Abridged Vita
Chris Snodgrass
Department of English
University of Florida
Personal
Home Address: 2405 NW 59th Terrace, Gainesville, Florida 32606-6481
Telephone: (352) 376-8362 (home); 392-6650, ext. 262 (office)
E-mail: snod@english.ufl.edu
Academic Rank: Professor (member of the Graduate Faculty)
Degrees
Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana), B.A. English/History (summa cum laude)
State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A. English; Ph.D. English (Literature and Philosophy Program)
Selected Academic Honors, Awards, Recognition
Graduated summa cum laude
Margaret Farber Award in English, Wabash College
Psi Chi Psychology Honorary (local Chapter President)
Phi Beta Kappa, Wabash College
First Ranking on Comprehensive Examinations, Wabash College
Blue Key Service Honorary
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Henry M. Woodburn Fellow, SUNYAB Foundation
UF Outstanding Achievement and Performance Award, 1990
Competitive, Full-pay, One-semester Sabbatical Grant, 1991
Division of Sponsored Research Summer Research Grant (several years)
SUS/UF Teaching Incentive Program Award (TIP) for teaching excellence, 1994
Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque selected by CHOICE as one of the “Outstanding Academic Books of 1995”
Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque nominated by Oxford UP for the MLA First Book Prize, 1996
Aubrey Beardsley, Dandy of the Grotesque nominated for Woodrow Wilson Foundation Hans Rosenhaupt Book Prize, 1996
Liberal Arts & Sciences Research Initiation Project Summer Research Grant, 1997
Liberal Arts & Sciences Teacher of the Year Award, 1997
UF Outstanding Achievement and Performance Award, 1997
UF Faculty Distinction Award, 2000
UF SPP Award for Professors, 2004
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association
United Faculty of Florida
Florida Education Association
National Education Association
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Eighteen-Nineties Society
Victorian Institute
Oscar Wilde Society
ELCS-L (English Literature, Culture, & Society international E-mail group)
Histsex-L (History of Sexuality E-mail group)
Victoria-L (Victorians international E-mail group)
Wilde-L (Oscar Wilde international E-mail group)
Selected Publications
Books
Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque . New York and London: Oxford UP, 1995. 338 pp.; 125 illustrations. (Selected by CHOICE as one of the “Outstanding Academic Books of 1995”).
Current book project: Elegant Monsters: Aubrey Beardsley and the Crisis in Late-Victorian Narratives of Sexuality, a study of Beardsley’s art in the context of fin-de-siècle representations of sexuality.
Co-Author Books
Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Florida Board of Regents and the United Faculty of Florida, 1981–84, principal author with Caesar Naples, with assistance from several other members of the BOR & UFF bargaining teams (Tallahassee, FL: State of Florida, 1981; revised 1982, 1983). [i–iv] + 69 pp.
Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Florida Board of Regents and the United Faculty of Florida, 1995–98, principal author with James J. Parry, with assistance from several other members of the BOR & UFF bargaining teams (Tallahassee, FL: State of Florida, 1995). i–ii + 101 pp.
Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the Florida State University Board of Trustees and the United Faculty of Florida, 2004–2007, contributing co-author with principal co-authors Theodore Baker and Michael Mattimore, and with assistance from several other members of the BOR & UFF bargaining teams (Tallahassee, FL: FSU, 2004). 140 pp.
Collective Bargaining Agreement Between the University of North Florida and the United Faculty of Florida, 2006–2008, principal co-author with Cheryl Frohlich, Leonard Carson, Joann Campbell, with assistance from several other members of the UNFBOT & UFF bargaining teams (Jacksonville, FL: UNF, 2006). 144 pp.
Selected Articles
“Wilde’s Art-Life Dialectic,” essay-review of Christopher S. Nassaar’s Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde (Yale, 1974) for Criticism 17 (Spring 1975): 102-109.
“Oscar Wilde,” Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. I, eds. Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1978): 509-10.
“Swinburne’s Circle of Desire: A Decadent Theme,” Decadence and the 1890’s, eds. Malcolm Bradbury and Ian Fletcher (London: Edward Arnold, 1979): 60-87.
“Ernest Dowson’s Aesthetics of Contamination,” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 26.3 (Fall 1983): 162-74.
“Beardsley’s Oscillating Spaces: Play, Paradox, and the Grotesque,” Reconsidering Aubrey Beardsley, ed. Robert Langenfeld (UMI Research Press, 1989), 19-53.
“Decadent Mythmaking: Arthur Symons on Aubrey Beardsley and Salome,” Victorian Poetry 28.3 & 4 (Autumn-Winter 1990): 61-109.
“Aesthetic Memory’s Cul-de-sac: The Art of Ernest Dowson,” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 35.1 (1992): 26-53.
