Published:
“Meadowlark.” Broadside No. 33 [Clamshell Press, Santa Rosa, California], 1991.
“Before Dancing.” Concho River Review, 6, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), 106.
“The Search for Lost Relations, Germany, July, 1986.” Catalyst Magazine, number 10 (Winter, 1992), 87.
“Mortars” and “Cellos.” The Galley Sail Review, Series 3, Issue 42 (Spring-Summer, 1993), 24-25.
“My Father's Ashes.” First place winner in the Adult Division. Arts Up!, The Yolo County Arts Council, April, 1994.
“Farmhouses.” Honorable Mention, Friends of the Sacramento Public Library, fall, 1994. Now to be published, in the grove, April, 2002.
“Gardenias.” Accepted by Poetalk.
“Camelias”. in the grove, April, 2002.
“Meadowlark.” Broadside No. 33 [Clamshell Press, Santa Rosa, California], 1991.
“Vernal Equinox.” Midwest Poetry Review (November, 2001), 15.
“My Mother's Dementia.” The Waterways Project, December, 2001.
“Habitation.” Accepted by Poetalk.
“Catchment.” Accepted by Poetry Motel.
“Landscape: The Sacramento Valley.” Tucumcari Literary Review, 108 (February, 2001), 16.
“Contra Costa County Line.” Poetalk (Winter 2000), 9.
“Emerson at Gettysburg.” Accepted by Kumquat Merengue.
“Marcus Smith's Friend Grows Old: The Tuscan Countryside, 1975.” Accepted by Poetalk.
“A Businessman's Love Poem.” The Sow's Ear Poetry Review Vol. IX, No. 3 (Fall, 2001), 20-21.
“Mortmain.” frissons.-disconcerting verse, 22 (Summer 2001).
“I-80.” Accepted by Caveat Lector.
“Were My Heart.” Winner of the Avalon Prize, 2001. In You and I: Verse of the Mirage (2001), 1.
“Degrees to Eastward, Degrees to Westward.” Midwest Poetry Review (November, 2001), 10.
“The Stuff of Tenderness.” Lilliput Review, #128 (2002).
“Aubade: Dawn Song” Creative Juices, August, 2002.
“Shooting the Santos.” Accepted by The 13th Warrior Review.
“Telephone Wires in the Country.” confrontation: The Literary Journal of Long Island University (2002).
“La Desaparecida.” 2nd-Place Winner, Janice Ferrell Poetry Prize, Nob Hill Branch, LPEN (San Francisco). Published in epicenter, 6 (2002), 10.
“Slaughterhouse.” Thorny Locust Vol. 10, No. 4 (2003).
“My Sister” Feelings of the Heart accepted for the February/May issue, 2004.
“Narcissa Peña Sweeps her Porch, Fourth and D Streets” Entering: The Davis Poetry Anthology, 2011, (Davis: 2011), 48.

PAPERS GIVEN (HUMANITIES)

“ `All that Proceeds from the Mouth of God': Piers Plowman, Scripture, and the Harrowing of Hell.” Delivered at the South Central Modern Languages Association convention, Houston, November 1, 1974.

“Shadow and Substance: Notes on the Protean Aspect of Patristic Typology.” Delivered at the Southeastern Medieval Association convention, Knoxville, March 8, 1975.

“Piers Plowman: Ritual Re-enactment and Reaffirmation in the Harrowing of Hell.” Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference, Kalamazoo, May 6, 1975.

“Allusions to the Passion and the Harrowing of Hell in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale.” Delivered at the Ohio Conference of Medieval Studies, Cleveland, October 16, 1975.

“Is there a Liturgical Drama.” Delivered at the Modern Languages Association convention, San Francisco, December 28, 1975.

“Selecting Types for the Harrowing of Hell: A Structural Analysis of Medieval Mythologiques.” Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference, Kalamazoo, May 4, 1976.

[with Thomas Ohlgren]. “Subject Indexing of Illuminated Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.” Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference, Kalamazoo, May 6, 1982.

“Rhetorical and Iconographic Transference: The Imperial AdventusCeremony and the Harrowing of Hell.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Seattle, February 18, 1984.

