Updated January 2001
VITA
QUINONES,
Ricardo Joseph
605
Purdue Drive
Claremont,
CA 91711
(909)
621-7845
Born: July 9, 1935, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Widower
Married
Roberta Johnson, January 2, 1998
Children: Lawrence (1958), Benjamin (1964), Joshua
(1966)
Education
Northwestern University, 1953-1957; B.A. English
Literature
Université de Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1957-58
Centro di cultura per stranieri, Florence; Summer,
1958
University of Munich, 1958-59
Harvard University, 1959-63;
Ph.D. Comparative Literature (English, French, and Italian); Dissertation: "Views of Time in Shakespeare"
(departmental acceptance, August 1963; degree formally conferred March 1964)
Academic Positions
Harvard University:
Teaching Assistant, Humanities 2, 1960-62
Tutor, History and Literature, 1962-63
Claremont McKenna College:
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, 1963
Leave of Absence, 1968-69
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, 1969
(appointment
approved, October 30, 1968)
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1975
Chair, Department of Literature,
1977-80; 1990-92
Director, Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, 1986-
Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of
Comparative Literature, 1987-
Claremont
Graduate Center, 1965
Harvard
University:
Visiting Professor, summer session,
1970
Graduate
Center: CUNY, Visiting Professor,
1970-71
Richmond
College
CUNY, Visiting Professor, Summer
session, 1971
University
of California, Irvine:
Summer sessions, 1987-90
University of Kansas
Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1998-2000
Scholarships,
Fellowships and Research Grants
Bonbright scholar as most
distinguished student in the Humanities, Northwestern University, 1956-57
Fulbright Scholar to France,
1957-58
Woodrow Wilson Fellow at
Harvard, 1959-60
Summer research grant,
Claremont McKenna College, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982
Milton Fellow, William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Summer, 1968
Younger Scholar Fellowship,
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1968-69
ACLS Travel grant to the
International Society for the Study of Time, Meeting at Mt. Fuji, Japan,
Summer, 1973
Summer research grant,
Claremont Center for Holistic Studies, 1979
NEH Fellowship, Villa i
Tatti Harvard Renaissance Center, January-July, 1981
Mellon Fellowship for new
course development, 1984
Professional Societies and
Activities
Phi Beta Kappa
Renaissance Society of
America
American Comparative
Literature Association
Secretary-Treasurer,
Southern California Renaissance Conference, 1966-68
Dante Society of America
Program Chair, MLA
Comparative Literature 4: 1971 The Renaissance, 1969 Topic: "The End of
the Renaissance"
Chair, Executive Committee,
MLA Comparative Literature: 1971
Program Co-chair, MLA
Seminar, "Time in Romanticism and Modernism," 1975 and "Time in
the Enlightenment," 1976
Program Co-chair, MLA
Seminar, "The Cain-Abel Theme," 1977
Co-chair, Claremont Colleges
Comparative Literature Conference on Modernism, April, 1982
Member, Steering Committee
for NEH Reauthorization Project, 1983-84
Member, Planning Committee
for National Renaissance Conference, Southern California, 1985
Member, California Council
for the Humanities, 1984-88
President, Renaissance
Conference of Southern California, 1987-88
Member, Council of the Dante
Society of America
Editorial Board, Lectura Dantis, University of Virginia
President, Association of
Literary Scholars and Critics (1995)
Bibliography
Books:
The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard University Press, 1972). Reviewed extensively. "Mutabilitie" section of Spenser
chapter reprinted in Edmund Spenser's
Poetry, ed. Hugh Maclean (New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed. 1982),
pp. 690-700; "The Growth of Hal" section reprinted in Chelsea
Critical Perspectives, ed. Harold Bloom, 1987.
Dante
(Twayne World Author Series, 1979). MLA Marraro prize nominee, 1980. Paperback reprint, 1985. Updated
and expanded edition, August 1998.
Mapping Literary Modernism:
Time and Development (a sequel to my Renaissance
Discovery of Time). Princeton
University Press, 1985.
Modernism: Challenges and
Perspectives
(co-editor), University of Illinois Press, 1985.
The Changes of Cain (Princeton University Press, 1991).
Book award, The Conference on Christianity and Literature, 1992. Subject of special panel session, American
Comparative Literature Association meeting, Indiana University, March 26, 1993.
Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia,The Pennsylvania State
University Press, 1994. Subject of
special panel discussion, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Colorado
Springs, Colorado, October, 1994.
Articles:
"'Lineal Honour' and
Augmentative Time in Shakespeare's Treatment of the Bolingbroke Line," Topic 7 (Washington and Jefferson
College) April, 1964.
"Views of Time in
Shakespeare," Journal of the History
of Ideas, July, 1965.
Review article of J. A.
Mazzeo's Renaissance and Revolution
in Claremont Courier, April 30, 1966.
"Time in Dante and
Shakespeare," Symposium, Fall,
1968.
Note, "Cancel and Tear
to Pieces that Great Bond..." in American
Notes and Queries, XI (1972), p. 36.
"Four Phases of Time
and Literary Modernism"; published in Studies
in Time, vol. 2, Springer Verlag, 1975. Read at Claremont Humanities Forum; at Second World Conference on
Time, Hotel Mt. Fuji, Japan, July 3, 1973; and at UC Irvine Colloquium,
November 29, 1973.
"Time and Historical
Values in the Literature of the Renaissance," in Aspects of Time, ed. C. A. Patrides, Manchester University Press
and the University of Toronto Press, 1975.
"Ulysses' Brother: Aspects of the Cain-Abel Theme in Dante's Commedia and Machiavelli";
published in Renaissance Studies in Honor
of Craig Smyth, Florence, 1985.
Read at Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Cornell University, October
22; and at Comparative Literature Seminar, Graduate Center, CUNY, October 25,
1984.
Dante
entry, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1987.
Catalogue Essay, "The
New Dynamic of Time in Renaissance Literature and Society”: Time:
The Greatest Innovator, Folger Shakespeare Library, October
1986-March, 1987. Rare Books and
Manuscripts Prize for Exhibition Catalogues, American Library Association,
1988; essay translated into Hungarian for Nagyrilag,
1987.
"Dante's Divided
City: Foundation Sacrifice and
Florentine History"; published in Lectura
Dantis [see below]. Read at SUNY,
Stony Brook, and at Medieval Conference on the City, Graduate Center, CUNY,
October 1987.
"The Reception of
Modernism in America: 1960-1987";
published in Les Litteratures et Langues
Europeenes au Tournant du Siecle:
Lectures d'Aujord hui, Serie C, Cahier II, 1988. Delivered as "The Drama of the Two
Americas"; University of Athens, October 3, 1988; Bogazici University,
Istanbul, October 7-9, 1988; American Literature and Civilization Conference at
Bolu, October 11-12, 1988; Universidad de Alcala de Henares (Spain), October
17-18, 1988.
"Foundation Sacrifice
and Florentine History: Dante's
Anti-Myth," Lectura Dantis, Spring
1989.
"Dante and
Modernism," Annali d'Italianistica
VIII (1990).
"Purgatorio VIII," Lectura
Dantis VII (1990).
"Inferno I," Lectura
Dantis VI Supplement (1990).
Tribute to A. Bartlett
Giamatti, Lectura Dantis VIII (Spring
1991).
Chapter, "Byron's
Cain: Between History and
Theology," Byron, the Bible, and
Religion: Essays from the Twelfth
International Byron Seminar, ed. Wolf Z. Hirst, University of Delaware
Press, 1991.
Dante
entry in Encyclopedia italiana; forthcoming from Garland
Press.
Modernism, Petrarch, Milton, Dante, Renaissance, and Shakespeare (qq.vv.) entries in the Encyclopedia
of Time; Samuel Macey, ed.; forthcoming from Garland Press.
"‘Upon this Bank and
Shoal of Time’: Triumph Literature in
Dante and Petrarch," in Time,
Literature and the Arts: Essays in
Honor of Samuel L. Macey; English Literary Studies, University of Victoria
(British Columbia), 1994.
Paradiso XVI, Lectura Dantis, University of Virginia,
Fall, 1995.
“The Plot-Line of Myth in
Dante’s Inferno,” The Inferno, (Mark Musa, ed.);
University of Indiana Press, 1995.
Lectures:
"Monuments of Time:
Poetry and Spenser's Ideal of Civilization," read at the Southern
California Renaissance Conference (Whittier College), April 30, 1966.
"The Sense of
Contemporary Change in Spenser's Mutabilitie
Cantos, Shakespeare's King Lear,
and Donne's Anniversaries,"
delivered at the Congress, Federation
Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes, Strasbourg, France,
September, 1966.
"Foreign Grafts on
Native Stock: Erasmus and the
Elizabethan Investment in Progeny," read at the Southern California
Renaissance Conference (Claremont), April, 1970.
"Some Paradoxes of
Time: Renaissance and Modern," read at Cal Tech Humanities Seminar, April,
1974.
Commentator, MLA Seminar,
Time and Medieval Literature, 1975.
Commentator, Time and
Modernism, Third World Conference for the Study of Time; Alpbach, Austria,
July, 1976.
"Dante and
Spenser: Patterns for Criticism,"
International Spenser Conference, Duquesne University, October 5-7, 1978.
"Reflections on
Literary History: Causation,
Significance and Value," USC Humanities Forum, November 15, 1978.
"Enhancements of
Literary History," Catholic University, February 2, 1979.
"The Changes of
Cain: Guilt and Regeneration in Byron's
Cain and Conrad's Secret Sharer," ACLA meeting, Santa
Barbara, California, March, 1983.
"Ulysses' Brother:
Aspects of the Cain-Abel Theme in Dante's Commedia,"
PAPC meeting, Santa Barbara, California, March 1983.
"Changes of Cain: Transformations of the Cain and Abel Theme
from Romanticism to Modernism," Indiana University, Harvard University,
SUNY, Stony Brook, October 1983; FILLM, Budapest Hungary, August 1984;
Comparative Literature Colloquium, NYU, October 24, 1984.
"Reflections on
Modernism," Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY, Binghamton,
October 23, 1984.
"Wandering in
America: The Epidemic of Theory," Council
of Scholars, Library of Congress, April 17-19, 1986.
"Twinship and
Differentiation: The Cain and Abel
Theme in Conrad's Secret Sharer and
Tournier's Les Meteores," PAPC,
UC Riverside, November 1986; FILLM, Guelph, Canada, August 1987.
"Shakespeare in the
Climate of Modernism," University of Thessaloniki, October 5, 1988;
Bogazici University, Istanbul, October 7-9, 1988; Hacetteppe University,
Ankara, October 13, 1988.
"The American Reception
of Deconstruction," University of Athens, Hellenic American Union, October
3, 1988; Bogazici University, Istanbul, October 9, 1988; Middle East Technical
University, Ankara, October 13, 1988.
"Foundation Sacrifice,
Pilgrimage and Brotherhood in Dante's Inferno
and Purgatorio," University of
Virginia, October 12, 1989; Lectura
Dantis Newberryanna, October 21, 1989.
"Foundation Sacrifice
and Fatherhood in Dante's Paradiso,"
University of Virginia, April 1990.
"Deconstruction and
Modernism," University of Amiens, June, 1990.
"The Cain and Abel
Theme and Civilization," Institute of History of the USSR Academy of
Sciences, Moscow University, October 1990.
"The Purgatorio and Modernism,"
Nashville, Tennessee, November 1990 (reprinted as "Dante and
Modernism" in Annali d'Italianistica
VIII, 1990).
"Purgatorio XXIII-XXIV: The
Essence of the Purgatorial Consciousness," University of Virginia, October
1991.
"Foundation Sacrifice
in Secular and Sacred History: The Case
of Inferno XXIII," University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 1991.
"Foundation Sacrifice
in Dante's Paradiso," Rutgers,
October 1991.
"The Cause of All Your
Troubles: Foundation Sacrifice in Canto
XVI and Current American Interest in
Paradiso," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 1992;
Villa i Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies),
Florence, November 1992.
"Romeo and Juliet and Experimental Tragedy," University of
Nice, November 24, 1992; Bogazici University, Istanbul, December 1992.
