Dillon, John B.
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- Mailing Address:
- 278E Memorial Library
- 728 State Street
- Madison, WI 53706
- Work Phone: 608-262-0342
- Fax: 608-265-2754
- E-mail: jdillon@library.wisc.edu
- Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title: European Humanities Bibliographer
- Geographical Areas: See tasks
- Subjects: History, Literature, Social Sciences, Humanities, Slovenian Social Climbing
- Tasks: Collection management and development for continental Western European language and literature disciplines, philosophy (other than philosophy of science and medicine, and philosophy of the social and behavioral sciences), and humanistic aspects/treatments of religion, all west of the Slavic speech zone and also excluding the Iberian peninsula, Albania, and modern Greece; collection management and development for philosophy-in-general; religion-in-general; general humanities, and general and comparative literature when the source text is in a continental Western European language subject to the geographic and temporal restrictions in coverage previously outlined; French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language and literature of North America and the Caribbean.
- Languages known: Almost all of the languages of the collections: norr�n, islensk, f�roysk, nynorsk, norsk, dansk, svensk, sami, suomi, deutsch, frysk, nederlands (incl. vlaams), continental Celtic (excl. Celto-Iberian), fran�ais, occitan, franco-proven�al, italiano, sardu, “Alpine Romance” (incl. romontsch, furlan, etc.), latinum, gutisks, hellenike, Etruscan, “Italic” (Oscan, Umbrian, Messapic, etc.). Collections also include writings in languages from outside the geographic area, e.g., English, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese.
- Education:
- B.A., Yale University
- M.A., Duke University
- M.S. in L.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Honors Diploma in German, Defense Language Institute, West Coast Branch
- Memberships: International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, American Association for Neo-Latin Studies, American Philological Association, Modern Language Association of America, Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Vergilian Society, American Library Association, International Crane Foundation, others.
- Research: Post-antique humanistic Latin literature, esp. verse (publications on medieval and early modern Italian and British Latin lit.); particular interest in 15th- and early 16th-century Naples and Regnum Siciliae (citra Farum) more generally.
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