Professor Ray Fleming received his B.A. with a triple concentration in Modern Languages, Philosophy, and English from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in Comparative from Harvard University. He has taught at the University of California at San Diego, the University of Notre Dame, Miami University (Ohio) where he served as chair of Comparative Literature and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, at the Centre Universitaire (Luxembourg), at Penn State University where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian and Director of the Graduate Program in Comparative Literature. He has taught at Florida State University since 1995.
His primary teaching and research center upon European Romanticism (literature, music, and painting), the Trecento (Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch), African-American Studies, Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, Literary Criticism and Theory, and Modern European and American Poetry.
His awards include a Fulbright grant to Italy, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Europa Fellowship to Germany and England, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship (Northwestern University). He was also twice a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities summer grants (Dartmouth and U.C.L.A.), as well as a recipient of the Ingram-Merrill Award for poetry and a Djerassi Artist (poet) in Residence. Professor Fleming has also served as president of the International Conference on Romanticism and was a board member of the Associazione internationale per gli studi di lingua e letteratura italiana as well as serving on the editorial boards of Comparative Literature Studies and Prisms: The Journal of the International Conference on Romanticism. He has reviewed book manuscripts and articles for the University of Kentucky Press, Penn State University Press, Palgrave Press, The German Quarterly, The Romantic Review, MLN, Argo (England), Choice, The Milton Quarterly, African-American Review, and Comparative Literature Studies.
Fleming is the author of Keats, Leopardi, and Hölderlin: The Poet as Priest of the Absolute, Diplomatic Relations, and Ice and Honey. Some of his own articles, reviews, translations and poems have appeared in such books and journals as Inventing the Individual: Romanticism and the Idea of Individualism (Brigham Young University Press), Eroticism, Death, Music, and Laughter (Rodofi), Conference Proceedings: International Conference on American Literature (National Academy of Science, Ukraine), Festschrift for Viktor Kytasty (University of Kiev Press), Daniel Defoe: A Reference Guide( G.K. Hall), Recent Perspective on European Romanticism (Mellen) Lectura Dantis, Italica, The Milton Quarterly, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The German Quarterly, Forum italicum, Pacific Coast Philology, Poetry, The New Republic, Georgia Review, America, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Il giornale dei poeti (Italy), Prism International (Canada), and Gösteri (Turkey).
Professor Fleming’s attention is now equally divided among research and writing in the areas of literature, politics, and German Romantic and pre-Romantic landscape painting (Friedrich, Overbeck, and Koch) that he combines in his manuscript in progress on gender, politics, and race. He is at work upon another book of his own poetry and an English translation of the late poetry of the modern Italian poet Diego Valeri. |
