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Professional/Scholarly Activities at the UManitoba


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External Professional/Scholarly Activities

Refereeing & Reviewing

Tenure & Promotion at the UM

2002-05

e-Edition of seven poems published in 1904/5 by Felix Paul & Else Greve Freytag-Loringhoven under the joint pseudonym 'Fanny Essler'. German & English (with Jan Horner. For details, see entries in "Publications & Presentations")

2002/3

M.A. Thesis Committee, UM English Dept.: Lorne Lulashnyk, on Grove's Settlers of the Marsh (1925), the manuscripts in the UM Archives' FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections, & the Greves' year in Sparta, Kentucky (1910/11), as intertext of Grove's first Canadian novel. - Defense: Nov. 2003.

2002/3

Invited, by the Graduate Chair & the Head, UM Dept. of French, to serve on five Doctoral Theses Committees.

2002

Member, Search Committee, for Collections' Management Librarian.

2000-02

e-Editions of Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's two long, satirical poems about Ernst Hardt & August Endell. German & English (with Jan Horner. For details, see entries under "Publications").

1999/2000

Proceedings of the Greve/Grove Symposium "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" edited for 12 videos with Educational Support Systems

1998

Member, Search Committee for Head, Archives & Special Collections

1998

Secured, with Jan Horner, a UM Research Grant for the e-publication of Grove's A Search for America (1927) & Jane Atkinson (unpublished novel, ca. 1921. For details, see entries under "Publications", 2000/1.

1998

Organizer of the "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" Post-Conference Tour through Manitoba Grove country (Gladstone, Eden, Waldersee, Amaranth, Plumas, Brandon, & Rapid City), Sat, Oct. 3, 1998. Tour Guide: Grove Scholar Professor Richard Ottenbreit, University of Winnipeg

1997-98

Program Chair & participant, International Greve/Grove Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998", Marlborough Hotel, Winnipeg, September 30 - October 2, 1998. -- Opening Address: Pulitzer-Prize winning author Carol Shields on Grove's first Canadian book, the nature essays Over Prairie Trails [1922]. - Responsible for the Video-Taping of all twelve sessions, incl. The Banquet, with Carol Shields, Neil Besner, Leonard & Mary Grove, Ed Schreyer as Guest Speakers, & all the other participants, including Professors Walter Pache, Konrad Gross, Irene Gammel, & Gisi Baronin von Freytag-Loringhoven.

1998

Electronic, revised, & enlarged edition of the 1997 promotional brochure: "The FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections in the University of Manitoba, Archives & Special Collections".

1997

Promotional Brochure: "The FPG (Greve/Grove) Collections, Archives & Special Collections, University of Manitoba Libraries", distributed at the Learned Societies' Congress, Ottawa, & at various other scholarly congregations

1996-97

Elected Member, Libraries Promotion Committee

1996-

Hamilton Research Grant Committee, UML Archives & Special Collections

1996-

Literary Manuscripts Committee, UML Archives & Special Collections

1996

Secured, from UW Professor Katherine Taylor, for the Rare Book Room: the truly rare Barbara Rooke Coleridge Collection, containing all 28 of Coleridge's exceedingly elusive journal The Friend: a literary, moral, and political weekly paper, 1808/9.

1996

Established, with Dr. Robert Quackenbush, UM Mathematics, in Archives & Special Collections: The FPG (Greve/Grove) & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Endowment Fund.
Exclusive purpose: furthering research, propagation, & electronic or traditional publication of Greve/Grove & Freytag-Loringhoven resources

1996-

Two submissions for a revised edition of the National Library of Canada's Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries (Dysart Rare Book Collection & F. P. Grove Manuscript and Research Collections)

1995-97

Member, Libraries Research Committee (Chair in 199/97); this committee issued an annual Research Newletter for several years, reflecting Academic Librarians' research interests & activities, conferences attended or participated in, library- university- or professional committee service

1994

Elected Member, Libraries' Strategic Planning Retreat, Nov. 17 & 18, 1994

1992-

Volunteer, UM Librarians' Council Executive Committee (Terms of References, Goals & Objectives, December 1994)

1992

Member, Search Committee for Head, St. Paul's College Library

1991-

Appointed as Libraries' representative, Office of Research Administration, Research Liaison Committee

1991-92

Member, Marc-Editor Implementation Committee

1991-92

Member, Libraries' Gift Policy Task Force

1991-93

Elected Member, Librarians' Council Research Committee

1990-

Member, Editorial Board, Mosaic

1989

Member, Hiring Committee for two Medical Librarians

1989-90

Elected Member, Search Committee for Director of Libraries

1988-91

Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature Committee

1987-88

Appointed Member, Libraries' Review Committee (Report Confluence, October 1988)

1987-89

Elected Member, Librarians' Council Research Committee

1988-90

UMFA Academic Librarians Committee (Chair, 1988-1990)

1983-84

Member, Libraries' Promotion Guidelines Review Committee

1982-83

Member, Libraries' Book Sale Committee

1982-83

Chair, Librarians' Promotion Committee

1980-81

Member, Libraries' Promotion Guidelines Committee (Guidelines, May 1981)

1979-83

Member, Board of UM Faculty Club

1978-80

Chair, UMFA Status of Women Committee

1977-78

Member, UMFA Status of Women Committee



External Professional/Scholarly Activities

2002-

Web-Editor of the LCMND e-Journal (first articles e-published in: v. 1 (2003)

2001

Scholarly Consultant, Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Collection, University of Maryland, College Park (invited by the Curator of Literary Collections, Dr. Beth Alvarez)

2000-

Website Editor, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota (LCMND); Ex Officio Member of Executive Committees

2000/2001

Instrumental in securing Dr. Barry Pomeroy's web-designs for the LCMND Website & the LCMND e-Journal

1996-1997

Past President, LCMND

1995-1996

President, Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota

1994-

Director, GCHA, Manitoba Chapter (1 of 3)

1994-1995

Vice-President, LCMND

1992-1994

Secretary/Treasurer, LCMND

1990-1993

Member, ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Award's Committee

1989-1992

Member, Editorial Board, Montaigne Studies

1986

Program Chair, Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies
(Learned Societies' Congress at UM, Winnipeg)

1985-1988

Regional Representative for Central Canada, CSRS

1983-1986

Director, MLA Executive, Winnipeg

1983-1984

Member, CLA/CACUL Academic Status Committee

1982-1983

Member, CLA/CACUL Program Planning Committee
CLA Congress, Winnipeg, 1983



Tenure at the University of Manioba

2003/4

Teaching "Littérature française du XVIe siècle"

2002/3

Teaching "Littérature française du XVIe siècle"

1996/97-

Adjunct Professor, UM Faculties of Arts & Graduate Studies

1995-

Curator & Rare Book Librarian, UM Archives & Special Collections

1995

Promotion to Full Librarian

1994/95

Teaching "Littérature française du XVIe siècle"

1991-92

Head, Original Cataloguing Section (2 year-term)

1989/90

Curator, Spettigue Collection of FPG Research, UM Archives & Special  Colls

1985

Promotion to Associate Librarian

1981-

UM Libraries, German Bibliographer & Cataloguer

1975-94

UM Libraries, German Cataloguer

 
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