CURRICULUM VITAE: William Kendall Freiert
Chair, Classics Dept.721 N. Washington
Gustavus Adolphus CollegeSt. Peter, MN 56082
St. Peter, MN 56082507-934-5508
Education:
A.B., M.A., St. Louis University, l965, 1966.
Ph.D., Classics, University of Minnesota, l972.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, l975, 1980.
Visiting Scholar, Folklore and Mythology, Harvard U., 1988.
Experience:
1966-69: Chair, Classics Dept. Gonzaga H.S., Wash., D.C.
1972--- : Asst. Prof. to Prof. of Classics, Chair (1985-87, 1990-92, 2000-2006), Gustavus Adolphus College
1992: Exchange Professor, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka
1997-98: Fulbright Lecturer, Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Sendai
Teaching Awards:
Excellence in Teaching Award, American Philological Association, San Francisco, 1990.
Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1986.
Professional Activities:
Board of Directors, Minnesota Humanities Commission, 2004-2008
Pres., Classical Association of Minnesota, 1985-87.
Pres., Minnesota Humanities Council, l977-79.
Mn. Vice-Pres., Classical Association of the Middle-West and South, l977-82; Chair, Teaching Awards Committee, 1999-2001.
Exec. Board, Mn. Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages, l977-79, 1986-87.
Other Memberships: American Philological Association. American Classical League. International Society for the Classical Tradition.
AAUP Chapter Secretary, 1976-77, Chapter Vice-Pres. l977-79.
Advisory Board, Classical and Modern Literature.
External Reviewer, Utah State University, 2002
Consultant, Southwest Regional Humanities Project, 1981.
Consultant, "Antiquity Today," Mn. Council on Quality Education, 1984-85.
Consultant, "Model Learner Outcomes Project," Mn. Dept. of Education, 1987. Cotranslator, Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" for Gustavus Adolphus Theatre Dept. production, 1987.
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Recent Publications:
Paul T. Granlund: Spirit of Bronze, Shape of Freedom (Minneapolis, 1991).
"Classical Myth in Post-War American Fiction", forthcoming in volume 4 of The Classical Tradition and the Americas (Walter de Gruyter for the Institute for the Classical Tradition).
"Platonism in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak", Journal of Inquiry and Research, [Osaka] 57 (1993) 73-78.
"Bellow's Golden Ass: Greco-Roman Antecedents in More Die of Heartbreak,” Saul Bellow Journal 1.1 (Fall 1992) 52-70.
"Orpheus: a Fugue on the Polis", in Myth and the Polis, ed. Dora Pozzi and John Wickersham (Cornell U.P.) 1991.
"Timeless Oedipus: `The Primitive' in Three Modern Adaptations", Text and Presentation: Journal of The Comparative Drama Conference XI (1991) 19-24.
"Martha Graham's Clytemnestra", in Views of Clytemnestra,Ancient and Modern, ed. Sally MacEwen (Edwin Mellen Press) 1990, 84-90 and 110-114.
"Anne Tyler's Accidental Ulysses", Classical and Modern Literature 10.1 (Fall, 1989) 71-80.
"Classical Myth in Contemporary American Fiction", Classical and Modern Literature 10.1 (Fall, 1989) 47-62.
Reviews in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Classical and Modern Literature, Religious Studies Review.
Recent Lectures and Papers:
"The Ulysses Theme in Contemporary American Fiction", St. John's University, Feb. 1989.
"Thomas Pynchon's Classical Icons", Classical Association of the Middle-West and South, Apr. 1989.
"Timeless Oedipus: Music and `The Primitive' in Three Modern Adaptations," Comp. Drama Conf. XIV, March, 1990.
"Odysseus in American Fiction", American Classical League Institute, June, 1990.
"Platonism in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak”, International Society for the Classical Tradition, March, 1991.
"Paul Granlund's Mythological Sculpture", Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April, 1991.
"Orpheus: A Fugue on the Polis", Northern Illinois Univ., Nov., 1991.
"Greco-Roman Antecedents in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak", Intercultural Research Institute, Osaka, Oct.,1992.
"Apuleius in Saul Bellow's More Die of Heartbreak", CAMWS, April 1993.
"Toni Morrison's “Song of Solomon”, Carleton College, April 1993.
"Japan: a Laboratory for Understanding Early Rome", CAMWS, April 1994.
"Hades East and West: Intimations of the Classical Underworld in 10th-Century Japan and 20th-Century America", International Society for the Classical Tradition, Mar. 1995.
"Black Persephone: Demeter vs. Hades in the Fiction of Gloria Naylor", CAMWS, April 1995.
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"Demeter in the Work of Rita Dove, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison", CAMWS, April 1996.
"The Odysseus Collages of Romare Bearden", CAMWS, Apr.1997.
"Ethnic Diversity in American Fiction", Kyushu American Studies Association, Fukuoka, Japan, December 1997.
"Contemporary African-American Women Writers," Tohoku American Studies Association, Sendai, Japan, February 1998.
"Ethnic American Fiction: Canon Fodder or Trojan Horse?", University of Hong Kong, April, 1998.
"African-American Women Writers", United States Information Agency, Okinawa, May, 1998.
"Self-creation, Alterity, and Obversion in African-American Women Writers", annual Husserl Abend Lecture, Philosophy Department, Tohoku Univeristy, May 1998.
"Poets Against Patriarchy: 'Manly' Women in Greek Poetry and Drama", Gender Seminar, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku Univ., May 1998.
"The Demeter Matrix in African-American Women's Literature", American Philological Association, Dec., 1998.
"The Classics In Ethnic Literature", CAMWS, April 1999.
“Japan’s Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum”, CAMWS, April 2000.
“The End of Athens”, Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Gustavus Adolphus College, May 2000.
“Teaching Greek Tragedy through Noh”, CAMWS, April 2001.
“Chang-Rae Lee’s Korean-American Oedipus”, CAMWS, April 2002.
“Don’t Waste Your Time: Interdisciplinarity As A Fulbright Trojan Horse,” Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October, 2002.
“Colorizing Classicism: American Fiction of the 80’s and 90’s”, Vice-Presidential Panel, CAMWS-Southern Section, November 2002.
Phaedre Chinoise: Ju Dou and Greek Tragedy”, CAMWS, April 2003
“The End of Athens”, University of Arkansas, February 2004
“LiARS Speak With Forked Tongue: the Liberal Arts Paradox” (2004 Hanson-Peterson Chair Lecture, Gustavus Adolphus faculty, March 2004)
Grants and Fellowships:
National Foundation for Arts and Humanities Institute, U. of Ill., 1968.
William W. Stout Fellowship, U. of Mn., 1970-71.
U. of Mn. Center for Educational Development, 1971.
American Philological Assoc. Institute, Beloit, 1973.
NEH Summer Seminar: "The Ancient Greek Concept of Myth and Contemporary Theory and Criticism", Harvard, 1985.
NEH Summer Seminar: "Themes in Japanese Philosophy," Ohio State University, 1994.
Fulbright Lectureship, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan, 1997-98.
American Association of Colleges and Universities: Japan Seminar, 1999.
Several grants for travel/research, Gustavus Adolphus Coll.