Samuel Schuman
Vita Page

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309 Behmler Hall The University of Minnesota, Morris Morris, MN 56267-2113 320) 589-6020 e-mail: schumans@morris.umn.edu (home) 521 East 4th Street Morris, MN 56267 320) 589-9034

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Education

 

BA Grinnell College, 1964 "With Distinction"

MA San Francisco State University, 1966 "With Honors"

PhD Northwestern University, 1969

Dissertation: "The Theater of Fine Devices: Emblems and the Emblematic

in the Plays of John Webster." Advisors: Jean Hagstrum and Samuel Schoenbaum

 

 

Teaching and Administrative Experience

 

Current -Chancellor, The University of Minnsota, Morris
1998-2000 Interim Chancellor, The University of Minnesota, Morris
1995-1998 Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean, The University of Minnesota, Morris

1991-1995 - Chancellor and Professor of Literature and Language, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina

1981-1991 - Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina

1988 (July 1-December 31) - Acting President, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina

1977-1981 - Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of English, University of Maine, Orono, Maine

1970-1977 - Department of English, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa (Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure)

 

 

Major Administrative Responsibilities

 

As Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean at the University of Minnesota, Morris include: administrative responsibility for all faculty and academic staff personnel actions (hiring, review, promotion, tenure, salary decisions); curricular oversight (as Chair of the Curriculum Committee); major responsibilities for institutional planning in academic and fiscal areas; responsibility for conversion from the Quarter calendar to the Semester system; coordination with academic and administrative offices at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

 

As Chancellor of The University of North Carolina at Asheville, major accomplishments included building an increasingly selective student body (average SAT cumulative average for entering students rose from 960 to 1055) while maintaining broad access; improved state, private and corporate/foundation funding; successful campus facilities projects including new dining hall/parking deck, residence hall, gymnasium expansion, UNCA Center for Public Service and $4 million library renovation; increased diversity among students, faculty and staff; UNCA recognition as "North Carolina's Public Liberal Arts University" by University of North Carolina System Board of Regents; reclassification as National Liberal Arts College (BA1) by Carnegie Committee; award-winning campus landscaping; UNCA-AAC "Asheville Institute on General Education."

 

As Acting President at Guilford College while President William Rogers was on leave, primary responsibilities included chairing Administrative Council; supervision of Vice Presidents, Personnel Office, Office of Institutional Research; meeting with all committees of, and reporting to, the Board of Trustees; working closely with Development Office; cultivating community relations; overseeing the President's Office, including staff and budget; working with the Alumni Association, Parents Association, Board of Visitors, and prospective friends and donors; speaking for and representing the College both externally and internally; serving on the Board of Directors of the Piedmont Independent College Association; and responsibility for long-range strategic planning.

 

 

Selected Additional Responsibilities

 

President, National Collegiate Honors Council (1991-92)

Chair, Conference Planning Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council (1990-91)

Director, "Beginning in Honors," an annual pre-conference workshop of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 1984-1995

Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee, NCHC

Leadership Asheville program graduate, 1991

Author/Director of many major grants, including a $1,000,000 matching challenge grant for teaching in the Humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Coordinator for Guilford College/Duke University: AAC project on "Preparing Graduate Students in the Humanities for Careers in College Teaching"

Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, WCQS (Public Radio for Western North Carolina), 1992-1995; Treasurer of the Board, 1994-95

Past President, Vladimir Nabokov Society of America (an MLA "affiliated organization")

Chair and Member, Several Licensure Teams for the State of North Carolina, 1981-85

Executive Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council, two terms

Chair, Small Colleges Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council, several terms

President, North Carolina Honors Association, 1983

Director of Institutional Self Study for Reaccreditation, Guilford College

Chair, Long-Range Planning Committee, Guilford College

Executive Committee, Teachers and Officers Committee, and Curriculum Committee, Guilford College Board of Trustees

Executive Committee, National Collegiate Honors Council, Northeast Region, 1978-81

Director, National Collegiate Honors Council Maine Coast Summer Semester, 1979

Director of the Honors Program, Cornell College

President, AAUP Chapter, Cornell College

Member, Commission on the Future of the College, and Long-Range Financial Planning Task Force, Cornell College

 

 

Consultancies

 

Consultant at Gardner-Webb College, Lenoir Rhyne College, Long Island University, College of Charleston, St. Leo College, Radford University, Mars Hill College, Keuka College, Meredith College, Drake University, College of St. Benedict/St. John University (Minn.), Lander College, Endicott College, Mercy College, Anderson College, Felician College, Sandhills Community College, Francis Marion College, Eastern Carolina University, Youngstown State University, Belmont University, Carthage College, The University of Houston, Arkansas Tech University, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wisconsin State Honors Council.

