Education

• B.A. , Bowdoin College
• M.A. , Tulane University
• Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 6/1979



Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

• Asst/Assoc/Full Professor, Univ. of Southern California, 1982-2011  
• Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, 01/01/1981-01/01/1982  
• Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Classics, University of South Dakota, 01/01/1979-01/01/1980  



Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Dane studies medieval literature, bibliography and the history of printing. His books include What is a Book? The Study of Early Printed Books (Notre Dame, 2012); Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture (U. Penn., 2011); Abstractions of Evidence in the Study of Early Books and Manuscripts (Ashgate, 2009); The Long and the Short of It: Guide to European Versification Systems (Notre Dame, 2009); The Myth of Print Culture (UToronto, 2003); Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb? (Mich. St. UP, 1998); The Critical Mythology of Irony (Georgia, 1990), and Dogfish Memory: A Memoir (Countryman Press/W. W. Norton, 2011). His articles appear in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Studies in Bibliography, The Library, Huntington Library Quarterly, Gutenberg Jahrbuch, and Modern Language Review.




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