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Kevin Padraic Roddy
Medieval Studies Program
University of California
Davis, California 95616-3043
Davis, California 95616-8581
e-mail: abqa9b@r.postjobfree.com
abqa9b@r.postjobfree.com
POSITIONS:
2010- Continuing Lecturer, Emeritus, Medieval Studies
1976-2010 Continuing Lecturer, Medieval Studies, University Writing Program, Humanities Computing
1991-2010 Co-Editor-in-Chief, Davis Medieval and Renaissance Studies
1997-2000 Director, The Arbor, Faculty Center for Teaching and Technology, Information Technology
1993-97 Academic Coordinator, Information Technology
1976-91 Managing Editor, Davis Medieval Texts and Studies
1981-91 Staff Research Associate, Computers in the Humanities
University of California, Davis
1972-76 Assistant Professor, English
Loyola University, New Orleans
1976 Assistant Professor (Exchange), English
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PUBLICATIONS:
Antony, Cephalophorous Saints, Coemgen, Cuthbert, Desert
Saints, John Henry Newman, John the Almsgiver, Lazarus,
Paul the Hermit, Perpetua and Felicity, Philip Neri. In
Holy People of the World: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Phyllis Jestice
(Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003).
Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity: The Roman Imperial
Adventus Ceremony and the Christian Myth of the Harrowing of Hell.
Apocrypha [Brepols], 11 (2000), 147-179.
[with Carol Everest]. The Speculum Naturale Translation Project.
In Research in Humanities Computing 5: Selected Papers from the
ACH/ALLC Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, August 1995.
Ed. Giorgio Perissinotto. Oxford:
The Clarendon Press, 1996, 82-90.
Nutrition in the Desert: The Exemplary Case of Desert Ermeticism.
In Food in the Middle Ages. Ed. Melitta Weiss-Adamson.
Garland Medieval Casebook Series, 12. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.
Subject Access to Visual Resources: What the 90's Might Portend.
Library Hi Tech Journal, 33 (1991), 44-49.
Meaningful Thesaurus Generation:
An Experiment with Sixth-Century Texts. In Proceedings of the Conference
on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ed. Lawrence
McCrank. Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1989.
Computer Literacy: Once More into the Breech.
Historische Socialforschung: Social History Research, 1987.
UNIX nroff/troff: A User's Guide. New York: CBS College Publishing
[Holt, Rinehart and Winston], 1986.
Project Rhetor: An Encyclopedia in the History of
Rhetoric. In Sixth International Conference on Computers and
the Humanities. Eds. S.K. Burton and D.D. Short. Rockville,
MD: Computer Science Press, 1983. Pp. 579-587.
The Belmont Conference on
Subject Access, Visual Resources, 2, Nos. 1,2,3 (1982).
Computerizing Subject Indices to Visual Resources, Computers and
Medieval Data Processing, 10, No. 1 (June, 1980), 16-19.
Mythic Sequence in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, The
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 10, No. 1 (Spring,
1980), 1-22.
Medieval Drama Studies and Structuralism, New Orleans Review,
5, No. 1 (1976), 80-84.
Epic Qualities in the Cycle Plays, in Medieval Drama
(Stratford-upon-Avon Studies, 16), ed. Neville Denny (London:
Edward Arnold, 1973), pp. 154-71.
Revival of the Cornish Mystery Plays in St. Piran's `Round' and
of the York Cycle, 1969: Experiments in Medieval Drama and Stagecraft,
New Theatre Magazine 9, No. 3 (1969), 16-21.
Computer-Aided Research in the Humanities: New
Dimensions. In Literacy in the Computer
Age. Eds. Barton Thurber and James Hottois. Osprey, FL: Paradigm Press,
suspended publication.
Special issues in Teaching at Davis: Computer Literacy (Fall,
1983); Data Base Management (Winter, 1984); Word Processing (Spring,
1984); Computers in Education (Spring, 1985).
POETRY
Acquaintance with Strangers (1963-1999)
A Gloss on the Purgatorio
Meadowlark. Broadside No. 33 [Clamshell Press, Santa Rosa,
California], 1991.
Before Dancing.
Concho River Review, 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), 106.
The Search for Lost Relations, Germany, July, 1986.
Catalyst Magazine, number 10 (Winter, 1992), 87.
Mortars and Cellos.
The Galley Sail Review, Series 3, Issue 42 (Spring-Summer, 1993),
24-25.
My Father's Ashes. First place winner in the Adult Division.
Arts Up!, The Yolo County Arts Council, April, 1994.
