James Parente

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

328F Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

Publications

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Tragoedia Politica: Strasbourg School Drama and the Early Modern State, 1583-1621. Parente, James, 1996.
Carnal Knowledge: Writing about Sex in Early Modern Germany. Parente, James, 1996.
The Theatricality of History in the Dutch Golden Age. London: Centre for Low Countries Studies, Parente, James, 1993.
Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500-1680. Leiden: Brill, Parente, James, 1987.
Parente, James. "Imagining the Dutch Golden Age in Anglo-American Fiction." From De Halve Maen to KLM: 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange (2008): 413-424.
Parente, James, Bloemendal, Jan. "The Humanist Tradition--Maria Stuart (1646)." Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age (2012): 341-358.
Parente, James, Schade, Richard, Schoolfield, George. Literary Culture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1555-1720. University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Activities

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Dean: College of Liberal Arts. 2008 - 2013
Interim Dean: College of Liberal Arts. 2007 - 2008
Editorial Advisory Board: Renaissance Quarterly. 2006 - 2009
Editorial Board: Studies in Dutch Language and Culture. 2006 - present
Executive Council: American Association for Netherlandic Studies. 2002 - 2005
Associate Dean: Faculty and Research, College of Liberal Arts. 2000 - 2007
Chair: Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch. 1998 - 2000
Acting Director: Institute of Linguistics, ESL, Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures. 1996 - 1997
President: Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature. 1990 - 1991
Executive Committee: MLA Division for German Literature before 1700. 1989 - 1993

German, Netherlandic, and Scandinavian drama
Renaissance Latin literature in the German Empire, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia
Medieval & early modern national identity: Germany and Netherlands

Awards

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Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 1989 - 1990
University Scholar, University of Illinois, 1989 - 1992
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1984 - 1985

Courses

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