PRESENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Classics, Department of Classics
and Near Eastern Studies, Creighton
University, 1989-
EMPLOYMENT
Department Chair, Department of Classics and Modern
Languages, 1993-6
Rector (Religious Superior) of Campion House, 1991-6
Holder of Jesuit Chair, Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C., 1991-92.
Fellow in Academic Administration, Academic Vice-President's
Office, Boston College: Jan-May,
1989
Associate Pastor, St. Joseph's Catholic Church,
Benin City, Nigeria: Sept-Dec, 1988
Rector (religious superior) of the Jesuit Community
at Marquette University: 1983-88
Associate Professor of Classics, Marquette University
1983-88
Creighton University: Director of Jesuit Humanities
Program 1979-83, Associate Professor 1979-, with
tenure after 1980, on leave 1983-89 and 1991-92.
College of the Holy Cross: Assistant Professor 1974-78,
Associate Professor with tenure 1978-79;
Director of Honors Program 1976-79.
Marquette University, Division of Letters (Jesuit
College, St. Bonifacius, Minnesota): Instructor
1966-68.
PERSONAL DATA
Date and Place of Birth: November 11, 1941
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Entrance into Society of Jesus: September 1, 1959
Ordination to Priesthood: June 14, 1974
EDUCATION
Academic Sabbatical, Santa Clara University, 1996-97.
M. Div. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, 1974.
Area major: Gospel literature.
D. Phil. (summa cum laude) University of Heidelberg,
1972. Major: Latin. Minors: Greek, philosophy.
Examiners: Viktor Poeschl (advisor), Herwig Goergemanns,
Ernst Tugendhat.
Graduate seminars in Latin and Greek at the University
of Minnesota, 1967-68.
M. A. St. Louis University, 1966, in Greek and Latin.
Licentiate in Philosophy, St. Louis University,
1966.
Classical Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude), St.
Louis University, 1965.
Undergraduate work at Marquette University, Division
of Letters (Jesuit College, St. Bonifacius,
Minnesota), 1960-63.
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
U.S. West Fellow, Creighton University, August,
1997-May, 1998.
Elected First Vice-President of the Vergilian Society
(with automatic succession to President),
January, 1997.
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Creighton
College of Arts and Sciences, Feb., 1996.
Students' Honorary Inductee, Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit
National Honor Society), Dec., 1994.
Holder of Jesuit Chair, Georgetown University, Washington,
D.C., 1991-92. Awarded the Georgetown
University President's Medal, November 14, 1991.
Member, Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International
Scholars, 1991-
Baccalaureate Homilist, Creighton University, December,
1990.
Trustee, Loyola University of Chicago, 1989-95
Trustee, Gonzaga University, 1984-88.
Baccalaureate Homilist, Marquette University, May
1987.
Member, Provincials' Task Force on Higher Education,
1985-86.
Elected Representative of Wisconsin Province to
33rd General Congregation of Society of Jesus,
Rome, September-October 1983.
Baccalaureate Homilist, Creighton University, May
1983.
Member, American Assistancy Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality,
1982-85.
Faculty Development Grant, Creighton University,
Summer 1983.
Yearbook dedication: The Purple Patcher 1979, College
of the Holy Cross.
Batchelor (Ford) Summer Faculty Fellowship, College
of the Holy Cross, 1975.
Dissertation and doctoral examination both awarded
"Summa cum laude," University of Heidelberg,
1972.
Guest of la Fondation Hardt, Geneva, March-April,
1970.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst grant for
study in Germany, 1968, renewed 1969, 1970.
Classical Bachelor of Arts awarded "Summa cum laude,"
St. Louis University, 1965.
Ford Honors Program, St. Louis University, 1964-65.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Classical literature in translation
Roman poetry, especially of the Augustan Age: Vergil,
Horace, Ovid, Catullus
Greek poetry, especially Homer and the tragedians
Greek philosophy
Gospel literature
Aesop's Fables
Fable Literature
DISSERTATION
Die Verwandlung der homerischen Gleichnisse in Vergils
Aeneis
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS
"How to Teach an Undergraduate Course in Fable Literature,"
proposed chapter initially approved
for a proposed MLA volume Approaches to Teaching
La Fontaine and the Fable Tradition" (awaiting
final MLA approval), edited by Michael Vincent,
forthcoming in 1998?
"Caxton versus Aesop," Panel on Fables and Fabulists,
Leeds International Medieval Institute, July
15, 1998.
"Nine Great Moments in the History of Published Fable
Illustration," Les animaux dans la littérature:
Actes du Colloque de Tokyo de la Societé
Internationale Renardienne (appearing in January, 1998).
"Four American Aesopic Parodists: Bierce, Thurber,
Zimler, and Eichenberg," Reinardus, Vol.10, 1997
(appearing in January, 1998).
"More-Than-Surface Meaning in the Biographical Aesop
Fables of Phaedrus III," 12th International
Colloquium of the Reynard Society, Turin, Italy,
September 8, 1997.
"My Experience of Collecting Fable Editions," Martha's
KidLit Newsletter, Vol. 8, #11, November,
1996.
