Lee Piepho
Department of English
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
434-381-6175
lpiepho@sbc.edu
EDUCATION
A.B. Kenyon College, cum laude with honors in English 1964.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
M.A. Columbia University, 1966.
Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1972 (DuPont Fellowship 1967-68; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1968-69)
Sweet Briar CollegeHONORS
Instructor, 1969 - 1972.
Assistant Professor, 1972 - 1978.
Associate Professor, 1978 - 1983.
Professor, 1983 - 94
(Chairman 1983 - 1986; Coordinator, European Civilization Program 1986 - 1989, 1993 - 97).
Shallenberger Brown Professor, 1994 - Present.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Sweet Briar College, 1991, 2000.AWARDS
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1993 - Present.
Who's Who in America, 1996 - Present.
PAPERS READFellowship, Southeastern Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill (Summer 1979). Seminar in pastoral poetry, led by Louis Martz.
Sweet Briar Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities Grant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1982-1983). Work on an edition of Mantuan's Adulescentia and course work on Latin and Italian Renaissance literature.
Sweet Briar Faculty Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, (summer 1978, 1981, 1984, 1988). Work on papers and an edition of Mantuan's Adulescentia.
Participant, Humanities Institute on the Neo-Latin Archival Sciences (NEH), Folger Shakespeare Library (Summer 1985), led by Jean-Claude Margolin. Work on papers on manuscript versions of Mantuan's eclogues.
Participant, Seminar in Italian Humanistic Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century (Sweet Briar Interdisciplinary Studies Grant), Columbia University (Summer, 1987), led by Albinia de la Mare. Background on manuscript versions of Mantuan's eclogues.
Sweet Briar Faculty Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, (Summer, 1988). Work on the Private Libraries in Renaissance England project.
Participant, Seminar on Social Movements in Post-World War II America, (Virginia Six-College Faculty Development Program), Williamsburg, (Summer 1989), led by Nancy A. Hewitt.
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (1989-1990). Work on papers discussing Mantuan's Adulescentia in early modern England.
Sweet Briar College Faculty Grant (July 1995). Work on annotation in a copy of Wynkyn de Worde's 1526 London edition of Mantuan's Adulescentia at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Sweet Briar Faculty Grant, to participate in a Folger Institute seminar, "Books, Learning, and the Academy in the English Renaissance," directed by J. W. Binns at The Folger Shakespeare Library (25 January-4 April 1996). Work on the Latinate culture of early modern England.
Mednick Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges; Sweet Briar College Faculty Grant (October-December 1996). Work toward completion of a book-length study of Mantuan's poetry in the culture and literature of early modern England.
Participant, NEH Institute, HABITS OF READING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, Folger Shakespeare Library (Summer 1997), led by Steven Zwicker. Background for a discussion of habits of reading Mantuan's eclogues in England.Sweet Briar Faculty Grant (Summer 1999, 2000). Work on Italian humanism in England for an exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED"Paulus Melissus Schede's Poems to Sir Philip Sidney: A German Humanist at Court the of Elizabeth," at the Eleventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 2000.
"The Shepheardes Calendar and the Neo-Latins: Some Manuscript Evidence," at SPENSER AT KALAMAZOO, The Medieval Institute Conference, May 2000.
"Translation and Appropriation: Alexander Barclay's Versions of the Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus," at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 1998.
"Mantuan in the Schoolroom: Habits of Reading in Early Modern England," the 1998 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America.
"Andreas Vaurentinus' Commentary on the Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus: Humanism in the Schools of France and England," at the Tenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 1997.
"Jodocus Badius on the Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus: Humanistic Commentaries and Their Models," at the third meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, March, 1995.
"Antony Tye at Oxford: English Book- Lists and the Future of Neo- Latin Studies," at the 1994 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America.
"Love and Marriage in the Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus," at WHEREFORE ARCADIA? a conference on Renaissance pastoral poetry sponsored by The Society for Renaissance Studies at the Warburg Institute, London, March 1992.
"Pollux At the Crossroads: The Developmental Paradigm in Mantuan's Adulescentia," at the 1989 Convention of the Modern Language Association.
"Mantuan on Women and Erotic Love: A Newly Discovered Manuscript Copy of the Unrevised Version of His Adulescentia," at the Seventh International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 1988.
"Mantuan and Religious Pastoral: Unprinted Versions of His Ninth and Tenth Eclogues," at the Sixth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 1985.
"The Latin and English Eclogues of Phineas Fletcher: Sannazaro's Piscatoria Among the Britons," at the Fifth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 1982.
"The Organization of Mantuan's Adulescentia and Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar: A Comparison," at the Fourth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 1979.
"Times Transshifting in the Poetry of Robert Herrick," at the Herrick Tercentary Conference, University of Michigan, October 1974.
"Neo-Latin Patoral and the Renaissance", at the 1989 Convention of the Modern Language Association.PUBLICATIONS
"Language as the Frontier of Change", at the 1991 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America (chaired only).
"Politcs, Culture, and the Classics as an Education Program", at the 1991 Convention of the Modern Language Association.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS"Versions by Thomas, Lord Fairfax of Some Poems by Mantuan and Other Italian Neo-Latin Writers". Renaissance and Reformation, n.s. 8 (1984), 114-20.
"The Latin and English Eclogues of Phineas Fletcher: Sannazaro's Piscatoria Among the Britons". Studies in Philology, 81 (1984), 461-72. "The Organization of Mantuan's Adulescentia and Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar: A Comparison". Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bononensis, (Binghamton, NY, 1985), 577-82.
"Mantuan and Religious Pastoral: Unprinted Versions of His Ninth and Tenth Eclogues". Renaissance Quarterly, 39 (1986), 644-72.
"Mantuan on Women and Erotic Love: A Newly Discovered Manuscript Copy of the Unrevised Version of His Adulescentia". Renaissance Studies, 3 (1989), 13-28.
Baptista Mantuanus. Adulescentia: The Eclogues of Mantuan. Trans. and ed. Lee Piepho. New York: Garland Publishers, 1989.
Contributor to Private Libraries in Renaissance England. Eds. R. J. Fehrenbach and E. S. Leedham-Green. Binghamton, New York: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992- .
"Love and Marriage in the Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus." Bibliotheque de Humanisme et Renaissance, 55 (1993), 245-54.
"Mantuan's Religious Poetry in Early Tudor England: Humanism and Christian Latin Verse." Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s. 20 (1994), 65- -84.
"Mantuan's Eclogues in the English Reformation." The Sixteenth Century Journal, 25 (1994), 623-32.
"Erasmus on Baptista Mantuanus and Christian Religious Verse." Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, 14 (1994), 46-54.
"The Ecclesiastical Eclogues of Giles Fletcher the Elder." Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Hafniensis: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, ed. Rhoda Schnur. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994."The Shepheardes Calender and Neo-Latin Pastoral: A Book Newly Discovered to Have Been Owned by Edmund Spenser." Spenser Studies. Forthcoming.
"Holefernes' Mantuan: Italian Humanism in Early Modern England." Peter Lang. Forthcoming.
Shakespeare's "Good Olde Mantuan": Italian Humanism in Early Modern England. A monograph now out at several publishers.MEMBERSHIPS
Mantuan's Adulescentia in the eclogues of Alexander Barclay. An article on the appropriation of Mantuan's eclogues in early Tudor England.
A breakdown of the inventory of Nicholas Clifton, one of the most detailed inventories for a university bookseller in sixteenth-century England.
The Modern Language Association of America.
The Renaissance Society of America.
The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.