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GERMAINE WARKENTIN
Professor Emeritus of English, University of Toronto

CURRICULUM VITAE (August, 2013)

Biographical Information:

Germaine Therese (Clinton) WARKENTIN
b. Toronto, Ontario, October 20, 1933
Citizenship: Canadian

Office: VC 205, Victoria College, University of Toronto,
73 Queen=s Park Crescent, Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7

Contact: g.warkentin at utoronto.ca

B.A. 1955 (Honours Philosophy), University of Toronto
M.A. 1965 (English), University of Manitoba
Ph.D. 1972 (English), University of Toronto

Ph.D. Thesis: Astrophil and Stella in the Setting of Its Tradition (Supervisor: Millar MacLure).

Honours:

B Distinguished Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 1999B.
B Senior Fellow, Massey College, 2005B.
B Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy I), June 2009
B Lifetime Achievement Award, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, May 2010.

Appointments:

Member of the staff in English, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1970-99:
B Lecturer, 1970-72.
B Assistant Professor, 1972-76.
B Awarded tenure, December 1975.
B Associate Professor, 1976-90.
B Professor, 1990.
B Appointed to the Graduate Department of English, June 1978.
B Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University, 1985-
1990.
B Cross-appointed to Graduate Faculty, Centre for Comparative Literature, July, 1990;
appointment renewed for five-year period July, 1995.
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B Professor Emeritus, July 1999.

Previously:

B Freelance film criticism: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and miscellaneous journals,
1953-64.
B Editor, Canadian Newsreel: Bulletin of the Canadian Federation of Film Societies (1954-57).
B Instructor in English, United College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1958-59.
B Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University College, University of Toronto, 1966-
67.
B Bibliographical Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University
in the University of toronto, 1967-68.
B Research Assistant to Professor F.D. Hoeniger, Department of English, Victoria College, 1968-
69.

Research Interests:

1. History of the book; editing, philosophy and theory of bibliography and book history.

2. English-Canadian literature before 1900, with emphasis on the earlier literature of exploration,
especially the writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636?-1710).

3. Sir Philip Sidney, the Sidney family library, and Penshurst estate to 1743.

4. The Renaissance sonnet sequence or canzoniere in Italy, France, and England, from Petrarch to
Shakespeare, with emphasis on its manuscript sources and bibliography, and on the writings of
Petrarch.

5. Modern Canadian poetry and criticism, with emphasis on the writings of Northrop Frye and
James Reaney.

Membership in Academic Societies:

Modern Language Association; Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies; Renaissance Society
of America; Medieval Academy of America; Bibliographical Society of Canada; Oxford
Bibliographical Society; International Society for the History of Rhetoric; The Bibliographical
Society (London); Bibliographical Society of America, The Champlain Society.

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Editorial Boards and Committees:

‒ Chair, Canadian Federation of Film Societies, 1965-66
B Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies: Managing Committee (1970-2012), Director
1985-90); CRRS Library Committee (Acting Chair, 2000-2001); founding co-editor, CRRS
ATudor and Stuart Texts@ Series.
B Executive member, International Spenser Society, 1993-95.
B Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Travel and Exploration (2003-5).
B Renaissance English Text Society, Council member 1995-2005.
B The Champlain Society; Council member 1999-2009; 2013--; Vice-President and Chair,
Publications Committee 2006-09 (continuing as member of the committee); David Thompson
Edition, Editorial Advisory Board, 1999--.
B RSA (Renaissance Society of America), 1999 Nelson Prize Jury, February, 2000.
B SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publication) Prize Jury,1998;
SHARP/RSA Liaison 2000-05.
B Numerous Victoria University and University of Toronto committees 1970 to date, including
recently: Victoria University: Senate Honorary Degrees Committee 2000-02; Lincoln Hutton
Scholarship Committee 2002-2008.
B Founding board member, RALUT (Retired Academics and Librarians of the University of
Toronto) 2001-07; founding chair of RALUT=s Senior Scholars Committee 2004-07.
B Team member, GRASAC (Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal
Cultures), Principal Investigator: Dr. Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair and Professor of Art
History, Carleton University.
B UTFA (University of Toronto Faculty Association) Council 2004-2007; member of UTFA
Librarians= Committee 2005-07; member, UTFA/Administration Joint Working Group on
Retiree Engagement with the University (2004-5).
B Editorial Board, The Library: Publications of the Bibliographical Society (London) March,
2007--
- Founding member of Senior College, University of Toronto; member of Council 2009 – ; Chair
of Nominating Committee, 2009--12
- Chair, Toronto Semiotic Circle, 2012-13
- Chair, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloqium, 2012--

