R. Allen Shoaf
Professor
R. Allen Shoaf (BA, Wake Forest, 1970; BA Hon., East Anglia, 1972; MA Cornell, 1975; PhD Cornell, 1977) was the second English Alumni Professor (1990–1993). He co-founded and edited Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies between 1987 and 2008 and currently is a member of the Advisory Board of The Chaucer Review.
Professor Shoaf is the author or editor of 11 books and 82 papers and reviews; he has delivered 74 public addresses (seven plenary) during his career; he has evaluated manuscripts for publication 52 times, and he has served as extramural referee in 55 Tenure and Promotion cases in the U.S., Canada, and Switzerland. He regularly publishes on Dante, Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Thomas Usk, Shakespeare, Milton, and literary theory. His most recent book publication is Shakespeare’s Theater of Likeness (2006). His most recent article publication is “From Clio to JHMuse©: On the Muse of Digitalia,” which appears in The Post-Historical Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico. Forthcoming are contributions to the Festschrift for Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Dante and Italian Studies, Yale, and the Denkschrift for the late Julian Noa Wasserman of Loyola University, New Orleans. He has received two teaching awards in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1992, 1998), and, in 1992, he won university-wide “Teacher of the Year” honors. In 1996, he was selected Outstanding Teacher in the Region by SAADE (South Atlantic Association of Departments of English). He has won Teaching Incentive Program Awards (two, 1994 and 1998) and has twice competed successfully in the Salary Pay Plan for Professors (1996 and 2009) at UF.
In December 1998, Professor Shoaf won his second Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (he held his first in 1983). In November and December 1999, he taught by invitation a special four-week seminar on Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in the University of Berne (Switzerland). In 2004, he served as External Member of the Appointments Committee for the Chair in Medieval English Literature in the University of Geneva, Switzerland; in 2009 he served in the same capacity for the University of Bern in Switzerland; in 2009 he served in the same capacity for the University of Bern in Switzerland. He spent fall term 2005 on a sabbatical. In May 2010, he will be honored with two sessions at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, in recognition of his service to the profession as Editor of Exemplaria.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4338
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 264
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <ras@ufl.edu>