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Alvin Snider ____________________________________________________ 308 EPB, University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242-1492 319/335-0470 (o), 319/354-1356 [email protected] ____________________________________________________ EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Education 1979-84 Ph.D., English, University of Chicago 1974-78 B.A., M.A., English, University of Toronto Positions 1992- Associate Professor, University of Iowa (1992 to present) 1995 Visiting Professor, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France 1986-92 Assistant Professor, University of Iowa 1985-86 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto SCHOLARSHIP Publications Book Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England: Bacon, Milton, Butler (University of Toronto Press, 1994). (Pp. 163-82 reprinted in Literature Criticism [Gale,1998].) Published Reviews of Scholarship Book reviewed in MP, JEGP, Milton Studies, SEL, and elsewhere. Articles and chapters (select) “Milton,” The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 90 (Oxford UP, 2011): 529-42. 2 “Hutchinson and the Lucretian Body,” The New Science and Women’s Literary Discourse, ed. Judy A. Hayden (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 29-46. “Scientific ‘Revolution’ I: Copernicus to Boyle,” Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, ed. Bruce Clark and Manuela Rossini (London: Routledge, 2010), 438-48. “What Is an Editor?” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12 (2010): 169-72. “Milton,” The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 89 (Oxford UP, 2010): 10-25. “Milton,” The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 88 (Oxford UP, 2009): 572-87. “Hard Frost, 1684,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 8 (2008): 8-32. “Andrew Marvell,” The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 87 (Oxford UP, 2008): 573-78. “Milton,” The Year’s Work in English Studies, vol. 85 (Oxford UP, 2006): 9-19. “The Curious Impertinent on the Restoration Stage,” The Seventeenth Century 21 (2006): 315- 34. “Aphra Behn,” Gran Enciclopedia Cervantina. Alcalá de Henares: Universidad Alcalá (2006). “Atoms and Seeds: Aphra Behn’s Lucretius,” Clio 32 (2003): 1-24. (Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, vol. 88 [Gale, 2008]). “Seventeenth-Century Life Writing,” Encyclopedia of Life Writing (London, 2001). “Cartesian Bodies,” MP 98 (2000): 299-319. “Recent Studies in the English Renaissance,” SEL 39 (1999): 171-206. “Nature Essay” and “Pamphlet” in Encyclopedia of the Essay (London, 1997). “Bacon, Legitimation, and the ‘Origin’ of Restoration Science,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 32 (1991): 119-38. “By Equivocation Swear: Hudibras and the Politics of Interpretation,” The Seventeenth Century 5 (1990): 157-72. “A Babylonish Dialect: Samuel Butler’s Polemics of Discourse,” PQ 69 (1990): 299-316. “Professing a Libertine in The Way of the World,” PLL 25 (1989): 376-97. “Francis Bacon and the Authority of Aphorism,” Prose Studies 11 (1988): 60-71. 3 “The Self-Mirroring Mind in Milton and Traherne,” UTQ 55 (1986): 313-27. Reviews (select) Review, Ends of Enlightenment (by John Bender) The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (forthcoming). Review, Faithful Labourers: A Reception History of “Paradise Lost,” 1667-1970, 2 vols. (by John Leonard) Style (forthcoming in 2015). Review, English Translation and Classical Reception: Towards a New Literary History (by Stuart Gillespie) MP (2014) http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675900 Review, “I have always loved the Holy Tongue”: Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (by Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg) Journal of Modern History 84 (2012): 152-53. Review, Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England (by Ryan J. Stark) Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2010): 