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黑料传送门

Department of English and Creative Writing

Ronald Herzman

Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus

Portrait of Ron Herzman

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • BA Manhattan College, 1965
  • MA University of Delaware, 1967
  • PhD University of Delaware, 1969
  • LHD (honoris causa) Manhattan College, 1991

Appointments

  • State University of New York, College at 黑料传送门
    • SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, 1989-2018;
      Emeritus,
    • Chair, 1994-1997
    • Acting Chair, 1986, 2005
    • Professor, 1983鈥�89
    • Associate Professor,1978鈥�83
    • Assistant Professor, 1969鈥�78
  • New York University
    • Visiting Lecturer, 2019
  • Fordham University
    • Fellow, Center for Medieval Studies, 2015-2016
  • St.聽John鈥檚 College, Santa Fe, NM
    • Guest Tutor, Summer 1994, 1997
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
    • Assistant Director, Division of Fellowships and Seminars,
      1984鈥�85
    • Founding Program Officer: Summer Seminars for School Teachers,
      1982鈥�85
  • Georgetown University
    • Professorial Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, 1983鈥�85
  • Attica Correctional Facility
    • Adjunct Professor of Literature (through Genesee Community College),
      1980鈥�82
  • University of Chicago
    • Fellow, 1978-79
  • University of Delaware
    • Instructor in English, 1968鈥�69.

Areas of Specialization

  • Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • Dante
  • Chaucer
  • Medieval Spirituality
  • Francis of Assisi
  • Latin
  • Humanities
  • Shakespeare
  • The Bible

Courses Taught

  • Dante / The Age of Dante
  • Dante and African American Literature
  • Chaucer / Chaucer and His Age
  • Humanities I: Readings from Plato to Shakespeare
  • Humanites I in New York City / in Hong Kong
  • Humanities II: Locke to Present
  • Medieval Studies (team鈥憈aught, interdepartmental):
  • The Age of Francis of Assisi
  • Love and War in the Twelfth Century
  • The Age of Chaucer
  • The Age of Dante
  • Poetry and Cosmology in the Middle Ages
  • The Apocalyptic Tradition
  • Shakespeare (six different courses)
  • The Bible
  • Literary Forms:
  • Tragedy
  • Arthurian Romance
  • Mythology
  • Old English/Beowulf
  • Medieval British Literature
  • Medieval European Literature
  • British Literature I (beginnings to 1700)
  • Medieval Mysticism (Senior Seminar)
  • College Writing
  • Summer Courses Abroad (team鈥憈aught):
  • Literature and Society in Chaucer’s England
  • Literature and Society in Dante’s Italy
  • France and England in the High Middle Ages
  • Latin
  • Elementary Latin
  • Medieval Latin
  • Reading courses in Virgil, Ovid, Augustine, Boethius, Benedict,
  • Bonaventure, Livy
  • Honors 102 / 202 (Critical Reading)

Books

  • The Medieval World View, third edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi + 397 (with William R. Cook).
  • The Medieval World View, second edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 320 (with William R Cook).
  • Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, and Athelston. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999 (Edited, with Graham N. Drake and Eve Salisbury).
  • The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xi + 244 (with Richard K. Emmerson). Chapter Four, 鈥淭he Commedia: Apocalypse, Church, and Dante鈥檚 Conversion,鈥� rpt. in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 5, pp. 350-401.
  • La Vision Medieval Del Mundo, tr. Milagros Rivera Garreta. Barcelona: Editorial Vincens鈥慥ives, 1985 (with William R. Cook).
  • The Medieval World View, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxiv + 366 (with William R. Cook)

