Alan Lupack

University of Rochester
Department of English
RC BOX 270451
Rochester, NY 14627-0451

email: alupack@library.rochester.edu

Education

• Summer School of Polish Language and Culture, September 1981, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

• Ph.D. in English, University of Pennsylvania, December 1974.
  Concentration: Medieval English.  Dissertation: "Structure and Tradition in the Poems of the Alliterative Revival."  Director: James Rosier.  Languages: French and Old Icelandic.

• M.A. in English, New York University, October 1971.  Language: Latin. (Military leave of absence for service in U.S. Army, 1969-71.)

• B.A. in English, Fordham University, June 1968.  Minor in Classics.
  Graduated Magna cum Laude in Cursu Honorum.  Phi Beta Kappa.

• Regis High School, New York City, 1964.  Graduated with honors.

Professional Experience

• Adjunct Professor of English and Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center at the University of Rochester.  August 1988-Present. 

• Editor of Avalon to Camelot, a journal of Arthurian studies. September 1986-1989.

• Editor of The Round Table: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, 1984-Present.

• Assistant Professor of English (full-time 3.5 years and part-time), Wayne State College, August 1978-August 1981 and August 1982-May 1986.

• Senior Lecturer, University of Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland), September 1981-December 1981 (contract interrupted by imposition of martial law).

• Instructor in English, St. John's University (St. Vincent's College), September 1975-August 1977.

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, September 1974-August 1975.

• Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, September 1971-June 1974.

Other Professional Activities

• Interviewed, July 20, 2005, on KUER (Salt Lake City NPR station) about a production of Camelot.

• Interviewed for The Legend of Arthur I Literature and Popular Culture [videorecording] Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002.

• Consultant and interviewee for Australian Broadcasting System’s special on the Arthurian legend.

• Consultant and interviewee for Arts and Entertainment channel’s special on Camelot.

• Mounted and prepared catalogue for an exhibit of Arthurian materials, Arthur, the Ever-Present King, in the Rare Books Dept. at the University of Rochester.

• Attended Conference on Electronic Publishing, Washington, D.C., November, 1994.

• Community Speaking Engagements: Writers and Books; The Bibliophile Society of Rochester, NY; Monroe County Library Association.

Professional/Academic Honors

• Elected President of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (1999-2001)
  
  
• Elected Vice-President of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (1997-1999)
  
  
• Accepted for listing as a Poet and as a Fiction Writer by Poets & Writers
  
  
• Elected Member, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
  
  
• Teaching Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania
  
  
• Fellowship to New York University
  
  
• New York State Scholarship
  
  
• Fordham College Scholarship
  
  
• Phi Beta Kappa
  
  
• Scholarship to Regis High School

PUBLICATIONS

Electronic Texts

• Designer and Editor of The Camelot Project, a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information relating to the Arthurian legends (URL: http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/ camelot/cphome.htm).

• Designer and Editor of The Robin Hood Project, a database of texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information relating to the Robin Hood tales and other outlaw stories (URL: http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/rh/rhhome.htm).

Books

• Member of the Editorial Board for the Palgrave/Macmillan monograph series Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures.

• Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• Associate Editor of TEAMS Middle English Texts, July 1995 - Present; Member of the Editorial Board of TEAMS Middle English Texts, 1994-July, 1995.

• New Directions in Arthurian Studies. Ed. Alan Lupack. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002.

• King Arthur in America. (Co-authored with Barbara Tepa Lupack.) Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. (Paperback edition: 2001.)

• Arthurian Literature by Women. Ed. Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. New York: Garland, 1999.

• Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck. Ed. Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997.

• Sir Tristrem and Sir Lancelot of the Laik. Ed. Alan Lupack. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), 1994.

• A Round Table of Contemporary Arthurian Poetry. Ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack and Alan Lupack. Rochester, NY: Round Table Publications, 1993.

• Modern Arthurian Literature: An Anthology of English and American Arthuriana from the Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Alan Lupack. New York: Garland, 1992.

• Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances: The Sultan of Babylon, The Siege of Milan, and Ralph the Collier. Ed. Alan Lupack. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), 1990.

• Arthurian Drama: An Anthology. Ed. Alan Lupack. New York: Garland, 1990.

• The Dream of Camelot (a book of poems). Vista, CA: Green Chapel Press, 1990.

