Curriculum VitæDONALD R. DICKSON |
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EDUCATION:Ph.D., A.M., B.A. with Honors in English, ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:Professor, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, 1987-1998. Gastprofessor, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1992-1993. Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, 1981-1987. Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, 1975-1981. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:Committee on
Scholarly Editions, Modern Language Association (2005-2009). Director, International Studies Program, Executive Director, South Central Modern Language Association (2003-2005). Editor, Seventeenth-Century News, since 1996. Assistant Editor, 1985-1995. Editorial Board, Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Assoc., since 1988. Editorial Board, Esoterica, since 2003. Editorial Board, Scintilla: Journal of the Editor, South-Central Renaissance Conference Newsletter, 1984-1990. Fellow, Interdisciplinary Group for
Historical Literary Study, Chair, Renaissance Section, SCMLA, 1987-1988. Secretary, Renaissance Section, SCMLA, 1986-1987. South-Central Renaissance Conference, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, 1984-1992; Executive Committee, 1996-1998; Program Chair, 1999. HONORS & GRANTS:International Association of University Professors of English (elected 1999). American Council on Education, Fellowship (awarded 2000). Teacher/Scholar Award, University Honors Program, Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study, Fellow (Spring 1996). Phi Beta Delta, National Honor Society for International Scholars (elected 1994). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, European Fellowship (September 1993-December 1993). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Research Fellowship (July 1992-August 1993). NEH Summer Institute, Fellow. “Marxism and the Interpretation of
Culture” (1983) University of Phi Kappa Phi (elected 1976). RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION:Books:
John Donne’s Poetry. Edited by Donald R. Dickson.
Of Thomas and Rebecca Vaughan, Aqua Vitæ:
Non Vitis: Or, The radical Humiditie
of Nature: Mechanically, and Magically dissected By the Conduct of Fire, and
Ferment (British Library MS, Sloane 1741). Edited and
translated with an Introduction by Donald R. Dickson. Medieval &
Renaissance Texts & Studies, vol. 217. The Tessera
of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods & Secret
Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century. Brill’s Studies in
Intellectual History series, vol. 88. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne: The Anniversaries,
Epicedes and Obsequies, ed. by Paul A.
Parrish with Donald R. Dickson and Dennis A. Flynn [commentary editors] and
Ted-Larry Pebworth, John T. Shawcross,
Gary A. Stringer and Ernest W. Sullivan, II [textual editors]. The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in
Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne. Articles:“Henry Vaughan’s Medical
Annotations,” Huntington Library Quarterly, forthcoming. “Henry
Vaughan as Country Doctor,” Explorations in Renaissance Culture,
forthcoming. “The Identity of Thomas Vaughan’s ‘Rebecca,’” Scintilla, 7 (2003):129-42. “Creative Acts or Divine Gifts?:
Agency in “Thomas Vaughan and the Iatrochemical Revolution.” The Seventeenth Century 15 (2000):18-31. “The Hunt for Red Elixir: An Early Collaboration Between Fellows of the Royal Society.” Endeavour 22 (1998):69-72. “The Alchemistical Wife: The Identity of Thomas Vaughan’s ‘Rebecca.’“ The Seventeenth Century 13 (1998):34-46. “Thomas Henshaw, Sir Robert Paston and the Red Elixir: An Early Collaboration Between Fellows of the Royal Society.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society 51 (1997):57-76. “Johann Valentin Andreae’s Utopian Brotherhoods.” Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996):860-902. “Johannes Saubert, Johann Valentin Andreae and the Unio Christiana.” German Life & Letters 49 (1996):18-31. “Between Transubstantiation and Memorialism: Herbert’s Eucharistic Celebration.” George Herbert Journal 11 (1988):1-14. “The Complexities of Biblical Typology in the Seventeenth Century.” Renaissance & Reformation 23 (1987): 253-72. “Grace and the ‘Spirits’ of the Heart in The “The ‘slydynge’ Yeoman: The Real Drama in The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale.” South Central Review 2, No. 2 (1985): 10-22. “ “Professional Writing and the Humanities.” American Business Communication Association Bulletin 47, No. 4 (1984):6-8. “‘In a mirror that mirrors the soul’: Masks and Mirrors in Dorian Gray.” English Literature in Transition 26 (1983):5-15. Chapters in Books:“The Mount of Olives: Vaughan’s Book
of Private Prayer” in Of “Utopia” in Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the
Early Modern World, ed. “Thomas Vaughan” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 131. The Seventeenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Poets in 3 vols. Ed. by M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, Washington & London: Gale, 1993), pp. 310-17. “Humanistic Influences on the Art of the Familiar Epistle in the Renaissance” in Studies in The History of Business Writing. Ed. by George Douglas (Urbana, IL: Association for Business Communication, 1985), pp. 11-22. Reviews:John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography
of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995. By
John R. Roberts in Seventeenth-Century News, 63, Nos. 3&4 (2005):
168-69 The Hartlib Papers on CD-ROM by Mark Greengrass
et al. in Seventeenth-Century News, 62, Nos. 3&4 (2004): 165-69. Restoring the Johann Valentin Andreae’s Theophilus, edited by Jana Matlová
and Jirí Beneš, in
Wrestling with God: Literature & Theology in the English Renaissance edited by Mary Ellen Henley and W. Speed Hill in Seventeenth-Century News, 60, Nos. 1&2 (2002): 41-43. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery by Lyndy Abraham, in Endeavour 23 (1999): 140. Heilig Öffentlich Geheimnis: Die geistliche Lyrik der englischen Frühaufklärung, by Inge Leimberg, in Seventeenth-Century News 57, Nos. 1&2 (1999):62-64. Henry More’s A Platonick Song of the Soul, ed. By Alexander Jacob in Seventeenth-Century News 57, Nos. 1&2 (1999):40-41. Johann Valentin Andreaes Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 2: Nachrufe, Autobiographische Schriften, Cosmoxenus, ed. by Frank Böhling, Roland Edighoffer, Wilhelm Kühlmann and Werner Straube, in Seventeenth-Century News 56, Nos. 3&4 (1998):4-6. The Writings of John Evelyn by Guy de la Bédoyère and The Diary of John Evelyn by Guy de la Bédoyère, in Seventeenth-Century News 56, Nos. 1&2 (1998):89-91. Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman, in Seventeenth-Century News 55, Nos. 3&4 (1997):51-53. Science, Pseudo-Science, and Utopianism in Early Modern Thought by Stephen A. McKnight, in Seventeenth-Century News 51, Nos. 3&4 (1993):57. Holy Delight: Typology, Numerology, and Autobiography in Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by Kate G. Frost, in Critical Review of Books in Religion 6 (1993):359-61. Marvell and Alchemy by Lyndy Abraham, in Seventeenth-Century News 50, Nos. 1&2 (1992):15-16. The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell, ed. Conal Condren and A. D. Cousins, in Seventeenth-Century News 50, Nos. 1&2 (1992):14-15. Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost by
The English Emblem Tradition, Vol I. van der Noot, Giovio, Domenichi, Whitney, ed. by Peter M. Daly with Leslie Duer and Anthony Raspa, in South Central Review 7 (1990):80-81. God’s Courtier: Configuring a Different Grace in George
Herbert’s Andrew Marvell by Richard Wilcher, in Seventeenth- Century News 45, No. 4 (1987):72. The Bible and Reason: Anglicans and Scripture in Late
Seventeenth-Century Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth- Century Richard Crashaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1632-1980 by John R. Roberts, in Literary Research Newsletter 10 (1985):39-40. Literature in Protestant Business in Literature, ed. by Burden et al., in Journal of
Business of Communication 16, No. 1 (1978):67-68. Work in Progress: Editor (with Alan Rudrum) The Complete Works of Henry Vaughan. Editor (with Alan Rudrum) The Complete Works of Thomas Vaughan. Recent Presentations:“T. R. O’Flahertie’s
Copy of Donne’s Letters.”
The TAMU Donne Acquisition.
Cushing Memorial Library, April 2006. “Henry Vaughan’s Medical Library.” Exploring the Renaissance. “Henry Vaughan as Country Doctor.” International
Association of University Professors of English, 19th International
Conference, “Henry Vaughan’s Medical Library.” Exploring the Renaissance. “Henry Vaughan’s Medical
Practice.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, “Henry Vaughan as Country Doctor.” Centre for
Seventeenth-Century Studies, “The Mount of Olives: “The Mount of Olives and “Thomas Vaughan’s Research Notebooks.” Renaissance
Society of “Creative Acts or Divine Gifts?: Agency
in “Thomas Vaughan and the Iatrochemical
Revolution,” Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, “Creative Acts or Divine Gifts?: Agency
in “Thomas Vaughan and the Iatrochemical
Revolution,” Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, “Thomas Vaughan as Experimental Alchemist.” Renaissance
Society of “Rebecca Vaughan as Idealized Muse.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, April 1998. “How Revolutionary was the Royal Society? A Case Study of an
Alchemical Collaboration between Fellows.” Centre for
Seventeenth-Century Studies, “The Identity of Thomas Vaughan’s ‘Rebecca.’“ South-Central Renaissance Conference, March 1997. “The Identity of Thomas Vaughan’s
‘Rebecca.’“ “Thomas Henshaw and Thomas Vaughan’s Christian Learned Society.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, March 1996. “The Unio Christiana and Antilia: J. V. Andreae
and Protestant Utopian Brotherhoods.” Centre for Seventeenth-Century
Studies, “Johann Valentin Andreae’s Utopian Brotherhoods.” South-Central Renaissance Conference, April 1995. “Science as Wealth in Utopian Societies: The Case of Antilia.” American Comparative Literature Association, March 1995. “Thomas Vaughan and Secret Brotherhoods in Germany and
Britain,” (Plenary address) Icons, Visions and Devices, Colloquium at
the Englishes Seminar, “Lost Renaissance or Second Reformation? Protestant Literature
Between Poetry and Politics.” [Colloquium] “Thomas Vaughan and Johann Valentin Andreae: Learned Societies in MEMBERSHIPS:NAFSA: Association of International Educators International Studies Association International Association of University Professors of English South Central Modern Language Association Renaissance Society of South-Central Renaissance Conference John Donne Society Alexander von Humboldt Association of America Phi Kappa Phi Honorary |
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