Farmhouses. Honorable Mention, Friends of the Sacramento Public
Library, fall, 1994. Now to be published, in the grove, April, 2002.
Gardenias. Accepted by Poetalk.
Camelias . in the grove, April, 2002.
Meadowlark. Broadside No. 33 [Clamshell Press, Santa Rosa, California], 1991.
Vernal Equinox. Midwest Poetry Review (November, 2001), 15.
My Mother's Dementia. The Waterways Project, December, 2001.
Habitation. Accepted by Poetalk.
Catchment. Accepted by Poetry Motel.
Landscape: The Sacramento Valley.
Tucumcari Literary Review, 108 (February, 2001), 16.
Contra Costa County Line. Poetalk (Winter 2000), 9.
Emerson at Gettysburg. Accepted by Kumquat Merengue.
Marcus Smith's Friend Grows Old: The Tuscan Countryside, 1975. Accepted by Poetalk.
A Businessman's Love Poem. The Sow's Ear Poetry Review Vol. IX, No. 3
(Fall, 2001), 20-21.
Mortmain. frissons.-disconcerting verse, 22 (Summer 2001).
I-80. Accepted by Caveat Lector.
Were My Heart. Winner of the Avalon Prize, 2001.
In You and I: Verse of the Mirage (2001), 1.
Degrees to Eastward, Degrees to Westward.
Midwest Poetry Review (November, 2001), 10.
The Stuff of Tenderness. Lilliput Review, #128 (2002).
Aubade: Dawn Song Creative Juices, August, 2002.
Shooting the Santos. Accepted by The 13th Warrior Review.
Telephone Wires in the Country. confrontation: The Literary
Journal of Long Island University (2002).
La Desaparecida. 2nd-Place Winner, Janice Ferrell Poetry Prize,
Nob Hill Branch, LPEN (San Francisco). Published in epicenter, 6 (2002), 10.
Slaughterhouse. Thorny Locust Vol. 10, No. 4 (2003).
My Sister Feelings of the Heart accepted for the
February/May issue, 2004.
PAPERS GIVEN (HUMANITIES)
`All that Proceeds from the Mouth of God': Piers Plowman,
Scripture, and the Harrowing of Hell. Delivered at the South
Central Modern Languages Association convention, Houston, November
1, 1974.
Shadow and Substance: Notes on the Protean Aspect of Patristic Typology.
Delivered at the Southeastern Medieval Association convention, Knoxville,
March 8, 1975.
Piers Plowman: Ritual Re-enactment and Reaffirmation in the
Harrowing of Hell.
Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference,
Kalamazoo, May 6, 1975.
Allusions to the Passion and the Harrowing of Hell in Chaucer's
Man of Law's Tale. Delivered at the Ohio Conference of Medieval
Studies, Cleveland, October 16, 1975.
Is there a Liturgical Drama. Delivered at the Modern Languages
Association convention, San Francisco, December 28, 1975.
Selecting Types for the Harrowing of Hell: A Structural Analysis of
Medieval Mythologiques.
Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference,
Kalamazoo, May 4, 1976.
[with Thomas Ohlgren]. Subject Indexing of Illuminated Anglo-Saxon
Manuscripts.
Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference,
Kalamazoo, May 6, 1982.
Rhetorical and Iconographic Transference: The Imperial AdventusCeremony and the Harrowing of Hell.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Seattle, February 18, 1984.
Reconstructing the Descensus ad Inferos: The Homiletic Tradition.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Stanford, February 28, 1986.
Semantic Clusters in Sixth-Century Easter Sermons.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Eugene, March 6, 1987.
Meaningful Thesaurus Generation: An Experiment with Sixth-Century
Texts.
Delivered at the International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities
and Social Sciences, Montgomery, July 11, 1987.
The Descent into Hell: An Excursus into the Nature of Creeds.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Los Angeles, March 31, 1989.
Ermeticism, Nature, and Society: The Case of St. Guthlac.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Davis, March 2, 1991.
A Wolf Among the Hermits:
The Irish Saints and their Lupine Relations.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Irvine, April 2, 1992.
The Many Faces of Margaret:
Early Saints' Legends of Pelagia the Harlot,
Mary the Harlot, Reparata, Marina, Eugenia, and Apollinaria.
Delivered at the Conference on Women in the Middle Ages,
Binghamton, October 17, 1992.
Encompassing an Apocryphon:
Establishing a Complete Narrative for
the Descensus Christi ad Inferos.
Delivered at the Medieval Academy of America
Conference, Tucson, April 1, 1993.
