{"id":2,"date":"2015-11-14T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:22:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Allen Shoaf, Professor Emeritus\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/default_profile_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/default_profile_small-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"default_profile_small\" class=\"wp-image-91\" style=\"width:229px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/default_profile_small-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/default_profile_small.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A little foolishness is the consistency of hobgoblin minds<br>\n<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0<em>RAS\u00a0<\/em>(after RWE)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">B. A. <em>summa cum laude<\/em>, \u201cWith Honors in the Arts and Sciences,\u201d Wake Forest University 1970<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">B. A. Honours, The University of East Anglia 1972<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">M. A. Cornell University 1975<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Ph. D. Cornell University 1977<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern European Poetry (principally Latin, English, Italian)<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--199x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" class=\"wp-image-241\" style=\"width:199px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--200x302.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER--300x453.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/files\/COVER-.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Email<\/strong><\/em>: <a href=\"mailto:ras@ufl.edu\">ras@ufl.edu<\/a><br>\n<a href=\"mailto:alsastar@gmail.com\">alsastar@gmail.com<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Mailing address<\/em>:<\/strong><br>\n2016 NW 19th Lane<br>\nGainesville, FL 32605<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}