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Curriculum Vitae

Victor Strandberg

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Personal

Children: Anne and Susan

Education

Ph.D.Brown University1962
M.A. (after one term, full-expense fellowship)Brown University1959
A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors in English)Clark University1957
Areas of Research

American Literature

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor, English, 1983-present
Associate Professor, , 1969-1983
Assistant Professor, , 1966-1969
U of Uppsala; U of Louvain; U of Mannheim, Cadi Ayyad U; Visiting Professor at Kobe College; Palacky U
Four Fulbright appointments as Senior Lecturer in American Literature, plus terms in Morocco and Japan, , 1973-2001 (various short terms)
University of Vermont
Assistant Professor of English, , 1962-1966
Publications (listed separately)
Papers Presented
  1. 2007, "Robert Penn Warren's Western Exposure", Tacoma, Washington
  2. 2007, Chaired panel on Robert Penn Warren's Poetry, Western Kentucky University
  3. 2006, "RPW and the WASP Code."
  4. 2006, Talk to Surgical Wives on Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Washington Duke Hotel
  5. 2006, Chaired SAMLA panel on Robert Penn Warren, Charlotte, NC
  6. 2000, The Religious Poetry of Reynolds Price, Annual Byron Lecture, Catholic University of America
  7. 1998, Warren's Verse and the Song of the Creatures, the annual invited lecture of the Robert Penn Warren Center, Western Kentucky University
  8. 1997, The Correlation between Warren's Life and Art, SAMLA
  9. 1997, Whatever Happened to 'You'?, presented at Robert Penn Warren Birthday Celebration, Western Kentucky University, revised and extended for publication in a book on Robert Penn Warren
  10. 1997, The Future of Difference, Symposium on Difference at Duke
  11. 1996, RPW and Herman Melville, Joint Annual Meeting of Robert Penn Warren Circle and Melville Society, North Adams State University (MA)
  12. 1995, RPW and the New Paradigm: A Case Study of the Birds, Robert Penn Warren and Southern Review Commemoration, Louisiana State University
  13. 1994, The Concept of 'Soul' American Literature, talk to graduate students, Tokyo University
  14. 1994, Brother to Dragons: Poem/Play/Film, American Literature Association Annual Convention, San Diego
  15. 1992, Robert Penn Warren and the Classical Tradition, presented for a panel on Warren at SAMLA convention in Knoxville, TN
  16. 1992, Robert Penn Warren and the Search for Design, presented for a panel on Warren at the American Literature Association annual convention in San Diego
  17. 1992, 'I Don't Hate the South': Faulkner's Two Views of the Manor, Southern Humanities Council Annual Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill
  18. 1991, Keynote Speaker at dedication of State Marker for Robert Penn Warren Birthplace, Guthrie, KY
  19. 1990, Robert Penn Warren and T.S. Eliot: In the Steps of the (Post)Modern Master, presented at panel on Warren that I assembled for MLA Chicago convention
  20. 1988, Christian Hedonism in [Reynolds Price's] Kate Vaiden, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Savannah, GA
  21. 1987, An Overview of American Poetry, presented at Marrakech
  22. 1987, Katherine Anne Porter and 'He', presented at Marrakech
  23. 1987, The Limitations of Ernest Hemingway, presented at Marrakech
  24. 1987, Imagism and T.S. Eliot, presented at Marrakech
  25. 1987, Narrative Discourse in the Lost Generation, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
  26. 1987, Warren's Worst Book, Robert Penn Warren Home Town Symposium at Austin-Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee (Warren's home area)
  27. 1987, Faulkner and Shakespeare: Preamble to a Secret Life, U of Mainz
  28. 1987, LIebestod: Faulkner and the Lessons of Eros, University of Erlangen
  29. 1987, Ethnic Pluralism in American Literature: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, University of Heidelberg
  30. 1987, Modernism versus Sentimentality in American Ethnic Literature, University of Kostanz
  31. 1987, Cynthia Ozick and the Holocaust, University of Mannheim
  32. 1987, Slavery and the Civil War in Writings by Faulkner and Warren, University of Salzburg
  33. 1987, Robert Penn Warren and the Myth of the Fall, University of Vienna
  34. 1987, The Pathology of Family Life in As I Lay Dying, University of Nijmegen, Holland
  35. 1987, Myth and Identity in Light in August, University of Groningen, Holland
  36. 1987, Return of the Repressed: The Sentimentality of T.S. Eliot, Conference in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
  37. 1987, Social Pluralism and Sentimentality in American Literature, International Conference on Sentimentality at Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
  38. 1984, Poet of Youth: Robert Penn Warren at Eighty, Villanova University, on the occasion of Robert Penn Warren 80th birthday
  39. 1983, Faulkner and History: Two Views of the Plantation, Duke Campus Club, with Sydney Nathans (Duke History Department) as co-lecturer
  40. 1982, Biographer and Criticism: A Personal Accounting, MLA, Los Angeles, for a panel (with Jay Martin, James Justus, and David Minter) on "Faulkner and the New Biography"
  41. 1982, Two talks on Faulkner for the Taylor English Lecture Series, Peace College, Raleigh, NC
  42. 1981, Faulkner's God, West Point Military Academy, New York
  43. 1980, Joyce Carol Oates, American Library in Brussels
  44. 1980, Principles of Characterization in Faulkner, Center for American Studies, Royal Albert National Library, Brussels
  45. 1980, A Miscellany of American Poets, Teachers of English Conference at University of Louvain, Belgium
  46. 1980, Faulkner and Holy Wit, Faulkner Conference, University of Liege, Belgium
  47. 1980, The Conflict of Beliefs in American Literature, inaugural lecture at the University of Louvain, Belgium
  48. 1979, Brother to Dragons: The Craft of Revision, Robert Penn Warren seminar at MLA, San Francisco
  49. 1979, T.S. Eliot's Conversion, Christianity and Literature Conference, Savannah, GA
  50. 1976, The Design of Robert Penn Warren's Poetry, Robert Penn Warren seminar at MLA, New York
  51. 1975, Between Truth and Fact: Faulkner's Symbols of Identity, American Literature Section of SAMLA, Atlanta
  52. 1974, Updike's Drift from Christ to Eros, 2nd Annual Conference on 20th Century Literature in Louisville, KY
  53. 1973, John Updike and the Changing of the Gods, Presented to the American Studies Association, University of Helsinki, Finland
  54. 1973, John Updike and the Changing of the Gods, University of Turku-Abo, Finland
  55. 1973, On Surveying the Secret Life of William Shakespeare, Presented to the English Institute, University of Uppsala, Sweden
  56. 1967, The Artist's Black Veil, American Literature Section of SAMLA, Atlanta

