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Curriculum Vitae Herbert S. Lindenberger

1. Personal Data and Education
Born in Los Angeles, California, April 4, 1929
Attended schools in Los Angeles, 1934, and in Seattle, Washington, 1935-46
Attended Northwestern University, 1946-47
A.B., Antioch College (defunct), 1951, with major in literature
Attended University of Vienna, 1952-53
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1955, in Comparative Literature, with concentration in English, German, and French literature of the 19th and 2Oth centuries
Married Claire E. Flaherty, June 14, 1961; two children, Michael James Lindenberger, born November 5, 1967, and Elizabeth Celia Lindenberger, born December 30, 1970
Home address: 1050 North Point, #1407A, San Francisco, CA 94109-8333
e-mail: lindenberger@stanford.edu
Home page: http://www.stanford.edu/~hslinden

2. Honors and Awards
Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Vienna, 1952-53
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1968-69
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, 1975-76, 1982-83
Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, 1982-83
Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1996
Distinguished Alumnus in the Humanities, University of Washington, 2006
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2008

3. Academic Positions
Instructor through Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Riverside, 1954-66; chairman, Program in Comparative Literature, 1956-66
Professor of German and English, and chairman, Program in Comparative Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, 1966-69
Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities in Comparative Literature and English, Stanford University, 1969-2001; chairman, Program in Comparative Literature, 1969-82; Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, 2001-
Interim Director, Stanford Humanities Center, 1991-92

4. Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association (president, 1997)
American Comparative Literature Association (member of Advisory Board, 1980-86)

5. Additional Professional Activities
Director, NEH summer seminars, 1979, 1982
MLA Delegate Assembly, 1971-72
MLA Division on Comparative Studies in 20th-century literature, 1979-83
PMLA editorial board, 1986-88
Co-ordinator, special PMLA issue, "The Politics of Critical Language," May 1990
MLA committee on Scaglione prize in Comparative Literature, 1993-94 (chair, 1994)
Selection committee for Christian Gauss award, Phi Beta Kappa, 1994-96 (chair, 1996)

6. Writings

Books
On Wordsworth's 'Prelude' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963; Princeton paperback edition, 1966).
Georg Büchner, in Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques series (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964).
Georg Trakl, in Twayne World Authors Series (New York: Twayne [now G.K. Hall], 1971).
Historical Drama: The Relation of Literature and Reality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l975; Phoenix paperback edition, 1978).
Saul's Fall: A Critical Fiction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
Opera: The Extravagant Art (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984; Cornell paperback edition, 1986).
The History in Literature: On Value, Genre, Institutions (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).
Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
Dogstory: A Memoir in Hypertext. Stanford University, April, 1999.

Books (co-edited)
Essays on European Literature, co-edited with Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Egon Schwarz (St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1972).
Leo Spitzer, Representative Essays, co-edited with Alban Forcione and Madeline Sutherland (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988; Stanford paperback edition, 1990).

