CURRICULUM VITAE

Peter Franklin Kardon
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Administrative Experience

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Vice President, June 2001-present
Director of Information, June 1998-June 2001
Director of the Latin American Program, June 1991-present
Director of Planning, October 1988-June 1998

New York University
Director of Academic Projects, September 1986-September 1988
Academic Affairs Associate, July 1984-August 1986

Modern Language Association
Assistant to the Executive Director, November 1980-June 1984


Academic Experience

Teaching Experience:
1993: Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University Department of
Comparative Literature: graduate course on Arthurian Romance
1986--: Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University Medieval and
Renaissance Studies Program: undergraduate courses on Charlemagne, Chivalry, the
Celts, Medieval Literature into Film, the Arthurian Legend
1986: Miniseminar on Aspects of Celtic Culture, New York University Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Program, 7 and 14 March
1985: Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, New York University,
Expository Writing Program: Writing Workshop I
1979-80: Instructor, Illinois Institute of Technology: Techniques of Prose
Writing (Freshman); The Short Story

Education:
1984: Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1975: M.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1970: A.B., Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Education Abroad:
1977-78: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.
1976-77: University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), France
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
1973-74: University of Tübingen, Germany
1970-71: University of Poitiers, France
Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale

Languages:
Speak: French (some German and Spanish)
Read: French, German, Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Welsh;
Old French, Middle English, Middle High German, Middle Welsh, Old
Provençal, Old Norse, Old English
Computer: Java, Python, Oracle SQL, xBase on Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux,
Solaris, Mac OS 9/X

Honors:
1996: New York University College of Arts and Science "Golden Dozen"
Distinguished Teaching Award
for Non-tenured and Adjunct Faculty
1983: Dissertation awarded Honors (University of Chicago)
1978-79: Whiting Fellowship (University of Chicago)
1977: Winner of Medieval Academy of America Competition, "Papers by Young
Scholars"
1976-77: Georges Lurcy Fellowship (Paris)
1975-76: University of Chicago Honorary Humanities Fellowship
1974-75: University of Chicago Fellowship
1973-74: Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (Tübingen)
1970-71: Dartmouth James B. Reynolds Scholarship (Poitiers)

Dissertation:
"Chrétien de Troyes and the Auctores: Erec et Enide and the Conte du Graal"
Director: Peter F. Dembowski

Papers Read:
"Chrétien de Troyes and the School Auctores: Ovid and the Conte du Graal or
Perceval Aeacides," at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America,
Toronto, 13 May 1977
"How Welsh is Perceval le Gallois?" for the Celtic Discussion Group at the
Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, 27 December 1979
"Sit in at the Administration Building: Alternative Careers in Academe," for the
MLA Committee on Careers at the MLA Convention, Chicago, 30 December 1985
"Keeping Your Hand In: Part-time Teaching and Independent Scholarship," for the
MLA Committee on Careers at the MLA Convention, New York, 28 December 1986
"The Auctores and the Grail," in the series Vorträge des Seminars für Englische
Philologie, University of Tübingen, 8 July 1987
"Eloquar an Sileam? Virgil and the Conte du Graal," for the Division on
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature at the MLA Convention, San Francisco,
29 December 1987
"Arthurian Drivers," for the International Courtly Literature Society at the
NEMLA Convention, Wilmington, 1 April 1989
[various additional speaking engagements on behalf of the Guggenheim Foundation
as well as papers on Chrétien de Troyes for NYU Faculty Colloquia on Orality,
Writing, and Culture and on the Classics in the Middle Ages]

Memberships:
Modern Language Association of America, Medieval Academy of America,
International Arthurian Society

Peter Kardon
Vice President
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation