CURRICULUM VITAE

Carl P.E. Springer, Professor of Classical Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, Peck Hall 0219, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. Office phone: 618-650-2144; home phone: 314-961-6765; personal cell: 314-359-9587; e-mail: casprin@siue.edu; website:  http:// www.siue.edu/~casprin/

EDUCATION
--University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979-1984 PhD (Classics; Latin).

--University of Wisconsin-Madison 1978-1979 MA (Biblical Languages: Greek and Hebrew).

--Northwestern College 1973-1977 BA (emphases in Classics, German, and Theology).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
--Professor: Department of English Language and Literature, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2010-present.

--Director of the Liberal Studies Program: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2006-2010.

--Associate Dean for Student Development and General Education: College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2000-2010. 

-- Department Chair and Full Professor: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1996-2000.

--Alexander von Humboldt-Research Fellow, 1993-1994: University of Regensburg, Institut für klassische Philologie.

--Associate Professor: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1990-1996.

--Fulbright Research Fellow: Corpus Christianorum; St. Peter’s Abbey, Brugge, Belgium, 1990. 

--Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.

--Assistant Professor: Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, 1984-1990.

--Graduate Research Fellow: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983-1984.

-- Graduate Teaching Assistant: Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979-1982.

TEACHING
Courses taught
--Latin language courses at all levels, from the elementary (Wheelock, Latin via Ovid, Jenney) to intermediate and advanced (see below for specific authors and texts).

--Greek language courses at all levels, from the elementary (New Testament, Homeric, Classical) to intermediate and advanced (see below for specific authors and texts).

--“Classical Mythology” (large lecture section taught with the help of graduate assistants at ISU).

--“Introduction to Western Civilization” (Integrated Liberal Studies program at UW-Madison).

--“Texts and Contexts” (intensive writing course developed for general education program at ISU).

--“History of the Latin Language” (upper level undergraduate course at ISU).

--“Latin Prose Composition” (upper level undergraduate course at ISU).

--“Classical Mythology (and its Interpretation)” (Honors seminar at ISU).

--“The Classical Tradition” (graduate seminar at ISU).

--“Myth and Meaning” (World Mythology course at ISU, taught with Professor of Chinese).

--“Classical Mythology and Its Influence” (English 310 at SIUE).

--“Rome,” a “Culture, Ideas, and Values” (freshman seminar; taught with History professor at SIUE).

--“Searching for Excellence in Ancient Greece” (study-abroad course, taught with SIUE and SIUC faculty in Greece and western Turkey.)

--“World Mythology” (Interdisciplinary Studies course, taught with Geography professor at SIUE.)

--“History of the English Language” (English 403 at SIUE).

--“Tragedy: Violence, Entertainment, and Education in Ancient Greece” (Interdisciplinary Studies course, taught with Philosophy professor at SIUE).

I served on several MA committees in the English Department at Illinois State as well as two doctoral dissertation committees at other institutions and have supervised numerous Senior Assignment Projects in the Liberal Studies program at SIUE.

Authors and texts taught in advanced Latin and Greek courses
Aelred, De spiritali amicitia; Aesop’s fables (Babrius and Phaedrus); Apuleius, The Golden Ass; Aristotle, Poetics; Augustine, Confessions; Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; Benedict, Regula; Boccaccio, De claris mulieribus, Caesar, Gallic Wars and Civil War; Carmina Burana; Catullus, Carmina; Cicero, selected speeches and dialogues; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Horace, Odes; Juvenal, Satires; Livy, Ab urbe condita; Martin Luther, De servo arbitrio; Menander, Dyskolos; Ovid, Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria; Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis; Plato, Apology; Plautus, Amphitryo, Miles Gloriosus, and Menaechmi; Pliny the Younger’s epistles; Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria; Sallust, Bellum Catilinae; Sedulius, Paschale Carmen; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis Claudii; the Septuagint; Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars; Tacitus, Annales and Germania; Terence, Andria and Phormio; Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica; Vergil’s Georgics and Aeneid; the Vulgate; Xenophon, Anabasis and Apology.

SCHOLARSHIP

Books and monographs
--Sedulii Opera Omnia. New critical edition commissioned by Corpus Christianorum: Series Latina (Turnhout: Brepols). In preparation.

--Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns. Translation with introduction and notes for Society of Biblical Literature: Writings from the Greco-Roman World, Michael Roberts, editor. In preparation.

--The Manuscripts of Sedulius. A Provisional Handlist = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 85, pt. 5 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995), pp. xxii + 244. [Nominated by publisher for the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit.  Reviewed in Revue des Études Augustiniennes 42 (1996), pp. 355-356; Scriptorium 51 (1997), p. 69; Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53.1 (1997), p. 197; Medioevo Latino 18 (1997), p. 391; Classical Review 48 (1998), p. 198.]  

--The Gospel as Epic in Late Antiquity: The Paschale Carmen of Sedulius = Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae:  Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language  II, edited by A.F.J. Klijn, Christine Mohrmann, G. Quispel, J.H. Waszink, J.C.M. van Winden (Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1988), pp. xii + 168. [Reviewed in Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 32 (1989), pp. 197-203; Classical Review 40 (1989), p.159; Revue des études latines 67 (1989), pp. 416-417; Patristics 19 (1990), pp. 9; Helmantica 41 (1990), pp. 411-3; Religious Studies Review 17 (1991), pp.166-167; Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 48.1 (1992), pp. 271-272.]

Articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings (selected)
--“Sedulius.” Article in preparation for Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. edited by Paul Oskar Kristeller, Virginia Brown, James Hankins, Robert A Kaster (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press).  In progress.

--Article on “The Reformation” in preparation for the Encyclopedia of Neo-Latin Studies to be published by E.J. Brill in 2011.

--Essays on selected Latin hymns of Ambrose, Prudentius, Sedulius and others for the Lutheran Service Book Hymnal Companion to be published by Concordia Publishing House, edited by Jon D. Vieker and Peter Reske. Forthcoming.

--Annotated translations of selected Latin sermons and prefaces of Martin Luther, forthcoming in a planned expansion of Luther’s Works: American Edition, edited by Benjamin Mays (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House).

--“Adam and Aeneas:  Innocence, Memory, and the Origins of the American Self.”  Review article of John Shields, The American Aeneas:  Classical Origins of the American Self (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), forthcoming in The International Journal of the Classical Tradition.

--“Luther’s Latin Poetry and Scatology,”Lutheran Quarterly 23 (2009), pp. 373-387.

--“Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi,” Crossroads in the Ancient Novel:  Spaces, Frontiers, Intersections. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 21-26 July 2008.  Edited by Marilia P. Futre, Carlos A. Abrantes Pinheiro, Paula Carrajan, Cristina Guerreiro, Victor Ruas, José Pedro Serra (Lisboa: Edicoes Cosmos, 2008).

--“Luther’s Aesop,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 17 (2008), pp. 17-24.

--“Martin’s Martial: Reconsidering Luther’s Relationship with the Classics,” The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14 (2007-2008), pp. 23-50.

--"Carmen ad quendam senatorem” and “Carmen contra Paganos.” Articles in Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum: Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt, edited by Heinzgerd Brakmann, Albrecht Dihle, Josef Engemann, Karl Hoheisel, Wolfgang Speyer, and Klaus Thraede, Supplement-Band II (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2004), pp. 319-322 and pp. 323-331.

--“Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther’s Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum,” The International Journal of the Classical Tradition 10 (2003-2004), pp. 38-53.

--“The Biblical Epic in Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period: The Poetics of Tradition,” in Antiquity Renewed: Late Classical and Early Modern Themes, edited by Zweder von Martels and Victor M. Schmidt (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA:  Peeters, 2003), pp. 103-126.

--“Te Deum.” Article in Theologische Realenzyklopädie (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001), edited by Gerhard Müller, Stuart G. Hall, et al., Vol. XXXIII, pp. 23-28.

--“Martin Luther, the Oreads of Wittenberg, and Sola Gratia,” in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Avila 4-9 August 1997, edited by Rhoda Schnur, J. Costas, R. Green, A. Iurilli, E. McCutcheon, A. Moreno, M. Mund-Dopchie, H. Wiegand = Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 207 (Tempe, Arizona:  University of Arizona Press, 2000), pp. 611-618.

--“The Hymns of Ambrose,” chapter in Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice, ed. Richard Valantasis, in Princeton Readings in Religion, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 347-356.

