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Raymond Fleming
John Francis Dugan Professor of Modern Languages and Humanities


Dr. Raymond Fleming received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and has been teaching at FSU since 1995.  His specializations include European Romanticism, the Italian Trecento, 20th century African-American literature, Thomas Mann, literary criticism/theory, and Modern Poetry. He is the John Francis Dugan Professor of Modern Languages and Humanities at Florida State University.

He is a Fulbright Scholar (1967-68) and has received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1968-1969), an Ingram-Merrill poetry Award (1971), a Ford Foundation Fellowship (1972-1973), an American Council of Learned Sciences Fellowship (1978), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1978-1979), and a University Teaching Award (1998-1999), 

Dr. Fleming is an Executive Board member in the Associazione internazionale per gli studi di lingua e letteratura italiana (1999-2002) and was the President of the American Conference on Romanticism (1998-2000).  Other involvements include: Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory at Northwestern University (1981) and NEH summer seminars (in 1985 and in 1989).

He is the author of Ice and Honey; Diplomatic Relations; Keats, Leopardi, and Hölderlin: The Poet as Priest of the Absolute; and has also published articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Milton, Keats, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Daniel Defoe, Heinrich von Kleist, Leopardi, African-American Studies, among others.


Courses frequently taught:

  • ITW 5705: The Trecento: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
  • ITA 3420: Review of Grammar and Composition

 
     
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