336-37. Review, Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England (by Erica Fudge) H-Net Reviews, January, 2008. URL: http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=312621203102069. Review, Francis Bacon (by Nieves Mathews) Isis 88 (1997) 536-37. Review, Climate and Literature (edited by Janet Pérez and Wendell Aycock) Criticism (1997) 277-80. Review, Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (by Stephen Greenblatt), Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 7 (1994) 498-501. Review, The Material Word: Literate Culture in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (by Richard Kroll), MP 91 (1994): 498-501. Review, “The Muses Common-Weale”: Poetry and Politics in the Earlier Seventeenth Century (edited by Claude Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth), MP 88 (1991): 308-311. Review, Restoration Comedy: Crises of Desire and Identity (by Edward Burns), Eighteenth- Century Studies 23 (1990): 340-42. Review, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (by Hans Blumenberg), and Francis Bacon and Modernity (by Charles Whitney), Minnesota Review 32 (1989): 137-40. 4 International and National Presentations (select) “Anne Conway’s Headaches and Spiritual Embodiment,” RSA, 2015 Milton Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, 2012 “Analogous Bodies in Lucretius, Hutchinson, and Milton,” RSA, 2012 “Unfolding the Fabric of the Human Body: Robert Herrick on Clothes,” Universitetet i Agder, Norway, 2011 “The Properties of Cold: Northern Climates and Northern Humanism,” RSA, 2011 “Behn’s The Forced Marriage at Lincoln’s Inn Fields,” Universität Wien, 2010 “Northern Voyages and Robert Boyle’s Experiments upon Cold,” Northumbria University, 2010 “Milton and the Idea of North,” MLA Special Session, 2009 “Paradise Lost and Perpetual Winter,” Durham University, 2009 “Violence and Libertine Performance in Lincoln’s Inn Fields,” University of London, 2009 “The Pleasure of Tragicomedy: Aphra Behn in the 1670s,” ASECS, 2009 “The Virtuoso and Interspecies Transfusion,” Durham University, 2008 “Blood, Bloodlines, and National Identity,” SLSA, 2007 “Frozen Bodies: Northern Parts and English Voyages,” GEMCS, 2007 “Human Blood and Animal Bodies,” SLSA, 2006 “Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder,” University of Aberdeen, 2006 Panel on “The Future of Reading and the Study of Literature,” University of Houston, 2006 ‘One Sovereign, One Religion, One Law, and One Language”: Margaret Cavendish on Toleration,” Oxford University, 2006 “Prodigious Cold in Restoration London,” Kingston University, London, 2005 “Seeing Things: Mind and Body in Robert Boyle’s A Free Enquiry,” SLSA, 2005 “The Pleasure of Tragicomedy: Aphra Behn’s Early Plays,” Cambridge University, 2005 5 “English Air and the Non-Naturals,” UNC, Chapel Hill, 2004 “Body and Soul in Lucy Hutchinson’s Poetry,” Duke University Medical Center, 2004 “Lucy Hutchinson and the Libertine Body,” RSSC, 2003 “Under the Weather: Bodies, Climate, and English Identity,” Durham, University 2003 “Lucy Hutchinson and Aphra Behn on the Nature of Things,” Durham University, 2001 “Possible Worlds and The Blazing World,” Margaret Cavendish Conference, 2001 “Disciplinarity in the Corporate University,” SLS, 2000 “Reviving the Scientific Revolution, Rewriting the Renaissance,” SLS, 1998 “Paradise Lost: Nature’s Dominion,” Università degli Studi di Torino, 1995 “‘Nature’s Journeymen’: Hamlet and the Cartesian Body,” Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise (C.N.R.S.), 1995 “Anthropomorphic Monsters: Nature, Mechanism, and the Cartesian Body,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, 1994 “The ‘Nature’ of Disciplinarity,” SLS, 1994 “Cultural Studies on Main Street: Unum e Pluribus,” GEMCS, 1993 “‘Access Denied’: Managing Paradise,” RSA, 1993 “‘Now Possess as Lords a Spacious World’: Dominion Over Nature in Paradise Lost,” University of Sheffield, 1992 EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL GRANTS _____________________________________________________________________________ External Research Awards _____________________________________________________________________________ Year Award Agency _____________________________________________________________________________ 1988 Fellowship Folger Shakespeare Library 1979-82 Special Humanities Fellowship, University of Chicago 1979-83 Doctoral Fellowship, SSHRC, Canada Note. Internal research awards: University of Iowa Old Gold Summer Fellowship (1986), MUCIA Travel Grants (1992, 1995, 2006). 