--“Nicetas and the Authorship of the Te Deum,” Studia Patristica. Vol. XXX: Biblica et Apocrypha, Ascetica, Liturgica, edited by Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA:  1997), pp. 325-331.

--“Reflections on Lutheran Worship, Classics and the Te Deum,” Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology 5 (1996), pp. 29-41 [reprinted in CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 7 (1999), pp. 28-37.]

--“The Concinnity of Ambrose’s Illuminans Altissimus,” in Panchaia. Festschrift für Professor Klaus Thraede = Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum Ergänzungsband 22, edited by Manfred Wacht (Münster Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1995), pp. 228-237.

--“Fannius and Scaevola in Cicero's De Amicitia,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History VII  = Collection Latomus 227, edited by Carl Deroux (Brussels: Latomus, Revue des études latines, 1994), pp. 267-278.

--“Jerome and the Cento of Proba,” Studia Patristica. Vol. XXVIII:  Other Latin Authors, Nachleben of the Fathers, edited by E.A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA: Peeters, 1993), pp. 96-105.

--“Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory and Practice in the Late Quattrocento,” Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Torontonensis. Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, Toronto 8 August to 13 August 1988, edited by Alex. Dalzell, Ch. Fantazzi, R. J. Schoeck = Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 86 (Binghamton, NY:  SUNY-Binghamton Press, 1991). pp. 739-746.

 --“Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium: The Aesthetics of Antiphony,” Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 34 (1991), pp. 76-87.

--“Augustine and Vergil: The Poet as Mendax Vates,” Studia Patristica, Vol. XXII: Cappadocian Fathers, Chrysostom and his Greek Contemporaries, Augustine, Donatism and Pelagianism, edited by Elizabeth A. Livingstone (Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, MA:  Peeters, 1989), pp. 337-343.

--“Horace’s Soracte Ode: Location, Dislocation, and the Reader,” Classical World 82 (1988), pp. 1-9.

--“The Prosopopoeia of the Church as Mother in Augustine's Psalmus contra Partem Donati,” Augustinian Studies 18 (1987), pp. 52-65.

--“The Last Line of the Aeneid,” The Classical Journal 82 (1987), pp. 310-313.

--“Sedulius’ A Solis Ortus Cardine: The Hymn and its Tradition,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 101 (1987), pp. 69-75.

--“The Artistry of Augustine’s Psalmus contra Partem Donati,” Augustinian Studies 16 (1985), pp. 65-74.

--“Aratus and the Cups of Menalcas: A Note on Eclogue 3. 42,” The Classical Journal 79 (1983-1984), pp. 131-134.

Encyclopedia entries and book reviews (selected)
--Six entries on Reformation figures (Luther, Calvin, and others), in preparation for the Encylopedia of Neo-Latin Studies, to be published by E.J. Brill in 2011.

--Entries on “Arator” and “Church Fathers,” forthcoming in The Virgil Encyclopedia, edited by Jan Ziolkowski and Richard Thomas (Wiley-Blackwell).

--Entries on “Sedulius,” the “Te Deum,” and “Abecedaries,” forthcoming in The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, edited by J.R. Watson (London: Canterbury Press).

--Review of Josef Eskhult, Andreas Norrelius’ Latin translation of Johan Kemper’s Hebrew commentary on Matthew. Edited with introduction and philological commentary, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Latina Upsaliensia 32 (Uppsala: Uppsala University, 2007). Forthcoming in Sjuttonhundratal, Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the annual journal of Sällskapet för 1700-talsstudier.

--Entries on Hilary of Poitiers, Valentin Weigel, and C.F.W. Walther, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, edited by George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith III (Peabody, MA:  Hendrickson Publishers).

--Review of Richard M. Gamble, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to be an Educated Human Being (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2007), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 16 (2009), pp. 625-628.  

--“Hilary of Poitiers,” “Paulinus of Nola,” and “Salvian.”  Entries in the Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002), edited by Thomas J. Sienkewicz, vol. II, pp. 617-618; vol. II, p. 877; and vol. III, p. 978. 

--Review of Andrew Weeks, Valentin Weigel (1533-88):  German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance (Binghamton, NY: SUNY Press, 1999), in Journal of English and German Philology 101 (2002), pp. 597-599.

--Review of Carolinne White, Early Christian Latin Poets in The Early Church Fathers, edited by C. Harrison (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), in Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002), pp. 299-300.

