Kallendorf, Craig W. 1954–

(Craig William Kallendorf)

PERSONAL: Born June 23, 1954, in Cincinnati, OH; son of Earl (an engineer) and Hazel (a homemaker; maiden name, Griffith) Kallendorf; married October 11, 1993; wife's name Hilaire (a university professor); children: Trevor Chase. Education: Valparaiso University, B.A. (with highest honors), 1975; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1979, Ph.D., 1982. Politics: "Independent." Religion: Lutheran.

ADDRESSES: Home—1209 Haines Dr., College Station, TX 77840. Office—Department of English, MS4227, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4227. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Writer and educator. Texas A&M University, College Station, assistant professor, 1982–88, associate professor, 1988–93, professor of English and classics, 1993–, coordinator of classical studies, 1988–97. Brigham Young University, Clark Lecturer, 2002; guest speaker at institutions in the United States and elsewhere, including University of Münster, University of Texas, Valparaiso University, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Mount Holyoke College, University of Bristol, University of Utah, Cambridge University, University of Bologna, and University of Warsaw; public lecturer. Exhibitions: Cocurator of the exhibition "Aldus Manutius, Renaissance Printer: A Quincentennial Celebration," Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, 1995.

MEMBER: International Society for the History of Rhetoric (member of governing council, 2001–05), International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, Modern Language Association of America (member of executive committee of classical studies and modern literature discussion group, 1997–2001), Renaissance Society of America, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (member of executive committee, 1982–91; member of governing council, 2002–04), American Philological Association, Virgilian Society (member of board of trustees; interim director, 2004), Ateneo Veneto (corresponding member), South Central Renaissance Conference (member of executive committee, 1985–87, 1992−94; president, 1995–96), Grolier Club.

AWARDS, HONORS: Associates' fellowship, Newberry Library, 1981; Reynolds Foundation fellow in Italy, University of North Carolina, 1981; travel grant, South Central Modern Language Association, 1985; Delmas Foundation grant for Venice, 1987; Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner visiting fellowship, University of Utah Humanities Center, 2000–01; grants and fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies.

WRITINGS:

Latin Influences on English Literature from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1982.

Petrarch: Selected Letters (textbook), Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1986, 2nd edition, 2002.

In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance (monograph), University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1989.

A Bibliography of Venetian Editions of Virgil, 1470–1599, Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1991.

Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (textbook), Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1991.

(Editor) Virgil, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1993.

A Bibliography of Renaissance Italian Translations of Virgil, Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy), 1994.

(With Maria Wells) Aldine Press Books at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: A Descriptive Catalogue, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1998.

Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (monograph), Clarendon Press (Oxford, England), 1999.

(Editor) Rhetoric and Literature, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 1999.

(Editor and translator) Humanist Educational Treatises, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

(American editor) Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe, AZ), in press.

(Editor) Companion to Classical Tradition, Blackwell (Oxford, England), in press.

Series coeditor, "Neo-Latin Texts and Translations," Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe, AZ), 1998–. Contributor to books, including Supplementum Festivum: Studies in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, edited by J. Hankins, J. Monfasani, and F. Purnell, Jr., Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Binghamton, NY), 1987; Poets and Critics Read Vergil, edited by Sarah Spence, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2001; and Classics and the Uses of Reception, edited by Charles Martindale and Richard Thomas, Blackwell (Oxford, England), in press. Contributor of articles and reviews to learned journals in the United States and abroad, including Renaissance Quarterly, Comparative Literature Studies, Rara Volumina, Journal of the History of Ideas, American Historical Review, Miscellanea Marciana, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Modern Philology. Neo-Latin News, coeditor, 1992–96, editor, 1997–; editor, Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 1989–99, and Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 1993–97; associate editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1993–96, and Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 1995–. Book review editor, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1987–91. Member of editorial board, Rhetorica, 1998–2002, and International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 1993–.

Kallendorf's writings have been translated into Spanish.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Other Virgil, a study of pessimistic readings of the Aeneid in European culture, c. 1500–1800; A Catalogue of the Junius S. Morgan Virgil Collection at Princeton University, for University Library, Princeton University; editing and translating Maffeo Vegio's De educatione liberorum, with Christoph Konrad, Harvard University Press.