Grants:

Canada Council dissertation support, 1967-69, total: $6,750.
Canada Council travel grants, 1974, 1975, in support of work on poetic manuscripts in Italian
libraries, total: $3,945
Canada Council Leave Fellowship, 1976-77: $5,023
Newberry Library Fellowship, May-June 1978: $500
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Leave Fellowship, 1983-
84: $11,030
SSHRC Standard Research Grants:
1986-89: ‘The Library of the Sidneys at Penshurst Place’: $63,504
1989-92: ‘The Library of the Sidneys at Penshurst Place’(continued): $72,617
1992-95[6]: ‘Problems in the Sociology of the Text 1366-1743’: $48,220
Victoria University in the University of Toronto: Senate Research Committee: Research and
Conference Travel Grants:
October 1998 ($2400); March 2000 ($965); November 2001 ($625); March 2002
($1200); July 2003 ($1000); May 2005 ($357); May 2006 ($680); June 2007 ($1500);
February 2008 ($550); December 2008 ($2960); November 2010 ($825).Publication
subvention: June 2012 ($4080).
Victoria University Senate Research Committee. Grant in aid of publication: The Library of the
Sidneys of Penshurst Place, ca. 1665. $4080.
Regular SSHRC conference grants in support of conferences organized (no records kept).
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, grants towards publication:
The Queen’s Majesty’s Passage, 2004: ($7000)
The Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Vol. 1, 2012. ($8000)
The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst circa 1665, forthcoming ($8000)

Theses Supervised:

Robert Graham, John Galt=s ACanadian@ Novels: A Critical Revaluation (M.A. thesis;
successfully defended, September, 1982).

Lalage Grauer, In the Camp of Big Bear: Narrative Versions of the Cree Uprising, 1885 (Ph.D
thesis; successfully defended, March 1, 1991).

Katherine Acheson, AI am Like an Owl in the Desert@: the Diary of Lady Anne Clifford for the
Years 1616, 1617, and 1619 (Ph.D. thesis; successfully defended, October 29, 1993).

Matthew DeCoursey, Centre for Comparative Literature, Rhetoric and Sign Theory in Erasmus
and Tyndale. Co-supervision with Profs. Brian Stock and (latterly) Eva Kushner (Ph.D. thesis,
successfully defended, January 24, 1995).

Lisa Celovsky, Martial and Marital: Representations of Masculinity in The Faerie Queene and
the New Arcadia. (Ph.D. thesis; successfully defended March 21, 1997)

William Moreau, David Thompson=s Writing of his Travels: the Genetics of an Emerging
Exploration Text. (Ph.D. thesis; successfully defended, May 12, 1997).
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Helmut Reichenbächer, Reading Hidden Layers: A Genetic Analysis of the Drafts of Margaret
Atwood=s Novels The Edible Woman and Bodily Harm. (Ph.D. thesis; successfully defended,
October 1, 1998).

