Seven faculty members transfer to emeritus statusPrinceton NJ -- Seven faculty members were transferred to emeritus status in recent action by the Board of Trustees. All are effective July 1, 2003. They are: Léon-François Hoffmann, professor of French and Italian; Robert Hollander, professor of European literature and French and Italian; Ronald Kinchla, professor of psychology; John Murrin, professor of history; Thomas Roche Jr., the Murray Professor of English; Barrie Royce, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; and Elaine Showalter, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and professor of English. Hoffmann (photo not available) joined the faculty in 1960 after earning his M.A. in 1955 and his Ph.D. in 1959 from Princeton. His undergraduate degree is from Yale University. He is a specialist in both 19th-century French literature and Caribbean literature in French, notably the literature of Haiti. In addition to teaching courses on these subjects, Hoffmann has written several textbooks, including "L'Essentiel de la grammaire française" and "Le français en français." He also is the author of many articles for academic publications and has served as American correspondent for two French journals. In addition, he has produced critical editions of a novel by Alexandre Dumas père, "Georges," in the popular Gallimard Folio series and of Alphonse de Lamartine's play, "Toussaint Louverture." His other books include "Le Nègre romantique," which won a prize from the Académie Française, and "Le Roman haïtien," which won the Gilbert Chinard Prize. Hoffmann has taught at several universities in France and is an Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. During his career at Princeton, he has served as director of graduate studies in his department and as director of the Program in Latin American Studies.
Hollander, a 1955 Princeton graduate, has been on the faculty since 1961. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. From 1975 to 1998, he also was a member of the Department of Comparative Literature, chairing that department from 1994 to 1998. He was master of Butler College from 1991 to 1995. Hollander, widely known as one of the world's foremost students both of Dante Alighieri and of Giovanni Boccaccio, teaches courses in medieval Italian literature. He is the author, translator or editor of some 25 books and nearly 100 scholarly articles. With his wife, Jean Hollander, he translated Dante's "Inferno" and "Purgatorio." He is founder and director of the Dartmouth Dante Project, an online database that contains the text of Dante's "Divine Comedy" and 70 commentaries on it, and of the Princeton Dante Project, an online multimedia version of Dante's poem. From 1979 to 1985, he served as president of the Dante Society of America, and since 1992 he has been president of the International Dante Seminar. Hollander has received a number of honors and awards, including Princeton's Behrman Award in 1986, the Gold Medal conferred by the city of Florence in 1988, the Witherspoon Award of the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities in 1988 and honorary citizenship in Certaldo (Boccaccio's hometown) in 1997. In 1999, he was one of the two winners of the International Nicola Zingarelli Prize for Dantean philology and criticism. He was twice a member of the National Council on the Humanities, from 1974 to 1980 and from 1986 to 1992.
Kinchla, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1969, teaches and conducts research on visual perception, especially visual attention, visual motion perception and the role of image structure in perception, and develops mathematical and computational models for the study of these topics. He is the author of many articles for scholarly journals, and has co-written a psychology textbook. Kinchla has served as a consulting editor of the Journal of Perception and Psychophysics, Experimental Psychology, Psychological Bulletin and Psychological Review. He also has been a grant application reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Public Health Service. A former director of graduate studies for the Department of Psychology, Kinchla has been an academic adviser and faculty fellow for Mathey College. He also has served as an academic-athletic fellow for the women's ice hockey team. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California-Los Angeles.
Murrin has taught early American history at Princeton since 1973. He also has led a freshman seminar on the rise of antiwar sentiment in the modern world and co-taught a seminar on war and society in the modern world. He is a co-author of "Liberty, Equality and Power: A History of the American People," published in a third edition last year, and has written numerous essays on the social, religious, political and legal history of the colonies and the early republic. Murrin has served as chair of the coordinating committee and as a member of both the editorial committee and the advisory committee for "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," a project that is preparing the authoritative and comprehensive edition of the correspondence and papers of the third president of the United States. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of American History, of Explorations in Early American Culture and of the Princeton University Library Chronicle. He also has served as chair of both the advisory council and the executive council of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, as program director and chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Early American History and as a member of the advisory council of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. A former trustee of the New Jersey Historical Society, Murrin received the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati Award for outstanding contributions to the history of colonial New Jersey. He also was a co-winner of the New Jersey Historical Commission's Richard P. McCormick Prize for the best essay in New Jersey history. A past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, he was elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He earned his B.A. degree from the College of St. Thomas, his A.M. degree from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. degree from Yale University.
Roche joined the Princeton faculty in 1960. A specialist in Renaissance poetry and 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser, he has taught courses on topics ranging from Shakespeare to Spenser and the epic romance. He is the author or editor of many articles and numerous books, including an annotated edition of Spenser's "The Faerie Queene." Roche founded the Spenser Society and has served as president as well as in other leadership positions in this international organization devoted to promoting and recognizing the reading and study of the works of Spenser. He is co-editor of Spenser Studies, a Renaissance poetry journal. He also has conducted research on the 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch and on the iconography of the Muses throughout history. In 1991, he received the University's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities. The former director of undergraduate studies for the English department and clerk of the faculty, Roche has served as the University's macebearer in academic processions since 1993. He also has participated in the productions of various campus drama groups. A Yale University graduate, he earned an M.A. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1958 from Princeton. He also holds an honorary M.A. degree from Oxford University.
Royce came to Princeton in 1960 as a research associate and lecturer and has been a member of the faculty since 1961. He has taught courses on topics including materials science, thermodynamics and mechanics. He also co-developed a class on "The Engineer and the Bicycle" to explore the human power plant, aerodynamic and materials issues and design, and he has led a freshman seminar on "Power From the People" to examine human-powered transportation. These courses, together with "The Structure and Properties of Engineering Materials," were fully available to students as online, multimedia documents. Royce has taught at several universities in Brazil and Mexico, and also at a United Nations Summer School in the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. His research interests have focused on the relationship between atomic defects in materials and their macroscopic performance. He has published more than 100 articles in professional journals and scholarly books. He also served on the editorial board of Progress in Photothermal and Photoacoustic Science and Technology, is a member of the American Physical Society and is a past president of the Princeton chapter of Sigma Xi. Royce has served as the director of graduate studies for his department and as an adviser to science and mathematics candidates for Marshall Fellowships. From 1986 to 1994, he was master of Mathey College. He holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of London, King's College.
Showalter came to Princeton's Department of English in 1984 and was named the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in 1987. She previously taught at Douglass College, the University of Delaware, Rutgers University and Dartmouth College. She was a distinguished visiting research professor at Roehampton Institute in London for two years, and she also taught at the Salzburg Seminars in Austria. Showalter's main interests are 19th- and 20th-century fiction, feminist criticism, popular culture, the history of psychiatry and literary journalism. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including "Inventing Herself," "Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing," "Sexual Anarchy," "The Female Malady: Women, Madness and Society 1830-1980" and "A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing." Most recently, she wrote "Teaching Literature," a book about teaching literary studies that was inspired by a seminar on teaching she created for graduate students in the English department. Showalter has served on editorial boards for several journals and in leadership positions for numerous professional organizations, including as president of the Modern Language Association in 1998. At Princeton she was chair of the English department from 1990 to 1993 and director of graduate studies from 1986 to 1989. Showalter earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, her M.A. from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis. |
 
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