Monk Versus Hermit in the Outer Islands: The Appearance of Paul
the Hermit in the Voyage of Saint Brendan.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Seattle, March 5, 1994.
Nutrition in the Desert: The Exemplary Case of Desert Ermeticism.
Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference,
Kalamazoo, May 5, 1994.
Origins and Reform in the Diet of Irish Hermits: From Egyptian Sod
to Soggy Bog.
Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference,
Kalamazoo, May 6, 1995.
Activa aut contemplativa: Narrative Extremes
in the Vitae Patrum Testimonies.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
San Diego, March 15, 1996.
Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity: The Roman Imperial
Adventus Ceremony and the Christian Myth of the Harrowing of Hell.
Delivered at the University of California Medieval History Seminar, The
Huntington Library, October 8, 1997.
“Margery Kempe and the Case of the Reappearing Hermit.”
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Victoria, February 27, 2000.
“Nature and Medieval Ireland.”
Presented at the Irish Studies Colloquium,
University of California, Davis,
March 16, 2000.
The Usual Supplements: The Household Book of Dame Alice de Bryene
Michaelmas, 1412-Michaelmas, 1413.
Delivered for the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
San Diego, March 23, 2002.
Seeking a Desert Where None Can Be Found:
Paradigmatic Antecedents to Hermits and Hermiticism in
Fifteenth-Century England.
Delivered at the University of California Medieval History Seminar, The
Huntington Library, November 2, 2002.
The Virgin as the Empress of Hell.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Portland, Oregon, March 28, 2003.
Helena, the Finding of the True Cross, and those Mysterious Rabbits of Plimpton MS 40B.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
San Francisco, California, March 12, 2005.
Irish Abbots, Irish Hermits:
The Curious Leadership Style of
Abbots in the First
Centuries of Irish Monasticism.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 2006.
Egyptian and Celtic Influences
in Bede's Account of Saint Cuthbert.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Los Angeles, March 2, 2007.
St. Fiacre and his Horticultural Life.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Albuquerque, March 6, 2009.
Aelred of Rievaulx's
Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor
And the Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus.
Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Tacoma, March 6, 2010.
PAPERS GIVEN (COMPUTERS)
Image Access. Delivered at
the Conference on Technological Aids to Medieval
Studies, Davis, May 18, 1985.
Computer Literacy: Quagmire or Morass? Delivered at the Modern Languages
Association convention, Chicago, December 29, 1985.
The Concept of Computer Literacy. Delivered at
the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte,
Göttingen, July 5, 1986.
Preparing Periodicals for the Electronic Submission of Articles: A
Feasibility Study. Delivered at the
Eighth International Conference on Computers and
the Humanities,
Columbia, April 10, 1987.
Computer Applications in Medieval Studies. Delivered at the
Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Los Angeles, April 1, 1989.
The Challenge of Image Access.
Delivered at the symposium, The Humanities: Scholarship, Communication,
and Libraries, Sacramento, March 29, 1990.
Computer Aids to Research in (and out of) the Renaissance.
Delivered at the Northern California Renaissance conference,
Davis, May 5, 1990.
Educational Reasons for Teaching the Internet: A Faculty
Perspective.
Delivered at the Convention of the American Library Association,
CLS/BIS Conference Program,
Miami Beach, June 27, 1994.
The Internet as an Aid in Teaching Medieval Studies. Delivered at the
Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Berkeley, March 7, 1995.
[with Carol Everest and Caroline Falner]. Translation Project
for Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Naturale.
Delivered at the Association for Computers and the Humanities/the Association
for Literary and Linguistic Computing joint international conference,
Santa Barbara, July 15, 1995.
[with Glenn Peter Luft]. Reconstructing Hadrian's Wall:
A Web-Based 3-D Multimedia Project. Delivered at the
Medieval Association of the Pacific conference,
Honolulu, March 14, 1997.
Reconstructing Hadrian's Wall: A Web-Based 3-D Multimedia Project.
Poster/demonstration at the
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education conference,
Calgary, June 17, 1997.
[with Maureen Coulson].
THE ARBOR: A Center for Teaching and Technology at the University of
California, Davis. Delivered at the Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education conference, Seattle, June, 1999.
