Mandel Jerome, English Department
Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):
Jerome Mandel
Professor of English and American Literature
Education
BA Oberlin College, 1959
MA Ohio State University, 1961
PhD Ohio State University, 1966
Professional History
1966-72 - Assistant Professor, Rutgers, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, 1967-69, Director of Senior Honors, 1968-69
1972-76 Associate Professor, Clemson University
1976-79 Professor, Clemson University College of Liberal Arts Representative to Graduate Council, 1973-76, Director of Graduate Studies, 1973-76
1976-78 Visiting Professor of English, University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University
1977- Professor Haver, Tel Aviv University
1980-84 Chair of the English Department Acting Chair, 1988-89, 1995-96, Director of Graduate Studies (variously) Undergraduate Adviser (variously)
1986 Visiting Professor of English, University of Akron
1997-98 Visiting Professor of English, Skidmore College
On-going Professional Activities (selected)
Corresponding Secretary (for Israel): International Arthurian
Society, 1986-
Reader and Member of the International Editorial Board:
Arthuriana, 1994-99.
Reader and Member of the International Editorial Board:
Disputatio, 1994-99.
Reader: Chaucer Review
In addition to these on-going professional activities, Professor Mandel has also served as Member of the Nominating Committee, Organizer, Commentator, Secretary, and Chairman of Chaucer Sections, Old English Literature Sections, and Middle English Literature Sections in MLA, NEMLA, SAMLA, CEA, the University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, the Fifteenth-Century Conference, the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Conference, and the Medieval Institute. He represented the "Rest of the World" at the MLA Delegate Assembly (1988-91) and was the Plenary Speaker at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting (1996).
Jerome Mandel has read papers before learned societies in Israel, England, Switzerland, France, Singapore, Austria, Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States on more than fifty occasions.
As a fiction writer, Jerome Mandel has served as Treasurer
of the Israel Association of Writers in English and as fiction editor of their literary magazine. In addition to short stories published in Israel in The PEN-Israel Anthology and arc (in English) and in Nativ (in Hebrew), Jerome Mandel has also published in American journals such as Midstream, The Missouri Review, War, Literature, and the Arts, The Morpo Review, A Writer’s Choice Literary Journal and Short Story International. ’Third Time, Ice Cream,’ the story which won the PEN-UNESCO International Short Fiction Competition for 1997, appears in PEN-International (October, 1997). In February, 1999, The Israel Federation of Writers Unions published a collection of his short stories titled NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY: 18 STORIES OF ISRAELI EXPERIENCE.
Major publications (books and major articles):
Books
Old English Literature: Twenty-Two Analytical Essays, ed. with Martin Stevens. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1968.
Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies in Honor of Francis Lee Utley, ed. with Bruce A. Rosenberg. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Alternative Readings in Old English Poetry. New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 1987.
Geoffrey Chaucer: Building the Fragments of the Canterbury Tales. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press (1992).
Nothing Gold Can Stay: 18 Stories of Israeli Experience.. Tel Aviv: The Israel Federation of Writers Unions (1999).
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Articles
"Elements in the Charrette World: The Father-Son Relationship," Modern Philology, 62 (1964): 97-104.
"The Man of the Hill and Mrs. Fitzpatrick: Character and Narrative Technique in Tom Jones," Papers on Language and Literature, 5 (1968): 26-38.
"Contrast in Old English Poetry," Chaucer Review, 6 (1971): 1-13.
"Dream and Imagination in Shakespeare," Shakespeare Quarterly, 24 (1973): 61-68.
"Lancelot and Tristan: 'The Prince as Bird,'" Studies in Medieval Culture, IV/1, (1973): 141-46.
"Proper Behavior in Chretien's Charrette: The Host-Guest Relationship," The French Review, 48 (1975): 683-89.
"'Boy' as Devil in Chaucer," Papers on Language and Literature, 11 (1976): 407-11.
"Medieval Romance and the Structure of 'Araby,'" James Joyce Quarterly, 13 (1976): 234-37
"The Seafarer," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 78 (1976): 538-51.
"Exemplum and Refrain: The Meaning of Deor," The Yearbook of English Studies, 7 (1977): 1-9.
"Governance in the Physician's Tale," Chaucer Review, 10 (1977): 316-25.
"The Context of Erec's Character," The French Review, 50 (1977): 421-28.
"Medieval Romance and Lady Chatterley's Lover," D. H. Lawrence Review, 10 (1977): 20-33.
"Other Voices in the Canterbury Tales," Criticism, 19 (1977): 338-349.
"Audience Response Strategies in the Opening of Deor," Mosaic, 15 (1982): 127-32.
"Constraint and Motivation in Malory's 'Lancelot and Elaine,'" Papers on Language and Literature, 20 (1984): 243-58.
"The Structure of 'Araby,'" Modern Language Studies, 15 (1985): 48-54.
"Courtly Love in the Canterbury Tales," Chaucer Review, 19 (1985): 278-89.
"Housman's Insane Narrators." Victorian Poetry 26.4 (1988): 403-12.
"The Unity of Fragment IV: The Clerk's Tale and the Merchant's Tale." Hebrew University Studies in Language and the Arts 16 (1988): 27-50. [Invited contribution to the Morton Bloomfield Memorial Issue.]
"The Grotesque Rose: Medieval Romance and The Great Gatsby." Modern Fiction Studies, 34.4 (1988): 541-58.
"The Shipman's Tale: VII, 204." Philological Quarterly 70.1 (1991): 99-102. .
"Malory's Idea of Coherence and the Feminization of Knights in 'Alexander the Orphelyne.'" The Arthurian Yearbook III (1993): 91-105.
"The Dark Side of Camelot: Arthurian Ideal and Medieval Practice in Malory's Morte Darthur." Chaucer Yearbook: A
Journal of Late Medieval Studies, 2 (March, 1995): 77-93.
Professor Mandel has also contributed to encyclopedias of Folklore and Literature and of Medieval Travel, Trade, and Exploration.
Teaches in the following subject areas:
Medieval English Language and Literature
Teaches the following courses in the current
academic year:
Introduction to British Culture (English Department Basic
course)
Medieval and Modern Romance (BA Seminar)
Chaucer's Wife of Bath
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (MA Seminar)
Medieval Literature
Bibliography and Research Methods (Required MA Seminar)
Areas of current research
interest:
Chaucer. Malory. Medieval Romance.
Additional points of contact (office/home
telephone,fax,etc.):
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Office FAX: (972)-03-640-7312
Home Telephone: (972)-09-760-4107
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