Andrew Payne, Adieu: Hamlet Remembered in the Thoughts of Benjamin, Lacan, Levinas, and
Derrida. (Ph.D. thesis; successfully defended, November 1, 2002)

Recent Service:

Review for promotion to Full Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Literature
Section, School for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Summer 2009.
Review for tenure, Dept. of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Summer 2009.
Chair, Lincoln Hutton Essay Competition, Victoria College, May 2008
Review for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, Department of English, Southern
Methodist University, Summer 2008.
Review for Promotion to Senior Lecturer, Department of English, King's College, London
England, February 2007.
Review for advancement to Promotional Chair, Renaissance Studies, University of Leeds,
England, November 2005.

A) Refereed Publications:

i) Books Edited:

1) James Reaney. Poems. Edited and with an introduction by Germaine Warkentin, Toronto:
New Press, 1972.

2) Stories from Ontario. Selected and with an introduction by Germaine Warkentin. Toronto:
Macmillan, 1974.

3) Reaney, James. Selected Shorter Poems. Selected and with an introduction by Germaine
Warkentin. Press Porcepic: Erin, Ontario, 1975.

4) Collin, W.E. The White Savannahs. Introduction by Germaine Warkentin. Literature of
Canada: Poetry and Prose in Reprint, no. 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.

5) [With David Sinclair (obiit)], The New World Journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop. Final
editing and Introduction by Germaine Warkentin. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1976.

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6) Reaney, James. A Suit of Nettles. Introduction by Germaine Warkentin. Press Porcepic: Erin,
Ontario, 1976.

7) Reaney, James. Selected Longer Poems. Selected and with an introduction by Germaine
Warkentin. Press Porcepic, Erin, Ontario, 1976.

8) Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology, ed., with an introduction by Germaine
Warkentin. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993. (Reprinted 2006; see below).

9) Critical Issues in Editing Exploration Texts. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual
Conference on Editorial Problems. Edited with Introduction by Germaine Warkentin. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1995.

10) Sara Jeannette Duncan, Set in Authority (1906). Critical edition by Germaine Warkentin with
introduction, appendices, and notes. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1996.

11) Germaine Warkentin and Carolyn Podruchny, eds., Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and
Europe in Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, 1500-1700. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2001.

12) The Queen=s Majesty=s Passage and Related Documents. Edited by Germaine Warkentin.

Tudor and Stuart Texts, Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
Passages from pages 75-79 reprinted March, 2006, in The Elizabethan World Reference Library
Primary Sources (EWRLPS) published by Thomson-Gale in hardcover and online versions.

13) Northrop Frye, AThe Educated Imagination@ and Other Writings on Critical Theory,
1933-1963. Edited, with and Introduction, by Germaine Warkentin. Volume 2 of the critical
writings, in The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

14) Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology, ed., with an introduction by Germaine
Warkentin. Originally Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1993 (see above). Reprinted with new
preface and updated bibliography, AVoyageur Classics,@ Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006.

15) The Collected Writings of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. Volume 1: The Voyages. Toronto: the
Champlain Society and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.

ii) Articles and Review Articles:

1) ASome Renaissance Schoolbooks in the Osborne Collection,@ Renaissance and Reformation
5.3 (May 1969), 2-10.

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2) A>Love=s Sweetest Part, Variety=: Petrarch and the Curious Frame of the Renaissance Sonnet
Sequence,@ Renaissance and Reformation 11.1 (1975), 14-23.

3) AThe Artist in Labour: James Reaney=s Plays,@ Journal of Canadian Fiction 2.1 (Winter 1973),
88-91.

4) AImpressions of Canada: The Thirties and the Seventies,@ Journal of Canadian Fiction 2.3
(Summer 1973), 107-10.

5) ATerritories Enclosed by Singing,@ review article discussing W.H. New, Articulating West:
Essays on Purpose and Form in Modern Canadian Literature (Toronto: New Press, 1972),
Canadian Literature, no. 58 (Autumn 1973), 86-91.

6) ACriticism and the Whole Man@ review article discussing A.J.M. Smith, Towards a View of
Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays 1928-1971 (University of British Columbia Press,
1973), Canadian Literature, no. 64 (Spring 1975), 83-91.

