Curriculum Vitae
Higher Education and Degrees
1963-65 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1966-72 University of California, Berkeley
Full-time Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of English, Brandeis University, 1972-76
Professor of English, University of California-Berkeley, 1976-2004
Assistant Professor 1976-84
Associate Professor 1984-95
Full Professor 1995-2003
Visiting Associate Professor of English, UCLA, 1989
Professor of English, UW-Madison, 2001-2008
Teaching and Research Specialties
Old English and Middle English language and literature
Anglo-Saxon England
Comparative medieval literature (esp. English, Old Norse, Celtic, and Old French)
Theory of folklore, mythology, and oral literature
The ballad; the epic; the folktale; Scottish tradition
Awards and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa (1967)
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary, 1967-68)
NEH Translation Grant (1980)
Howard Foundation Fellowship (1982-83)
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid (1984)
ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1987)
Visiting scholar, Society for the Humanities,
Cornell University (1987-88)
Visiting scholar, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, UCLA (1992)
University of California Humanities Research Fellowship (1980, 1987, 1997)
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (1997-98)
Nancy C. Hoefs Professor of English, UW-Madison (2003-07)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison (2004-09)
Elected to WARF Professorship, 2007 (as Frederic G. Cassidy Professsor of Humanities).
Professional Affiliations
Modern Language Association of America
Old English Division Executive Committee, 2002-06 (chair, 2005)
Committee on Scholarly Editions, 2007-10
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
Currently serving as First Vice President (2008)
Medieval Academy of America
Medieval Association of the Midwest
American Folklore Society
California Folklore Society
Celtic Studies Association of North America
International Ballad Society (SIEF)
International Society for Folk Narrative Research
The English Association (U.K.)
jdniles@wisc.edu
Updated:03-Nov-2008