Essays
"Goethe's Pandora: An Interpretation," German Life and Letters, N.S. 8 (1955), lll-l2O.
"The Early Poems of Georg Trakl," Germanic Review, 32 (1957), 45-6l.
"Georg Trakl and Rimbaud: A Study in Influence and Development," Comparative Literature, 10 (1958), 21-35.
"The Play of Opposites in Georg Trakl's Poetry," German Life and Letters, N.S. 11 (1958), l93-204.
"Lawrence and the Romantic Tradition," in A D. H. Lawrence Miscellany, ed. Harry T. Moore (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1959), pp. 326-341.
"The Reception of The Prelude," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 64 (1960), 196-208.
"On Commentary, Romanticism and Critical Method: Reflections on Three Recent Books," Modern Language Quarterly, 27 (1966), 212-220.
"Georg Trakl's 'Traum und Umnachtung'," in Festschrift für Bernhard Blume (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, l967), pp. 258-270.
"Danton's Death and the Conventions of Historical Drama," Comparative Drama, 3 (1969), 99-109.
"Keats's 'To Autumn' and Our Knowledge of a Poem," College English, 32 (1970), pp. 123-134.
"The Criticism of Sigurd Burckhardt," Eighteenth Century Studies, (1971), 321-327.
"The Idea of a Critical Approach," in Essays on European Literature (St. Louis: Washington University Press, 1972), pp. 237-254.
"The Idyllic Moment: On Pastoral and Romanticism," College English, 34 (December, 1972), 335-351.
"Confronting our Crisis: A New Identity for Departments of Language and Literature," ADFL Bulletin, 7 (March 1976), 3-6.
"Re-viewing the Reviews of Historical Drama," Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 11 (Spring, 1978), 43-52.
"Toward a Theory of Musical Drama," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 29 (1980), 5-9.
"Criticism and Its Institutional Situations," in What Is Criticism?, ed. Paul Hernadi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981), pp. 215-229.
"Postlogue, Postlude, Postscript," New Literary History, 13 (Spring, 1982), 533-42.
"Wordsworth by Accident," Studies in Romanticism, 21 (1982), 566-69.
"Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," in Erkenne die Lage: Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie, ed. Martha Woodmansee and Walter Lohnes (Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1983), 213-27.
"Toward a New History in Literary Study," Profession 84 (New York: Modern Language Association, 1984), pp. 16-23.
"The Mimetic Bias in Modern Anglo-American Criticism," in Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. Mihai Spariosu (Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1984), pp. 1-26.
"Romantic Poetry and the Process of Evaluation," The Wordsworth Circle, 16 (1985), 57-65.
"Teaching Wordsworth from the 1950s to the 1980s," Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry, ed. Spencer Hall with Jonathan Ramsey (New York: MLA, 1986), pp. 32-38.
"Teaching Literature in the Original or in Translation: An Intellectual or a Political Problem?" ADFL Bulletin, 17 (1986), 35-39.
"For the 1805 Prelude," The Wordsworth Circle, 17 (1986), 2-5; contributions to debate on relative value of the 1805 and 1850 Prelude, pp. 5-38 passim.
"Arnold Schönbergs Der biblische Weg, Moses und Aron: Zu Problemen politischer Führung," in Zeitgenossenschaft: Zur deutschprachigen Literatur im 20. Jahrhundert; Festschrift für Egon Schwarz zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. P. M. Lützeler, H. Lehnert, and G. S. Williams (Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1987), pp. 61-76.
"From Opera to Postmodernity: On Genre, Style, Institutions," Genre, 20 (1987), 259-84.
"Opera as Historical Drama: La clemenza di Tito, Khovanshchina, Moses und Aron," in Idee / Gestalt / Geschichte: Festschrift Klaus von See: Studien zur europäischen Kulturtradition, ed. Gerd Wolfgang Weber (Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1988), pp. 605-26.
"The Western Culture Debate at Stanford University," in Comparative Criticism, 11 (1989), 225-34.
"aFTER sAUL'S fALL: An Interview with the Author," New Literary History, 21 (Autumn, 1989), 37-57.
"Experiencing History," Scandinavian Studies, 62 (1990), 1-17.
"Ideology and Innocence: On the Politics of Critical Language," introduction to a special issue of PMLA, 105 (May, 1990), 398-408, on the politics of critical language.
"Shelley and Rossini in Italy -- 1819," The Wordsworth Circle, 24 (Winter, 1993), 19-29.
