STODDARD, Roger E(liot) 1935-

PERSONAL:

Born December 2, 1935, in Boston, MA; son of Merton E. (a church organist and choir director) and Helen (a homemaker; maiden name, Bonney) Stoddard; married Helen Heckel, May 24, 1958; children: Alison Stoddard Reid, Christopher Paine. Ethnicity: "Normal." Education: Brown University, A.B., 1958.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138; fax: 617-495-1376. E-mail—stoddard@fas.harvard.edu.

CAREER:

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant to the librarian at Houghton Library, 1958-61; Brown University, Providence, RI, assistant curator of Harris Collection, 1961-63, curator, 1963-65; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant librarian at Houghton Library, 1965-69, associate librarian, 1969-85, curator of rare books, 1985—, senior lecturer in English, 1986—.

MEMBER:

Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, Bibliographical Society of America (president, 1996-2000), American Antiquarian Society, Johnsonians, Bibliographical Society (London; honorary secretary for America), Book Club of California, Grolier Club, Harvard Club (New York, NY), Odd Volumes Club.

WRITINGS:

Edmond Jabés in Bibliography, Lettres Modernes Minard, 1998, 2nd edition, 2001.

John Laurent, Maine Painter: An Annotated Register, Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), 2000.

Julian Offray de La Mettrie, 1709-1751: A Bibliographical Inventory, Jürgen Dinter (Cologne, Germany), 2001.

A Library-Keeper's Business (essays), edited by Carol Z. Rothkopf, Oak Knoll Press (New Castle, DE), 2002.

SIDELIGHTS:

Roger E. Stoddard told CA: "My research and publications are influenced directly by my activities as curator of rare books in the Harvard College Library and as a senior lecturer in English. In the former role I manage an international collection of printed books which stretches from the fifteenth century to the present. In the latter I teach both undergraduate and graduate students in courses about early printed books, material bibliography, and 'printed books as a field of study.' My current interests in the bibliography of Primo Levi and Andrée Chedid, in 'Marks in Books,' and in 'European Britannica' are closely related to discoveries made in the collections or in the seminar room."