Curriculum Vitae
Higher Education and Degrees
1966-72 University of California, Berkeley
Full-time Academic Employment
Professor of English, UW-Madison, 2001-2011
Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-2004
Assistant Professor 1976-84
Associate Professor 1984-95
Full Professor 1995-2003
Assistant Professor of English, Brandeis University, 1972-76
Visiting Associate Professor of English, UCLA, 1989
Teaching and Research Specialties
Old English and Middle English language and literature
Anglo-Saxon England
Comparative medieval literature (esp. English, Old Norse, Celtic, and Old French)
Theory of folklore, mythology, and oral literature
The ballad; the epic; the folktale; Scottish tradition
Chief Awards and Fellowships
Phi Beta Kappa (1967)
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (honorary, 1967-68)
NEH Translation Grant (1980)
Howard Foundation Fellowship (1982-83)
University of California Humanities Research Fellowships (1980, 1987, 1997)
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (1997-98)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison (2004-09)
Elected to WARF Professorship, 2007 (as Frederic G. Cassidy Professsor of Humanities).
Professional Affiliations
International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, (President, 2010-12)
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association of America
American Folklore Society
Western States Folklore Society
jdniles@wisc.edu
Updated: April 2019