Lee Piepho

Department of English
137 Woodland Road
Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595
434.381.5959
lpiepho @ sbc.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1972 (DuPont Fellowship 1967-68; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1968-69)

M.A. Columbia University, 1966.

A.B. Kenyon College, cum laude with honors in English 1964.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Shallenberger Brown Research Professor (2007- )

Shallenberger Brown Professor (1994-2007)

Chair, English Department (1983-86, 2000-1)

Coordinator, European Civilization Program (1986-89, 1993-97)

Professor (1983-94)

Associate Professor (1978-1983)

Assistant Professor (1972-1978)

Instructor, Sweet Briar College (1969-1972)

HONORS (selected)

Distinguished Teaching Award, Sweet Briar College, 1991, 2000.

Who's Who in America, 1996 - Present.

AWARDS

Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, THE REFORMATION OF THE BOOK 1450-1700, Antwerp and Oxford, (Summer 2007), led by John N. King and James Bracken. Work on Protestant Latin literary culture in Britain and Germany.

Sweet Briar Faculty Grant (Summer 1999, 2000, 2002). Work on Italian humanism in 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.

Mednick Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. (October-December 1996). Work at the Warburg Institute, University of London toward completion of a book-length study of Mantuan's poetry in the culture and literature of 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.

Folger Shakespeare Library Dulin Senior Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (1989-1990). Work on papers discussing Mantuan's Adulescentia in early modern England.

Sweet Briar Faculty Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, (Summer, 1988). Work on the Private Libraries in Renaissance England project.

Participant, Seminar in Italian Humanistic Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century (Sweet Briar Interdisciplinary Studies Grant), Columbia University (July, 1987), led by Albinia de la Mare. Background for work on papers on manuscript versions of Mantuan's eclogues.

Participant, NEH Seminar on the Neo-Latin Archival Sciences, Folger Shakespeare Library (Summer 1985), led by Jean-Claude Margolin. Background for work on papers on manuscript versions of Mantuan's eclogues.

Sweet Briar Faculty Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, (summer 1978, 1981, 1984, 1988). Work on papers and an edition of Mantuan's Adulescentia.

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 with Sara Mack and Aldo Scaglione on Latin and Italian Renaissance literature.

Fellowship, Southeastern Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill (Summer 1979). Seminar on pastoral poetry, led by Louis Martz.

PUBLICATIONS (excluding book reviews)

"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.

Holofernes' Mantuan: Italian Humanism in Early Modern England. Bern/New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

"Spenser's Autograph in Georgius Sabinus' Poëmata." The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Ed. Heather Wolfe. Seattle: Univ of Washington Press, 2002.

"The Shepheardes Calender and Neo-Latin Pastoral: A Book Newly Discovered to Have Been Owned By Edmund Spenser." Spenser Studies. Vol. XVI (2002). 77-103.

"German Literary Humanism in Elizabethan England: The Case of Edmund Spenser." Germania Latina-Latinitas teutonica: Politik, Wissenschaft, humanistische Kultur vom spaeten Mittelalter bis in unsere Zeit. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2003. I, 517-22.

"Edmund Spenser and Neo-Latin Literature: An Autograph Manuscript on Petrus Lotichius and His Poetry." Studies in Philology. Vol. 100 (2003), 123-33.

"Mantuan Revised: His Adulescentia in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature. Vol 33 (2006), 60-74.

"Paulus Melissus and Jacobus Falckenburgius: Two German Protestant Humanists at the Court of Queen Elizabeth." Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. 38 (2007), 97-110.

PAPERS READ (a selection)

"Communication Between Protestant Britain and Northern Europe in the Thirty Years' War," at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2008.

"Latin, Printing, and the Making of an International Protestant Literary Culture," at the 2008 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America.

"Neo-Latin Culture and the Poetry of Edmund Spenser," at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2007.

"`Heaven's Blessing and Earth's Joy': Transnational Literary Celebrations of the Marriage of Frederick V and the Princess Elizabeth," at the Thirteenth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 2006.

"Spenser, Pastoral, and Italian Neo-Latin Literature," The Spenser Roundtable at Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2005.

"Mantuan Revised: His Adulescentia in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany," at a symposium on the pastoral organized by The Cambridge Society For Neo-Latin Studies, September 2005.

"Paulus Melissus on Queen Elizabeth: Cultural Transmigration in Late-Tudor England," at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2004.

"German Humanism in Elizabethan England," at the 2003 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America.

"Jacobus Falckenburgius at the Court of Queen Elizabeth," at the Twelfth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, August 2003.

"German Literary Humanism in Elizabethan England: The Case of Edmund Spenser," at GERMANIA LATINA, Munich, Germany, September 2001.

"Spenser and Sixteenth-Century Neo-Latin Poetry," at THE PLACE OF SPENSER: WORDS, WORLDS, WORKS (International Spenser Society) July 2001.

"What Spenser Read," at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, May 2001.

"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.

SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND/OR CHAIRED

"Neo-Latin Patoral and the Renaissance", at the 1989 Convention of the Modern Language Association.

"Language as the Frontier of Change", at the 1991 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America (chaired only).

"Politics, Culture, and the Classics as an Education Program", at the 1991 Convention of the Modern Language Association.

"Latin Culture In Early Modern Europe," at the 2003 Convention of the Renaissance Society of America (organized).

MEMBERSHIPS

The Modern Language Association of America.

The Renaissance Society of America.

Sixteenth Century Society.

The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies.