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DONALD
FLANELL FRIEDMAN, Ph.D.
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
Tel. (803) 327-5985 (home)
Tel. (803) 323-2231 (Work)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
in Comparative Literature, New York University, October 1985.
Major Field of Study: Interrelation
of art and Symbolist poetics. Title of doctoral dissertation:
"The Symbolist Dead City: A
Landscape of Poesis." Advisor:
Anna Balakian.
M.A.
in Comparative Literature, University of Georgia, June 1976.
Major field of study: 19th
and 20th-century literature. Title
of master's thesis: "The
Masque of Carnival Death: Michel de
Ghelderode and the Painting of James Ensor."
B.A.
in English, summa cum laude, Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia, 1974.
Attended
language and literature courses, University of Vienna.
Attended
language and literature courses, University of Dijon.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2002 Laureate of Letters Award from Belgium Ministry of Culture.
2000,
Distinguished Professor
1998,
grant to participate in Collège Européen des Traducteurs Littéraires.
Centre Européen de Traduction Littéraire, Château de Seneffe, Belgium.
1998
Winthrop Research Council award for travel to the European Collegium of Literary
Translators.
1997
Rock Hill Arts Council grant in support of translation/edition of M.
Yourcenar’s Dreams and Destinies.
Translation
of Paul Willems’ The Drowned Land nominated for the 1996 Dublin
International Literary IMPAC award.
Member
of Winthrop Chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa, in recognition of service.
American
Philosophical Society Award, May 1995, for research on contemporary Belgian
literature.
Winthrop
Research Council grant, Summer, 1995.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Consultant for 1992-1993 exhibition of Belgian art,
Spenser Museum of Art, Clark Art Institute, Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum of
Fine Arts, Ghent; member of the curatorial team for the exhibition.
Winthrop
University Research Council Grant, Summer 1992.
Research
Grant, Belgian Ministry of Culture, Summer, 1990.
Winthrop
University Research Council Grant, 1990.
Winthrop
University Research Grant, 1989.
Dean's
Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 1984.
Belgian-American
Foundation Fellowship for French language dissertation research in Brussels,
October 1982-September 1983.
New
York University's Siegel Fellowship for Achievement, 1983.
Developmental
Fellowship, New York University, renewed yearly, 1980-1984.
Fulbright
Exchange Teacher at the Bundesgymnasium Bruck-Mur, Styria, Austria, and the
Astgasse Gymnasium, Vienna, Austria, 1976-1978.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Editor
of special series of francophone Belgian studies, Peter Lang Publishing, N.Y.,
founded 1993, The Belgian Francophone Library , titles in print: The
Drowned Land, L’Eden entredit,
La Belgique telle qu’elle s’écrit, October Long Sunday, Three
Fin-de-Siecle Farces, Belgium The Golden Decades,
Neel
Dorf, A Biography,
The Garden of Delights, The Keys to Our Aborted Dreams, Memoir
From Elsinore, An Anthology of Belgian Women Poets, Homage to Paul
Willems.
Editorial
Board, Studies in Short Fiction, 1990-present
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