NAME:

Rutger Johannes Pieter (Roger) KUIN

BORN:

The Hague (Netherlands), 10 February 1941

CITIZENSHIP:

Dutch (Permanent Resident, Canada)

DEGREES:

1973 Doctor of Letters (Amsterdam)

1969 Master of Arts (Oxford)

1966 Master of Arts (cum laude) (Amsterdam)

1964 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) (Oxford)

1962 Bachelor of Arts (Amsterdam)

CURRENT POSITION:

Professor, Dept. of English,

York University, Toronto (Ont.), Canada

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

1975-2000 Associate Professor, English, York University

1973-1975 Assistant Professor, English, York University

1969-1973 Lecturer, English, York University

1967-1969 Research Assistant, Osborn Collection, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., USA

1965-1966 Assistant Lecturer (part-time), Medieval Dutch Literature, Dept. of Other Langs., Cambridge University

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

   1.

Robert Langham, A Letter, ed. w. Intr. and Comm., Medieval and Renaissance Texts 2 (Leiden: Brill, 1983).

  2.   

Chamber Music: Elizabethan Sonnet-Sequences and the Pleasure of Criticism (Toronto: UTP, 1998).

Scholarly Articles:

   1.

"Scholars, Critics, and Sir Philip Sidney," British Studies Monitor, II:3 (Spring 1972).

   2.

"Robert Langham and his Letter," NQ, October 1978.

   3.

"A Little World made Cunningly: Semiosis in a Sidney Sonnet," SNew IV:1 (Spring 1983).

   4.

"The Purloined Letter: Evidence and Probability Regarding Langham's Authorship," The Library, Sixth Ser., VII:2 (June 1985), 115-125.

   5.

"The Gaps and the Whites: Indeterminacy and Undecideability in the Sonnet-Sequences of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare," Spenser Studies VIII (1987),

   6.

"Feint/Frenzy: Madness and the Elizabethan Love-Sonnet," Criticism, XXXI:1 (Winter 1989).

   7.

"Sir Philip Sidney: the Courtier and the Text," ELR 19:3 (Autumn 1989), 249-271.

   8.

"Notice sur les Propri??taires du Logis de Fontenay," Archives d??partementales de la Manche, St.L??, France.

   9.

"The Middelburg Weekend: More Light on the Proposed Marriage between Philip Sidney and Marie of Nassau," SNew 12:2 (1993), 3-13.

 10.

"New Light on the Veronese Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney" (SJ 15:1, Spring 1997), 19-47.

 11.

???Languet and the Veronese Portrait of Sidney: Antwerp Findings,??? SJ 15:2 (Fall 1997), 42-44.

 12.

"Sidney's Letter to Charles de l'Ecluse in 1577: A Rectification," NQ, 242:4 (December 1997), 514-516.

 13.

"Querre-Muhau: Sidney and the New World," RenQ, LI:2 (Summer 1998), 549-585.

 14.

"Sidney's Archetype of the Statesman," Reformation, vol. 4 (1999), 1-22.

 15.

"More I Still Undoe: Louise Lab??, Mary Wroth, and the Petrarchan Discourse," Comparative Literature Studies, 36:2 (1999), 146-161.

 16.

???The Unborn Correspondent: A Bentleian Fable???, SJ 17:2 (Fall 1999).

 17.

"Teaching the Amoretti," in: Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott (New York: MLA, 2000).

 18.

with Anne Lake Prescott, ???The Wrath of Priapus: R??my Belleau???s ???Jean qui ne peult??? and its Traditions???, Comparative Literature Studies  XXXVII:1 (2000).

 19.

with Anne Lake Prescott, ???Versifying Connections: Daniel Rogers and the Sidneys??? SJ 18:2 (Fall 2000).

 20.

???Private Library as Public Danger: the Case of Duplessis-Mornay??? , in Philip Conner, Paul Nelles and Andrew Pettegree (eds.), The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book, St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2001).

 21.

