W. Scott Blanchard
129 Glenburn Road
Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania 18411
(570) 406-7197
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative Literature, May, 1987.
Dissertation: "Poetry and the Encyclopedia: Studies in the Iconology of the Liberal Arts in
Renaissance Humanism."
B.A., Middlebury College, March, 1978. Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude. Highest Departmental
Honors in English. Recipient of Reid Carr Award for Best English Thesis.
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
(Southampton College)
Academic Standards Committee, 1986-89
Chair, Academic Research Committee, 1988-9
Chair, Essential Literacies Sub-Committee, LIU Plan Steering Committee, 1987-8
Faculty Executive Council, 1989-90
Author, Title III grant section, "Writing Across the Curriculum," 1988
(College Misericordia and Misericordia University)
Faculty Development Committee, Fall, 1991
Faculty Senate, Spring, 1992-Fall, 1995
Secretary, Faculty Senate, 1994-5
Secretary, Curriculum Committee, 1996-8
Chair, Post-tenure Review Policy Committee, 1998
Faculty Development Committee, 1999-2004
Chair, Writing Intensive Committee, 2000Director, Shakespeare Symposium, 1997-2004
Founding Director, Humanities Summer Research Fellowships, 2003-7
Chair, Handbook Revision Committee, 2005-7
Member, VPAA search committee, 2005-6
Member, Friends of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library Friends Committee, 2004-7
Co-director, College Misericordia Honors Program, 2006-7
Director, Misericordia University Honors Program, 2007-10
Member, Core Curriculum Director search committee, 2007
Chair, Faculty Welfare Committee, Misericordia University, 2009-10
Chair, Study Abroad Committee, Misericordia University, 2014-5
Director, Florence Study Abroad Program, 2012-2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007-Present: Professor of English, Misericordia University
2002-7: Professor of English, College Misericordia
1994-2002: Associate Professor of English, College Misericordia
1991-1994: Assistant Professor of English, College Misericordia
1987-1991: Assistant Professor of English, Southampton College
Fall, 1986: Instructor, Southampton College
1984: Instructor, Barnard College English Department, Freshman Literature Program
1981-3: Teaching Assistant and Preceptor, Columbia College, Freshman Composition Program
TEACHING FIELDS
Classical Literature in Translation, Comparative Renaissance Literature, Sixteenth- and
Seventeenth-Century British Literature, Milton, Shakespeare, Modernism (Joyce, Eliot, Yeats,
Pound, Stevens), Dante, Italy in Literature and Film
LANGUAGES
Latin, French, Italian
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Scholars' Bedlam: Menippean Satire in the Renaissance (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University
Press, 1995).
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo, a translation of the Latin dialogue in collaboration with Jeroen De
Keyser (textual editor), I Tatti Renaissance Library (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 2013).
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
"O miseri philologi: Codro Urceo's Satire on Professionalism and Its Context," Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies 20 (1990): 91-122.
"Ut Encyclopedia Poesis: Ben Jonson's Cary-Morison Ode and the 'Spheare' of 'Humanitie',"
Studies in Philology 87 (1990):194-220.
"Skelton: The Voice of the Mob in Sanctuary," a chapter in an anthology entitled Rethinking the
Henrician Era: New Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts, ed. Peter Herman (Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 123-44.
"English Renaissance Satire" and "Continental Satire" (Overview and French Satire), three
articles published in the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul Grendler (New York:
Scribner's Sons, 1999).
"The Negative Dialectic of Lorenzo Valla: A Study in the Pathology of Opposition,"
Renaissance Studies 14 (2000): 149-89.
"Petrarch and the Genealogy of Asceticism," Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (2001): 401-423.
"Swift's Tale, the Renaissance Anatomy, and Humanist Invective," Swift Studies 16 (2001): 8397; also published in Representations of Swift, ed. Brian Connery (Newark and London:
University of Delaware Press, 2002), 57-73.
“Renaissance Prose Satire in England and Italy,” in A Companion to Satire, ed. Ruben Quintero.
(Blackwell, 2006), pp. 118-136.
“Patrician Sages and the Humanist Cynic: Francesco Filelfo and the Ethics of WorldCitizenship,” Renaissance Quarterly 60 (2007): 1107-1169.
“Skelton’s Critique of Wealth and the Early Modern Intellectual,” in John Skelton and Early
Modern Culture: Papers Honouring Robert S. Kinsman, ed. David Carlson ( MRTS:Arizona
State Univ., 2008):45-62.
“Leonardo Bruni and the Poetics of Sovereignty,” The European Legacy 20 (2015): 477-491.
