Curriculum vitae
Name: Peter A. Fiore, OFM
Personal: Birth, Sept. 8, 1927
Address: Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y. 12211 (518-783-4183)
54 Walnut St. Glens Falls, NY 12801 (cell - 518-260-5303)
Degrees: AB, (English) Siena College, 1949
MA, (English) The Catholic University of America, 1955
Ph.D, (English) University College, London University, 1961
Teaching: Siena College, 1956-58, Instructor
Siena College, 1961-66, Assistant Professor
Siena College, 1966-71, Associate Professor
Siena College, 1971-85 Professor
London University, Summers, Visiting Lecturer.
Courses:
Freshman Composition and Rhetoric
Oral Communication
Survey of English Literature
Milton
The Short Story
Seventeenth Century Literature
Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot
Honors Seminars:
Prose Analysis
Poetic Analysis
Great Books Seminar
Divine Comedy Seminar
Paradise Lost Seminar
Literature and Theology
Administrative:
Chairman, English Department, 1962-67, Siena College
Chairman, Curriculum Committee, 1964-69, Siena College
Dean, School of Liberal Arts, 1966-71, Siena College
Chairman, English Department, 1975-1985, Siena College
Professional:
Parochial Vicar, St. Mary's Church, Glens Falls, NY, 1987-Dec. 90.
Provincial Director of Communications, 1991-1996.
Communication/Marketing. Siena College, 1996-2002.
Weekend Assistant, St. Mary's Church, Ballston Spa, N.Y., Present.
Scholar in Residence, Siena College, Present.
Professional Organizations:
Milton Society of America
Modern Language Association
College English Association
National Collegiate Honors Association
Albany League of Arts
Grants: Glens Falls Foundation Research Grant, 1970
British Museum Research Grant, London, 1971
Glens Falls Foundation Research Grant, 1973
Listings: Directory of American Scholars
Outstanding Educators of America
American Authors Today
The World's Who's Who of Authors
Who's Who in America
Military: Veteran World War II
American Legion, Post 0233, Honorary Life Member
Marine Corp League, Det. #2
Other: Delta Epsilom Sigma Honor Society, Beta Psi Chapter, President
Research in libraries of Florence, Rome, and Naples, Italy
Editor, Greyfriar: Siena Studies in Literature
American Association of University Professors
Education Committee for Saratoga Performing Arts Center, 1965
Lake George Opera Festival Association
Metropolitan Opera Guild
Irish Repertory Theatre
Americans for the Arts
Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, 1974-75
The Milton Seminar: one of 20 Miltonists participating in bi-annual
meetings to study and evaluate Milton research and scholarship.
See listing below.
Board of Trustees, Siena College, 1993-6
English Speaking Conference Communications Directors, President,
1992-6
References: (Issued upon request: Siena College Placement Bureau)
William Empson, University of Sheffield
Arthur Brown, University College, London University
Rosalie Colie, Brown University
Merritt Y. Hughes, University of Wisconsin
Edward Le Comte, State University of New York at Albany
John T. Shawcross, CUNY, Graduate Center (University of Kentucky)
Robert Danzig, Publisher, The Hearst Corporation
Additional References: (who will comment if contacted personally)
John M. Steadman, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery
William B. Hunter, Jr. University of Houston
Licia Albanese, Metropolitan Opera, retired
Maureen Stapleton, Actress
Archbishop Harry Flynn, 226 Summit Ave., St. Paul, Minnesota. 55102
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Th'Upright Heart and Pure Editor
Essays on John Milton Commemorating the Tercentenary
of the Publication of Paradise Lost.
(Contributors: Merritt Y. Hughes, William B. Hunter, Jr., Maurice
Kelley, Edward Le Comte, B. Rajan, John T. Shawcross, Wayne Shumaker,
John M. Steadman, Kester Svendsen, Robert West.
B.A., Wright)
Duquesne University Press, 1967
Just So Much Honor Author-editor
Essays Commemorating the Four-Hundredth Anniversary
of the Birth of John Donne.
(Contributors: Peter A. Fiore, Geoffrey Bullough, Rosalie Colie,
Davis Daiches, William Empson, Edward Le Comte, David Novarr,
Josephine Miles, Wesley Milgate, Roger Sharrock, John T. Shawcross)
Penn State University Press, 1972
Milton and Augustine. Patterns of Augustinian Thought in Paradise Lost.
Penn State University Press, 1981
Personal Journeys. Classic Writers for a New Century.
(Essays on Dante, Donne, Milton, Hopkins, Waugh, Flannery O'Connor)
Writer's Showcase for Writer's Digest Press, 2001
More Personal Journeys.
(Essays on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Augustine, Newman, Chesterton, Greene)
XLibris Press, 2005.
Articles:
"The Problem of 17th Century Soteriology in Reference to Milton,"
Franciscan Studies, 1955.
"A Note on Milton's Critics,"
Franciscan Studies, 1958.
"The Problem of Milton's 'Satanic Fallacy' in Contemporary Criticism,"
A Christian Approach to Western Literature, Newman Press, 1961.
(Other scholars represented in this volume are: Ronald Knox, G.K.