"Modernism,
Deconstruction and Post-Modernism in Contemporary America," University of
Nice, November 26, 1992; Universita Ca'Foscari, December 1, 1992; Bogazici
University, Istanbul, December 1992.
"Diversity,
Multiculturalism and Other Shouting Terms of American Cultural Life,"
Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice, November 30, 1992; Centro di Studi Americani,
Rome, December 2, 1992; Bogazici University, Istanbul, December 1992.
"Transformations of
Violence: Foundation Sacrifice in Dante
and Shakespeare (and the European Tradition," Center for West European
Studies, Indiana University, March 25, 1993.
"Lectura dantis, Purgatorio XVI," American Association of
Italian Scholars; University of Texas, Austin; April 17, 1993.
"Dante and
Anthropological Theories," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association;
Special Topic: Dante and Contemporary Criticism (co-sponsored by the Dante
Society of America), Metropolitan State College of Denver, October 16, 1993.
“Monarchia, Book III, A Masterpiece of Political Analysis,” American
Association of Italian Scholars, Tempe, Arizona, April 1995.
"Dante: The First Intellectual of Europe, the First
European Intellectual," The Mediterranean Periphery, Conference at
Claremont Graduate School, April 1995.
"Dante: The Scandal of the Inferno in an Age of Atrocity,” Claremont Collegium on Medieval and
Early Modern Studies, March 1995; Colloquium on Critical Theory, University of
California at Riverside, April 1995; UCLA Conference on Medieval Studies, May
1995; First National Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and
Critics, Minneapolis, September 23, 1995; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The
Netherlands), November 27, 1995; Whittier College, April, 1996.
“Modernism: Highways and Byways,” University of Utrecht
(The Netherlands), November 23, 1995.
“Literary Dualisms,”
Colloquium in Criticism, University of Washington, May 3, 1996.
“‘What Do You Know About
Dying Gods:’ Rousseau, Voltaire, and
Inspiration,” at conference “Times and Cultures: a Comparison of Analysis and the Revelatory Experience,” The Claremont
Graduate School, November 16, 1996.
“Two Noble Gladiators: Voltaire and Rousseau,” Questions of
Civilization series at Claremont McKenna College, November 20, 1996.
“Why Hamlet and King Lear Are the Same Play,” University
of Kansas, Spring, 2000.
Reviews:
Renaissance Essays in Honor of Hans Baron, ed. Molho and Tedeschi, The Historian, XXXV, 1973, p. 645.
The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold, Russell Fraser, Modern Language Quarterly, XXXV, 1974, p. 78.
The Wild Man Within: An Image in Western Thought from the Renaissance
to Romanticism,
eds. Dudley and Novak, The South Atlantic
Quarterly, Autumn, 1974, p. 565.
Developments in the Early Renaissance, ed. Bernard S. Levy, The Italian Quarterly (Winter, 1975).
Of Time, Passion and Knowledge, J. T. Fraser, CLIO
((Spring, 1976).
Historical Drama, Herbert Lindenberger,
CLIO (Winter, 1976-77).
The Two Dantes, Kenelm Foster, Dante Studies
XCVII (1979).
The Ethic of Time, Wylie Sypher, Shakespeare
Quarterly (Winter, 1979).
Time and the Artist in Shakespeare's English Histories, John W. Blanpied, Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986).
Dante: The Poetics of
Conversion,
John Freccero, Annali d'Italianistica
VI (1988).
Inferno I, Anthony K. Cassell, Lectura
Dantis VI (1990).
The Medieval Imagination, Jacques LeGoff, Lettura dantescha, Spring 1991.
Il poema del desiderio: Poetica
e passione in Dante, Franco Ferrucci, Lectura Dantis
IX (Fall 1991).
Dante as Dramatist: The Myth of
the Earthly Paradise and Tragic Vision in the Divine Comedy, Franco Masciandaro, Italica,
Summer 1993.
The Undivine Comedy, Detheologizing Dante, Teodolinda Barolini, Lectura Dantis XII (Fall 1993).
Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural
Politics and Shakespeare's Art, R. A. Foakes, Shakespeare
Quarterly (Fall 1994).