“Forms of Power, Forms of Life: Agamben’s Franciscan Turn,” New Literary History 46 (2015):
525-48.
REVIEWS
Review of David Riggs, Ben Jonson: A Life (Harvard University Press, 1989) in Journal of the
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 11 (1990):193-4
Review of Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, ed. and trans.
David Marsh (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies/The Renaissance Society of
America, 1987) in Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 11
(1991): 154-5.
Review of Martine Furno, Le Cornu Copiae de Niccolò Perotti: Culture et methode d'un
humaniste qui aimait les mots (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance CCXIV; Geneva, Librairie
Droz, 1995), in H-Net Reviews (www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews), posted May, 1997.
Review of Ingrid De Smet, Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters, 1581-1655 (Travaux
de Grand Siècle, 2; Geneva, Librairie Droz, 1996), Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 1000-1.
Review of Ronald Witt, In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Italian Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
(Leiden: Brill, 2000), Quaderni d’italianistica 24 (2003):152-3.
Review of Cyriac of Ancona, Selected Writings, ed. and trans. Edward Bodnar; Francesco
Petrarca, Invectives, ed. and trans. David Marsh; and Polydore Vergil, On Discovery, ed. and
trans. Brian Copenhaver (all three volumes published by the I Tatti Renaissance Library,
Harvard University Press, 2002-4), Renaissance Quarterly 58 (2005): 581-4.
Review of Pietro Bembo, Lyric Poetry, Etna; and Gary R. Grund, ed. and tr., Humanist
Comedies (both volumes published by the I Tatti Renaissance Library, Harvard University Press,
2005), Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 836-839.
Review of David Rutherford, Early Renaissance Invective and the Controversies of Antonio da
Rho (Renaissance Text Series 19; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 301; Tempe,
Arizona 2005), Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 1167-9.
Review of Craig Kallendorf, The Other Virgil: Pessimistic Readings of the Aeneid in Early
Modern Culture, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008):
999-1000.
Review of Rosanna Alhaique Pettinelli, Stefano Benedetti, and Pietro Petteruti Pellegrino, eds.
Le parole “giudiziose”: Indagini sul lessico della critica umanistico-rinascimentale. Studi (e
teste) italiani: Collana del Dipartimento di italianistica e spettacolo, 21. Rome: Bulzoni Editore,
2008, Renaissance Quarterly 62 (2009):1218-19.
Review of Philip Ford and Andrew Taylor, eds. The Cultures of Neo-Latin Drama (Leiden: Brill
Publishers, 2012), Renaissance Quarterly 66 (2014): 678-9.
Review of Antonio Urceo Codro, Sermones I-IV. Filologia e maschera nel Quattrocento. Eds.
and trs. Loredana Chines and Andrea Severi (Rome: Carocci, 2013), Renaissance Quarterly 67
(2014):1299-1300.
Review of Piero Candido Decembrio, Epistolarum iuvenilium libri octo (Premio Tesi di
Dottorato, 33), ed. Federico Petrucci (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2013), forthcoming in
Renaissance Quarterly.
CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS
A dual language edition (Latin/Italian) of a fifteenth-century treatise on the Medici family
entitled Libri de temporibus suis, by the Florentine Dominican Giovanni di Carlo. The Latin
edition, prepared by me, has been finished, and the Italian translation and notes are in progress.
Renaissance Encyclopedism, a volume of essays projected to be finished in late 2015, edited with
Andrea Severi (University of Bologna), and to be submitted to the Centre for Renaissance and
Reformation, University of Toronto (series editor, Konrad Eisenbichler)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"O Miseri Philologi: Codro Urceo's Satire on Professionalism and its Context," Conference of
the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at
Binghamton, October, 1987.
"The Emergence of the Literary Grotesque in the Late Quattrocento," Rocky Mountain Medieval
and Renaissance Association Conference, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, April, 1989.
Also presented at ACTA Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, April, 1991.
"A Fifteenth-Century Battle of the Books: Canon and Language in the Invectives of Poggio
Bracciolini and Lorenzo Valla," presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual
national conference, April, 1993, Kansas City.
"Choric Education: The Archaic Encyclopedia of Guillaume Budé," presentation at University of
Groningen, The Netherlands, in a conference devoted to "Pre-modern Encyclopedic Texts," July,
1996.
"Valla's Ockhamism," presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual national
convention, April, 1997, Vancouver, B.C.
