l990
Faculty Foreign Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($600): 1989
Funded Research Leave, University of Missouri: l987-1988
Travel Grant, Research Council, University of Missouri ($950): l986
Faculty Foreign Travel Grant, University of Missouri ($400): l985
Summer Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($4,397): l984
Research Council Grant, University of Missouri ($400): 1983
Summer Fellowship, Research Council, University of Missouri ($4,171): l98l
Travel Grant, Capstone International Program Center, University of Alabama ($500): 1980
Summer Grant, Research Grants Committee, University of Alabama ($2,700): l980
University of Illinois Dissertation Fellowship: l976-1977
University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship: l972-1973
OTHER AWARDS
Robert L. Schneider Award for Teaching and Service in the Department of English: 2008
Chancellor s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity ($3,000): 2001
Honorary Member, Senior Common Room, Keble College, Oxford: 1996-1997
William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence ($10,000): 1996
Wakonse Scholar ($2,000): 1995
Wakonse Teaching Fellow: 1994
Gold Chalk Award for Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education: 1993
Phi Kappa Phi: l973
TEACHING
A. Courses Taught:
University of Illinois
(Undergraduate Courses)
Troilus and Criseyde, from Benoit de Sainte-Maure to John Dryden (honors seminar)
Writing about Literature: The Literature of Purgatory
(Upper Division Courses)
Chaucer s Canterbury Tales
(Graduate Seminars)
Medieval Literary Theory
The Pearl Poet
Writing Instruction from Classical Antiquity to Renaissance Humanism
Chaucer the Metapoet
University of Missouri
(Undergraduate Courses)
Exposition
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Drama
Medieval Literature: The Chivalric Romance (honors seminar)
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (honors humanities sequence)
Rereading/Revisualizing Malory and Dante (honors seminar)
(Upper Division Courses)
Chaucer Survey
Chaucer s Canterbury Tales
Medieval English Literature
Medieval Encounters with the Other (Writing Intensive)
Structure of American English
History of the English Language
Introduction to Literary Study (Writing Intensive)
Troilus and Criseyde, from Benoit de Sainte-Maure to John Dryden
The Capstone Experience (Writing Intensive)
(Graduate Seminars)
Chaucerian Narrative: Dream Vision and Romance
Chaucer as Imitator and Innovator
Chaucer and Critical Theory
Chaucer s Minor Works
Chaucer and the Rhetoricians
Middle English Narrative: The Dream Vision and the Romance
The Pearl Poet
Medieval Drama
Middle English Dialects and Early Modern English
Middle English Lyric Poetry
History of Rhetoric from Augustine to Ramus
Writing for Publication
Medieval Literary Theory
Writing Instruction from Classical Antiquity to Renaissance Humanism
Poetry and Purgatory: The Literary Legacy of a Medieval Invention
B. PhD Dissertations:
University of Illinois
1. Directed or Codirected:
*Pei-lin Wu (Comparative and World Literatures; current)
Julia Smith (current)
*Kathie Gossett, From Manuscript to Multimedia: Illuminating Memory and Re[image]ning
Composition (2008)
2. Committee Member:
Kyle Williams (current)
Cory Holding (current)
John O'Neil (current)
Jill Clemens (current)
Ann Hubert (current)
Kimberly Fonzo (current)
Jill Fitzgerald (current)
2. Second Reader:
Ward Parks (1983), Adam Davis (1991), Nancy Hadfield (1992), Charles Lee (1992), Hee Oyck
Yoon (1992), Xingzhong Li (1995), Lori Peterson (2000), Jill Burkindine (2004)
3. Outside Reader:
Donald Fleming (History, 1985), Walter Berry (Art History, 1993), Mary Beth Frieden
(Romance Languages, 2001)
4. Committee Member:
Donald McNamara (1983), Kyle Glover (1985), Terry Irons (1991), Patrick Shaw (1992),
Gregory Pulliam (1995), Catherine Quick (1995), Kathleen Welch (1997), Heather Maring
(2005)
External Reader
Alexander Ames: Department of English, Saint Louis University (2007)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
International Society for the History of Rhetoric: Governing Council (1997-2001); Chair,
Conference Program Committee (1999-2001, 2005-2007); Member, Conference Program Committee
(2003-2005); Vice-President (2009-2011); President (2011-2013)
Medieval Academy of America: Publications Advisory Board, 2004-2008 (chair, 2006-2007);
Nominating Committee, 2004-2005
Modern Language Association: Member, Delegate Assembly, l
988-1990,
2011-20014
Co-Editor, JEGP, 2009- present
Editorial Board, JEGP, 2003-2009
Editorial Board, Disputatio, 1995-1999
Editorial Board, Rhetorica, 1998-2002, 2003-present
Advisory Board, Classical and Modern Literature, 1999-2003
Essays editor, The Missouri Review, l98l-1987, l989-1990