"Regulated Anarchy: The Europeras and the Aesthetics of Opera," in John Cage: Composed in America, ed. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 144-66.
"Closing Up Faust: The Final Lines According to Schumann, Liszt, and Mahler," in Interpreting Goethe's Faust Today, ed. Jane K. Brown, Meredith Lee, and Thomas P. Saine (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994), pp. 123-32.
"Self-Portrait in the Unembellished Mode," in Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the History of Comparative Literature in the United States, ed. Lionel Gossman and Mihai Spariosu (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), pp. 141-58.
"Canons and Curricula" (review article), in The Comparatist, 18 (1994), 165-69. "Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact," Comparative Drama, 28 (1994), 285-310.
"Between Texts: From Assimilationist Novel to Resistance Narrative," Jewish Social Studies, I (Winter, 1995), 48-68.
"On the Reception of Mimesis," in Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach, ed. Seth Lerer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 195-213, 290-95.
"On the Profession of Romanticism," The Wordsworth Circle, 27 (Winter, 1996), 46-48.
"Surviving in the Worst of Times," Centennial Review, 40 (Spring, 1996), 253-78.
"Reaching Out to the Public," President's Column in MLA Newsletter, 29 (Spring, 1997), 3-4.
"The Committee on Professional Employment at Work," President's Column in MLA Newsletter, 29 (Summer, 1997), 3-4.
"Must We Demonize One Another?" President's Column in MLA Newsletter, 29 (Fall, 1997), 3-4.
"Yes, We Do Take Teaching Seriously," President's Column in MLA Newsletter, 29 (Winter, 1997), probably 3-4.
"Foreword," MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, 2nd ed. (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), pp. xiii-xxiv.
"Must We Always Be in Crisis?" ADFL Bulletin, 29 (Winter 1998): 5-9.
"From Burnout to Intellectual Growth," ADFL Bulletin, 29 (Winter 1998): 62-63.
"Presidential Address 1997: Teaching and the Making of Knowledge," PMLA, 113 (1998): 370-78.
"Breaking Boundaries, Making Connections," Profession 98 (New York: Modern Language Association, 1998), pp. 4-10.
"Utopian or Realist: Some Ways of Responding to the Report of the Committee on Professional Employment, ADE Bulletin, 121 (Winter, 1998): 5-8.
"The Wagnerian Presence in Modernist Writing: Mann, Woolf, Eliot, Joyce," Leitmotive: The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California, 13 (Spring, 1999, and Summer, 1999): 1-4, 1-6, respectively.
"The Singular Career of Ian Watt," Stanford Humanities Review, 8 (2000): 3-9.
"Literature and the Other Arts," Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. V, Romanticism, ed. Marshall Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 362-86, 443-47.
"Problem Solving: An Interview with Herbert Lindenberger," Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Donald E. Hall (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 235-44.
"Anti-theatricality in Twentieth-Century Opera," Modern Drama, 44 (2001): 300-17.
"Review-article: Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters, by Paul Robinson, and Opera on Screen, by Marcia J. Citron," Journal of the American Musicological Society, 57 (Fall, 2004): 684-93.
"Appropriating Auerbach: From Said to Postcolonialism," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 11, No. 1-2 (2004): 45-55.
"Why (What? How? If?) Opera Studies?" Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries," ed. Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 253-63.
"Heroic or Foolish? The 1942 Bombing of a Nazi Anti-Soviet Exhibit ," Telos 135 (Summer, 2006): 127-154.
"On Opera and Society (Assuming a Relationship)," Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu, ed. Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher, and Thomas Ertman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 294-311.
"Towards a Characterization of Modern Opera," Modernist Cultures, 3 (Winter 2007): 84-93.
"Three Faces of Opera Study: Reception, Money, Performing Practice," Opera Quarterly (in press).
"Anatomy of a War Horse: Il trovatore from A to Z ," Opera Quarterly (in press).
"Arts in the Brain: Or What Might Neuroscience Tell Us?," Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts, ed. Frederick Aldama (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009, in press).

