John Dagenais

Department of Spanish and Portuguese
405 Hilgard Avenue
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1532 Office:
(310)-825-9922
Message: (310)-825-1036
Fax: (310)-206-4757
Internet: dagenais@humnet.ucla.edu

EDUCATION

• B.A. English and French, University of Kansas. 1966-71.
• M.A. Medieval History, University of Kansas. 1973-76.
• M.S. Library Science, University of Illinois--Urbana. 1977-78.
• Ph.D. Medieval Spanish Literature, University of Illinois--Urbana. 1978-82.
  • Dissertation: The Medieval Background of Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque.

EMPLOYMENT

• Associate Professor of Spanish, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995- .
• Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, Northwestern University, 1989-1995.
• Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, Northwestern University, 1983-89.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 1982-83.
• Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Indiana State University, Terre Haute. 1981-82.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Library Administration, Modern Languages and Linguistics Library, University of Illinois. 1979-81.

MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

• National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant (Hill Monastic Manscript Library, Collegeville, MN -- 1984)
• Mellon Per-diem Grant (Vatican Film Library, St. Louis -- 1985)
• American Philosophical Society Grant (for research in Spain -- 1985)
• NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (Academic Year 1986-87)
• NEH Summer Stipend (1986)
• American Philosophical Society Grant (for research in France -- 1995)
• NEH Fellowship for University Teachers (Academic Year 1995-96)
• NEH Translation Grant (June 1996-August 1997)

INTERNET ACTIVITIES

• Listservs
  • Listowner of MEDIBER, an Internet discussion group for Medieval Iberia. [To subscribe send an email message to the following address: liststar@humnet.ucla.edu. The message should read: subscribe mediber]
  • Listowner of SANTIAGO, a discussion group for Santiago as an international cultural phenomenon. [To subscribe send an email message to the following address: sprtlist@humnet.ucla.edu. The message should read: subscribe santiago ]
• World Wide Web Site
  • http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/iagohome.html, materials for a virtual pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and other materials related to Santiago as an international cultural phenomenon

RECENT PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

• Core Faculty member, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, "Medieval Lyric Poetry: Problems in Reading," directed by William D. Paden, Northwestern University (June 19-July 28, 1995).
• Member, University of California Advisory Board, Romance Philology, 1996- .

PUBLICATIONS

• Book
  • The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the Libro de buen amor. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.
• Editions
  • Text and Concordances of Sermones contra los moros e judios; MS 25-H, Biblioteca Pública y Provincial de Soria. By Alfonso de Valladolid (?). Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1991.
• Articles
  • "A Guide to the Pronunciation of Provençal O." Studies in Language Learning 2, No. 2 (1979): 103-108.
  • "Speech as the Sixth Sense--Ramon Llull's Affatus." Estudis de llengua i cultura catalanes; Actes del I. Col.loqui d Estudis Catalans a Nord-Amèrica. Barcelona: Abadia de Montserrat, 1979. 157-69.
  • "The Imaginative Faculty and Artistic Creation in Lope." Lope de Vega y los orígenes del teatro español. Ed. Manuel Criado de Val. Madrid: EDI-6, 1981. 321-26.
  • "New Considerations on the Date and Composition of Ramon Llull's Libre de les bèsties." Actes del Segon Col.loqui d Estudis Catalans a Nord-Amèrica. Barcelona: Abadia de Montserrat, 1982. 131-39.
  • "El amor y el proceso creador en Lope de Vega." Anuario de Letras 21 (1983): 223-36.
  • "A lazarillo in Toledo (1510)." Romance Notes 23 (1983): 264-69.
  • "Origin and Evolution of Ramon Llull's Theory of Affatus." Actes del III. Col.loqui d Estudis Catalans a Nord-Amèrica. Barcelona: Abadia de Montserrat, 1983. 107-21.
  • "'Avrás dueña garrida': the Language of the Margins in the Libro de buen amor." La Corónica 15 (1986-87): 38-45.
  • "Juan Rodríguez del Padrón's Translation of the Latin Bursarii: New Light on the Meaning of 'Tra(c)tado'." Journal of Hispanic Philology 10 (1995-86): 117-39.
  • "A Further Source for the Literary Ideas in Juan Ruiz's Prologue." Journal of Hispanic Philology 11 (1986-87): 23-52.
  • "'Se usa e se faz': Naturalist Truth in a Pamphilus Explicit and the Libro de buen amor." Hispanic Review 57 (1989): 417-36.
  • "Cantigas d'escarnho and seranillas: The Allegory of Careless Love." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 68 (1991): 243-60.
  • "That Bothersome Residue: Toward a Theory of the Physical Text." Vox Intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages. Eds. A.N. Doane and Carol Braun Pasternack. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991. 246-59.
  • "Mulberries, Sloe Berries; or, Was Doña Endrina a Mora?" MLN 107 (1992): 396-405.
  • "'Calame e conocerme has': On the Name of Don Melón." La Corónica 21 (1992-93): 1-14.
  • "Books and Libraries in Salamanca (1240-1300)." Available via ftp from: ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/NUacademics/hispanic.studies/Medieval.Iberia/articles/salamanc.txt [1993].
  • "'Il nostro maggior amante': Juan Ruiz and the Medieval Virgil." Essays in the History and Literature of Medieval Iberia. Ed. Donald Kagay and Joseph T. Snow. Cambridge, GB: Academia, 1995. In press.
  • "Ovid." Encyclopedia of the Iberian Middle Ages. Ed. E. Michael Gerli. New York: Garland. In press.
  • "Demonstrative Rhetoric and Genre: Praise, Blame, and Performance in the Razos de Trobar and the Doctrina de compondre dictats." Historicizing Genre in Medieval Lyric. Ed. William D. Paden. Article complete; volume in press.
  • "A Medieval Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela on the Information Highway." The Pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays. Ed. Maryjane Dunn and Linda Kay Davidson. New York: Garland, 1996. Pp. 143-51.
• Translations and Text
  • Prete, Sesto. Studies in Latin Poets of the Quattrocento. Trans. Sesto Prete and John Dagenais. University of Kansas Humanistic Studies 49. Lawrence: U of Kansas Publications, 1978. 188 pp. Translations from Italian and Latin.
  • Porqueras Mayo, A., J. Martí Olivella and Carme Rey Grangé. The New Catalan Short Story: An Anthology. Translations and Catalan-English glossary by John Dagenais. Washington, D.C.: University P of America, 1982. 277 pp.
  • "Broken Threads." Translation (from Catalan) of short story by Maria Antònia Oliver, "Fils trencats." On Our Own Behalf: Women's Tales from Catalonia. Ed. Kathleen McNerney. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1988. 129-53. Reprinted in International Feminist Fiction. Ed. Julia Penelope and Sarah Valentine. Freedom, CA: Crossing, 1992. 252-69.
  • Roig, Jaume. The Mirror of Women [Spill, o Libre de les dones]. In progress.
• Bibliography
  • "A Bibliography of Catalan Belles-Lettres in English Translation." With Hensley C. Woodbridge. Scripta Mediterranea 4 (1983): 41-70.
  • "Comèdies catalanes i bilingües en la biblioteca d'Oberlin College." Butlletí de la North American Catalan Society 19 (1984-85): 17-30.
  • "The Catalan-Speaking Regions." The Current State of Studies in Fifteenth-Century Literature. Ed. W.C. McDonald. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik. Göppingen, 1987. 65-85.