Name: William Compaine Calin
Born: April 4, 1936, at Newington, Connecticut

Education:

Yale College and Sweet Briar Junior Year in France, 1953-57. A.B. 1957.
Summa cum laude.
Yale Graduate School, 1957-1960. Ph.D. Fall 1960.

Teaching Positions:

Dartmouth College: Instructor 1960-62.
Assistant Professor 1962-63.

Stanford University: Assistant Professor 1964-65.
Associate Professor 1965-70.
Professor 1970-73.

University of Oregon: Professor 1973-88.
Head, Department of Romance Languages 1976-78.

Université de Poitiers: Visiting Professor 1982.
Exchange Professor 1984.

Whitman College: Edward Arnold Visiting Professor 1987.

University of Florida: Graduate Research Professor 1988--
Florida Foundation Research Professor 1998-2001.

Fields of Specialization:

Medieval Literature (epic, romance, allegory).
French Poetry (Renaissance to the present).
Occitan (Provençal), Anglo-Norman, and modern Breton literature.
Franco-British Literary Relations, Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Professional Responsibilities and Offices:

International Vice President, Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (1993-2002). International Council (1981-84; 1989-93).

President, American Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals (1973-76).

Vice President (1985-87) and President (1987-89), International Guillaume de Machaut
Society. Executive Board (1996-99).

Conseil scientifique of the Centre International de l'Ecrit en Langue d'Oc (1996--).

Executive Council (1978-82), Secretary (1980), and President (1981) of Medieval French
Division, Modern Language Association.

Executive Council (1986-1990; 1998-2002), Secretary (1988, 2000), and President (1989, 2001)
of the Provençal and Catalan Division, Modern Language Association.

Executive Council (1989-95), Secretary (1989-90), and President (1990-91), International
Courtly Literature Society Division, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

Election to the American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, 1991.

Oregon Representative, Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies (1981-88).

Executive Council, Medieval Association of the Pacific (1975-78); Nominating
Committee (1977-78); Chair, Program Committee (1986-87).

Governing Council, Western Society for French History (1981- 84).

Member, Oregon Foreign Language Council (1980-88).

Task Force, Governor's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies,
State of Oregon (1980-82).

Board of Directors, Association of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers (1977-79, 1983-84).

Founding Member, Medieval Circle of Stanford.

Editorial Board:

Olifant
Tenso
Exemplaria
Studies in Medievalism
South Atlantic Review
Escrituras
Guest Editor, special issue of L'Esprit Créateur devoted to "The Future of Old French Studies."

Grants:

Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1963-64
ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1963-64
ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1968
American Philosophical Society 1970
Canada Federation in the Humanities Grant 1981
Fulbright Award 1982
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research 1984-85
NEH Summer Institute for Teaching of Literature and History 1985
Fulbright Senior Research Grant, France and United Kingdom, 1987-88
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1996-97

Honors:

Lilly Foundation Lecture, Whitman College 1978
Invitation to Lecture at C.N.R.S. Colloquium, Rheims, 1978
Lecture at the Collège de France 1980
Visiting Professor in French Literature, University of Poitiers 1982
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge 1984-85; Life Member 1985--
Edward Arnold Visiting Professor, Whitman College 1987
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, University of Maryland, April 1988
Interviewed by "La Quinzaine litteraire" (French literary magazine) concerning literature in Occitan and the Colloquium at Castries, 1989
Distinguished Guest Speaker, University of Miami, November 1991
Interviewed on French television concerning the Bordeaux lecture and the Manciet Colloquium, November 1992
Elected "Sòci dóu Felibrige," Honorary Membership in the historic Provençal literary society, 1993
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of
Edinburgh, 1997
Florida Foundation Research Professor, 1998-2001
Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2000
Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto 2004-2005

Public Lectures:

Stanford University; Foothill College 1965

Stanford University 1966

University of California, Santa Cruz 1969

Harvard University 1970

University of Oregon 1972

Whitman College 1978

University of Virginia (two); Washington University; University of Texas; UCLA 1979

Collège de France; University of Bologna; University of Padua; Trier University; University of Connecticut 1980

University of Antwerp; University of London; Oxford University; University of Edinburgh;
University of Poitiers 1982

University of Southern California 1983

University of Oregon Forum Lecture; Cambridge University 1984

Oxford University; Cambridge University; University of London (two); University of Saint
Andrews; University of Reading; University of Warwick; University of Antwerp; Würzburg
University 1985

University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles; University of British Columbia; Simon Fraser University 1986

Whitman College (two); Washington State University 1987

University of Florida; Ohio State University; University of Maryland 1988

New York University; Fordham University; University of Miami; University of Florida Humanities Series 1991

University of Bordeaux; Whitman College; University of Oregon 1992

University of Kansas 1993

Harvard University; Hamilton College 1995

Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III) University of Edinburgh (three); Cambridge
University 1997

University of Florida 2000

University of Georgia 2001

Arizona State University (two) 2002

University of Maryland 2004

University of Toronto (two) 2005

University of Florida 2006

Plenary Session/ Keynote Addresses:

Société Internationale Rencesvals, Liège, 1976.
Modern Literature Colloquium, West Virginia University, 1979.
Société Internationale Rencesvals, Padua, 1982.
International Courtly Literature Society, Utrecht, 1986.
Colloque: Etudes Occitanes, Wégiment (Belgium), 1989.
Colloque: Bernard Manciet, Bordeaux, 1992.
International Conference on Medievalism, Leeds, 1994.
Conference on Reading the Margins, University of Oregon, 1994.
South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, 1995.
Conference on Women and Medieval Writing, University of Western Ontario,
2000.
International Conference on Medievalism, Hope College (Michigan), 2000.
South Atlantic MLA, Birmingham, 2000.
Colloquium on Marie de France, King's College (Ontario), 2005.

Books:

The Old French Epic of Revolt: "Raoul de Cambrai," "Renaud de Montauban," "Gormond et
Isembard." Geneva: Droz, 1962. 235 pp.

(with Michel Banamou) ed., Aux Portes du Poème (anthology of 20th century verse). New
York: Macmillan, 1964. 126 pp.

The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French "Chansons de Geste." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Press, 1966. 271 pp.

ed., La Chanson de Roland. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. 183 pp.

A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 1974. 264 pp.

Crown, Cross and Fleur-de-lis: An Essay on Pierre Le Moyne's Baroque Epic
"Saint Louis." Saratoga: Stanford French and Italian Studies, 1977. 77 pp.

A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1983. 514 pp. This book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize
in 1981, and the American Library Association Choice Award for 1984.

In Defense of French Poetry: An Essay in Revaluation. University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1987. 208 pp.

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1994. 587 pp. xvi. Hardcover and paperback. This book won the
American Library Association Choice Award for 1995.

Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2000. 399 pp. ix. Hardcover and Paperback.

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2007. Hardcover and paperback.

Also c. 100 articles and c. 200 papers and lectures, some delivered more than once.

Current and Future Research:

The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland
What is Christian Literature?
Studies in the Occitan Baroque