"Nine Great Moments in the History of Published Fable
Illustration," Colloque de Tokyo de la
Société Internationale Renardienne,
July 23, 1996.
"A Fabulous Gift," Creighton University Window, Vol. 12, #3, Spring, 1996.
"Avianus Makes Fable History by Making Natural History
into Fable," Classical Association of the
Middle-West and South, Nashville, April 12, 1996.
"Four American Aesopic Parodists: Bierce, Thurber,
Zimler, and Eichenberg," The Renard Society,
Eleventh International Colloquium: Beast Epic, Fable
& Fabliau, Düsseldorf, Germany, July 20, 1995
"Beautifying the Beast: Disney's Domestication of
Aesopic Fable," Beast Fable Society Seventh International Congress,
October 14, 1994, Kirksville, Missouri.
"Fables Invite Perception," Bestia, Vol. 5 (1993).
"Jokes, Fables, and Joke Fables," International Beast Fable Congress, Santa Fe, NM, May 17, 1993.
With Wendy M. Wright: "Bridges to the Ignatian Isles, Part II," Companions, No. 5, Spring, 1993.
"The Art of the Abrupt: Horace's Satire II 6," Classical
Association of the Middle-West and South, Iowa City, April 15,
1994.
"Horace's and Today's Town and Country Mice," Bestia, Vol. 4 (1992).
With Wendy M. Wright: "Bridges to the Ignatian Isles," Companions, No. 4, Winter, 1992.
"A Definition of Aesopic Fable," International Beast Fable Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14, 1992.
"The Last Five Years of Fables," American Classical League Institute, Tufts University, June 28, 1991.
"Town Mouse and Country Mouse: Today and in Horace
(illustrated)," International Beast Fable Congress, Margarita
Island, Venezuela, May 27, 1991.
"When Aesop Degenerates," International Beast Fable Society, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, April 22, 1990
"My Proverbs on Praying," in Jesuits Praying: Personal
Reflections by Past and Present Seminar Members, edited by John
W. Padberg, S.J., Studies in the Spirituality of
Jesuits, Vol. 21, No. 5 (November, 1989).
"A Faith Lived Out of Doors: Ongoing Formation of
Jesuits Today," Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, Vol. 16, No. 4
(September 1984).
"Aesop's Varied Progeny," American Philological Association, December 28, 1982.
"Failure in the Aeneid," University Lecture, Creighton University, November 11, 1982.
Seminar on How to Teach Classical Literature in Translation
(organizer and moderator), American Philological
Association, December 29, 1981.
"Horace Ode II 10: More than Mediocre," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2, 1981.
"Catullus 72, 75, and 85: The Poetic of Polarity," American Philological Association, December 30, 1979.
Review of R.G. Austin, P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Sextus, Classical Folia, Vol. 32, No. 2 (1978) 264-66.
"From Numantia to Necking: Horace Ode 2.12," Classical World, Vol. 71, No. 7 (April-May, 1978) 441-48.
"Nova et Vetera: Using Modern Plays with Greek Tragedies
(Part 1)," Classical Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 6 (April, 1978)
89-92.
"Nova et Vetera: Using Modern Plays with Greek Tragedies
(Part 2)," Classical Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1 (November,
1978) 9-12.
"Nova et Vetera: Using Modern Plays with Greek Tragedies
(Part 3)," Classical Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 2 (December,
1978) 20-23.
"The End of the Aeneid," Classical Association of New England, March 31, 1978.
"Aeneas in Thirteen, Times Three," Reconciliation Quarterly N.S. 7.4 (December, 1977) 18-20.
"Odyssey 9.456-7 and the Ring Polyphemus Did Not Have," American Philological Association, December 28, 1977.
"Dido and Fama," Classical Association of New England, March 28, 1976.
"Shepherd and Host: A Literary Look at Psalm 23," The Bible Today No. 78 (April, 1975) 400-403.
"Spiritual Direction and the Paschal Mystery,: Review for Religious, Vol. 33, No. 3 (May, 1974) 532-41.
"The Two Creation Accounts in Schematic Contrast," The Bible Today No. 66 (April, 1973) 1192-94.
"Form and Transformation in Vergil's Catalepton,"
American Journal of Philology, Vol. 92, No. 2 (April, 1971) 252-65
(with Ernst A. Schmidt)
"How Shall I Teach the Classics?," Classical Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 4 (February, 1965) 55-59.
COMMITTEE SERVICE
Creighton (1989- )
University Rank and Tenure
College Rank and Tenure
Council of Chairs
Core Development
Educational Policy
Honors Advisory
Collaborative Ministry Office Advisory
Creighton in the Year 2000, "Jesuit Identity &
Catholic Character"
(Committee Member, then Implementor)
Academic Council
Executive Council (Curriculum Committee)
Marquette
Law Dean Search
Academic Senate
Creighton (1979-1983)
Lectures, Concerts, and Films
Faculty Evaluation (Chairman)
Executive Council
Academic Council
Holy Cross
Educational Policy
Nominations and Elections
Academic Standing
Premedical Predental
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Phi Beta Delta
American Philological Association
The Classical Association of the Middle-West and
South
The American Classical League
The Vergilian Society
The International Beast Fable Society
The Renard Society