Two faculty members transfer to emeritus status
Two faculty members were transferred to emeritus status in action Nov. 17 by the Board of Trustees.
They are: Alban Forcione, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of Language, Literature and Civilization of Spain and professor of Romance languages and literatures, effective Feb. 2, 2001; and Marcia Johnson, professor of psychology, effective Sept. 1, 2000.
Forcione joined the faculty in 1965 and has remained at Princeton since then, except for two years in the mid-1980s when he taught at Stanford University. He received his A.B. in European civilization in 1960 and his Ph.D. in Spanish and French literatures in 1968 from Princeton. In between, he spent a year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard, where he earned his M.A. in comparative literature. He also studied at the University of Gottingen in Germany and under a Fulbright grant at the University of Madrid in Spain.
Forcione is a scholar of international distinction on Miguel de Cervantes. He has written four major studies on the "Don Quixote" author, all published by Princeton University Press. He also has published articles on a variety of Renaissance and Baroque subjects, has co-edited a collection of selected essays by 20th century literary critic Leo Spitzer, and is currently working on a study of the changing representations of the institution of monarchy in the political drama of Spain's Golden Age. He is continuing his work as a professor of Spanish at Columbia University.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Forcione has directed many dissertations on a wide range of topics including European Baroque literature, Renaissance literary theory and fiction, and Spanish theater. He has served on a Council of International Exchange of Scholars screening committee for Fulbright Fellowships and on a committee assembled to award special fellowships to Spain, and he has been a consultant to several university presses.
Johnson came to Princeton in 1985 after serving on the psychology faculty at the State University of New York-Stony Brook for 15 years. She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California-Berkeley.
A specialist in cognitive psychology, Johnson has conducted research on human memory. She has received awards for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging. She is continuing her work as a professor of psychology at Yale University.
Johnson is the co-author of four books, including volumes one and two of "Basic and Applied Memory Research: Practical Applications." She has written numerous articles for professional publications and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Journal of Psychology, Psychological Review and Neuropsychology.
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