???The Double Helix: Public and Private in Spenser???s Faerie Queene???, Spenser Studies vol. XVI (2002).

 22.

with Anne Lake Prescott, ??????After the First Death, There Is No Other:??? Spenser, Milton, and (our) Death??? in Elizabeth Jane Bellamy and Patrick Cheney (eds.), Spenser, Milton, and Death  (to appear 2003)

Review Articles:

   1.

"Untitled: Pro- and Paralegomena to a Modern Renaissance Criticism," SNew 9:1 (1990).

   2.

"Elective Affinities: Sidney and New Languet Biography," [on B??atrice Nicollier-De Weck, Hubert Languet (1518-1581): un r??seau politique international de Melanchthon ?? Guillaume d'Orange (Geneva: Droz, 1995)] SJ 15:1 (Spring 1997), 61-77.

Reviews:

   1.

Dennis Moore, The Politics of Spenser's Complaints and Sidney's Philisides Poems (Salzburg 1982), SNew IV:1 (Spring 1983).

   2.

Alastair Fowler, Kinds of Literature: An Introduction to the Theory of Literary Genre, (Harvard 1982), SNew V:2 (Fall 1984).

   3.

Dwight Peck (ed.) Leicester's Commonwealth: the Copy of a Letter Written by a Master of Art of Cambridge (1584) and Related Documents (Ohio 1985), Snew VIII:2 (Fall 1988).

   4.

Jan van Dorsten et al. (ed.) Sir Philip Sidney: 1586 and the Creation of a Legend (Leiden, 1986), SNew IX:2 (1989).

   5.

Barnabe Googe, Eclogues, Epitaphs and Sonnets, ed. Judith M. Kennedy (Toronto, 1990), UTQ 60:1 (Fall 1990).

   6.

Gunnar Sorelius and Michael Srigley (eds), Cultural Exchange Between European Nations during the Renaissance (Uppsala U.P., 1994), SNJ XIV:2 (Fall 1996).

   7.

Blair Worden, The Sound of Virtue (New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1996), SJ XV:2 (Fall 1997), 52-61.

   8.

Spenser Studies, vols. XII and XIII (New York: AMS, 1999), SJ 17:2 (Fall 1999).

   9.

Mary Murphy Schmelzer, ???Tis All One: ???The Anatomy  of Melancholy??? as Belated Copious Discourse , AUS series IV vol. 190 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999),  Sixteenth Century Journal  XXXI:2 (Summer 2000).

   1.

"All the Skill and Pain: Sidney and the Transformation of a  Medieval Tradition," XVth Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1980).

   2.

"Love's Progress: Sexuality in Late Elizabethan Love-Poetry,", North Central Conf., Renaissance Soc. of America, Guelph, Ont. (October 1980).

   3.

"Ars Honeste Amandi: Mimesis in the Amoretti,", XVIth Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1981).

   4.

Invited Banquet Address , First International Sidney Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont. (October 1982).

   5.

"Time and Sequence: Textual Time in Astrophil and Stella," XXth Conf.Med.Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1984).

   6.

"Sir Philip Sidney: the Courtier and the Text," invited closing keynote address, Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa. (April 1986).

   7.

"Love, Ruins, and Shake-speares Sonnets,"  Conf. in honour of A. Kent Hieatt, U.W.O., London, Ont. (October, 1987).

   8.

"Skin/Deep: Beauty in the Sonnet-sequences of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare," invited lecture, Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, Victoria University, Toronto, Ont. (February 1987).

   9.

"Feint/Frenzy: Madness and the Elizabethan Love-Sonnet," CEMERS conf. on the Renaissance, SUNY Binghamton, NY (October 1987).

 10.

"This Boo Writing: a Defence of Sidney's Other Defence," XXIIIrd Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1988).

 11.

"A New Intellectual Art: Toward a Modern Appropriation of the Renaissance Past," York U. Symposium (1989).

 12.