"Other Worlds: The Humanist as Shaman in Renaissance Menippean Satire," presentation as an
invited speaker at a conference on "Sleep, Dream, and Vision in the Renaissance," University of
Toronto, Dept. of Italian Studies and the Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies,
September, 1997.
"Swift's Tale of a Tub and the Renaissance Anatomy," presentation at a conference in July, 1999
of the International Congress of the Enlightenment, UCD Campus, Dublin, Ireland.
"Skelton's Humanisms and the Critique of Wealth," presentation at the International Conference
of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2000.
"Resisting Patronage: Petrarch, Valla, and Filelfo," presentation at the Renaissance Society of
America annual national convention in Chicago, March, 2001.
“Radical Shakespeare?” plenary lecture given at Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, King’s
College, November, 2001.
“Invective and Vocation in the Satires of Francesco Filelfo,” presentation at the Renaissance
Society of America annual convention in Tempe, Arizona, April, 2002.
“Gramsci’s Humanisms,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual convention
in Toronto, Canada, March, 2003.
“The Language of Abuse in Italian Humanism,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of
America annual convention in New York City, April, 2004
“Humanist Intellectuals: The Case of Francesco Filelfo,” invited speaker at the Wesleyan
University Seminar on the Renaissance, November, 2005.
“Filelfo’s Cynic Muse,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual convention
in San Francisco, March, 2006
“Coluccio Salutati and Petrarchan Humanism: Themes of Exile and Detachment in the De seculo
et religione,” presentation at a conference marking the 600th anniversary of the death of Coluccio
Salutati, Johns Hopkins University and Loyola Marymount University, Baltimore, May, 2006.
“Humanists as Clerks, Humanist as Intellectuals: Identity Formation in Humanist
Historiography,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual convention in
Miami, Florida, March, 2007.
“Filelfo’s Philosophical Miscellany,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual
convention in Chicago, Illinois, April, 2008.
“Medici Legitimation and the De temporibus suis of Giovanni di Carlo,” presentation at the
Renaissance Society of America annual convention in Los Angeles, California, March, 2009.
“Leonardo Bruni and the Poetics of Sovereignty,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of
America annual convention in Montreal, Canada, March, 2010.
“The Public Dimension of Filelfo’s Letters,” presentation at the Renaissance Society of America
annual convention in San Diego, California, April, 2013.
“Imagining the Imagined: Francesco Filelfo and Archaic Greek Poesis,” presentation at the
Renaissance Society of America annual convention in New York, New York, March, 2014.
“The Pliny Quarrels Go North: Guillaume Budé and the Appropriation of Italian Humanism,”
presentation at the Renaissance Society of America annual convention Berlin, Germany, March,
2015.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty Research Grants, Misericordia University, Spring, 2007, Fall/Spring, 2009-10, and
Fall/Spring, 2014-15; 2015-16; 2016-17
Renaissance Society of America/Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, travel to library
collections grant, awarded March, 2004 (research at Biblioteca Ambrosiana and Biblioteca
Trivulziana in May, 2004; four weeks residence in Florence, spring, 2005; project title: “A
Humanist and Patrician Contemplate Exile: Palla Strozzi, Francesco Filelfo, and the Ethics
of World Citizenship”)
Strategic Initiative Grant, College Misericordia, 2003-7 (Humanities Summer Research
Fellowships)
Faculty Research Grants, Southampton College, Spring, 1988 and 1990
Summer Research Grants, College Misericordia, Summer, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2001 and
2004
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Wesleyan University, Connecticut,
1994: "Constructing the Image of the State, the Family, and the Individual in Renaissance
Florence and Venice" (Directors: John Paoletti and Wendy Stedman Sheard).
Article Reviewer for Renaissance Quarterly (1996, 2002, 2014)
Article Reviewer for Artibus et Historiae (2005)
Manuscript Reviewer, Blackwell Publishers (2007)
Manuscript Reviewer, Lehigh University Press (2007)
Manuscript Reviewer, Brill Publishers, Netherlands (2013)
Manuscript Reviewer, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, series editor Konrad
Eisenbichler, University of Toronto (2014)
Grants Reviewer, Renaissance Society of America, (2002 and 2003)
Tenure/Promotion Outside Referee (University of Haifa, 2010; Lake Forest College, 2015)
Judge for Gordan Prize for best book in Renaissance Studies
(Renaissance Society of America, 2006)
Louis and Barbara Alesi Award for Excellence in Scholarship (College Misericordia, 2002;
Misericordia University, 2014)
Invited Seminar member, “Renaissance Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity,” Tel-Aviv
University, June, 2011
REFERENCES
Available upon request