Professional Service

  1. Special Initiatives: Books for Belgium, -
  2. Founder, Robert Penn Warren Circle, 1990-present
  3. Chaired review of Melissa Malouf for reappointment, December 2007
  4. Chief mentor of Visiting Scholar/Professor from China, Xiaojin Shang, December 2007
  5. member, Phi Beta Kappa, Undergraduate Elections Committee, 2006 - 2007
  6. University Scheduling Committee and Task Force on Scheduling, 2005 - 2007
  7. Chair, Officers Education Committee, 2002 - 2007
  8. member, Committee to Review Jose Saldivar, 2007
  9. department delegate, Arts & Sciences Council, 2005 - 2006
  10. Committee to Review Jose Saldivar, 2006
  11. DUS Advisory Committee, January 2005
  12. Officers Education Committee Chair, 2005-2006. I attended a national convention of ROTC committees in Milwaukee October 22-24, 2005., January 2005
  13. Chair, Committee on Promotion of Greg Dale to Professof of the Practice of Physical Education, Recreation, etc., January 2005
  14. Delegate to ASC, Fall 2005, January 2005
  15. Chair, Teaching Awards Committee, 2003-04
  16. Consultant, Dissertation on Cynthia Ozick (Univ. of Tel Aviv), 2003-04
  17. Member, Charlotte Pierce-Baker Review Committee, 2003-04
  18. faculty advisor, Habitat for Humanity at Duke, 2002-03
  19. Board member, Robert Penn Warren Center, 2002-2003
  20. Editorial Advisory Board, The Distillery, 2002 - 2003
  21. Moderator, MLA panel on Charles Wright and Dave Smith, December 1, 2002
  22. judge for annual best book prize, Brooks-Warren Award for literary scholarship/criticism, Chief Juror 2005, 2002
  23. Chair, Panel on Robert Penn Warren's poetry at Robert Penn Circle meeting, at Western kentucky University on April 23, 2005, April 1, 2002
  24. Editor, Faculty Forum, 1996-2000
  25. Committee to Review Jose Saldivar, 006
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