Referee for Chaucer Review; Classical and Modern Literature; Exemplaria; Mediaeval
Studies; PMLA; Rhetorica; Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Speculum; Studies in the Age of
Chaucer; Bedford/St. Martin s; Cambridge University Press; Catholic University of America
Press; Cornell University Press; Garland Press; Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies;
University of Missouri Press
External reviewer: English Department, University of Northern Iowa (2001); English
Department, University of Texas-Austin (2007); English Department Journals, University of
Iowa (2007); Research in English Language and Literature, Eight Public Universities in
Taiwan (2007); English Department, The Ohio State University (2009); Department of
Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas-Austin (2010)
Consultant on Promotion and Tenure Cases: [to associate professor] Boston College,
Indiana University Northwest, University of Texas-Austin, University of Kentucky,
University of Virginia [to full professor] University of Minnesota, Kent State University,
SUNY-Albany, University of Denver, University of Alabama, New York University, University
of California-Davis, University of Bristol (UK), Ball State University
Humboldtian on Campus, 2008-2010
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE APPOINTMENTS
University of Illinois
(English Department)
Department Head, 2003-2008
Committees: Grade Review (chair,
College of LAS
)
Interim Head,
Department of the Classics (2011
)
Ad Hoc Promotion Review Committee (2010
)
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee,
Classics Department (2009, 2010
)
Chair, IEI Administrator Review Committee (2009
)
LAS Executive Committee,
2006-2008 (vice-chair, 2007-2008
)
Search Committee,
Head of Classics Department, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
Medieval Studies Advisory Committee,
2005-2008, 2009-2011
LAS Humanities Council, 2003-2008 (chair, 2005-2006
)
Graduate Programs Committee, Center for Writing Studies (2003-2011)
(Urbana-Champaign Campus
)
Review of Student Code on Academic Integrity Task Force,
2008-2011
Academic Caucus, 2005-2006University of Missouri
(Department)
Department Chair: 2000-2003
Director of Graduate Studies: 1990-1993
Course Coordinator, English 60 (Exposition): 1984-1985
Director, English Honors Program: l982-1983
Course Director, English 2 (Poetry): l978-1979
Committees: Advisory (Chair, 1993-1994), Awards (Chair, 1997-2000), Graduate Studies
(Chair, 1990-1993), Undergraduate Studies, Lower Division Studies, Honors (Chair, 1982-1983), Lecture (Chair, 1986-1987),
Screening, Hiring (Chair, ), Linguistics, Elections (Chair, l990), Public Relations, Library, Salary
Advisory (Chair, 1998), Personnel, Teacher Evaluation, Rhetoric/Composition, Curriculum.
Task Forces: Ad Hoc Salary Oversight, Course Implementation, Salary Structure and
Procedures, Curriculum Revision.
(College)
Medieval & Renaissance Studies Committee: l980-1984, l986-1987, l989-1996
)
Arts & Science Linguistics Committee:
Arts & Science Interdisciplinary Studies Committee: l990
Arts & Science Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising Committee:
1991-1992
Arts & Science Promotion, Tenure and Membership Committee:
1994-1996 (Chair, 1995-1996
)
(Campus)
Honors College Council: l982-1983
Graduate Faculty Senate: l984-1987,
1989-1995 (Chair, Humanities Sector: 1986-1987, 1991-
1993
)
Campus Representative, Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities: l984-1987
Graduate School Fellowships and Scholarships Committee: l986-1987, 1993-1995
Selection Committee, Chancellor s Awards for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity:
l986-1987
Access Enhancement Program (summer internship for potential minority graduate students),
Advisory Board
:
1991-1993
Graduate School Advisory Committee on Graduate Student Recruitment, Marketing, and
Enrollment: 1992-1993
Research Council, referee: 1992, 1994; member 1994-1996, 1997-1999
Intercollegiate Athletics Committee: 1994-1996, 1999-2002
Office of Research Advisory Committee:
1998-1999
Faculty Fellow, Office of Research: 1999-2000
Department Chairs and Directors Steering Committee,
2000-2003
Space Planning Advisory Committee, 2001-2003
(University System
)
Research Board:
1999
President s Leadership Development Program, 2000-2001
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
Medieval Academy of America
New Chaucer Society
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric Society of America
Early Book Society
American Friends of the British Library
American Association of University Professors
American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Campus Faculty Association
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