Articles and Chapters

  • 鈥淒ante, Pope Nicholas III, and the Frescoes in the Sancta Sanctorum,鈥� Dante Studies 140 (2022): 95-134.
  • 鈥淰irgil鈥檚 Mission: Dante and the Salvation of the Pagan World,鈥� Mediaevalia 44 (2023): 125-180 (with Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz).
  • “Simony,” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed Richard Newhouser (Wiley), forthcoming.
  • 鈥淒ante, Francis, Iacopone,鈥� Tributes to Richard K. Emmerson: Crossing Medieval Disciplines, eds. Deirdere Carter, Elina Gertsman, and Karlyn Griffith. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller / Brephols, 2021, pp. 301-314
  • 鈥淭eaching Dante in Prison,鈥� Approaches to Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy, eds. Christopher Kleinhenz and Kristina Olson. New York: MLA Publications, 2020, pp. 242-256
  • 鈥淒ante鈥檚 Francis, Take 2,鈥� Select Proceedings from the First International Conference on Franciscan Studies: 鈥淭he World of Saint Francis鈥� (July 16-20, 2015), eds. Bradley R. Franco and Beth A. Mulvaney. Siena: Betti Editrice, 2016, pp. 51-62.
  • “Fraternal (Un) Masking: “Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Dante’s Inferno 27,” in The World of St. Francis of Assisi, ” eds. Bradley R. Franco and Beth A. Mulvaney. Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 121-139.
  • “Dante: Cafeteria Catholic” in Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna, ed. Marc Di Paolo. Lanham: Scarecrow / Rowen and Littlefield, 2013, pp. 1-16
  • “Dante and the Frescoes at Santi Quatro Coronati,” Speculum 87.1 (2012): 95-146 (with William A. Stephany).
  • 鈥淎ttica Educations: Dante in Exile,鈥� PMLA 123 (2008): 697-701. Rpt. in Poetry and Criticism vol. 108. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale 2010, pp. 225-228.
  • 鈥溾�業o non Ene盲, io non Paolo sono鈥�: Ulysses, Guido da Montefeltro, and Franciscan Traditions in the Commedia,鈥� Dante Studies 123 (2005, pub. 2008): 23-69.
  • Dante From Two Perspectives: The Sienese Connection, Bernardo Lecture Series 15 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007) (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淲hat Dante Learned from St. Francis,鈥� in Dante and the Franciscans, ed. Santa Casciana (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2006), pp. 113-140 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥溾�業 speak not yet of proof鈥�: Dante and the Art of Assisi,鈥� in The Art of the Franciscans in Italy, ed. William R. Cook (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005), pp. 189-209
  • 鈥淕raduate Educations,鈥� The Journal of Education 184 (2003): 23-35.
  • 鈥淔rom Francis to Solomon: Eschatology in the Sun,鈥� in Dante for the New Millenium, eds. Teodolina Barolini and Wayne Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp.320-333.
  • 鈥淗umanites Educations,鈥� The Journal of Education 183(2002): 81-89.
  • 鈥淢edieval Outreach,鈥� Medieval Academy of America News, November, 2001, p. 12.
  • 鈥淐atholic Educations,鈥� First Things, October 2000, pp. 39-45.
  • The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing (Garland, 2000), articles on: 鈥淔rancis of Assisi,鈥� 鈥淐lement V,鈥� 鈥淎pocalypse鈥� (with Richard K. Emmerson), 鈥淩evelation鈥� (with Richard K. Emmerson), and 鈥淧rophecy鈥�(with Richard K. Emmerson)
  • 鈥� 鈥�Visibile Parlare鈥�: Dante’s Purgatorio 10 and Luca Signorelli’s San Brizio Frescoes,鈥� Studies in Iconography 20 (1999):155-183.
  • 鈥�The Book of the City of Ladies as Twice Told Tale,鈥� in Retelling Tales, eds. Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack (Boydell & Brewer, 1998), pp. 108鈥�125.
  • 鈥�Confessions 7.9: What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem?鈥� Journal of Education 179 (1997): 49鈥�60.
  • 鈥淪quaring the Circle: Paradiso 33 and The Poetics of Geometry,鈥� Traditio 49 (1994): 95鈥�125 (with Gary W. Towsley).
  • 鈥淒ante and the Apocalypse,鈥� in The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, eds. R. K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. 398鈥�413. Rpt. in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 5, pp. 402-417.
  • 鈥淛acopone da Todi: The Aesthetics of Imprisonment,鈥� Franziskanische Studien 72 (1990): 248鈥�256 (with Weston L. Kennison).
  • 鈥淭he Bible and the Schools: Some Reflections,鈥� in Better Schools, Better Lives: An Invitation to Dialogue. Boston: Boston University Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character, 1990. Pp. 21 鈥� 26.
  • 鈥�The Canterbury Tales in Eschatological Perspective,鈥� in The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, ed. D. Verhelst et al (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988): 404鈥�424 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
  • 鈥淗ow to Write a Fellowship Proposal,鈥� Humanities, Feb. 1987.
  • 鈥淭he Apocalyptic Age of Hypocrisy: Faus Semblant and Amant in the Roman de la Rose,鈥� Speculum 62 (1987): 611鈥�634 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
  • 鈥淒ante and Francis,鈥� Franciscan Studies, 42 (1982; pub. 1986): 96鈥�114. Rpt. in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York and London: Routledge, 2003). vol. 7, pp. 386-404.
  • 鈥淪ummer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers,鈥� School鈥慍ollege Collaborative Programs in English, ed. Ron Fortune, New York: Modern Language Association, 1986, pp. 92鈥�96.
  • 鈥�The Friar’s Tale: Chaucer, Dante, and the Translatio Studii,鈥� ACTA 9 (1985), 1鈥�17.
  • 鈥溾�楲et Us Seek Him Also鈥�: Tropological Judgment in Twelfth-Century Art and Drama,鈥� in Homo, Memento Finis: The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. Papers by David Bevington, Huston Diehl, Richard Kenneth Emmerson, Ronald Herzman, and Pamela Sheingorn. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, Early Drama, Art and Music Monograph Series 6, 1985, pp. 59-88.
  • 鈥淩oland and Romanesque: Biblical Iconography in The Song of Roland,鈥� The Arts, Society, and Literature, ed. Harry Garvin (Bucknell Review, vol. 29, Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1984), pp. 21鈥�48 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淔rom Chaucer to St. Francis,鈥� Humanities 4(1983): 17鈥�18.
  • 鈥淒ante In Attica,鈥� Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 9(1982): 3鈥�8 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥�The Reeve’s Tale, Symkyn, and Simon the Magician,鈥� The American Benedictine Review, 33 (1982): 325鈥�333.
  • 鈥淪imon the Magician and the Medieval Tradition,鈥� Journal of Magic History, 2 (1980): 28鈥�43 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淎ntichrist, Simon Magus, and Dante’s Inferno 19,鈥� Traditio, 36 (1980): 373鈥�398 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
  • 鈥淐annibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII,鈥� Dante Studies 98 (1980): 53鈥�77. Rpt. in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 7, Dante and Interpretation, pp. 175-200.
  • 鈥�Inferno XXXIII: The Past and the Present in Dante’s Imagery of Betrayal,鈥� Italica 56 (1979): 377鈥�383 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥溾赌�0 miseri seguaci鈥�: Sacramental Inversion in Inferno XIX,鈥� Dante Studies 96 (1978): 39鈥�65 (with William A. Stephany).
  • 鈥淏辞苍补惫别苍迟耻谤别’蝉 Life of St. Francis and the Frescoes in the Church of San Francesco: A Study in Medieval Aesthetics,鈥� Franziskanische Studien 59 (1977): 29鈥�37 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淢illstones: An Approach to The Miller’s Tale and The Reeve’s Tale,鈥� The English Record, 18 (1977): 18鈥�21, 26.
  • 鈥淪t. Eustace: A Note on Inferno XXVII,鈥� Dante Studies 94 (1976): 137鈥�139 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淟iterature and Society in Chaucer’s English: A Multidisciplinary Analysis,鈥� Journal of English Teaching Techniques, 8(1976): 26鈥�35 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淎n Interdisciplinary Approach to Chaucer’s England: A Multidisciplinary Analysis,鈥� Exercise Exchange, 18 (1974): 17鈥�20 (with William R. Cook).
  • 鈥淭he Paradox of Form: The Knight’s Tale and Chaucerian Aesthetics,鈥� Papers on Language and Literature, 10 (1974): 339鈥�352. Rpt. in Wege der Forschung: Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Willi Erzgraber. Darmstadt: Wissensschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983, pp. 272鈥�287.
  • 鈥淭he Gateway of Art: Analogies as an Approach to Medieval Literature,鈥� Exercise Exchange 17 (1973): 13鈥�17 (with M. Kay Nellis).
  • 鈥淪tephen Spender: The Critic as Poet,鈥� Notes on Contemporary Literature 3 (1973): 6鈥�7.
  • 鈥淎 Yeatsian Parallel in Richard Wilbur’s 鈥楳erlin Enthralled,鈥欌�� Notes on Contemporary Literature 1 (1972): 10鈥�11.

