Kuntz, Marion Leathers

PERSONAL:

Born in Atlanta, GA; daughter of Otto Asa (a railroad worker) and Lucile (a musician and homemaker) Leathers; married Paul Grimley Kuntz (a professor), November 22, 1970 (deceased); children: Charles Daniels, Otto Alan Daniels. Ethnicity:"Caucasian." Education: Agnes Scott College, B.A.; Emory University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1969. Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Art, music, gardening, architecture.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Atlanta, GA. Office—Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Georgia State University, Atlanta, assistant professor, 1966-69, associate professor, 1969-75, regents professor, 1975—, research professor, 1976—, Fuller E. Callaway Professor, 1983—, distinguished professor, 1996.

MEMBER:

American Hellenic Society (vice president, 2002—), Renaissance Society of America (member of board of trustees), American Philological Association, American Historical Association, Catholic Historical Association, DeKalb Historical Society (president, 1978-81), Friends of the Vatican Library, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Distinguished Alumna Award, Agnes Scott College, 1995.

WRITINGS:

Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1975.

Guillaume Postel: Prophet of the Restitution of All Things, Martinus Nijhoff, 1981.

(With husband, Paul G. Kuntz) Jacob's Ladder and the Tree of Life, Peter Lang Publishing (New York, NY), 1988.

Postello, Venezia e il suo mondo, Leo S. Olschki, 1989.

Venice, Myth, and Utopian Thought: Bodin, Postel, and the Virgin of Venice, Ashgate Publishing (Brookfield, VT), 2000.

The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 2002.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Catholic Historical Review, January, 2005, Christopher S. Celenza, review of The Anointment of Dionisio: Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy, p. 165.

Church History, September, 2003, Wietse de Boer, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 649.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History, January, 2004, Abigail Brundin, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 174.

Journal of Modern History, September, 2004, Thomas Kuehn, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 709.

Journal of Religion, October, 2003, Wendy Love Anderson, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 622.

Renaissance Quarterly, autumn, 2001, Kenneth Gouwens, review of Venice, Myth, and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century: Bodin, Postel, and the Virgin of Venice, p. 958; winter, 2003, Larissa Juliet Taylor, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 1184.

Review of Metaphysics, June, 2004, Ann Hartle, review of The Anointment of Dionisio, p. 849.

Utopian Studies, spring, 2000, Miriam Eliav-Felson, review of Venice, Myth, and Utopian Thought in the Sixteenth Century, p. 275.