7) ACocksure: An Abandoned Introduction,@ Journal of Canadian Fiction 4.3 (1975), 81-86.

8) ASidney=s Certain Sonnets: Speculations on the Evolution of the Text,@ The Library: Papers of
the Bibliographical Society, Sixth Series, 2.4 (December, 1980), 430-444.

9) AGreville=s Caelica and the Fulness of Time,@ English Studies in Canada, 6 (1980), 398-408.

10) AThe Form of Dante=s >libello= and its Challenge to Petrarch,@ Quaderni d=Italianistica 2
(1980), 160-170.

11) AScott=s >Lakeshore= and its Tradition,@ Canadian Literature, 87 (Winter, 1980), 42-50.
Selections reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 22 (1982), 377.

12) AD=Arcy McGee and the Critical Act: A Nineteenth-Century Oration,@ Journal of Canadian
Studies, 17 (1982), 119-127.

13) ASidney and the Supple Muse: Compositional Procedures in Some Sonnets of Astrophil and
Stella,@ Studies in the Literary Imagination, 15 (Spring, 1982), 37-48. [Invited essay; reprinted in
Sir Philip Sidney: An Anthology of Modern Criticism (Oxford, 1987).].

14) APatrons and Profiteers: Thomas Newman and the >Violent Enlargement= of Astrophil and
Stella,@ The Book Collector, 34 (1985), 461-87.

15) AThe Problem of Crawford=s Style,@ Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985), 20- 32.
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Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism 127 (2003), 198-204.

16) ACensorship and Interpretation,@ review article discussing Annabel Patterson, Censorship and
Interpretation: The Conditions of Reading and Writing in Early Modern England. University of
Toronto Quarterly 56 (1986-87), 456-60.

17) AAmoretti and Epithalamion@ in Spenser Encyclopedia, edited by A.C. Hamilton (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1990), 30-38.

18) ASonnet and Sonnet Sequence@ in Spenser Encyclopedia, edited by A.C. Hamilton (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1990), 662-65.

19) A>The Boy Henry Kelsey=: Generic Disjunction in Henry Kelsey's Verse Journal,@ in Literary
Genres, Proceedings of Conference 5, Towards a History of the Literary Institution in Canada,
November 3-5, 1988 (Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of
Alberta, 1991), 99-114.

20) A>Which lines are Pleasure=s and which not?=@ (review article discussing Thomas P. Roche,
Jr., Petrarch and the English Sonnet Sequences (New York: AMS Press, 1989]), University of
Toronto Quarterly 60 (1990-91), 508-14.

21) [With Heather Murray], AReading the Discourse of Early Canada,@ Canadian Literature 131
(Winter, 1992), 7-13.

22) AThe Library of the Sidney Family,@ Sidney Newsletter & Journal 15.1 (Spring, 1997), 3-18.

23) ARobert Sidney=s >Darcke Offrings=: The Making of a Late Tudor Manuscript Canzoniere,@
Spenser Studies 12 (1992; published 1998), 37-73.

24) AThe World and the Book at Penshurst: the Second Earl of Leicester (1595-1677) and his
Library,@ The Library: Papers of the Bibliographical Society, Sixth Series, 20.4 (December,
1998), 325-46.

25) AIn Search of >The Word of the Other=: Aboriginal Sign Systems and the History of the Book
in Canada.@ Book History 2 (1999), 1-27.

26) AStyles of Authorship in New France: Pierre Boucher, Settler and Pierre-Esprit Radisson,
Explorer,@ Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société
bibliographique du Canada, 37.2 (Fall, 1999), 16-34.

27) ARadisson=s Voyages and their Manuscripts,@ Archivaria 48 (Fall 1999), 199-222.
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28) AWho was the Scribe of the Radisson Manuscript?@ Archivaria 53 (Spring, 2002), 47-63.

29) AJonson=s Penshurst Reveal=d? A Penshurst Inventory of 1623,@ Sidney Journal 20.1 (2002),
1-25.