--Review of Birgit Stolt, Martin Luthers Rhetorik des Herzens (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2000), in Journal of English and German Philology 101 (2002), pp. 105-107.

--Review of Philip Melanchthon, Orations on Philosophy and Education, edited by Sachiko Kusukawa in Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy, edited by Karl Ameriks and Desmond M. Clarke (Cambridge: University Press, 1999), Seventeenth-Century News 58 (2000), pp. 307-309.

--Review of Joyce L. Irwin, Neither Voice nor Heart Alone: German Lutheran Theology of Music in the Age of the Baroque in American University Studies, Series VII:  Theology and Religion, Vol. 132 (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), in CrossAccent: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 6 (1998), p. 56.

--Review of Philip Melanchthon, Annotations on First Corinthians, introduced, translated, and edited by John Patrick Donnelly S.J., in series Reformation Texts with Translation (1350-1650), edited by Kenneth Hagen = Biblical Studies 2, Franz Posset, editor (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995), in Seventeenth-Century News 56 (1998), pp. 158-159.

--Reviews of Carl Schalk, God’s Song in a New Land: Lutheran Hymnals in America (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1995); idem, Source Documents in American Lutheran Hymnody (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1996); and Frank Senn, The Witness of the Worshipping Community: Liturgy and the Practice of Evangelism (New York: Paulist Press, 1993) in CrossAccents: Journal of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians 5 (1997), pp. 57-58.

--Review of J. den Boeft and A. Hillhorst, eds., Early Christian Poetry = Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae:  Texts and Studies of Early Christian Life and Language 22 (Leiden, New York, and Cologne: E.J. Brill, 1994), Journal of Early Christian Studies 4 (1996), pp. 392-394.

--Review of G.M.A. Grube, Longinus, On Great Writing (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing, 1991), in Patristics (Newsletter of the North American Patristics Society) 20 (1992), pp. 8-9.

--Entries on Juvencus and Sedulius for Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, edited by Frederick M. Biggs, Thomas D. Hill, and Paul E. Szarmach, (electronic data-base; “Trial Version” in Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 74; Binghamton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY Binghamton, 1990); see Appendix B.

--Review of Anne-Marie Palmer, Prudentius on the Martyrs in the Oxford Classical Monograph Series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), in Patristics 18 (1990), p. 5.
Awards and grants
--Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to complete an article on Sedulius to be published in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, 2006-present.

--Illinois Humanities Council Grant, “Thinking about Religion: Engaging the Community,” in support of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Third Annual Spring Colloquium (in collaboration with Professor Greg Fields and SIUE’s Religious Center), 2006.

--“Outstanding University Researcher Award,” Illinois State University, 1997.

--Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, sponsored by the Institute of Classical Philology, University of Regensburg, Prof. Klaus Thraede, 1993-1994.

--American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Travel Grant, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, 1992.

--American Council on Education Grant:  “Spreading the Word: Improving Graduate Assistant Instruction of Introductory Foreign Languages,” 1992-1996.

--Travel Grants, “Center for Renaissance Studies,” Consortium Program of The Newberry Library, in partnership with Illinois State University, several in the early 1990s.

--Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, sponsored by Dom Eligius Dekkers, founding Director of  Corpus Christianorum, St. Peter's Abbey in Brugge, Belgium, 1990.

--“Outstanding College Researcher Award.,” College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, 1990.

--Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Knights of Columbus Vatican Microfilm Library, Charles Ermatinger, Director, St. Louis University, 1989.

--Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (administered by the University of Toronto), 1988.

--National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant (Hill Monastic Microfilm Library at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota), 1988.

--Illinois State University Research Initiative Award, 1987.

--Novus Prize, Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University, 1985.

--National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Neo-Latin Archival Sciences” (directed by Professor Jean-Claude Margolin, Director of the Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance at the University of Tours), Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C., 1985.

Scholarly presentations (selected)
--“Wonder, Delight, and ‘the Ludic Impulse’ in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Paper to be presented at a conference, “The  Classics Renewed: The Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity,” to be held at Rice University and Brown University, 2011.

--“Wise, Steadfast, and Magnanimous: Patrons of the Classics in Luther’s Wittenberg.”  Plenary address to be given at a conference on “Lutheranism and the Classics,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 2010.  

