Employment history: 1968 to present, assistant professor to professor at the University of Pittsburgh; I have also taught at the Lycée Français de New-York, Hamilton College, and the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Fellowships and grants (since 1987): the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the British Academy. Administrative posts: (all at the University of Pittsburgh)

Director, University of Pittsburgh Program in France, 1971-1972 Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, 1977-1983; Executive committee, 1983 to present Department Chair, 1984-1996 Director, Professional Translation Program, 1986-1987

Major Publications: The Emblem and Device in France (French Forum Monographs, 1985); Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture (University of Toronto Press, 1995); "Emblematic Structures in Sixteenth-Century French Poetry," in Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, 14, No. 1 (1982), 54-100; six other books edited or translated, and 55 articles and reviews on all aspects of Reniassance French culture.

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