6 TEACHING _____________________________________________________________________________ Students Supervised _____________________________________________________________________________ Dissertation Committees Name Project Role Outcome ____________________________________________________________________________ Brady M. Miltonic Space Chair Graduated Burgess, C. Medieval literature Member April 2015 Casaregola, V. Humanist rhetoric and fiction Member Graduated Cooley, J. Literature of Empire (Spanish) Member Graduated Crockett, B. Shakespeare’s stage and preaching Member Graduated Daigle, E. Early Modern Cognition Chair June 2009 Doty, J. Popularity and Politics Member Sept 2008 Dowdy, M. Elizabethan Outsiders Member August 2007 Fein, L. Book of Ruth (Religious Studies) Member April 2006 Gannon, T. Nature Poetry Member Graduated Greder, D. Early Modern Ireland (Religious Studies) Member April 2015 Griffin, E. Anglo-Hispanic relations Member Graduated Gubbels, K. Medieval and Renaissance Romance Member June 2010 Harp, G. Orality and Visuality Chair Graduated Haydock, N. Chaucer and Chaucerians Member Graduated Henry, E. Nonfiction Writing Member Graduated Jacobsen, S. Economics and the novel Member Graduated Jones, D. Familism (Religious Studies) Member April 2011 Kisting, W. Early Modern Casuistry Member July 2007 Lambert, J. Protestant Joy Chair June 2012 Larsen, Vickie. Julian of Norwich Member August 2009 McLeod, B. Empire and Space Member Graduated Meidlinger, P Sidney’s Astrophel Chair Graduated Metzger, M.J. Early modern drama Member Graduated Mezey, J. Anglo-Indian fiction Member Graduated Miele, B. Surveillance in the Renaissance Member April 2015 Moore, B. Censorship and the Novel Member Graduated Nowka, S. Thinking Matter in the Novel Member April 2006 Ryan, P. Marlowe and Shakespeare Member Graduated Schwartz, A. Creative Writing dissertation Member Graduated Thompson, S. Shakespeare Member Graduated Williams, A. 18th-Century Toleration Member April 2015 Yang, H. Landscape Poetry (Comp. Lit.) Member June 2010 7 Comprehensive Ph.D Exams _____________________________________________________________________________ Bergin T. Charlotte Lennox 11 Brady, M. Miltonic Cosmologies 94 Clinton, A. English Renaissance 02 Coleman, J. Early Modern Religious Identity 08 Collins, D. Historical Renaissance 92 Crandall, T. Marxism and Critical Theory 92 Daigle, E. Early Modern Medicine 06 DeFries, B Reception of 17th-Century Poetry 15 Dietz, E. Semiology of Reform 94 Doty, J. Early Modern Drama and Politics 05 Dowdy, M. Renaissance Humanism and Scholarship 02 Gannon, T. The Eco-Other Speaks 00 Greder, D. Early modern Ireland (Religious Studies) 12 Griffin, E. Ethnography and Nation from Columbus to Ralegh 96 Gubbels, K. Monster Theory 08 Harp, G. Descartes’s Vision 98 Kisting, W. Renaissance Literature 04 Lambert, J. Early modern literature 09 Lane, C. English reformation (Religious Studies) 08 Lindroth, M. Milton and Performance 93 Linster, J Early Modern Anatomies 14 McLeod, B. Revolution, Restoration, British Expansion 92 McLoone, R 18th-Century Enlightenment 09 Metzger, M. Constructing Femininity in Early Modern England 89 Mezey, J. English Historiography 98 Miele, B. Renaissance Literature 12 Moncrief, K. New Historicism and Feminist Materialism 94 Morey, R. Ritual and the Shakespearean Stage 93 Nowka, S. Science and the 18th-century novel 03 Ryan, P. Marlowe’s Edward II 94 Shimizu, K. Natural law in Mary Wollstonecraft 94 Smith, D. Restoration Theatre 92 Smolinsky, M. Renaissance Historicism 99 