--“Death and Immortality in Martin Luther’s Latin Elegies.” Presented at the XIVth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, 2009. For an abstract, see the following website:  http://www.ianls.org/uppsala_2009_abstracts.htm

“Barbaric Humanism: Martin Luther and the Classics.” Presented at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Annual Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 2009.

“Scatology and Eschatology:  Reading Martin Luther’s Latin Verse.” Presented at the Classical Association of the Midwest and South’s annual meeting, University of Minnesota, 2009 (invited paper for special Presidential Panel on Neo-Latin Studies).

--“Bridging the Empire: Religion and Engineering in Roman Mérida.” Presented at joint meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference and the Iowa Association of Classicists, Augustana College, 2008.

-- “Christ the Giant.” Presented at meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, “Bodies, Embodiments, Becomings,” St. Louis University, 2008.

--“Martin Luther and the Vita Aesopi.” Presented at IVth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008.

--“Ovid, Etiquette, and the Uses of Latin Poetry in Colonial Mexico.” Presented at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, University of Arizona, 2008.

--“The Angers Manuscript of Sedulius.” Presented at symposium, “Late Antiquity in Illinois IV,” University of Illinois, 2008.

--“Romans on the Danube: The Traces of Empire.” Plenary presentation at annual meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference (joint meeting with the Chicago Classical Club), Loyola University, Chicago, 2007.

--“Martin’s Martial: Luther’s Latin Epigrams on the Blessed Life.” Presented at XIIIth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Budapest, Hungary, 2006.

--“Luther’s Aesop.” Presented at “The Word in the World: Christianity’s Encounter with Other Cultures,” Conference on Christianity and Literature, Pepperdine University, 2006.

--“Of Roosters and Repetitio: Ambrose’s Aeterne Rerum Conditor.” Presented at symposium “Late Antiquity in Illinois III,” University of Illinois, 2006.

--“Untrammeled Eclecticism: Toward a New Text of Sedulius.” Presented at colloquium on “Editing from Antiquity to the Enlightenment” at The Ohio State University, 2003.

--“The Biblical Epic in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance.” Presented at symposium on “Late Antiquity and the Renaissance Compared” at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2001.

--“Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther's Adversus armatum virum Cochlaeum.” Presented at XIth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Cambridge University, England, 2000.

--“Anaphora in the Hymns of Ambrose.” Presented at the XIIIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, England, 1999.

--“Vergil in the Mind of Luther.” Plenary address at annual meeting of the Illinois Classical Conference, University of Illinois, 1999. 

--“Musa Witebergensis: The Latin Verse of Martin Luther.” Presented at annual meeting of American Philological Association, Chicago, 1997.

--“The Hermeneutics of Innocence: Literary Criticism from a Christian Perspective.”  Presented at conference on “Christian Scholarship: Knowledge, Reality, and Method,” University of Colorado, 1997.  Published electronically at http://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/springer.html

--“Martin Luther's De Fonte Oreadum Witebergensium.” Presented at Xth International Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Avila, Spain, 1997.

--“Martin Luther, the Oreads of Wittenberg, and Sola Gratia.” Presented at annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, University of Colorado, 1997.

--“In the Beauty of the Lilies: Prophecy, Exegesis, and the Nativity in Late Antiquity.”  Presented at seminar on “The Late Antique Bible and its Impact,” Rutgers University, 1997 and at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1996.

--“Sedulius’ Paschale Opus: The Manuscript Witnesses.” Presented at St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, 1995.

--“Nicetas and the Authorship of the Te Deum.” Presented at XIIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, England, 1995.

--“Touching the Stars: Theme and Variations in Pagan and Christian Antiquity.” Presented at meeting of the International Society of the Classical Tradition, Boston University, 1995.

--“The Ambrosian Hymn: Structure, Artistry, and Meaning.” Presented at Xth Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies, Université Laval, Quebec, 1994. 

--“Scriptural Truth and Poetic Imagination in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Presented at Leeds International Latin Seminar, University of Leeds, England, 1994.

--“The Dating and Authorship of Proba’s Cento.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1993.

--“The Theology of Proba’s Cento.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1992.

--“Jerome and the Cento of Proba.” Presented at XIth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, England, 1991.

