Marjorie Perloff#
Obituary, Stanford University
Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION:
- Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1949-52
- Barnard College, New York, AB 1953; Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum laude
- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC MA, 1956; PHD 1965
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
- From Assistant to Associate Professor of English, Catholic University, 1966 - 1971
- From Associate to Full Professor of English, University of Maryland, 1971 - 1976
- Florence R. Scott Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 1976 - 1986
- Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 1986 - 1990
- Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Stanford University, 1990 - 2000
- Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, 2001
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
- Nominated for Presidency of Modern Language Association (1993) (one of three candidates)
- President, Modern Language Association, 2006
- President, American Comparative Literature Association, 1993 - 1995
- Nominator, MacArthur Fellowships, 1984 - 1995, 1998 - 1999
- Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry Panel, 1985 - 1987
- Member, Academy of Literary Studies, 1980
- Visitating Evaluation Committees: University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego, University of California, Santa Barbara, Duke University, Princeton
- Panelist for Fellowships: ACLS (twice), National Humanities Institute, North Carolina, CIES, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation
- Advisory Board, Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature, 1993 - 1996, 7-2,000
- Nominating Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Council, 1994 - 1996 (one of four members elected)
- Elector, for Drue Heinz Chair, Oxford University (only U.S. representative)
- Advisory Board, Library of America: American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, (4 members): 1997 - present
- Advisory Visiting Committee, Cal Tech, (5 faculty, 5 trustees) 1999 - 2001
- Christian Gauss Book Prize Committee, Phi Beta Kappa 2001 - 2003
- Governing Board, Samuel Beckett Society–2000-04
- Advisory Board, Center for Contemporary Poetry Studies, Cal State LA, 2006 - present
- Advisory Board, Dalkey Archive Press
AWARDS AND HONORS:
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1981 - 1992
- NEH Senior Fellowship, 1985 - 1986
- Phi Kappa Phi Book Award (for Poetics of Indeterminacy), University of Southern California, 1982
- Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, 1983
- Distinguished Alumnae Award, Catholic University, 1987
- Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1994 - 1995 (Visited the following campuses and lectured at each one: University of South Carolina, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Northwestern University, Wells College, Whitman College, Walla Walla, University of Oregon, University of Hawaii)
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
- Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 2012
- International Humanities Medal, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
- Honorary Doctorates, Bard College, Innsbruck University, Chapman University