Audio Visual

  • Literature of the Renaissance. Twelve Lecture Visual / Audio course as part of Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2004.
  • Augustine’s Confessions. Twenty-four Lecture Visual / Audio course, The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2004 (with William R. Cook).
  • Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy. Twenty-four Lecture Visual / Audio course. The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2001(with William R. Cook).
  • Discovering the Middle Ages. Twelve Lecture Visual Course, The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2001 (with William R. Cook).
  • Francis of Assisi. Twelve Lecture Visual / Audio Course. The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 2000 (with William R. Cook).
  • Dante’s Life and Times, Dante’s Literary Antecedents. Two Visual/Audio Lectures, part of Great Authors of the Western Tradition. SuperStar Teachers. The Teaching Company, 1993 (with William R. Cook).
  • Hell, Purgatory, Heaven: Dante’s Divine Comedy. Eight Lecture Visual / Audio course for SuperStar Teachers / The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, 1993 (with William R. Cook).
  • Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante for Our Time: Inferno 27, with William A. Stephany; Inferno 33, with Weston L. Kennison; Purgatorio 21, with Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz; Paradiso 13, with Gary W. Towsley; Paradiso 14, with Hannah Schmidt (NYU Casa Italiana / You Tube, 2021).
  • Dante鈥檚 Divine Comedy, 鈥淒og with Torches鈥� Podcast (You Tube)

