Marjorie Perloff#

Obituary, Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae#

• Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1949-52
  
• Barnard College, New York, AB 1953; Phi Beta Kappa, Magna cum laude
  
• Catholic University of America, Washington, DC MA, 1956; PHD 1965

• From Assistant to Associate Professor of English, Catholic University, 1966 - 1971
  
• From Associate to Full Professor of English, University of Maryland, 1971 - 1976
  
• Florence R. Scott Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 1976 - 1986
  
• Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. 1986 - 1990
  
• Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Stanford University, 1990 - 2000
  
• Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, 2001

• Nominated for Presidency of Modern Language Association (1993) (one of three candidates)
  
• President, Modern Language Association, 2006
  
• President, American Comparative Literature Association, 1993 - 1995
  
• Nominator, MacArthur Fellowships, 1984 - 1995, 1998 - 1999
  
• Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry Panel, 1985 - 1987
  
• Member, Academy of Literary Studies, 1980
  
• Visitating Evaluation Committees: University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego, University of California, Santa Barbara, Duke University, Princeton
  
• Panelist for Fellowships: ACLS (twice), National Humanities Institute, North Carolina, CIES, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation
  
• Advisory Board, Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature, 1993 - 1996, 7-2,000
  
• Nominating Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Council, 1994 - 1996 (one of four members elected)
  
• Elector, for Drue Heinz Chair, Oxford University (only U.S. representative)
  
• Advisory Board, Library of America: American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, (4 members): 1997 - present
  
• Advisory Visiting Committee, Cal Tech, (5 faculty, 5 trustees) 1999 - 2001
  
• Christian Gauss Book Prize Committee, Phi Beta Kappa 2001 - 2003
  
• Governing Board, Samuel Beckett Society–2000-04
  
• Advisory Board, Center for Contemporary Poetry Studies, Cal State LA, 2006 - present
  
• Advisory Board, Dalkey Archive Press

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1981 - 1992
  
• NEH Senior Fellowship, 1985 - 1986
  
• Phi Kappa Phi Book Award (for Poetics of Indeterminacy), University of Southern California, 1982
  
• Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, 1983
  
• Distinguished Alumnae Award, Catholic University, 1987
  
• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1994 - 1995 (Visited the following campuses and lectured at each one: University of South Carolina, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Northwestern University, Wells College, Whitman College, Walla Walla, University of Oregon, University of Hawaii)
  
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
  
• Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 2012
  
• International Humanities Medal, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
  
• Honorary Doctorates, Bard College, Innsbruck University, Chapman University