• "Arthur, the Greatest King": An Anthology of Modern Arthurian Poetry. Ed. Alan Lupack. New York: Garland, 1988.

Journals

• Guest Editor (with Barbara Tepa Lupack) of a special issue of Arthuriana: “Essays from Camelot 2000” (11.4 [Winter 2001]).

• Guest Editor (with Kevin J. Harty) of a special issue of Arthuriana: “Screening Camelot: Further Studies of Arthurian Cinema” (10.4 [Winter 2000]).

• Guest Editor of a special issue of Arthuriana: “King Arthur in America” (4.1 [Spring 1994]).

• Member of the Editorial Board of Arthuriana,Jan. 1994-Present.

• Editor of The Round Table: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, 1984-Present.

• Editor of Avalon to Camelot (a journal of Arthurian studies), Sept. 1986-1989.

Articles and Notes

• “‘The Old Order Changeth’: King Arthur in the Modern World.” In The Fortunes of King Arthur. Ed. Norris J. Lacy. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005. Pp. 209–23.

• “Merlin as New-World Wizard.” In Merlin: A Casebook. Ed. Peter H. Goodrich and Raymond H. Thompson. New York: Routledge, 2003. 230-49.

• “The Once and Future King: The Book That Grows Up.” Arthuriana 11.3 (Fall 2001): 103-14.
  Reprinted in Bloom’s Major Literary Characters: King Arthur. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 213-23.

• “‘A Very Secondary Position: Perceval in Modern English and American Literature.’” In Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook. Ed. Arthur Groos and Norris J. Lacy. New York: Routledge, 2002. 267-86.

• “Women Illustrators of the Arthurian Legends.” In On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst. Dallas: Scriptorium, 2001. 295-311.

• “The Figure of King Arthur in America.” In King Arthur’s Modern Return. Ed. Debra Mancoff. New York: Garland, 1998. 121-36.

• “Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Rebel Against the Story.” In Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck. Ed. Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. 213-29.

• "Sir Tristrem: Reception and Perception." Studies in Medievalism 7 (1995): 49-62.

• "Visions of Courageous Achievement: Arthurian Youth Groups in America." Studies in Medievalism 6 (1994): 50-68.

• Entries on six authors / topics for "Supplement I" to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia in The Arthurian Yearbook 3 (1993): 229-65.

• "Acting Out an Old Story: Twentieth-Century Tristan Plays." In Popular Arthurian Traditions. Ed. Sally Slocum. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992. 162-72.

• "American Arthurian Authors: A Declaration of Independence." In The Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation. Ed. Debra N. Mancoff. New York: Garland, 1992. 155-73.

• Entries on more than thirty authors / topics in The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1991.

• "An Enemy in Our Midst: The Black Knight and the American Dream." In Cinema Arthuriana: Essays on Arthurian Film. Ed. Kevin J. Harty. New York: Garland, 1991. 29-39.

• "Beyond the Model: Howard Pyle's Arthurian Books." The Arthurian Yearbook 1 (1991): 215-234.

• "Arthurian Poetry and the Modern World." Avalon to Camelot 2.3 (1987): 27-29.

• "The Americanization of Merlin." Avalon to Camelot 2.4 (1987): 13-16.

• "The Arthurian Legend and the Modern World." AND: Literary News, Reviews & Interviews 1.4 (May/June 1987): 3-5.

• "Merlin in America." Arthurian Interpretations 1.1 (Fall 1986): 64-74.

• "Knights Aberrant: Kosinski's Parody of Medieval Romance." Anglica Wratislaviensia (Journal of the English Institute of the University of Wroclaw) 13 (1984): 89-95.

• "Contemporary Arthurian Novelists Comment on the Arthurian Legend." Studies in Medievalism 2.4 (Fall 1983): 79-88.

• "The Merlin Allusions in Billy Budd." Studies in Short Fiction 19 (Summer 1982): 277-78.

• "'Piano After War' by Gwendolyn Brooks." The Explicator, 36.4 (1978): 2-3.

• "Frank Yerby's 'Wisdom.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 7.4 (1977): 8.

• "Piers Plowman, B. VII. 116." The Explicator 34.4 (1975): 31.

• "The Beginning of the End: An Inset in Beowulf." Massachusetts Studies in English 4 (1973): 15-22.

Essays

• Essay for "Personal Journeys" column. Avalon to Camelot 2.1 (1986): 25.

• "Mark Twain's Fascinating Fantasy." Senior Life 3.7 (July & Aug. 1986): 12-15 and 3.8 (Sept. 1986): 30-34.

• "The First Horror Story." Senior Life 3.5 (May 1986): 24-26.

• "Memories of Thanksgiving in Poland" (co-authored). Senior Life 1.11 (Nov. 1984): 6-10.

• "What I Remember Most About Poland." "Magazine of the Midlands," The Omaha World Herald Sunday, 23 May 1982: 6-7.

Poems

• "Auschwitz Reportaz." In Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. Ed. Charles Fishman. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1991. 263-64.

• "From A to Z." Aileron 9.2 (1988): 16.

• "Comet over Camelot." Star*Line 9.6 (Nov.-Dec. 1986): 3.

• "What's in a Word?" SPSM&H (supplement to Amelia) (Summer 1986): 10.

• "Possibilities" and "Marysia." Lactuca 3 (July 1986): 33-34.

• "Classical Lament." Nycticorax 4 (Spring 1986): 22.

• "The Mystery House," Ormfaer 1.2 (1986): 13-15.

• "Bedivere Contemplates Camelot" and "Guinevere's Farewell to Arthur." Negative Capability 5.2 (Spring 1985): 162 & 163.

• "Aunt Anita." Slipstream 5 (1985): 39-42.

• "The Bug." Poetry Motel, 2 (Nov. 1984): 4.

• "Countless Joys." Phoebus 2.1 (Fall-Winter 1984): 33.

• "At a Performance of Tomaszewski's Knights of King Arthur." The Third Wind (Spring 1984): 78.

• "Wept Willow." Still Night Writings 1.3 (1984): 33-34.

• "Hockey on Ice." Slipstream 4 (1984): 70.

• "The Heavy-Handed Magician." Aileron 5.2 (1984): 16-17.

• "The Ballad of Basic Training" and "Army Experience." In Peace Is Our Profession (Montclair, N.J.: East River Anthology, 1981). 85 & 86.

• "Cleopatra's Power." Snippets 1. 8 (1980): 1.

• "John Paul II." The Polish Review 24.2 (1979): 66.

• "Star Poem." The Journal of Contemporary Poets (1974): 20.
  

Fiction

• "The Journey." In Tour of Duty, an anthology published by Samisdat (1986): 2-4.

• "Miss America and the Strippers." Pig Iron 12 (1984): 67-69.

• "The Python." The Occasional Review 14 (1984): 5-6.

• "Dec. 24, 1970." Dark Horse 6.1 (1980): 20.

   

Reviews

• Review of A History of Arthurian Scholarship, to be published in Arthuriana.

• Review of A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur’s Court, Arthuriana

• Review of To the Chapel Perilous by Naomi Mitchison, Arthur, the Bear of Britain by Edward Frankland, and Kinsmen of the Grail by Dorothy James Roberts. Arthuriana 11.4 (Winter 2001): 139-41.

• Review of Le Morte D’Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, New Illustrated Edition, ed. John Matthews. Arthuriana 11.2 (Summer 2001): 81-82.

• Review of Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legend of King Arthur and Robin Hood by Stephanie L. Barczewski. Arthuriana 10.4 (Winter 2000): 65-66.

  Review of Blessed Bastard: A Novel of Sir Galahad by Ruth P. M. Lehmann. Arthuriana 10.4 (Winter 2000): 82-83.

  Review of King Arthur on Film: New Essays on Arthurian Cinema, ed. Kevin J. Harty. Arthuriana 10.1 (Spring 2000): 137-39.

• Review of The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway by Kim Moreland. Arthuriana 10.4 (Winter 1998): 169-70.

• Review of The Arthurian Handbook, 2d ed. By Norris Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, and Debra N. Mancoff. Arthuriana 8.3 (Fall 1998): 117-18

• Review of The Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy. Avalon to Camelot 2.2 (1986): 17.

• Review of The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway. Senior Life 3.2 (Feb. 1986): 28-30.

• Review of A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941-1945 by Bruno Shatyn. The Polish Review 31.1 (1986): 98-99.

• Review of The Canary and Other Tales of Martial Law by Marek Nowakowski. The Polish Review 30.2 (1985): 231-32 (also reviewed for Senior Life 2.1 [Jan. 1985]: 22-24).