EDUCATION:
University of California, Davis. Ph.D., 1972 (English)
University of Bristol, England. 1968-69 (Drama)
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. M.A., 1967
(English)
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. B.A., 1965
(English)
EDITING EXPERIENCE:
Between 1978 and 1991, I served as Managing Editor for
twenty-eight books and one journal. In 1981, I undertook
complete responsibility for
the publication of James J. Murphy's A Short Title
Catalogue of Renaissance Rhetoric (Garland). The other titles are:
Davis Medieval Texts and Studies [E.J. Brill]:
Gerald of Wales, The Jewel of the Church (John Hagen);
The Craft of Crétien de Troyes (Norris Lacy);
The Romance of Hunbaut (Margaret Winters);
Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine (Henry Ansgar
Kelly);
The Ars Componendi Sermones of Ranuph Higden,
O.S.B. (Margaret Jennings);
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim:
The Ethics of Authorial Stance. (Katharina M. Wilson);
Epistolography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:
Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Ars dictaminis
in East European Libraries (Emil Polak);
Between Two Armies: The Place of the Duel in Epic Culture
(Victor Morris Udwin).
Other Presses:
Literary Evaluation (Karl Menges, Daniel Laferriere)
[Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart];
Späthumanismus in Schlesien (Manfred Fleischer)
[Delp];
A Biographical Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Rhetoricians (Ann Gunion) [Greenwood];
Peter Ramus's Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintillian
(Carole Newlands, James Murphy) [Northern Illinois Press];
A Bibliography of Publications . . . on Grapes, Wines
(Maynard Amerine, Herman Phaff) [UC Press];
The Non-verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps. Gordion
Special Studies 1 (Lynn Roller) [U Pennsylvania Press];
Reader's Guide to China's Literary Gazette (Donald
Gibbs) [U California Press];
A Bibliography of Medieval Rhetoric
(James J. Murphy) [U Toronto Press];
Rhetorica, A Journal in the History of Rhetoric
[UC Press];
A Harvest of Humanism: Studies in Honor of Lewis
W. Spitz (ed. Manfred Fleischer)
[Concordia];
Peter Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones
(Carole Newlands, James Murphy) [Hermagoras Press];
The Landmark Essay Series (8 Volumes completed)
(James Murphy) [Hermagoras Press];
Representations of the Body in French Renaissance Poetry
(Karen R. Sorsby) [Peter Lang].
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
I have used and taught students, staff, and faculty to use
UNIX editors, shells, and utilities; batch processors nroff/troff;
programming languages awk, Perl and Javascript; markup languages
postscript, SGML, and HTML; FileMaker Pro, Powerpoint, Omnipage and Photoshop software;
I have experience in computer projects related to the humanities,
involving concordances, information retrieval, and data-base
management.
OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS:
1979-86 Chief Officer, Image Access Society
Summer, 1981 University of California Systemwide, Installation of bibliofile at UCB
1983-85 UNIX Instructor for Faculty, Teaching Resources Center, UCD
1983-85 Chief Organizer, Conference on Technological Aids to Medieval
Studies,
UCD, May 17-18, 1985
1983-87 Secretary-Treasurer, Medieval Association of the Pacific
1985-90 NEH Reviewer, Computer Applications for Academic Presses
1985-92 Book-Review Editor, Computers and the Humanities
Summer, 1986 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte,
Göttingen
1986-89 President, American Federation of Teachers Local 2023
1987-98 Conference Coordinator, Medieval Association of the Pacific
1989-2002 Grievance Chair, Local 2023, American Federation of Teachers
1989-91 Co-Chair, Conference on Nature and Society,
Medieval Association of the Pacific, UCD, March 1-3, 1991
1989-91 Secretary, Academic Federation, UCD
1992-93 Vice-Chair, Academic Federation, UCD
1993-98 Editor, Chronica, Medieval Association of the Pacific
1994-95 Chair, Instructional Use of Computing Committee
1994 Co-Chair, Faculty Summer Institute for Instructional Computing
1994-2002 Co-Principal Investigator, Vincent of Beauvais Speculum
naturale
Translation Project (Principal Investigator Status)
1995 Recipient, Academic Federation Excellence in Teaching Award, UCD
1997-98 Professional Development Award, Academic Federation, UCD
1998-2000 Chair, Academic Federation, UCD
2000- President, American Federation of Teachers Local 2023
2000-2002 Vice President for Organizing,
University Council, American Federation of Teachers
2001 Recipient, James H. Meyer Distinguished Achievement
Award, UCD
2002-2004 President,
University Council, American Federation of Teachers
2003 Educator of
the Year, The University of California, Davis
Chosen by the Academic Affairs Commission, ASUCD
2004- Vice President for
Legislation,
University Council, American Federation of Teachers
WEB SITES:
The Arbor
http://arbor.ucdavis.edu
Medieval Studies Program
http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/
Local 2023, American Federation of Teachers
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~kroddy
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