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R R I C U L U M V I T A E
Barton W. Browning
EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
HONORS/RECOGNITION
SIGNIFICANT ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES Acting Head,
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Summer 1997,
1998, 1999 Chair,
Business/Liberal Arts Minor (the University’s largest minor) 1983 - present German Department
Graduate Officer, 1992-93, 1998-2000 Chair, University
Faculty Senate, 1994-95 University Future
Committee, 1992-93 Faculty Planning
and Budget Advisory Committee 1990-92 SIGNIFICANT COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES Senate Gen Ed
Committee 1999-2000 Senate Committee
on Committee and Rules 1996-1999 President’s
Excellence in Academic Integration Award Committee, Chair, 1997-98, Member, 1996-97 Faculty/Staff
Achievement Awards Committee, 1997-99 Chair, Faculty
Senate External Matters Subcommittee, 1995-96 Immediate Past
Chair, University Faculty Senate, 1995-96 Vice President
for Development Search Committee, 1995-96 Director of
Legislative Affairs Search Committee, 1995 Middle States
Association Re-accreditation Self-Study Steering Committee, 1994-95 University
Continuous Quality Improvement Planning Team, 1994-96 University
Council on Continuous Quality Improvement, 1994-96 Presidential
Search and Screen Committee, 1994-95 Director of
Athletics Search Committee, 1994 Task Force on
Inter-Campus Relations, 1993-94 Auxiliary and
University Service Task Force, 1993 Chair-Elect,
University Faculty Senate, 1993-94 Faculty/Staff
Club Executive Board, 1992-95 Faculty Rights
and Responsibilities Committee, 1992-93 Chair,
Faculty/Staff Club Implementation Committee, 1991-93 Chair, Selection Panel for the Arts and
Humanities Faculty Scholar Medal, 1990-93. Chair, Senate
Academic and Physical Planning Committee, 1990-92 Senate Academic
and Physical Planning Committee, 1989-92 Physical
Facilities Advisory Committee, 1989-92 Liberal Arts Dean
Review Committee 1989 Vice Provost for
Academic Affairs Search Committee, 1988 Assistant Vice
President for Human Resources Search Committee, 1988 Associate Chair,
Liberal Arts United Way Campaign, 1988 President's Task
Force on Centre Region/Penn State Health Care Delivery, 1988 University
General Education Committee/Humanities, 1987-88 University
Fulbright Advisor, 1987-88 Chair, Fulbright
Selection Committee, 1987 President's
Planning and Budget Advisory Committee, 1986-88 Chair, Liberal
Arts Core Colleges Committee, 1986-88 University
Sabbatical Leave Review Committee, 1985-87 Joint
Faculty-Admin. Insurance Benefits Committee, 1986-88 Liberal Arts
Associate Dean Selection Committee, 1985 University
Management Education Study Committee, 1984-85 Chair, Liberal
Arts Sabbatical Leave Review Committee, 1984-1985 Slavic Studies
Review Committee, 1984-85 Liberal Arts
Sabbatical Leave Review Committee, 1983-85 Chair,
Business/Liberal Arts Minor Committee, 1983 - Liberal Arts
Representative to the College of Business Administration, 1983-85 Graduate Council
Fellowships and Awards Committee, 1982 Fulbright
Selection Committee, 1982-88 Chair,
Business/Liberal Arts Non-Major Option Committee, 1981-83 German Department
Promotion and Tenure Committee 1981- Phi Beta Kappa
Review Committee, 1980 -94 Foreign Study
Interview Committee, 1980-89 Liberal Arts
Representative to the College of Science, 1980-81 Liberal Arts
Representative to the University Senate Council, 1977-78 Chair of the
German Department Head Search Committee, 1977 Chair of the
German Department Headship Review Committee, 1977 Vice-Chair of the
University Senate Academic and Athletic Standards Committee, 1976 - Chair of the
University Senate Academic Standards Subcommittee, 1976-78 Liberal Arts
Faculty Affairs Committee, 1976-77 Secretary of the
Liberal Arts Faculty, 1976-77 Chair of the
Liberal Arts College Nominating Committee, Liberal Arts
College Policy Committee, 1975-77 University
Faculty Senate, 1975-78 University
Academic Standards Committee, 1975-78 Liberal Arts
Council of Senators, 1975-78 Liberal Arts
Comparative Literature Committee, 1975-76 Liberal Arts
Humanities Committee, 1973-74 Liberal Arts
Student Scholastic Standing Committee, 1972-73 OTHER
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES University
Scholars Advisor 1992-1999, 2001- University
Fulbright Advisor 1987-88 German Scholastic
Honorary Society Advisor, 1972- Penn State Squash
Club Advisor, 1980- MEMBERSHIPS
IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American
Association of Teachers of German Central Pa.
Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German Frühe Neuzeit
Interdiszplinär Grillparzer
Society of America Internationaler
Arbeitskreis für deutsche Barockliteratur Modern Language
Association Northeast Modern
Language Association Society for
German Renaissance and Baroque Literature OTHER
OFFICES Executive
Committee, Central Pa. Chapter, American Association of Teachers of German, 1986-88 National
Secretary, Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature, 1982-93 German before 1700 Delegate to the
Modern Language Association National Delegate Assembly,
1974-75, 1990-93 EDITORIAL
ACTIVITIES Member of the Colloquia
Germanica Editorial Board Reader for PMLA,
German Quarterly, Seventeenth-Century News, Susquehanna
University Press, and the Penn State Press PUBLICATIONS "Stifter's
Nachsommer and the Fourth Commandment," Colloquia Germanica 4
(1973): 301-16. "The Yale
Collection of German Baroque Literature," with June Moroni, Microform
Review 2 (January 1973): 35-38. "Cooper's
Influence on Stifter: Fact or
Scholarly Myth?" Modern
Language Notes 89 (1974): 821-828. (Review)
High Baroque Culture and Theatre in Vienna by Robert Griffen, Seventeenth-Century
News 32 (Spring and Summer 1974): 17-18. (Review) Hell-Dunkel
in der deutschen Dichtung by Vereni Fässler, German Quarterly 48
(1975): 253-255. "Ein kleiner
Hofmannswaldau Fund in Pennsylvanien," Wolfenbüttel Barock-Nachrichten
2 (1975): 96-97. (Review) Literary
Criticism and Sociology and The Personality of the Critic. Ed. J. Strelka.
German Quarterly 49 (1976): 205-207. (Review) Maria
Stuarda by Adolf Haugwitz. Ed. Robert Heitner.
Colloquia Germanica 10,3 (1976-77): 35-38. "Heinrich
Julius in Wolfenbüttel" Wolfenbüttel Barock-Nachrichten 4,2
(1979): 309-311. (Review)
Untersuchungen zu den Prosaschriften Henry Vaughans by G. Wiese.
Seventeenth-Century News 37,3-4 (1979): 75. "Joseph
Roth's 'Legende vom heiligen Trinker': Essence
and Elixir," Protest--Form--Tradition:
Essays on German Exile Literature.
Ed. Robert Bell, et al., (University, Alabama:
University of Alabama Press, 1979): 85-95. (Review) Adalbert-Stifter-Bibliographie:
2. Fortsetzung, by E. Eisenmeier.
Colloquia Germanica 10,4 (1979). "The
Development of the Vernacular Drama."
German Baroque Literature: the
European Perspective. Ed.
Gerhard Hoffmeister. New York:
Ungar, 1983: 339-356. "Heldenbrief
and Heldenrede: Lohenstein's
Lyric in the Heroic Mode." Daphnis,
12,2-3 (1983): 67-77. "The
Manuscript Version of Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig's Von einem
ungeratenen Sohn." Barocker
Lust-Spiegel. Ed. Martin
Bircher et al. Chloe, 3.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984:
175-185. "The Advent
of the English Players at the Court of Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig." Opitz
und seine Welt: Festschrift für George Schulz-Behrend. Ed. Barabara Becker-Cantarino
and Jörg-Ulrich Fechner. Chloe 10.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990. 125-139. (Review) The
Poetry of Christian Hofmann von Hofmannswaldau: A New Reading.
By Frizt G. Cohen. German
Quarterly 63. 3-4 (1990):
526-27. (Review) Trammels
of Tradition: Aspects of German Life and Culture in the Seventeenth Century and
their Impact on the Contemporary Culture.
By Hugh Powell. Daphnis
19.3 (1990): 551-53. "Poets
Addressing Themselves: An Authorial
Posture in 17th-Century German Poetry."
Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720.
Ed. James A. Parente, Jr., Richard Erich Schade, and George C.
Schoolfield. Chapel Hill, N.C.: UNC
Press, 1991. 225-235 "Grillparzer's
Bruderzwist and the Historical Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig."
Modern Austrian Literature 28. 3-4 (1995): 147-60. "Daniel
Casper von Lohenstein: (25 January 1635 - 28 April 1683)."
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. James Hardin. Vol. 168.
Detroit: Bruccoli, Clark and Layman, 1996. 266-280. "Heinrich
Julius von Braunschweig: (15 October 1564 - 20 July 1613).
Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Ed. James Hardin. Vol. 164. Detroit:
Bruccoli, Clark and Layman, 1996. 161-173. (Review Article)
Adalbert Stifter:
Dichter und Maler, Denkmalpfleger und Schulmann. Neue Zugänge zu seinem Werk. Ed. Hartmut Lauffhütter and
Karl Möseneder. Seminar. 34.4 (1998): 452-57 “Heinrich
Julius von Braunschweig’s 1590 Homecoming Celebration for Princess Elisabeth
of Denmark.” Pomp. Power, and
Politics: Essays Commemorating the
400th Anniversary of the Coronation of King Christian IV of Denmark
(1496). Ed. Mara Wade. Copenhagen: Tusculanum Museum (To appear 2000). “Daniel Casper
von Lohenstein.” Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy
Dearborn ca. 8 pp. (to appear in
2000.) Heinrich
Julius von Braunschweig: Prince, Poet, Patron. (book ms. in progress). PAPERS
GIVEN AND PANELS CHAIRED “Lohenstein’s
Shipwreck and Other Dramatic Disasters.” MLA. Chicago, IL.
Dec. 29, 1999. “The ‘Rütli
Schwur’ and Other Oaths in Schiller’s Later Dramas.” NEMLA.
Pittsburgh, PA. April 16,
1999. "Heinrich
Julius von Braunschweig's 1590 Welcoming Celebration for Princess Elisabeth of
Denmark." Sixteenth Century Studies Association. October, 1996 "Mercantile
and Civic Corruption in the Dramas of Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 1994 "Images of
Gluttony in Early 16th-Century German Literature."
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
Lexington, KY. April 1993 Section Chair,
"Early New High German Literature II."
MLA. New York, NY. Dec.
1992. "Fed up
with Bad Behavior: 16th-Century Depictions of Gluttony."
Northeastern Modern Language Association. Buffalo, NY. March
1992. Section Chair,
"Early New High German Literature II."
MLA. San Francisco, CA.
Dec. 1991. "Franz
Grillparzers Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg und die geschichtliche Gestalt
von Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig."
Internationaler Arbeitskreis für Barockliteratur, Wolfenbüttel. August 1988. "The Poet
Addresses Himself: an Authorial
Posture in 17th-Century German Poetry."
International Conference: Literature
of the Holy Roman Empire, Yale University, March 26-28, 1987. "Martin
Opitz and the 17th-Century Avant Garde."
February 1984, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA. "Renaissance
Aspects of 17th-Century German Literature."
October 1983, Penn State Interdisciplinary Renaissance Festival,
University Park, PA. "Martin
Luther's Halloween Surprise." October
1983, Missouri AATG, Rolla, MO. "Resistance
within the Humanities to the Business Minor," NEH-AAC Conference:
The Humanities and Careers in Business.
April 1983, Princeton, NJ. "Heinrich
Julius von Braunschweig: The Duke
in his Poetic Workshop," December 1982, MLA Los Angeles, CA. "German
Literature and the American Best-Seller," November 1982, AATG National
Convention. Chair.
B. Traven Conference Section, October 1982, University Park, PA. "Höfische
Feste und englische Komödianten am Hof von Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig,"
June 1979, Freie Universität Berlin, West Germany. "Höfische
Feste und englische Komödianten in Wolfenbüttel," May 1979, Wolfenbütteler
Kolloquium. "Schauspiel
und Schauspieler am Hof des Herzogs Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig,"
April 1979, Arbeitsgespräch Theater, Musik und Feste in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
zur Zeit von Herzog August, Wolfenbüttel. Chair, Older
German Literature Section, "Magic, Magicians, and Trial by Ordeal,"
American Association of Teachers of German, November 1978. Chair,
Northeast Modern Language Association Section, Austrian Prose Fiction, April
1977 "Heldenbrief
and Heldenrede: Lohenstein in the
Heroic Mode," April 1977, Northeast Modern Language Association. Chair, Modern
Language Association Special Session, "New Perspectives in 17th-Century
German Drama," December 1976. "Melchior
Goldast and the History of German Minnesang," August 1976, Wolfenbüttel
Sommerkursus über europäisches Barock. Chair, Modern
Language Association Special Session, "New Perspectives on 17th-Century
German Drama," December 1975. "How Sour
Sweet Music Sounds: Grillparzer's 'Der
Arme Spielmann,'" April 1975, Northeast Modern Language Association. "Joseph
Roth's 'Legende vom heiligen Trinker,'" March 1975, University of Alabama. Chair, Modern
Language Association Special Session, "New Perspectives on 17th-Century
German Drama," December 1974. "Fortune's
Many Guises, The Role of Fate in Gryphius' Cardenio und Celinde,
April 1974, The Northeast Modern Language Association. "Cooper
and Stifter: A Question of
Influence," October 1973, Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American
Association of Teachers of German. "Stifter's
Nachsommer and the Family," January 1973, The German Forum of the
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