--“A New Critical Edition of Sedulius: Prolegomena.” Presented at  Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, sponsored by Manuscripta, St. Louis University, 1989. 

--“Ambrose’s Veni Redemptor Gentium: The Aesthetics of Antiphony.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1989.

--“Proba’s Vergilian Cento in the Middle Ages: Reception, Aesthetics, and the Canon.” Presented at 24th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1989.

--“The Living and the Dead in the Cena Trimalchionis.” Presented at Classical Association of the Midwest and South’s annual meeting, University of Kentucky, 1989. 

--“Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory and Practice in the Late Quattrocento.”  Presented at VIIIth Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Univ. of Toronto, 1988. 

--“Augustine and Vergil: The Poet as Mendax Vates.” Presented at North American Patristics Society’s annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1988.

--“The Descent from Heaven in the Biblical Epics of Late Antiquity.” Presented at 23rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1988.

--“The Prefaces to Macarius Mutius’ De Triumpho Christi: Christian Epic Theory in the Late Quattrocento.”  Presented at annual meeting of the American Philological Association, New York, 1987.

--“Milton and the Early Biblical Epic.” Presented at 21st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1986.

--“The Church as Mother in Augustine's Psalmus contra Partem Donati.” Presented at “International Congress on the Conversion of St. Augustine,” sponsored by the Istituto Patristico Augustiniano, Rome, Italy, 1986, with Pope John Paul II as plenary speaker. 

--“Sedulius' A Solis Ortus Cardine: A Reexamination.” Presented at annual meeting of Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University and at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1985.

--“The Artistry of Augustine's Psalmus contra Partem Donati.”  Presented at Xth International Conference of Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Villanova University, 1985.

--“The Family Curse in Greek Tragedy and Hebrew Prophecy.”  Presented at symposium on "Literature and Family," Marquette University, 1985.

--“The Jewish-Hellenistic Epic: Forms and Transformations.”  Presented at annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1984. 

--"Sedulius’ Paschale Carmen: Text and Context."  Presented at seminar on "Cultural Change in the Mediterranean World and the Near East in Late Antiquity," University of Chicago, 1984.

--“The Sedulous Editor: Turcius Rufius Asterius and His Edition of the Paschale Carmen.”  Presented at 19th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1984.

--“Character Enhancement in Juvencus' Evangeliorum Libri Quattuor.” Presented at 18th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983.

--“Sedulius’ Paschale carmen as Literary Rival of the Aeneid.”  Presented at symposium on “The Western Literary Tradition: The Christian Perspective,” Marquette University, 1983.

Scholarly and Professional Service (selected)
-- Organized and led College of Arts and Sciences Interdisciplinary Roundtable on “Premodern Studies,” 2010. 

--Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Academy. Faculty mentor, Fall 2010.

--“De Profundis: Research Adventures in the Roman Catacombs.” To be published in a collection of essays about faculty research in the College of Arts and Sciences at SIUE, edited by Charles Berger, Larry LaFond, and Al Romero.

--Co-blogger on Musae Renascentes, 2010.  See http://renascentesmusae.blogspot.com/ 

--Co-organizer, with Professor John Nordling and Dr. Jon Bruss, of conference on “Lutheranism and the Classics,” Concordia Theological Seminary (Fort Wayne, Indiana), October 2010.  See: http://www.ctsfw.edu/Page.aspx?pid=728

--Organized Sixth Annual CAS Colloquium: “Thinking about Evolution,” with Jonah Lehrer, author of “Proust was a Neuro-Scientist,” as plenary speaker, April, 2010.  Organized session entitled “The Evolution of Evolution” for which I also presented a paper: “Myths of Progress and Decline in Ancient Greece.”  See http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/colloquia 

--“Aesop, Martin Luther, and the Fable of the Fable.” Presentation to the St. Louis Classical Club, 2009.
 
--Invited reader in a marathon reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses sponsored by the Pulitzer Foundation of the Arts, St. Louis, 2009 and repeated at John Burroughs School in 2010. See Youtube interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqEzIOgFio

--“The Not-So-Trivial Trivium.” Website presentation as part of a panel entitled “Beyond the Ivory Tower: Integrating Traditional Liberal Arts Education and Professional Preparation,” Council of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, 2008. See www.siue.edu/CAS/trivium.    