Chesterton, Michael Tierney, Denis de Rougemont, Gerald G. Walsh,
S.J., Christopher Dawson, Martin Jarrett-Kerr, C.R., C.J. McNaspy,
S.J., others)
"Dante: Poet of Divine Love" 1965
"Milton: Poet of Salvation" 1967
"John Donne: Sinner to Ascetic," 1972
"Manzoni: Novelist and Christian Liberator," 1973
"G.K. Chesterton: Christian Apologist," 1975
"Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit Poet-Priest,"1988
Essays in The Evangelist, Official Publication of the Diocese of
Albany.
"Hopkins' Relation to the Deutschland Nuns,"
Renascence, Fall, 1965
"The Paradox of the Angelic Fall in Paradise Lost,"
Duquesne Review, Spring, 1966
"Le Comte's Grace to a Witty Sinner: A Biography of John Donne,"
review article for the Albany State University Press, 1966
"Freedom, Liability, and the State of Perfection in Paradise Lost,"
Milton Quarterly, Fall, 1971.
"Hopkins' Relation to the Deutschland Nuns,"
Renascence, reprint in the Twenty-fifth Anniversary issue, Summer 1973
(Other scholars represented in this issue are: Paul Claudel, Francois
Mauriac, W.H. Auden, H. Marshall McLuhan, Frank O'Malley, Victor M.
Hamm, Martin Turnell, Luc Estang, William K. Wimsatt, Jr., J. Robert
Barth, S.J., Samuel Hazo, John Pick)
"Milton and Kubrick: Eden's Apple or A Clockwork Orange,"
The CEA Critic, (The College English Association) 1973
"'Account Mee Man': The Incarnation in Paradise Lost,"
The Huntington Library Quarterly, November 1975.
"Milton and Ambrose,"
"Milton and Anselm,"
"Milton and Augustine,"
"Milton and Chrysostom,"
"Milton and Gregory of Nyssa,"
"Milton and Jerome,"
"Milton and Josephus,"
"Milton and Thomas Aquinas,"
Milton Encyclopedia, Bucknell University Press, 1979-81
"The Nativity Theme in 17th Century Minor Devotional Verse,"
Wascana Review, 1981
"Remembering Bart: Baseball Commissioner knew, lived the Rules."
The Post Star, Oct. 8, 1989
"Dante: The Beatrician Journey,"
Friar Lines, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1992.
"Evelyn Waugh and the Dance of Decay,"
Friar Lines, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1993.
"John Donne: Journey of a Witty Sinner,"
Friar Lines, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1994.
Works In Progress
Gospel Themes as Reflected in Great Literature (book)
LECTURES, CONFERENCES, ADDRESSES
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Franciscan Connection.
Lecture. The Challenor Club. London. Fall. 1960
Inter-institutional Cooperation in College Honors Programs.
Address. Honors Conference, Iona College, Spring. 1965.
Cooperation Between Community Colleges and the Four Year Liberal Arts
Institution.
Keynote Address. Conference of Academic Deans of New York
State Community Colleges. State University of New York at Albany. Spring,
1968.
Milton as Philosophical Poet.
Lecture. Philosophy Lecture Series. College of St. Rose, Fall, 1970.
From Sinner to Ascetic: The Conversion of John Donne.
Lecture. The Uniterian Lecture Series. First Unitarian Church, Glens Falls,
1971.
Milton and Kubrick: Eden's Apple or a Clockwork Orange.
Lecture. Faculty Lecture Series. State University of New York at Oneonta.
Spring, 1972.
The John Donne Love Lyric: a Reconsideration.
Lecture. Faculty Lecture Series. Queen Mary College, London University.
London, England. June 1973.
Tillyard's Contribution to Milton Scholarship.
Address delivered before the Milton Seminar. Egremont, Mass. October
1977.
Humanistic Values and the Professional Teacher.
Keynote Address. Superintendant's Day. Washington County: Hudson Falls
Central School System. March, 1978.
The Crisis of Writing: The High School Student and the College Freshman.
Panel Discussion. Superintendant's Day. South Glens Falls Central
School System. September, 1978.
The Mission of the Teacher-Administrator in the 1980's.
Keynote Address. Superintendant's Day. Catholic School System of the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia. February, 1979.
MEMBERS OF THE MILTON SEMINAR
Joan Bennett (University of Delaware)
Norman Burns (SUNY Binghamton)
Stuart Curran (University of Pennsylvania)
John Demaray (Rutgers University-Newark)
Mario De Cesare (SUNY Binghamton)
Scott Elledge (Cornell University)*
Peter Fiore (Siena College)*
A. Bartlett Giamatti (Yale University - Baseball Commissioner)*
Thomas Greene (Yale University)
John Halkett (Syracuse University)
Lawrence Hyman (Brooklyn College)*
Lee Jacobus (University of Connecticut)
W.W. Kerrigan (U. Mass at Amherst)
Thomas Kranidas (SUNY Stony Brook)
Edward Le Comte (SUNY Albany)
Barbara Lewalski (Harvard University)
Anthony Low (New York University)
Louis Martz (Yale University)*
Diane McColly (Rutgers University-Camden)
Earl Miner (Princeton University)
John Mulder (Drew University)
Annabel Patterson (Duke University)
Mary Ann Radzinowicz (Cornell University)
Jason Rosenblatt (Georgetown University)
John Shawcross (University of Kentucky)
Joseph Summers (University of Rochester)*
Kathleen Swaim (U Mass at Amherst)
Edward Tayler (Columbia University)
Joseph Wittreich (CUNY - Graduate School)
Suzanne Wood (Brown University)