“Aubrey Beardsley and the Caricature of Meaning,” Fin de Siècle / Fin du Globe, ed. John Stokes (London and New York: Macmillan, 1992), 178-209.
“Decorations: In Verse and Prose (1899),” The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, ed. G. A. Cevasco (New York and London: Garland, 1993), 146-48 [1722 words].
“Dilemmas: Stories and Studies in Sentiment (1895),” The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, ed. G. A. Cevasco (New York and London: Garland, 1993), 157-59 [2717 words].
“Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900),” The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, ed. G. A. Cevasco (New York and London: Garland, 1993), 171-74 [2129 words].
“Verses (1896),” The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture, ed. G. A. Cevasco (New York and London: Garland, 1993), 647-49 [2308 words].
“Ernest Dowson and Schopenhauer: Life Imitating Art in the Victorian Decadence,” Victorian Institute Journal 23 (Fall 1993): 1-46.
Review of Fin de Siècle: The Illustrators of the Nineties (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1992), by Simon Houfe, for Victorian Studies 37.3 (Spring 1994): 496-98.
“Symons, Arthur William,” Encyclopedia of British Humorists, ed. Steven Gale (Garland Press, 1996), 1093-1102 [7100 words].
Review of The Rhymers’ Club: Poets of the Tragic Generation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), by Norman Alford, for Victorian Studies 41.2 (Winter 1998): 288-90.
“Beardsley Scholarship at his Centennial: Tethering or Untethering a Victorian Icon,” essay-review of the past hundred years of scholarship of Aubrey Beardsley (including reviews of thirteen 1998 books on Beardsley), for English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 42:4 (Fall 1999): 363-99.
“The Poetry of the 1890s,” Companion to Victorian Poetry, eds. Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Anthony H. Harrison (Oxford, et. al.: Blackwell, 2002), 321–41. [11,000 words]
Review of A Pious Bacchanal: Affinities between the Lives and Works of John Flaxman and Aubrey Beardsley (New York, et. al.: Peter Lang, 2000), by Daniel O. Bell, for Victorian Studies 44.4 (Summer 2002): 702–704.
Review of Modernism, Mass Culture, and the Aesthetics of Obscenity (Cambridge, UK, et. al.: Cambridge UP, 2000), by Allison Pease, for English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 46:1 (Spring 2003): 71–75.
“Wilde’s Salome: Turning ‘the Monstrous Beast’ into a Tragic Hero,” Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His World, edited by Robert N. Keane (New York: AMS Press, 2003), 183–96.
Selected Addresses, Papers, Panels, etc.
“Aubrey Beardsley and the Caricature of Signification in the Fin de Siècle,” 45-minute paper presented at “Fin de Siècle/ Fin du Globe” Conference, European Humanities Institute, University of Warwick, England, 8 July 1990.
“The Art of Aubrey Beardsley: Is There a Monster in This Picture or What?” One-hour address presented at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 18 March 1991.
“Decadence and Plato, Lessing, and Nietzsche,” Guest Seminar, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 19 March 1991.
“Trends in Compensation,” Panel Speaker, 1995 National Higher Education conference “Changing the Academic Workplace for the 21st Century,” National Education Association, Tampa, FL, 3 March 1995.
“The State University System Collective Bargaining Experience in Florida,” Forum on Collective Bargaining, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 28 October 1996.
“Aubrey Beardsley and the Fin-de-siècle Narrative of Female Sexuality,” International Conference on Narrative, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 3 April 1997.
“Aubrey Beardsley’s Grotesques and Fin-de-siècle Myths of Degenerative Sexuality,” 17th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, By Body Bound, Huntsville, Alabama, 3 April 1998.
“Decadent Spectacles: Aubrey Beardsley’s Politics of Fetishism,” 18th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Nineteenth-Century Spectacles, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 March 1999.
“Representing Salome in the So-Called Decadence,” The Arts of the British 1890s, an interdisciplinary conference co-sponsored by Georgetown University English Department, The William Morris Society, the Eighteen-Nineties Society, and the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 11 September 1999.
“Aubrey Beardsley’s Decadent Spectacles: Degeneration, the Grotesque, and the Politics of Fetishism,” Howe Society (Fall Event), Gainesville, FL, 21 October 1999.
“Wilde’s Salome: Turning the ‘Monstrous Beast’ into a Tragic Hero,” Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His World, a conference sponsored by Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, 27 April 2000.
“Readings and Misreadings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Gainesville, Florida, 27 November 2000.
“Keeping Faith: Consistency and Paradox in the World View of Michael Field,” 29 February 2004, at the “Michael Field and Their World” international conference, University of Delaware, 27–29 February 2004.