Stavreva, K. Early Modern Period 93 Struyk, K. Canadian Women Novelists (MAT) 93 Williams, A. Literature of Toleration 11 Yang, H. Mary Wroth (Comp. Lit.) 08 _____________________________________________________________________________ CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM _____________________________________________________________________________ 8 British and North American Nature Writing Creative Writing Track: Epic Transformations Early Modern Comedy English Pastoral Epic and Mock Epic (from Virgil to Pope) Epic and Tragic Literature Forms of Nonfiction: Writing about Music Graduate: 16th- and 17th-Century English Nonfiction Prose Graduate: 16th- and 17th-Century Authors: Milton Graduate: Issues in 17th-Century Literature Graduate: Language and Politics in the English Revolution Graduate: Paradise Lost: Theory, Text, History Graduate: Restoration Literature Graduate: The Invention of Nature, 1580-1700 Graduate: What Was New Historicism? Literature and Culture of the 17th Century Literature and Culture of the 18th Century Literature and Culture of the Renaissance Literature and Philosophic Thought Literature and Society: The Two Cultures Milton Modern Criticism Nonfiction Writing: From Text to Film Nonfiction Writing: Writing about Music Politics of English Poetry: Spenser, Jonson, Marvell, Dryden Proseminar: All about Paradise Lost Proseminar: Music and Nonfiction Writing Proseminar: Politics of English Poetry Reading Criticism Selected Authors: Milton and Aphra Behn Selected Authors: Jonson and Herrick Selected Works of the Eighteenth Century Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Poetry Shakespeare Tragic and Comic Literature SERVICE Department and College 2014- Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Chair 2009-10 Undergraduate Advising 2013-14 Director, Qualifications 1994, 03, Executive Committee 2014- 1996-99 MA Program Director 9 1990-05, Graduate Program Steering 2013- 1990-01 Graduate Financial Aid 1989-09 Faculty Searches Early Modern (chair 1993, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2008) Medieval (1992, 1998, 2004) 19th-century British (1989) Cultural Studies (2003) 2003 Placement 2005- Foreign Exchange Coordinator 2007-10 Newberry Library Consortium Committee 1997-2009 Representative to Faculty Assembly 1994- Assistant Professor review (chair 1994, 2001, 2013, 2015) 1994- Tenure and Promotion (Theory, Early Modern, Medieval, Shakespeare) 1993-2007 Graduate Admissions (chair 1999) 1993 Committee to review Department of French and Italian 1989 Teaching Adviser, General Education 1988-89 Undergraduate Honors Program 1987-88, Curriculum Committee 2014- 1986-87 MA Examination Committee University Faculty Senate (2002-03) Review committee, Director of UI Libraries (2010-11) Profession Editor of PQ (2007-13) External reviewer: Fordham University, 2009; City College of New York, 2004 Referee/reader for Routledge, Prentice-Hall, Broadview Press, Annals of Scholarship, Configurations, Isis, JEMCS, M/MLA, MP, Prose Studies, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Journalism in the Chronicle of Higher Education Current Memberships: RSA; SLSA; MLA Semester and Courses Taught Students Year Number and Title Enrolled Selected Comments Fall 2008 8:100: Literature and Culture 25 He was enthusiastic. of the 17th Century S pr 2009 8 :147 Shakespeare 25 O pen minded to our interpretations, but kept discussion pointed with interesting discussion material. 8:220 Nonfiction Prose 11 I found the juxtaposition of big, theoretical/ methodological questions with the time spent collectively close reading a passage quite effective. Fall 2009 8:219: 16th- and 17th-Century 11 I found individual Authors instruction (comments on work, one-on-one meetings) to be excellent, very perceptive, empathetic and supportive. S pr 2010 8 :122: 16th and 17th-Century 30 A lways fair and Poetry understands different levels of knowledge and interest. Also very knowledgeable about the material.
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