 

 

Community Service

 

Boards of Directors:

UMM/Morris Community Rec Center Task Force

WCQS (Western North Carolina Public Radio) (1991-95)

North Carolina Arboretum (1991-95)

Western North Carolina Development Association (1991-94)

United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County, Inc. (1992-95)

Asheville Area Cultural Action Plan (1992)

Regional Council for Pack Place (1992-95)

Leadership Asheville Advisory Council (1992-93)

Asheville Arts Alliance (1992-95) (President, 1994-95)

Buncombe County Literacy Council (1992-95)

Grove Arcade Public Market (1993-95)

Guilford Arts, Etc. (College/Community Arts Series) (1988-91)

One Step Further (community dispute mediation center) (1989-91)

Easte rn Music Festival, Greensboro, North Carolina (1990-91)

 

Volunteer, Hospice at Greensboro; Editor, Hospice Newsletter; and member, Membership Council (1981-84)

Cub Scout and Boy Scout Scoutmaster

Executive Committee, United Way of Mount Vernon, Iowa

President and Vice President, P.T.A. of Mount Vernon, Iowa

Community Resource Volunteer: Winston- Salem/Forsythe County, NorthCarolina

Coach, youth athletic programs (skating and swimming)

Many volunteer activities in connection with programs for learning disabled young people: talks to ACLD groups in North Carolina and Connecticut, talks to local parent and support groups, working with learning disabled young people directly.

Adult literacy tutor, Greensboro and Asheville

 

 

Personal Data

 

Born: 9/26/42, Chicago, Illinois; Height: 5' 8" Weight: 155

Family Status: Married, two children Religion: Jewish

Hobbies and Interests: Fitness, gardening, automotive maintenance, hiking

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Old Main, Johns Hopkins (2005).

 

Cyril Tourneur, Twayne (1977).

 

Vladimir Nabokov: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (1979).

 

"Theatre of Fine Devices:" Emblems and the Emblematic in the Plays of John Webster, University of Salzburg Press (1982).

 

John Webster: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (1985).

 

Beginning in Honors, NCHC, 1989 (pamphlet).

 

 

Articles

 

"Emblems and the English Renaissance Drama: a Checklist, " Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 12 (1969), pp. 43-56.

 

"Two Notes on Emblems and the English Renaissance Drama," Notes and Queries, ns 18 (1971), pp. 28-29.

 

" The Ring and the Jewel in Webster's Tragedies," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 14 (1972), pp. 253-268.

 

"'Occasions's Bald Behind': an Emblem in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta," Modern Philology, 70 (1973), pp. 234-235.

 

"Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Robert Heinlein's They," Twentieth Century Literature, 19 (1973), pp. 99-106.

 

"Out of the Fryeing Pan and Into the Pyre: Comic Mythos and The Wizard of Oz," Journal of Popular Culture, 7 (1973), pp. 302-304.

 

"The Wheel of Nature: Circular Imagery in Chaucer's `Troilus and Criseyde'," Chaucer Review, 10 (1975), pp. 99-112.

 

"Nabokov's Lolita and Shakespeare's The Tempest," Mosaic, 10 (1976), pp. 1-5.

 

"The Widow 's Garden - The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Great Chain of Being," Studies in the Humanities, 6 (1978), pp. 12-14.

 

"Minor Characters and Marlowe's Tamburlaine II," Modern Language Studies, 7, no.2 (1978), pp. 27-33.

 

"Lolita - Novel and Screenplay," College Literature, 5, no. 2 (1978), pp. 195-204.

 

"Criticism of Vladim ir Nabokov: A Selected Checklist," Modern Fiction Studies, 25, no. 3 (1979), pp. 527-554.

 

"Coordinating Honors Programs at Two and Four Year Institutions, " with C. Carlson, Forum for Honors , 10, no. 2 (1979), pp. 21-22.

 

"Man, Magician, Poet, God: An Image in Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Literature," Cithara, 19, no. 2 (1980), pp. 40-54.

 

"'Theatre of Fine Devices' - The Visual Imagery of Webster's Tragedies," Renaissance and Reformation, ns 4, no. 1 (1980), pp. 87-94.

 

"Running Around," a regular column in Maine Running magazine, 1980-81.

 

"Another Nova Zembla," Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter, 6 (1981), pp. 30-31.

 

"Money for Maine," NCHC Newsletter, (September 1981), p. 16.

 

"'Despair and Die': a Note on Nabokov and Shakespeare's Tragedies," Notes on Contemporary Literature, 12, no. 2 (1982), pp. 11-12.

