PMIA ISSN 0030-8129 Publications of the Modem Language Association of America September 1988 Volume 103 Number 4 Directory Princeton University Press______ Thoreau's Reading A Study in Intellectual History with Bibliographical Catalogue Robert Sattelmeyer Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading. The catalogue provides bibliographical data for, and lists all Thoreau's references to, the books and articles that he read. The introductory essay traces the shifts in his literary career marked in the chronology of his reading. The book reveals a Thoreau who was deeply interested in and conversant with the major intellectual questions of his times and whose stance of withdrawal from his age masked a lively involvement with many of its most perplexing questions. Cloth: $39.50 ISBN 0-691-06745-7 In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought Hans Baron Hans Baron's Crists of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Now the Press makes available a two- volume collection of eighteen of Professor Baron's essays, most of them thoroughly revised, unpublished, or presented in English for the first time. The book includes studies of medieval antecedents and special studies of Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, and Leon Battista Alberti. It offers a thoroughly re-conceived profile of Machiavelli and culminates in a reassessment of Jacob Burckhardt's pioneering thought on the Renaissance. Volume 1. Cloth: $29.50 ISBN 0-691-05512-2 Volume 2. Cloth: $29.50 ISBN 0-691-05513-0 Fabricating History English Writers on the French Revolution Barton R. Friedman Barton Friedman demonstrates the ways in which English men of letters in the nineteenth century attempted to grasp the dynamics of history. The authors he discusses—Blake, Scott, Hazlitt, Carlyle, Dickens, and Hardy- found in the French Revolution an event more compelling as a paradigm of history than their own "Glorious Revolution." To them the French Revolution seemed universally signifi­ cant. For these writers maintaining the distinc­ tion between "history" and "fiction" was less important than making sense of epochal historical events in symbolic terms. Cloth: $29.50 ISBN 0-691-06729-5 Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage, 1500-1700 Bruce R. Smith It was not until the sixteenth and seven­ teenth centuries that tragedy and comedy regained their ancient importance as ways of giving dramatic coherence to human events. Ancient Scripts and Modem Experience on the English Stage charts that rediscovery not in the pages of scholars' books, but on the stages of England's schools, colleges, inns of court, and royal court, and, finally, in the public theaters of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. Cloth: $29.95 ISBN 0-691-06739-2 Blindness and Autobiography Al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn Fedwa Malti-Douglas The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Taha Husayn (1889-1973) is a land­ mark in modern autobiography, in Arabic let­ ters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the sustained literary analysis here presented by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, who shows that the personal, social, and literary reality of the hero's blindness gives the autobiography its unity and force. Blindness and Autobiography is not only a rich explication of al-Ayyam but a pioneering study of the interaction between a severe physical handicap and the autobio­ graphical process. Cloth: $30.00 ISBN 0-691-06733-3 AT YOUR BOOKSTORE OR Princeton University Press 41 WILLIAM ST. • PRINCETON, NJ 08540 • (609) 452-4900 ORDERS: 800-PRS-ISBN (777-4726) September 1988 Directory Publications of the Modern Language Association of America Volume 103 Number 4 PUBLISHED SIX TIMES A YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATION The Modern Language Association of America ORGANIZED 1883 INCORPORATED 1900 OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 1988 President: Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke University First Vice President: Victor Brombert, Princeton University Second Vice President: Catharine R. Stimpson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Executive Director: Phyllis Franklin EXECUTIVE COUNCIL For the term ending 31 December 1988 Mary Louise Pratt Stanford University Ruth Bernard Yeazell University of California, Los Angeles For the term ending 31 December 1990 Thomas M. Greene Yale University Lawrence Lipking Northwestern University Judith Ryan Harvard University For the term ending 31 December 1989 Peter Elbow University of Massachusetts, Amherst Joan M. Ferrante Columbia University Patricia M. Spacks Yale University For the term ending 31 December 1991 Joan DeJean University of Pennsylvania Frances Ferguson Johns Hopkins University Myra Jehlen Rutgers University, New Brunswick TRUSTEES OF INVESTED FUNDS William O. 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Contents • September The Ninety-Eight Presidents of the Modern Language Association ... 380 Members of the Executive Council, 1970-88 ................................................ 381 ML A Delegate Assembly................................................................................... 382 Committees and Commissions of the Modern Language Association . . 384 MLA Headquarters Staff.......................................................................................... 394 MLA Statistics............................................................................................................ 396 Distribution of MLA Members.............................................................................. 400 MLA Divisions and Discussion Groups...................................................................401 Procedures for Organizing Meetings for the MLA Convention and Policies for MLA Divisions and Discussion Groups...................................................... 403 The Committee on Scholarly Editions: Aims and Policies........................414 Reports of the Regional Modern Language Associations..................................... 417 Constitution of the Modern Language Association of America .... 424 Proposed Amendments to the MLA Constitution..........................................430 Honorary Members of the Modern Language Association...............................437 Honorary Fellows of the Modern Language Association.....................................438 List of Members of the Modern Language Association.....................................440 In Memoriam............................................................................................................ 575 Departmental Administrators, 1988-89 Four-Year Colleges and Universities.................................................................. 577 Two-Year Colleges................................................................................................ 594 Ethnic Studies Programs.......................................................................................... 604 Language and Area Programs.............................................................................. 606 Women’s Studies Programs.................................................................................... 608 Organizations of Independent Scholars and Organizations Providing Significant Programs for Independent Scholars.............................................. 616 Humanities Research Centers...............................................................................617 Fellowships and Grants...........................................................................................618 Forthcoming Meetings and Conferences of General Interest.................................641 Index of Advertisers................................................................................................ 643 Professional Notes and Comment........................................................................ 654 Announcements 654 Journal Notes 658 Meeting of the MLA Executive Council 660 Directory of Useful Addresses, 1988-89 ............................................... 706