• Review of Samaritan, a novel by Phillipe van Rjndt. The Polish Review 30.1 (1985): 124-25 (also reviewed for Senior Life 1.8 [Aug. 1984]: 22-24).

• Review of The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe. Senior Life 2.6 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 20-22.

• Review of Democracy: A Novel by Joan Didion. Senior Life 2.5 (1985): 26-27.

• Review of Voices from the Moon by Andre Dubus. Senior Life 2.4 (May 1985): 24-25.

• Review of Whatever It Is, I'm Against It by Nat Shapiro. Senior Life 1.12 (Dec. 1984): 20-22.

• Review of The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Senior Life 1.10 (Oct. 1984): 22-24.

• Review of Collected Poems by Karol Wojtyla. The Polish Review 28.3 (1983): 90-92.

• Review of Evenings on Lake Ontario, poems by Waclaw Iwaniuk. The Polish Review 28.2 (1983): 111-13.

• Review of Windows: Prose Poems by Leon Stroinski. The Polish Review 28.2 (1983): 113-15.

• Review of Slavic Ethnic Libraries, Museums and Archives in the United States: A Guide and Directory by Lubomyr R. Wynar. The Polish Review 28.2 (1983): 120-22.

  Review of Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, and Documents by Stanislaw Witkiewicz, ed. and trans. by Daniel Gerould and Jadwiga Kosicka. The Polish Review 27.1-2 (1982): 172-74.

• Review of The March, a novel by W. S. Kuniczak. The Polish Review 26.3 (1981): 100-103.

• Review of Dark Times, poems by Waclaw Iwaniuk. The Polish Review 25.3-4 (1980): 117-19.

• Review of For the Witnesses, poems by Boleslaw Taborski. The Polish Review 24.3 (1979): 116-19.

• Review of The Once and Future Star by George Michanowski. The Polish Review 23.4 (1978): 115-17.

• “Anna and the King: Mordred’s Claim to the Throne in Scottish Chronicles.” Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2004.

• “The Breaking of the Triangle: Guinevere’s Parting from Arthur and Lancelot.” Conference of the International Arthurian Society, Bangor, Wales, July 2002.

• “Reconstructing Palamides,” Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, April 2001.

• “Steinbeck’s Comic Reinterpretation of Malory.” Conference of the International Arthurian Society, Toulous, France, July 1999.

• “The Once and Future King: The Book That Grows up.” Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1999.

• Organizer of a session on “Medieval Protest Literature.” Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1997.

• “King Arthur Comes to America,” Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1995.

• “Feminist and Social Perspectives on the Arthurian Legend,” Conference of the Popular Culture Association, April 1995.

• Chair and Organizer of a session on “The Arthurian Legend in America,” Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1994.

  "Sir Tristrem: From Medieval to Medievalism," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Chicago, April 1994.

• "Arthurian Youth Groups in America," Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1993.

• "The Grail in America," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, March 1993.

• "King Arthur and the Boy Problem," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Louisville, March 1992. (Also chaired a session on Popular Arthurian Literature.)

• "Arthurian Movies and American Values," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, March 1991. (Also chaired a session on Popular Arthurian Literature).

• "The Tristan Legend in Twentieth-Century Drama," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Toronto, March 1990. (Also chaired a session on Popular Arthurian Literature.)

• "Reinterpretations of the Arthurian Legend in Nineteenth-Century America," Conference on Medievalism, West Point, October 1989. (Organized the session on The Arthurian Legend in America.)

• "Howard Pyle's Retelling of the Arthurian Legends," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, April 1989.

• Chair of a session on “Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry,” Conference on Medievalism, Chicago, October 1988.

• "Arthurian Literature: Escape or Engagement," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, March 1988.

• "Images of Merlin," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Montreal, March 1987.

• "Dan Beard's Illustrations and Levels of Meaning in Twain's Connecticut Yankee," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1986.

• "The Merlin of American Authors," Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1985.

• "Boorman's Excalibur: The King and the Quest" (co-authored), Conference of the Popular Culture Association, Toronto, March 1984.

• "The Contemporary Arthurian Legend," Conference of the Midwest Popular Culture Association, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 1983.

• "Kosinski and the Medieval Tradition," Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences, Washington, DC, May 1980.

• "The Arthurian Legend in America," Conference of the Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1977.