"More I Still Undoe: Louise Lab??, Mary Wroth, and the Petrarchan Discourse," North Central Conf., Ren.Soc.Am., Victoria U., Toronto, Ont. (April 1990).

 13.

"The Biograph: Spenser as Script," in "Writing Renaissance Biography: Sidney and Spenser,"(panel discussion), XXVIIth Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May, 1992).

 14.

"Sidney's Archetype of the Statesman," XXIXth Conf.Med.Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1994).

 15.

"Goldberg, Escher, Barthes: Destructures in Sidney, Donne, and Crashaw," GEMCS Conf., U. of Rochester (October 1994).

 16.

Respondent, Sidney Session no. 1, XXXth Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1995).

 17.

"Marguerite de Valois: le plaisir du texte," for "Royaumes de F??mynie: femmes et pouvoirs en France ?? la Renaissance," conf. Blois (France), October 1995.

 18.

"New Light on the Veronese Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney", XXXIst Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1996).

 19.

"Veronese's Lost Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney", invited lecture, Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, Victoria University, Toronto, Ont. (November 1996).

 20.

"Sir Philip Sidney: the Veronese Portrait", invited lecture, Western Ontario Renaissance Group, Guelph, Ont. (November 1996).

 21.

"The Double Helix: Private and Public in The Faerie Queene", Spenser Sessions, XXXIInd Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1997).

 22.

"Absent Presence: Sidney in the Duplessis-Mornay Library Catalogues", Sidney Sessions, XXXIIIrd Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1998).

 23.

???Letters to Sir Philip Sidney: the Yale Manuscript???, Sidney Sessions, XXXIVth Conf. Med. Studs, Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 1999).

 24.

Respondent, Sidney Session, RSA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (March 1999).

 25.

Respondent, Sidney Session, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO (October 1999).

 26.

???Private Library as Public Danger: the Case of Duplessis-Mornay,??? RSA Annual Meeting, Florence (Italy) (March 2000).

 27.

???The Origins of Astrophil and Stella???, Sidney Sessions, XXXVth Conf. Med. Studs., Kalamazoo, Mich. (May 2000).

 28.

???Trewnesse or Treason? Sidney???s Translation of Du Plessis??? V??rit?????, invited contribution, Colloquium on Translation in the Renaissance, Massachusetts Centre for Renaissance Studies, Amherst (Mass.), October 21, 2000.

 29.

???Sleeping Lions and Clerkly Rede: Mother Hubbard???s Tale and Philisides???, invited contribution, ???Spenser and Politics??? Roundtable, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Cleveland, November 2000.

 30.

Organiser, Sidney Session (???Mark Me: Sir Philip Sidney and the New Century???), MLA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (December 2000).

 31.

???The Privacy of Mercy is Not Strained: Elizabeth and Mercilla???, International conference Spenser: Works, Words, Worlds, Cambridge, June 2001.

 32.

???Whose Tongue in Whose Cheek? Sex and Saints in the Amoretti???, invited contribution, ???Spenser and Sex??? roundtable, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver, October 2001.

 33.

Respondent, Sidney session, RSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix AR April 2002.

 34.

Respondent, Sidney Session, XXVIIth Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI, May 2002.

 35.

???A String of Pearls: Perrot???s Perle elette  and the Sidney Psalms,??? Renaissance Colloquium, Barnard College, December 2002.

WORK IN

PROGRESS: 

   1.

Edition: The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney (under consideration, Oxford University Press).

   2.

Edition: Lettre Intercept?? du Prince d'Orange au Duc d'Alen??on (pamphlet, 1580)

GRANTS ETC.

1997

Visiting Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book & MS Library, Yale University

1998

Aid to Scholarly Publications grant, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Federation of Canada ($7,507)

2001-2004

SSHRC Standard Research Grant for edition ofSidney Correspondence ($72,000)

Professional Service:

Associate Editor, The Sidney Journal

Secretary, the International Sidney Society

Member, Organizing Committee, Sidney at Kalamazoo