Department of English (540) Shanks Hall / Virginia Tech A. J. Colaianne (540) (fax)

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1 Department of English (540) Shanks Hall / Virginia Tech A. J. Colaianne (540) (fax) Blacksburg, Virginia acolaian@vt.edu Education: B.A. Saint Vincent College, English, 1972 M.A. Duquesne University, English, 1974 Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, English, 1977 Professional Employment: Associate Chair, English, Virginia Tech Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising, English, Virginia Tech Interim Director, Center for Programs in the Humanities, Virginia Tech Associate Director, Center for Programs in the Humanities, Virginia Tech Director of Undergraduate English Studies, Virginia Tech 1983-present Associate Professor, English, Virginia Tech Assistant Professor, English, Virginia Tech Taft Fellow, University of Cincinnati Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Cincinnati Graduate Teaching Assistant, Duquesne University Honors and Awards: Taft Fellow, University of Cincinnati Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Tech Several grants from the Virginia Tech Educational Foundation and from the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Summer Stipend, Virginia Tech Fellow of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA State of the Art Award. Given by M.A. students, Department of English, Virginia Tech Alumni Teaching Award, Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence

2 Professional Memberships: Medieval Academy of America New Chaucer Society Southeastern Medieval Association Renaissance Society of America Popular Culture Association of America Participation on National Committees and Panels: Editorial Consultant, Medieval and Renaissance Text Society (Reviews, Proposals and Manuscripts) Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities Consultant, Garland Publishing Judge for NCTE Achievement Awards, 1985-Present Publications: Books and Articles: Piers Plowman: An Annotated Bibliography of Editions and Criticism, NY and London: Garland Press, Inc., Pp Development of a revised online edition is in progress. The Arcadia of vols., ed. NY: Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, [with critical introduction]. The Sydney Elegies. Ed. with W. L. Godshalk. NY: Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, [with critical introduction]. Project Designer and General Editor. The Chaucer Bibliographies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2 volumes 1983, Recent Studies in Sydney ( ). With W.L. Godshalk. English Literary Renaissance. 8 (1978): [Published separately by University of Massachusetts Press, 1978; abstracted in Sidney Newsletter. 1:I (1980): 16.] The Sydney Reference Guide. Sidney Newsletter. 1:I (1980), 5-8. The Aims and Methods of Annotated Bibliography. Scholarly Publishing. 11 (1980), ; abstracted in Journal of the Society for Technical Communication. 28 (1981), 23. Tradition and the Individual Teacher, In Teaching Excellence at a Research-Centered University. Eds. Scott Geller and Philip K. Lehman. Boston: Pearson, 2007,

3 Books and Articles, ctd. Bibliographer, with Lorrayne Y. Baird, et al. Annotated Chaucer Bibliography. Studies in the Age of Chaucer Chaucer Bibliographies. The Chaucer Newsletter. 4:1 (Spring 1982), 3. Structure and Foreconceit in Piers Plowman B: Some Observations on Langland s Psychology of Composition. Annuale Mediaevale. 22 (1982) [1985], Reviews (selected): Review of A.C. Hamilton s Sir Phillip Sydney: A Study of His Life and Works. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 77 (1978), Review of Daniel Murtaugh s Piers Plowman and the Image of God. Philological Quarterly. (Spring 1980), Review of Charlotte Morse s The Pattern of Judgment. Religious Studies Review. 6: I (1980), 70+. Review of Judson Boyce Allen s The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages. Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 5 (1983), Review of A.S.G. Edwards Middle English Prose. Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 7 (1985), Review of R.F. Yeager s Fifteenth-Century English Literature. Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 8 (1986). Presentations (selected). Sir Phillip Sydney to the Lady Penelope Devereux : A Newly-Discovered Text. Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, South The New Chaucer Bibliographies. Opening for the First Conference of Chaucer Bibliographers, Medieval House, University of Rochester, Structure and Foreconceit in Piers Plowman B. Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference on Piers Plowman, Claremont, California, February The Chaucer Bibliographies, New Chaucer Society Congress, San Francisco, The Mystery of Sidney s Stella. English Department Colloquy, Virginia Tech, The Heroical Epistle and The Evolution of Psychological Realism. Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Congress, The Place of Humanities in the University Core. Keynote Speech, Sweetbriar College, 1988.

4 Panelist, University of Chicago Symposium on Critical Thinking and Liberal Arts Curriculum, Macrobius and The Conclusion of Chaucer s Troilus. University of Miami International Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Invited Address, Bob Dylan and Literary History. Duke University Forum on Popular Culture, April Macrobius s Great Year: Timing the Apocalypse. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, March Crusading in Piers Plowman, B. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April Robert Burton s Library. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium, February, Invited Lecture. Julie Taymor s Titus and the text of Titus Andronicus. University of Cincinnati, October Our Authors are as so many dishes. Robert Burton s Banquet of Learning. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Conference, April The Middle English Judas. Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April The Utopias of Thomas More and Robert Burton. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium, February Commentator and Session Chair for Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. The session papers: The Raptus Motif in Chaucer and Gower (Professor Kathleen Kennedy) and The Meme and the Medieval Iconography of Death (Professor Ashby Kinch), April Thomas Nashe s The Choice of Valentines Among the Critics. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium, February Suicide and Natural Law in Burton and Browne. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February Common Sense and the Five Senses: The Rolls of Memory and Visual Recall in Some Early Seventeenth-Century Texts. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February The Progress of Chaucer s Dramatic Narratives. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Eroticism in The Anatomy of Melancholy. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February Chaucer s Birds: From the Iconic to the Absurd. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February The Working Men of Chaucer s Miller s Tale. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. February 2015.

5 Teaching Arthurian Legend On-line. With Karen Swenson. UVA-Wise Medieval- Renaissance Conference XXIX. September Committees and Service: Chair, Bibliography Program, New Chaucer Society Congress, York, England, August, Advisory Council, Cranwell International Center, Task Force on Library Automation Advisory Council, International Studies, Chairman, Undergraduate Committee, Department of English, Personnel Committee, Department of English, , , Executive Committee, Department of English, Chairman, Department Acquisitions Committee, Virginia Tech. In charge of ordering books and periodicals for the Department of English. Graduate Advisor, Virginia Tech, 1979-Present. Undergraduate Advisor, Virginia Tech, Faculty Sponsor, The English Major s Club, Editor, University Self-Study, Virginia Tech, Member, Provost s Core Curriculum Study Group, Summer, 2002.