Plays
"Victims: Five Chamber Plays," in Players Magazine, 42 (1965-66), 41-44; 67-73; 95 (performed in workshops, 1965-67).
"Miss Cramm: An Opera Play" (performed in workshops, 1965-66).
"Lear and Cordelia at Home: Theme and Variations" (full-length play performed at Principia College, January, 1968).
"Saul's Fall," in Saul's Fall: A Critical Fiction, pp. 11-67.

Reprints of Writings
Chapters from On Wordsworth's 'Prelude' have been reprinted in the following anthologies of criticism:
"The Possibility of a Long Poem" in Perspectives on Epic, ed. F. H. Candelaria and W. C. Strange (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1965), pp. 103-113.
"William Wordsworths 'The Prelude' und das Zeitbewusstsein" (German translation of a chapter) in Interpretationen (Frankfurt: Fischer, 1970), VIII, 67-90.
"Images of Interaction" in the Norton Critical Edition of The Prelude, ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Gill, and Jonathan Wordsworth (New York: Norton, 1979).
The chapter on Danton's Death from Georg Büchner was reprinted in Georg Büchner: The Complete Collected Works, ed. H. J. Schmidt (New York: Avon, 1977), pp. 273-308.
The chapter entitled "An Interview with Orlando Hennessy-Garcia" from Saul's Fall: A Critical Fiction was reprinted in Mirror and Mirage, ed. Albert J. Guerard, Portable Stanford Series (Stanford: Stanford Alumni Association, 1980), pp. 171-179.
"Re-viewing the Reviews of Historical Drama" was reprinted, with new postscript, in The Horizon of Literature, ed. Paul Hernadi (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), pp. 283-98.
L'opera lirica: musa bizzarra e altera, an Italian translation by Marco Beghelli of Opera: The Extravagant Art (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1987).
"Opera as Historical Drama" was reprinted in Interpreting the Theatrical Past: New Directions in the Historiography of Performance, ed. Thomas Postlewait and Bruce McConachie (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989), pp. 119-47, and is included, in a revised version, in The History in Literature (see section on books above); a German translation entitled "Oper als historisches Drama" appeared in Text und Musik: Neue Perspektiven der Theorie, ed. Michael Walter (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1992), pp. 211-41.
"Arnold Schönbergs Der biblische Weg . . ." appeared in a revised version in English as "Arnold Schoenberg's Der biblische Weg and Moses und Aron: On the Transactions of Aesthetics and Politics" in Modern Judaism, 9 (February, 1989), 55-70.
"From Opera to Postmodernity" appeared in The Postmodern Genres, ed. Marjorie Perloff (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989), pp. 28-53, and is included, in a revised version, in The History in Literature.
"Experiencing History" was reprinted in Strindberg and History, ed. Birgitta Steene (Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell International, 1992), pp. 11-27.
"Experiencing History," "Romantic Poetry and the Process of Evaluation," "The Western Culture Debate at Stanford University," and "Toward a New History in Literary Study" are included, in revised versions, in The History in Literature.
The chapter entitled "The Literature in History: Danton's Death in the Texts of Revolutions" from The History in Literature was reprinted, in a revised version, as "The Literature in History: Büchner's Danton and the French Revolution" in The Internalized Revolution: German Reactions to the French Revolution. 1789-1989, ed. Ehrhard Bahr and Thomas P. Saine (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 197-218. "Romantic Poetry and the Process of Evaluation" was reprinted as well in The Wordsworth Circle, Wordsworth Summer Conference Special Issue, 37 (2006): 164-71.
"Between Texts: From Assimilationist Novel to Resistance Narrative" was reprinted in People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, ed. Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), pp. 357-74.
"Shelley and Rossini in Italy," "Regulated Anarchy," and "Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact" are included, in revised versions, in Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage.
"Anti-theatricality in Twentieth-Century Opera" was reprinted, in a revised version, in Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage, ed. Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 58-75, and in Modern Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Martin Puchner (London: Routledge, 2008), Vol. 3, pp. 331-48.
"Appropriating Auerbach: From Said to Postcolonialism" was reprinted, in German translation, as "Aneignungen von Auerbach: Von Said zum Postkolonialismus," translated by Dorothea Löbbermann, in Erich Auerbach: Geschichte und Aktualität eines europäischen Philologen, ed. Karlheinz Barck and Martin Treml (Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmus, 2007), pp. 357-70.

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