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CURRICULUM VITAE

Martin Camargo

Department of English

University of Illinois608 S. Wright Street

Urbana, IL 6l80l

Office: 217-***-****

Home: 217-***-****

E-mail: abotic@r.postjobfree.com

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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