Curriculum Vitae
MICHAEL J. CURLEY
Academic Training
B.A. Fairfield University 1964
Georgetown at Fribourg Program, 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
Emeritus Professor of English, University of Puget Sound, 2007-present;
Distinguished University Professor
2001-07; Professor 1983-2007, Associate, 1976-83;
Assistant, 1971-76
Susan Resneck Pierce Chair of Humanities and Honors, University of Puget Sound,
2004-06
Director of the Honors Program, University of Puget Sound, 1974-76; 1984-2007
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; revised
paperback edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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.
•Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays Translated by Michael J. Curley, New York, Peter
Lang. 2002.
Reviewed In
Italica, 84:4 (Winter 2007), 843-51.
3.
BOOK IN PROGRESS
•Alessandro Manzoni, Discorso sopra alcuni punti della storia longobardica in
Italia (1822 and 1845), a translation and commentary.
4.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
"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 Celtic Culture, a Historical Encyclopedia, edited by John
Koch (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC/Clio, 2006) 3: 1038.
“Five Lecciones for the feast of St Nonita: A Text and its Context,”
Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 43 (2002): 59-75.
Review of Jeanette Beer, Beasts of Love: Richard de Fournival’s
“Bestiaire d’amour” and a Woman’s Response. Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2003. In Romance Philology (2007).
"The Miracles of Saint David: A New Text and Its Context," Traditio 62 (2008):
135-205.
Review of Jean Blacker. Anglo-Norman Verse Prophecis of Merlin. Dallas:
Scriptorium Press, 2005. In Speculum 83 (2008): 174-5.
5.
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.
“Politics and Miracles of Saint David,” Medieval Association of the Pacific. Salt
Lake City, 2006.
“The Tacoma Bible,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, 2010. The University
of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
Languages
Latin, Greek, Old and Middle English, Welsh, Irish, German, Italian, French,
Spanish.
Courses Regularly Taught
Honors 211: The Humanistic Perspective: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Joyce
Honors 210: The Historical Perspective
English 222: Survey of British Literature I, Medieval and Renaissance Literature
English 236: Literature and the Quest for Personal Identity
English 360: Major Authors: Dante
English 360: Major Authors: Dante and Joyce
English 440: Studies in Medieval Literature
English 483: Celtic Literature in Translation.