--Judge of Illinois Junior Classical League Certamen Contest, Collinsville High School, 2008. I have served as judge for IJCL a number of times over the years at high schools across Illinois.

--Organized 5th Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about the University” (24 sessions with over 70 presenters), 2008. Served as moderator of panel I organized on “Plating the University: Heavy on the Humanities.”  

--Guest editor for a special issue of Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, vol. 17.4, entitled “Wittenberg and Athens” for which I also wrote the introduction (pp. 5-7), 2008; electronic version:
http://www.logia.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:17-4&catid=29:previous

--“Conversation with Lee Presser.”  A TV interview on the influence of Classical Mythology, first aired on Charter Cable Channel 18, August 4, 2008.

--Faculty sponsor for SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy project (Michael Toje): “A Translation of Sedulius’ Paschale Carmen, Books 1 and 3,” 2007-2008.  

--At-large member of doctoral thesis committee in church history for Michael Albrecht, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2008.  

--Member of panel on “Implementing First Year Experiences in Different College/University Settings” at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Chicago, 2007.

-- Organized 4th Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about the Environment.” Presented “Farming and the Development of Cultural Identity in Republican Rome,” in a session I organized and chaired entitled “Poetry and Plumbing: Exploring the Relationship between the Romans and their Natural Environment,” 2007.

“Give Me that Old-Time Erudition: Instances of Scholarship and Pedagogy from Yesteryear,” Oculus: The Newsletter of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South 17.1 (2007), p. 12. See  http://www.camws.org/News/newsletter/index.html

--Member of the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies Executive Committee, 2006-present.  I also serve on the program subcommittee of the Executive Committee. See http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/consortium/exec.html 
 
--“First Year Seminars: CAS Perspectives.”  Panel that I organized and moderated for the annual meeting of the Illinois Deans of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, hosted by SIUE, 2006.

--Organized Third Annual CAS Colloquium, “Thinking about Religion,” co-sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council with Stanley Fish as the plenary speaker (over 100 participants and approximately 700 attendees).  Personally organized two panels: “Jerusalem and Athens” and “Sacrifice: A Dialogue with the Ancient World” in which I presented two papers:  “Moses, Socrates, and Leo Strauss,” and  “Religio and Religion” (earlier version presented at retirement symposium in honor of Professor Sang Ki Kim, SIUE’s Philosophy Department, 2004).  

--“Gospels.”  Talk given for “Dialogue with Senior Citizens” series, SIUE’s Office of Continuing Education, 2006.

--“Teaching the Ancient Greeks in Modern Greece.”  Talk given to high school teachers from southwestern Illinois at a reception organized by SIUE’s School of Education, 2006.

--Member of a panel to discuss advising issues and strategies for improvement of undergraduate advisement at annual meeting of Illinois College of Arts and Sciences Deans, Western Illinois University, 2005.

--  Launched new colloquium series for CAS designed to have broad appeal for both faculty and students at SIUE and the surrounding communities.  We had over 40 presentations at our first colloquium, “Thinking about Empire” for which I delivered the opening address, “Thinking about the Pax Americana.”  We had over 50 presentations for the second colloquium, “Thinking about Masculinity” in 2005. 

--Chair of SIUE committee to judge Phi Kappa Phi Undergraduate Paper Competition, 2004-2006; also read papers in 2009-2010. I served as a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Executive Board at the SIUE Chapter, 2003-2006.

--Member of Classical Association of the Middle West and South’s Committee on the Manson A. Stewart Education and Travel Awards, 2004-2007.  I served as Chair of the Committee from 2005 to 2007 and also was a member of the CAMWS Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships from 2005 to 2007.

--Member of local committee for the 100th anniversary meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South (over 800 in attendance) in St. Louis, 2004.

--Speaker at St. Louis Classical Club meeting: “Arms and the Theologian: Martin Luther and the Aeneid,” 2004.  (Earlier version presented at retirement symposium at SIUE in honor of Professor Edwin Lawrence, 2003.)

--Speaker at workshop for high school teachers of Geography in the State of Illinois held at SIUE, “Exploring the Aegean,” 2002.

--Coordinator SIUE Classical Studies Minor, 2000-present.

--Member of International Studies Advisory Committee for the Deputy Governor of the State of Illinois, 2000-2002.