 

"Forests, Trees, Free Cheese, and Reaganomics: An Inflammatory Meditation," NCHC Newsletter, 9 (1982), pp. 17-18.

 

"Footnotes in Fiction," "Forum" section of PMLA, 78, no. 5 (1983), p. 901.

 

"Notes Towards a Methodological Definition of the Humanities," pp. 24-29 in The Humanities: The Contemporary Scene, Southern Humanities Conference, 1 983, pp. 24-29.

 

"New Honors Programs - Some Prior Questions," Forum for Honors, 14, no. 1 (Fall, 1983), pp. 9-12, 37.

 

"John Webster On Stage: A Selected Annotated Bibliography," Jacobean Drama Studies 95: Jacobean Miscellany, 4 (1984), pp. 99-128.

 

"The Link Mechanism in the Canterbury Tales," Chaucer Review, 20, no. 3 (1986), pp. 200-206.

 

"Jogging the Scholarly Mind," Educational Record, Vol. 66, no. 3 (Summer, 1985), pp. 53-54; reprinted as a chapter in Jogging, ed., David Corbin. Glenview, Ill. Scott, Foresman & Co., 1988, pp. 148-151.

 

"Honors Scholarship and Forum for Honors," Forum for Honors, 16, no. 1 (Fall, 1985), pp. 3-7.

 

"Enchanting Metamorphoses: Nabokov's Canons," Spectrum, 3, no. 1 (Spring/Summer, 1988), pp. 20-29.

 

"Two Notes on Nabokov," Notes on Contemporary Literature, 18, no. 3 (May, 1988), pp. 7-10.

 

"Laughter in the Dark and Othello," The Nabokovian, no. 20 (Spring, 1988), pp. 17-18.

 

"'Something Rotten in the State': Bend Sinister and Hamlet," Russian Literature Triquarterly no. 24 (1991) pp. 197-212.

 

"Small is . . . Different," in The Academic's Handbook, Second Edition, eds., DeNeef and Goodwin. Durham, NC, Duke University Press (1995), pp. 17-28.

 

"Inventing Nabokov," Notes on Contemporary Literature, Vol. 22, no. 3 (May 1992), pp. 7-9.

 

"Acadia or Arcadia: Reflections on the Maine Coast Honors Semester," Forum for Honors, 20, no. 3 (Winter/Spring 1991), pp. 9-13.

 

"A Life in the Liberal Arts; or, Look What Happened to Prospero," Liberal Education, 79, no. 2 (Spring 1993), pp. 32-37.

 

"Four Poems," The National Honors Report, 14, no. 2 (Summer 1993), p. 31.

 

"Gladly Teaching," AAHE Bulletin, 46, no. 8 (April, 1994), pp. 3-6. Reprinted in The Department Chair, 5, no. 2 (Fall, 1994), pp. 6-8.

 

Review essay on Tony Sharpe. Vladimir Nabokov, in Nabokov Studies, 1 (Fall, 1994),

pp. 216-219.

 

Note on a Shakespearean simile in Nabokov's Speak Memory. The Nabokovian,32 (Spring, 1994), pp. 51-53.

 

"Nabokov and Shakespeare: The Russian Works," The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed., Vladimir E. Alexandrov. New York: Garland (1995), pp. 512-517.

 

" 'Good Night, Sweet Prince:' Saying Goodbye to the Dead in Shakespeare's Plays," Death Studies (1996), 20, No. 2, pp. 185-192.

 

"'Comment dit-on "mourir" en anglais?' Translating Shakespeare in Nabokov's Pale Fire," English Literature and The "Other " Languages, eds., Ton Hoerschlaars and Marius Buning, (Amsterdam), forthcoming.

 

" 'I may turn up yet, on another campus:' Vladimir Nabokov and the Academy," The Academic Novel: An Anthology of Criticism, ed., M. Moseley, San Bernadino, CA: Borgo Press, forthcoming.

 

"On The Road to Canterbury, Lilliput and Elphinstone - The Rough Guide: Satiric Travel Narratives in Chaucer, Swift and Nabokov," (electronic refereed publication) Zembla, the Nabokov Home Page. Pennsylvania State University.

 

"The Teaching of Literature," PMLA "Forum," (May, 1997), 112, No. 3, pp. 440-441.

 

 

Papers at Professional Meetings

 

(I have presented a paper, led a workshop, or been a panelist at virtually every meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council since 1973, and at about twenty regional and state Honors Conferences. These papers are not listed below.)

 

"The Power of the Visible, " 1971 Meeting of the College Section of the Iowa Council of Teachers of English.

