Duggan, Joseph J(ohn) 1938-

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DUGGAN, Joseph J(ohn) 1938-

PERSONAL: Born September 8, 1938, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Bart J. (a mechanic) and Mary (Boyce) Duggan; married Mary Kay Conyers (a musicologist), March 3, 1962; children: Marie Christine, Kathleen. Education: Attended Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1958-59; Fordham University, B.A., 1960; Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1964.

ADDRESSES: Home—2229 Marin Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707. Office—Department of Comparative Literature, University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-2510. E-mail—roland@socrates.berkeley.edu.

CAREER: University of California—Berkeley, instructor, 1964-65, assistant professor, 1965-71, associate professor of French and comparative literature, beginning 1971, currently professor of French, Bernie S. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature, and associate dean of Graduate Division.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Mediaeval Academy of America.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Humanities Foundation fellowship, 1968-69.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) A Concordance of the "Chanson de Roland," Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH), 1970.

"The Song of Roland": Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1973.

Oral Literature: Seven Essays, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1975.

A Guide to Studies on the "Chanson de Roland," Grant & Cutler (London, England), 1976.

A Fragment of "Les Enfances Vivien," University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1985.

The "Cantar de mio Cid:" Poetic Creation in Its Economic and Social Contexts, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1989.

The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2001.

Contributor to periodicals, including Romania, Orbis Literarum, University of Southern California Studies in Comparative Literature, Revue, and Romance Philology. Member of editorial board, Forum for Modern Language Studies.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing additional manuscripts of the Chanson de Roland; research on the medieval epic in the Romance languages.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Medium Aevum, spring, 1991, D. G. Pattison, review of The "Cantar de mio Cid:" Poetic Creation in Its Economic and Social Contexts, p. 140.

Modern Language Review, October, 1991, Milija N. Pavlovic, "Oralist Vision and Neo-traditionalist Revision: A Review Article," p. 866.

Romance Philology, May, 1991, Brigitte Cazelles, review of A Fragment of "Les Enfances Vivien," p. 479; February, 1993, Maria Eugenia Lacarra, review of The "Cantar de mio Cid," p. 302.

Speculum: Journal of Medieval Studies, April, 1987, Jan A. Nelson, review of A Fragment of "Les Enfances Vivien," p. 499; January, 1992, Maria Rosa Menocal, review of The "Cantar de mio Cid," p. 138.

Times Literary Supplement, April 13, 1990, Richard Fletcher, review of The "Cantar de mio Cid," p. 400; July 19, 2002, A. D. Putter, review of The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, p. 26.