Curriculum Vitae

MICHAEL J. CURLEY

Academic Training

B.A. Fairfield University 1964

External Student, Université de Fribourg 1962-63

M.A.T. Harvard University 1965

Ph.D. University of Chicago 1973

Academic Honors

National Jesuit Honorary Fellow 1964

La Verne-Noyes Fellow, University of Chicago 1966-70

N.D.A. Dissertation Fellow 1970-71

Fulbright Fellow, University of Rome, Italy 1971 (declined)

N.E.H. Summer Research Fellow 1974, 1987, 1997

Fellow in Palaeography, Southern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance

Studies, Duke University 1976, Director: Leonard Boyle, Pontifical

Institute of Mediaeval Studies

N.E.H. Residential Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Texas,

Austin 1977-78, Director : G. Carl Galinski, Chairman, Department of

Classics

American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Department of Celtic

Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1979-80

Graves Award Recipient, Department of Welsh Language and Literature,

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1982-83

John Lantz Fellowship (Sabbatical Enhancement) - University of Puget

Sound, 1987-88, 1994-95, 2001-02

Academic Positions

Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, 1983-present,

Associate, 1976-83; Assistant, 1971-76; University Professor
2001-present

Director of the Honors Program, University of Puget Sound, 1974-76;

1984-present

Director of the Program in Comparative Literature, University of Puget

Sound, 1976-77

Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Puget Sound,

1973-74

Director, N.E.H. Summer Seminar for School Teachers, University of

Puget Sound, Summer 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996

Visiting Professor of English, University of Washington, Fall 1988

Publications

1. DISSERTATION

Prophetia Johannis Bridlingtonensis: An Edition

University of Chicago dissertation 1973.

2. BOOKS

Physiologus. Austin and London: The University of Texas Press, 1979.

Reviewed In

The Washington Post Book World, March 2, 1980.

The New York Times Book Review, May 18, 1980.

Renaissance and Renascenses 1 (1980).

Journal of American Folklore 95 (1982), 219-221.

Saint Patrick's Purgatory, A Poem by Marie de France.

Translated, with introduction and notes. Binghamton,

New York, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.

1993.

Reviewed In

Mediaevistik 6 (1993), 69-70.

Manuscripta 37 (1993), 217.

Medieoevo Latino 15 (1994), 254.

Paragon (1995), 165-66.

French Studies 49(2) (1995), 182.

Geoffrey of Monmouth. New York: Maxwell Macmillan/Twayne

Publishers. 1994.

Reviewed In

Choice, April 1995.

Speculum, 73 (January 1998), 161-162.

3. ARTICLES

"A Note on Bertilak's Beard." Modern Philology 73 (1975), 69-73.

"Physiologus, physiologia and the Rise of Christian Nature Symbolism."

Viator 11 (1980), 1-10.

"The Cloak of Anonymity and The Prophecy of John of Bridlington."

Modern Philology 77 (1980), 361-369.

"A New Edition of John of Cornwall's Prophetia Merlini."

Speculum 57 (1982), 217-249.

"Some Additional Lines and a Marginal Commentary on The

Prophecy of John of Bridlington." Mediaeval Studies 46

(1984), 321-339.

"The Minotaur." in Mythical and Fabulous Creatures. Ed. Malcolm

Smith (New York, Greenwood Press, 1987).

"Animal Symbolism in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophecies of

Merlin." in Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary

and Its Legacy. Ed. Meradith T. McMunn, The University of

Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

"Gerallt Cymro A Sîon o Gernyw Fel Cyfieithwyr Proffwydoliaethau

Myrddin." Llên Cymru 15 (1987), 23-33.

"Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages: A National Endowment for

the Humanities Summer Seminar for Secondary School

Teachers, Arthuriana 4 (Winter 1994), 393-401.

"John Thwenge, Saint John of Bridlington," The New Dictionary of

National Biography (forthcoming).

Review of Siân Echard, Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition

(Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 36) Cambridge, Eng:

Cambridge University Press, 1998. In Speculum 77 (2002):

169-171.

“John of Cornwall,” in The Encyclopedia of Celtic Culture and History

(forthcoming).

“Five Lecciones for the Feast of St Nonita: A Text and its

Context: Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies" (forthcoming).

4. PAPERS DELIVERED

"Manuscript Testimony and The Prophecy of John of Bridlington."

Medieval Association of the Pacific. Spring 1975. University

of Washington.

"Problems in Latin Palaeography: Some Fourteenth Century

Manuscripts." The Medieval Colloquium. University of

Washington. Fall 1976.

"The Book of Nature: Stoic and Early-Christian Interpretations."

N.E.H. Residential Seminar in Classics. University of Texas.

Spring 1978.

"Physiologus, physiologia and the Rise of Christian Nature Symbolism."

The Medieval Colloquium. University of Washington. Fall

1978.

"The Celtic Background of John of Cornwall's "Prophetia Merlini."

Seminar in Medieval Welsh Poetry. Harvard University.

Spring 1980.

"Dante and the New Humanism." The Regester Lecture. University of

Puget Sound. Fall 1981.

"John of Cornwall and the Prophetia Merlini." The Medieval

Association of the Pacific. The University of Victoria.

Winter 1981.

"John of Cornwall and Geoffrey of Monmouth, A Reexamination."

Seventeenth International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Kalamazoo. Spring 1982.

"Prophecy in Early Welsh Literature." Centre for the Advanced Study

of Celtic Languages and Literatures. University College of

Wales, Aberystwyth. Fall 1982.

"The Eremitical Background of the Welsh Myrddin Poems." The

Medieval Association of the Pacific. Stanford University.

Spring 1986.

"Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae."

Seminar on History and Narrative. University of Washington.

Winter 1989.

"Geoffrey of Monmouth's Revisions on Nennius' Historia Brittonum."

Folklore and Mythology Program. University of California at

Los Angeles. March, 1991.

"The Originality of Marie de France's Espurgatoire Seint Patriz"

Medieval Association of the Pacific. University of California,

Irvine, February 1992.

"Some Unedited lectiones from the Life of Saint Nonita, Mother of

Saint David: A Text and Its Context." Celtic Studies Association

of North America. University of Washington, Seattle, April

1993.

"The Oral Background of Arthurian Literature," Seminar on Orality

and Literacy, University of Washington, Seattle, May, 1993.

"Ethnography and Empire in Gerald of Wales," Colloquium on the

Court of Henry II, University of Washington, Seattle, April

1994.

"The Earliest Account of Stonehenge," Medieval Association of the

Pacific. University of California at Berkeley, March 1995.

"The Miracles of Saint David: New Manuscript Evidence," Medieval

Association of the Pacific. University of San Diego, March

1996.

"Animated and Peripatetic Statues - New Evidence and Its Context in

the Miracles of Saint David," Medieval Association of the Pacific.

University of Hawaii, March 1997.

5. WORK IN PROGRESS

The Miracles of Saint David, and edition and commentary.

Languages

Latin, Greek, Old and Middle English, Welsh, Irish, German, Italian, French,

Spanish, Chichewa.

Courses Regularly Taught

Honors 211: The Humanistic Perspective

Honors 210: The Historical Perspective

English 222: Survey of British Literature II

English 236: Literature and the Quest for Personal Identity

English 360: Major Authors: Dante

English 440: Studies in Medieval Literature

English 483: Celtic Literature in Translation.