Curriculum Vitae for Robert Scholes,
Brown University--April, 2011
1. Present Positions
- Professor (Research) of Modern Culture and Media
- Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative literature, and MCM
- Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities Emeritus
2. Address
3. Education
- A.B, Yale University, 1950
- (Active Duty US Naval Reserve 1952-1955)
- M. A., Cornell University, 1956
- Ph.D., Cornell University, 1959
4. Academic Posts
- Instructor, University of Virginia, 1959-61
- Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, 1961-64
- Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 1964-66
- Professor, University of Iowa, 1966-70
- Professor, Brown University, 1970-1982
- Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Brown University, 1982-1999
- Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus, 1999-present
- Adjunct Professor 1999-2000
- Professor (Research) 2000-present
5. Completed Research
A. Books (sole author)
- The Cornell Joyce Collection: A Catalogue (Cornell, 1961)
- The Fabulators (Oxford, 1967)
- Elements of Fiction (Oxford, 1968; Japan [English Language
edition], 1995)
- Elements of Poetry (Oxford, 1969)
- Structuralism in Literature (Yale, 1974, trans.:
Span. 1981, Japan, 1992, Chin. (Taiwan) 1994)
- Structural Fabulation (Notre Dame, 1975)
- Fabulation and Metafiction (Illinois, 1979)
- Semiotics and Interpretation (Yale, 1982; trans.,
Japan., 1985; Ital., 1986)
- Textual Power (Yale, 1985; trans.,
Japan. 1987, reprinted 1999)
- Protocols of Reading (Yale, 1989, trans. Japan, 1991, Ital.,
1992, Portugal, 1995)
- In Search of James Joyce (Illinois, 1992)
- The Rise and Fall of English (Yale, 1998)
- The Crafty Reader (Yale, 2001)
- Paradoxy of Modernism (Yale, 2006)
- English After the Fall--From Literature to Textuality (Iowa, 2011)
B. Books (co-author)
- The Nature of Narrative, with Robert L Kellogg, (Oxford,
1966; trans.: Ital. '70, Port. '77, Korean ‘01, Czech '02--second
US edition, with James Phelan, 2006)
- Elements of the Essay, with Carl H. Klaus, (Oxford, 1969)
- Elements of Drama, with Carl H. Klaus, (Oxford, 1970)
- Elements of Writing, with Carl H. Klaus, (Oxford, 1972)
- Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, with Eric
S. Rabkin, (Oxford, 1977; trans.: Ital., 1979; Japan.
1980; Span., 1982)
- Hemingway's Genders, with Nancy R. Comley., (Yale, 1994, trans. Japan,
2000)
- Modernism in the Magazines, with C. Wulfman (Yale, 2010))
C. Books (editor or co-editor)
- Approaches to the Novel, ed. (Chandler, 1961, 1964)
- Learners and Discerners, ed. (Virginia, 1964)
- The Workshop of Daedalus, co-ed. (Northwestern, 1964)
- Dubliners by James Joyce (edited for J. Cape 1966; Viking,
1967, 1969)
- Poetic Threory/Poetic Practice, ed. (MMLA, 1969)
- The Philosopher Critic, ed. (Tulsa, 1970)
- Some Modern Writers, ed. (Oxford, 1971)
- Elements of Literature, co-ed. (Oxford, 1978, 1981,
1985, 1991)
- Elements of Fiction: An Anthology, ed. (Oxford,
1981)
- The Practice of Writing, co-ed. (St. Martin's, 1981,
1985, 1989, 1994, 2001)
- Bridges to Fantasy, co-ed. (S. Illinois, 1982)
- Coordinates, co-ed. (S. Illinois, 1983)
- Fields of Writing, co-ed. (St. Martin's, 1984,
1987, 1990, 1994 henceforth Fields of Reading, 2001, 2003)
- Text Book, co-ed. (St. Martin's, 1988,
1995, 2002)
- The Little Review Ulysses, with Mark Gaipa and Sean Latham
(Yale, proposal accepted)
D. Digital Projects
- Director, Modernist Journals Project (1999-2003)
- CoDirector, MJP (2004-present)
- General Editor, digital edition of The New Age (London, 1907-1922)--completed
2005 and available at <http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/>.
- Editor, digital edition of The New Age, Volume 4
- Editor, digital edition of The New Age, Volume 13
- Compiler, digital archive of over 1,000 artists mentioned in MJP projects,
links to artist files for digital texts of The New Age and Dana.
E. Articles from 1960 to present in the following periodicals:
Yale Review, Georgia Review, Texas Studies in Language and Literature,
Shakespeare Quarterly, Arizona Quarterly, Studies in Bibliography,
Sewanee Review, PMLA, James Joyce Quarterly, Shenandoah, Virginia
Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Novel, PoÈtique, New Literary History,
TriQuarterly, Philological Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film,
diacritics, Critical Inquiry, Iowa Review, College English,
Salmagundi, English Education, differences, Semiotica, American
Journal of Semiotics, Ars Lyrica, Italian-Americana, TELECINE, Hemingway Review,
Pedagogy , Modernism/Modernity and others.
F. Articles or essays in the following books since 1990: Reorientations:
Critical Theories & Pedagogies (1990), Introduction to Scholarship
in Modern Languages and Literatures (1992), Writing Theory and Critical
Theory, Pedagogy in the Age of Politics: Reading and Writing (in)
the Academy (1994), Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature:
Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy (1996), Beyond Poststructuralism
(1996), New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction (1998).
6. Academic Honors and Awards
- Research Grant, Amer. Phil. Soc., Summer 1960
- Research Grant, ACLS, Summer, 1961
- ACLS Junior Fellow, Humanities Inst., Madison, Wisconsin, 1963-64
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1977-78
- Mellon Fellow, Tulane University, 1983
- Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (MLA) for Textual Power, 1986
- Honorary Doctorate, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France,
1987
- David H. Russell Research Award (NCTE) for Textual Power, 1988
- President, Semiotic Society of America, 1989-90
- Elected to Executive Council, Modern Language Association of America, 1997-2000
- Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
- Francis A. March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English,
(ADE/MLA), 2000
- Chancellor's Medal, Louisiana State University, 2003
- Honorary Doctorate, SUNY Purchase, 2003
- NEH Preservation and Access Grant for digital edition of The New Age
(London, 1907-1922) 2003-2005
- President, Modern Language Association of America, 2004
- NEH Preservation and Access Grant for digital editions of The English
Review (1908-1910), Poetry (1912-1922), and Scribner's (1910-1922)
2007-2009
- NEH Preservation and Access Grant for digital editions of The Crisis
(1910-1922), The Little Revies (1914-1922), The Freewoman
(1911-1912), The New Freewoman (1913), The Egoist (1914-1919),
Others (1915-1919) 2010-2011
- Research Society for American Periodicals award for Modernism in the
Magazines, 2011