30) [with Peter Hoare], ASophisticated Shakespeare: James Toovey and the Morgan Library=s
>Sidney= First Folio.@ Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 100.3 (September 2006),
313-56.

31) AThe Magnate and the Minister: Power and Property at Penshurst 1651-59,@ Sidney Journal
24.2 (2006) 1-13.

32) ARobert Sidney and his Books,@ Sidney Journal (special issue on Robert Sidney), 25.1-2,
(2007), 31-42.

33) [with Noel Kinnamon], ARobert Sidney and the Italic Hand,@ Sidney Journal (special issue on
Robert Sidney) 25.1-2 (2007), 83-93.

34) "Aristotle in New France: Louis Nicolas and the Making of the Codex canadensis," French
Colonial History 11 (2010), 71-107.

35) “’The Age of Frye’: Dissecting the Anatomy of Criticism, 1957-1966.” Canadian Literature
no. 214, Autumn, 2012. 15-29.

iii) Chapters in Books:

1) AThe Meeting of the Muses: Astrophil and Stella and the Mid-Tudor Poets,@ in Sir Philip
Sidney and the Interpretation of Renaissance Culture, ed. G.F. Waller and Michael Moore.
(London: Croom Helm Press, 1984), 17-33.

2) ASpenser at the Still Point: A Schematic Device in >Epithalamion=,@ in Craft and Tradition:
Essays in Honour of William Blissett, edited by H.B. de Groot and Alexander Leggatt (Calgary:
University of Calgary Press, 1990), 47-57.

3) ASidney=s Authors,@ in. Sir Philip Sidney=s Achievements, edited by M.J.B. Allen, Dominic
Baker-Smith and Arthur F. Kinney (New York: AMS Press, 1990), 68-89.

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4) AIntroduction@ to Petrarch=s Songbook: Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a verse translation by
James Wyatt Cook (Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995), 1-27.

5) ADiscovering Radisson: A Renaissance Adventurer Between Two Worlds,@ in Reading
Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, ed. Jennifer S. H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert
(Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1996), 43-70. Reprinted, revised and updated, Jennifer
S.H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, eds., Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History
(second edition; Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2003), 75-104.

6) AHumanism in Hard Times: the Second Earl of Leicester (1595-1677) and his Commonplace
Books, 1630-1660,@ in Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honour of Dominic Baker-Smith,
edited by Ton Hoenselaars and Arthur F. Kinney (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware
Press, 2005), 229-53.

7) AInfaticabile maestro: Ernest Hatch Wilkins and the Manuscripts of Petrarch=s Canzoniere,@ in
Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation, edited by Teodolinda Barolini and H. Wayne
Storey (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007), 45-65.

8) AMake it last forever as it is": John McDonald of Garth's Vision of a Native Kingdom in the
Northwest,@in Laura Peers and Carolyn Podruchny, eds., Gathering Places: Essays on Aboriginal
Histories [festshrift in honour of Jennifer S.H. Brown], (Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press, 2010), 149-178.

9) "Radisson Ėdité par l'Abbé Bernou: Les Prétendues «Pétitions» de 1677 et 1681." In Éditer la
nouvelle france, ed. Grégoire Holtz and Andreas Motsch. (Québec, Les Presses de l'Université
Laval, 2012), 151-175.

iv: Special Issues edited:

1) Before 1860: Discourse and Language in Canada / Avant 1860: discours et langages au
Canada. Ed. Germaine Warkentin and Heather Murray. Canadian Literature 131 (Winter,
1992).]

2) Things Not Easily Believed: Introducing the Early Modern Relation. Thomas V. Cohen and
Germaine Warkentin, guest editors. Special issue, Renaissance and Reformation. 34.1–2,
Winter-Spring/hiver-printemps 2011

3) The Future of Northrop Frye: Centennial Perspectives, Germaine Warkentin and Linda
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