Joseph J. Duggan

Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of French

Education

Ph.D., Romance Languages, Ohio State University, 1964

B.A., egregia cum laude, French Literature, Fordham University, 1960

Certificat de langue française, Ecole Supérieure de Préparation et de Perfectionnement des Professeurs de Français à l'Etranger (Sorbonne), 1959

Certificat de phonétique française, Institut de Phonétique, Paris, 1959

Honors and Awards

Bernie E. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature, 1999-

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1968-69, 1994

Mythopoesis: Literatura, totalidad, ideología. Ofrecido a Joseph J. Duggan por su distinguida aportación a los estudios literarios. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. Ambitos Literarios/Ensayo, 42. Barcelona: Anthropos, Editorial del Hombre, 1992

First Milman Parry Lecturer in Oral Literature and Tradition, University of Missouri, April 1985

Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-80

Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1960-61; Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1964

Boursier du gouvernement français, 1958-59

Teaching

Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 1999-

Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Romance Philology, 1978-99

Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 1971-78

Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 1966-71

Assistant Professor of French, 1965-66

University of California, Berkeley: Instructor in French, 1964-65

Ohio State University: Instructor in French, 1963

Administration

Administative positions all at the University of California, Berkeley

Associate Dean of the Graduate Division for Degrees, Admissions, and Appointments, 1987-; Acting Dean of the Graduate Division, July-November, 1989

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, 1981-85

Service to the Profession

Member, Medieval Academy of America, Anglo-Norman Text Society, Société Rencesvals Internationale pour l'Etude de l'Epopée Romane

Fulbright Fellowship Reviewer for France, for the Institute of International Education, 1998-2000.

Société Internationale Rencesvals pour l'Etude de l'Epopée Romane, President of the American-Canadian Branch, 1992- 94; Vice-President of the American-Canadian Branch, 1979-81, 1989-91; International Vice-President, 1997-

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Romance Philology, 1982-87; Editor (for French literature), 1987-89, 1995-97

Medieval Academy of America: Member of the Executive Committee, 1991-92; Councillor, 1989-92; Nominating Committee, 1980-82, 1987-88 (Chair, 1987-88)

Medieval Association of the Pacific, President, 1984-86; Vice-President, 1982-84

American Branch of the International Arthurian Society, Nominating Committee, 1983-85 (Chair, 1984-85)

Board of Advisers, Garland Publications in Comparative Literature, 1983-

Director, Conference on the Medieval Epic in the Romance Languages, American-Canadian Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals, held at the University of California, Berkeley, June 20-25, 1980

California Foreign Language Teachers' Association, Executive Council, 1976-77

Foreign Language Association of Northern California, 1974-78; Vice-president, 1975-76; President, 1976-77

Advisory Boards of the journals Forum for Modern Language Studies (1966-), Olifant (1973-), Viator (1984-), Romance Philology (1976-82, 1989-98), Oral Tradition (1984-)

Community Service

Member of the Board of Trustees, East Bay French-American School, 1993-98; Chair, 1995-1997; Vice-Chair, 1994-95

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