--Member of doctoral committee for Rick Phillips (“Blindness Spells in the Egyptian Magical Papyri,” University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), 2000-2001.

--Organized and chaired session on “The Future of Interdisciplinary Studies” for the annual meeting of the Illinois College of Arts and Sciences Deans at SIUE, 2000.

--Speaker at banquet reception for Presidential Scholars: “Mythical Monsters: The Comforts of the Grotesque,” Illinois State University, 2000.

--Member of American Philological Association's Committee on the Classical Tradition, 1998-2000. I also was a member of American Philological Association’s Joint Committee on the Classics in American Education, 1993-1996 and served as Chair of the committee from 1995 to 1996.

--Consultant for National Mythology Exam, 1998. 

--Consultant for Insular, Anglo-Saxon, and Early Anglo-Norman Manuscript Art at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998).

--Outside evaluator for tenure decisions in the Department of Foreign Languages, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 1997 and Catholic University of America, Classics Department, 1991.

--Referee for Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1996, for Mediaevalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, 1991, and for Classical Journal, 1985-1988.

--Outside evaluator for review of Classics Department at Rockford College, 1996.

--Reviewed for publisher (Mayfield): S. Harris and G. Platzner, Classical Mythology: Images and Insights (Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing, 1995), 1996.

--Host of Illinois State Latin Tournament (c. 200 students), Illinois State University, 1993 and 1988.  I also helped to write and grade for the Illinois State Latin Examination, 1986-1987.

--Co-authored article surveying placement in Latin at colleges and universities in Illinois, published in The Augur, bulletin of the Illinois Classical Conference, 1993.

--President of the Illinois Classical Conference (state organization founded in 1938, with membership of over 100 high school and college teachers of Latin and Classics), 1992-1993; Vice-President, 1990-1992.   I served as Program Chair for annual meetings of the Illinois Classical Conference in 1991-1992.  I also organized and chaired a session, “Teaching Women in Antiquity,” Illinois Classical Conference, Western Illinois University, 1991, as well as a session on “The Classical Tradition,” Illinois Classical Conference annual meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, 1992. I chaired the Illinois Classical Conference Liaison Committee and served on the ICC Committee for the Teaching of Latin in Illinois, 1988-1992.

--Grant reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities Translations Program and Reference Materials Program, 1992-1995.

--“Outstanding Teacher Award,” Illinois State Red Tassel/Mortar Board Honor Society, 1992.

--Guest speaker at “Latin Olympics,” University of Illinois-Chicago (“Classical Mythology and Popular Music”), 1992.

--Visiting Woodward Scholar, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, IL, 1992.

--Associate in Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, and Princeton, New Jersey, 1991-present.  See http://manuscriptevidence.org/data/node/8

--Contributing editor for Logia: A Journal of Lutheran Theology, 1991-present.

--Guest speaker at annual meeting of Illinois Junior Classical League, St. Ignatius Preparatory School, Chicago, “Mythological Monsters,” 1991.

--Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Executive Board and Leadership Council, 1990-1993.

--Invited speaker at “Workshop for Social Studies and Latin Teachers: Teaching Ancient Civilizations in High School,” sponsored by the Illinois Classical Conference and Western Illinois University (“Trimalchio's Dinner as a Microcosm of Roman Civilization”), 1989. 

--Participant on Illinois Classical Conference panel on “The State of Latin in the State of Illinois,” University of Chicago, 1988.

--Invited speaker, Illinois Humanities Council Summer Institute: “Teaching Roman Civilization in High Schools,” Rockford College, “Friends and Rivals in Cicero's De Amicitia,” 1987.

--Guest speaker at the Illinois Junior Classical League, Illinois State University (“Monsters as Images of Chaos”), 1986. 

--Organizer and Chair of session on the Medieval Latin hymn at 19th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1985.

MISCELLANEOUS
Languages
Other languages besides English in which I am fluent, or read with some degree of facility, include:  Greek, Latin, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Biblical Hebrew, and Syriac.

Membership in Learned and Professional Societies (not all current)
Archeological Institute of America, American Philological Association, Classical Association of  Midwest and South, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Illinois Classical Conference, International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, International Society for the Classical Tradition, Medieval Association of the Midwest, North American Patristics Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Vergilian Society.                           
										
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