Reviews

  • John Freccero, In Dante鈥檚 Wake: Readings from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition, eds. Daniella Callegari and Melissa Swain, Speculum, 2017
  • Dennis Looney, Freedom Readers:The African American Experience of Dante and the The Divine Comedy, Medievally Speaking, on line June 4, 2016.
  • Nick Havely, Dante, Speculum, 2009
  • Justin Steinberg, Accounting for Dante, Medievalia et Humanistica, 2007.
  • Nick Havely, Dante and the Franciscans, Speculum, 2006.
  • Eric Jager, The Book of the Heart, Speculum, 2003.
  • John Scott, Dante’s Political Purgatory, Bryn Mawr Medieval Review, 1996, on line.
  • Robert Fossier, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages: 1 350鈥�950, Studies in the Age of Chaucer (1993) .
  • John Saly, Dante’s Paradiso: The Flowering of the Self, Church History, 1993.
  • Piero Boitani, The Tragic and The Sublime in Medieval Literature, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13(1991): 165鈥�8.
  • Robert Edwards, The Dreams of Chaucer, Envoi 2(1990): 307鈥�311.
  • Antonio Crocco, ed., L’Eta dello Spirito e La Fine Dei Tempi in Gioacchino da Fiore e nel Gioachimismo Medievale: Atti del II Congresso Internationale di Studi Giochimiti, Speculum 65(1990): 642鈥�3.
  • Jeffrey Tambling, Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11(1989): 327鈥�331.
  • Penn Szittya, The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature, Envoi 1(1988): 176鈥�181.
  • Patrick Diehl, The Medieval Religious Lyric: An Ars Poetica, Speculum 63(1988): 390鈥�1.
  • Peter Dronke, Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 9(1987): 209鈥�212.
  • Joan M. Ferrante, The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy and Stewart Farnell, The Political Ideas of the Divine Comedy, Italica, 63(1986): 306鈥�310.
  • V.A. Kolve, Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 7(1985): 212鈥�218 (with Richard K. Emmerson).
  • A. Bartlett Giamatti, ed., Dante in America, The First Two Centuries, Speculum, 60(1985): 678鈥�9.
  • John V. Fleming, From Bonaventure to Bellini: An Essay in Franciscan Exegesis, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 6(1984): 189鈥�192.
  • Richard K. Emmerson, Antichrist in the Middle Ages, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 5(1983): 164鈥�166.
  • Richard Kay, Dante’s Swift and Strong, Modern Philology, 78(1980): 75鈥�78.
  • Lincoln Cathedral Manuscript Library, Microform Review, 8(1979): 218鈥�220.
  • Lars Lonroth, Njal’s Saga: A Critical Introduction, Oral History Review 1976, pp. 75鈥�76.

Awards and Honors

  • Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition: Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman, eds. Lydia Yaitsky Kerz and Richard K. Emmerson. Medieval Institute Publications, 2023
  • 黑料传送门, Faculty Career Achievement Award, August, 2017 (First Recipient).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars for School Teachers, Director: Dante’s Commedia, Siena and Assisi Italy, Summer 1988; 黑料传送门, Summer 1989.
  • Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, 黑料传送门, Summer 1990, Summer 1991, Summer 1993. Dante’s Commedia: St. John’s College, Santa Fe, Summer 1996, 1998. Co-Director, “Dante鈥檚 Commedia”: Siena Italy, Summer 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 (with William Stephany).
  • Commencement Speaker, 黑料传送门, May 2013
  • Art Hatton Award for Excellence in College Advancement, 2012.
  • Who’s Who in America, 2011.
  • 黑料传送门 Alumni Association, Honorary Membership, 2011.
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Foundation Member, 黑料传送门, 2004
  • Medieval Academy of America: CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies, 2003 (First Recipient).
  • Spencer J. Roemer Fellowship, Summer 1994.
  • Commencement Speaker, Groveland Correctional Facility, 1993.
  • Commencement Speaker, 黑料传送门, 1992.
  • L.H.D. honoris causa, Manhattan College, 1991.
  • New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award, 1990.
  • State University of New York: Appointed Faculty Exchange Scholar, 1981鈥�
  • Commencement Speaker, Attica Correctional Facility, 1980 (with William R. Cook).
  • National Endowment for the Humanities: Residential Fellow, University of Chicago, 1978鈥�1979.
  • Member, National Humanities Faculty: 1978鈥�
  • State University of New York: Research Grants 1976, 1979, 1981.
  • State University of New York: Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1976.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Seminar, Princeton University 1973.
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