 

"Circular Imagery in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde," 1973 Meeting of the College Section of the Iowa Council of Teachers of English.

 

"Comic Mythos and Children's Literature," 1976 International Conference on Humour sponsored by the British Psychological Society. Appears in A. Chapman and H. Foot, eds., It's A Funny Thing, Humour (Pergamon Press, 1977), pp. 119-122.

 

"What Doesn't Happen in Hamlet," 1977 Meeting of the College Section of the Iowa Conference of Teachers of English.

 

"`This Wrecched World Adown': Paganism and Christianity in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," 1977 Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature - "Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry. "

 

"Whatever Happened to Humbert: The Transformation of Lolita from Novel to Screenplay," 1978 MLA section on "New Directions in Nabokov Criticism."

 

"Swich a Noble Theatre: The Allegorical Geography of the Lists of Theseus in 'The Knight's Tale'," Northeast MLA, Spring, 1980.

 

Panelist (respondent), 1979 Meeting, Vladimir Nabokov Society.

 

Program Chairman, 1980, 1987, and 1990 Meetings, Vladimir Nabokov Society.

 

"The Choreography of Brutality in Webster's Tragedies," 1981 Joint Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America and the International Shakespeare Congress.

 

"`The Glass of Fashion': Emblems, the English Renaissance Drama, and the (un)Common Audience," 1982 Ohio Shakespeare Conference.

 

Organized Section on Nabokov, 1982 Annual Meeting, American Association of Teachers of Slavic Languages and Literature - "Vladimir Nabokov, Aesthete and/or Humanist? "

 

"Notes Towards a Methodological Definition of the Humanities," Plenary Session, Southern Humanities Conference, 1983.

 

"The Link Mechanism in The Canterbury Tales," Fifth Citadel Conference on Literature: "The Poetry, Drama, and Prose of the Renaissance and Middle Ages," Spring, 1985.

 

"The Humanities in International Perspective: The Model of Vladimir Nabokov," Southern Humanities Conference, 1985.

 

"One Byte at a Time: Introducing Freshmen to Computers," Third National Conference on the Freshman Year Experience, Columbia, South Carolina, February 1985.

 

Respondent, 1985 MLA Session on "Lolita at Thirty."

 

" Taking Steven King Seriously: Reflections on a Decade of Best Sellers, " Annual Convention of Popular Culture in the South, October, 1986; also presented to the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association, March, 1987; also published in The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares, ed., G. Hoppenstand and Ray Browne. Bowling Green, Bowling Green State University Press, (1987). pp. 107-114.

 

"Chaucer's Battle of the Sexes Revisited: The Wife of Bath's Tale and the Knight's Tale," Thirteenth Annual Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, March 1986.

 

"Nabokov: The First Posthumous Decade," MLA, 1987.

 

"Sue Lyon Joins N.O.W.: Rethinking Lolita, Nabokov and Feminism," Popular Culture in the South, 1988 Conference.

 

"At the Well of the Swan - Nabokov's Use of Shakespeare, " MLA, 1988.

 

"Getting Started in Honors," National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, March 1992.

 

" Nabokov as God; God as Nabokov," MLA, 1993.

 

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blasted Heath," Sienna Lecture, Western Carolina University, 1994.

 

"Nabokov's Eye, " Philological Association of the Carolinas, 1995.

 

"Gogolian Sentences in Nabokov's Pnin" MLA, 1995.

 

"The Mantle of the Morrill Act: Public Characteristics of 'Public Liberal Arts Colleges'," AAC&U Annual Meeting, 1/97.

 

 

Editorial Responsibilities

 

Editorial Assistant, Renaissance Drama, ns 1 (1968) and 2 (1969) and Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 11 (1968).

 

Assistant Editor, Renaissance Drama, 3 (1970) and Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 12 (1969).

 

Served as a reader for Chaucer Review; Papers in Language and Literature; University of Missouri Press; Louisiana State University Press; University of Texas Press; Renaissance and Reformation, Nabokov Studies, Forum for Honors.

 

Editor, National Collegiate Honors Council Northeast Region Newsletter (1978-81).

 

Regular columnist for the National Honors Report.

 

Play Reviewer, Marlowe Society of America Newsletter.

 

Editor, Hospice at Greensboro Newsletter, 1984-85.

 

Compiler, Honors Programs in North 'Carolina (1982); A Directory of Honors at Small Colleges (1984); Honors at Smaller Colleges: A Handbook (1988).

 

Editorial Committee, Forum for Honors.

 

Book Reviewer, Greensboro News and Record, Asheville Citizen- Times, Nabokov Studies.

 

Editorial Board, North Carolina Humanities.

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