“Reconstructing the Descensus ad Inferos: The Homiletic Tradition.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Stanford, February 28, 1986.

“Semantic Clusters in Sixth-Century Easter Sermons.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Eugene, March 6, 1987.

“Meaningful Thesaurus Generation: An Experiment with Sixth-Century Texts.” Delivered at the International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Montgomery, July 11, 1987.

“The Descent into Hell: An Excursus into the Nature of Creeds.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Los Angeles, March 31, 1989.

“Ermeticism, Nature, and Society: The Case of St. Guthlac.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Davis, March 2, 1991.

“A Wolf Among the Hermits: The Irish Saints and their Lupine Relations.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Irvine, April 2, 1992.

“The Many Faces of Margaret: Early Saints' Legends of Pelagia the Harlot, Mary the Harlot, Reparata, Marina, Eugenia, and Apollinaria.” Delivered at the Conference on Women in the Middle Ages, Binghamton, October 17, 1992.

“Encompassing an Apocryphon: Establishing a Complete Narrative for the Descensus Christi ad Inferos.” Delivered at the Medieval Academy of America Conference, Tucson, April 1, 1993.

“Monk Versus Hermit in the Outer Islands: The Appearance of Paul the Hermit in the Voyage of Saint Brendan.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Seattle, March 5, 1994.

“Nutrition in the Desert: The Exemplary Case of Desert Ermeticism.” Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference, Kalamazoo, May 5, 1994.

“Origins and Reform in the Diet of Irish Hermits: From Egyptian Sod to Soggy Bog.” Delivered at the Medieval Institute conference, Kalamazoo, May 6, 1995.

“Activa aut contemplativa: Narrative Extremes in the Vitae Patrum Testimonies.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, San Diego, March 15, 1996.

“Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity: The Roman Imperial Adventus Ceremony and the Christian Myth of the Harrowing of Hell.” Delivered at the University of California Medieval History Seminar, The Huntington Library, October 8, 1997.

“Margery Kempe and the Case of the Reappearing Hermit.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Victoria, February 27, 2000.

“Nature and Medieval Ireland.” Presented at the Irish Studies Colloquium, University of California, Davis, March 16, 2000.

“The Usual Supplements: The Household Book of Dame Alice de Bryene Michaelmas, 1412-Michaelmas, 1413.” Delivered for the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, San Diego, March 23, 2002.

“Seeking a Desert Where None Can Be Found: Paradigmatic Antecedents to Hermits and Hermiticism in Fifteenth-Century England.” Delivered at the University of California Medieval History Seminar, The Huntington Library, November 2, 2002.

“The Virgin as the Empress of Hell.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Portland, Oregon, March 28, 2003.

“Helena, the Finding of the True Cross, and those Mysterious Rabbits of Plimpton MS 40B.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, San Francisco, California, March 12, 2005.

“Irish Abbots, Irish Hermits: The Curious Leadership Style of Abbots in the First Centuries of Irish Monasticism.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 3, 2006.

“Egyptian and Celtic Influences in Bede's Account of Saint Cuthbert.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Los Angeles, March 2, 2007.

“St. Fiacre and his Horticultural Life.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Albuquerque, March 6, 2009.

“Aelred of Rievaulx's Life of Saint Edward, King and Confessor And the Seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Tacoma, March 6, 2010.

“You Are What Eats for You: Bacterial Flora and Insoluble Fiber in Medieval Diets” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference Santa Clara, March 31, 2012.

“The Venetian Grosso of Enrico Dandolo: Recent Investigations into the First Pure Silver Coinage in Medieval Europe” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference Santa Diego, March 23, 2013.

“X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and a Range of Medieval Coinage: Insights and Surprises” Given at the University of California Medieval Seminar, the Huntington Museum, May 4, 2013.

“The Combined Cult of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Margaret of Antioch: Contrast and Complementarity” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference Santa Diego, April 11, 2015.

i“Whither Somnos: Problems with Describing Medieval Sleep Patterns In Light of Recent Anthropological Research” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference Davis, April 2, 2016.

PAPERS GIVEN (COMPUTERS)

“Image Access.” Delivered at the Conference on Technological Aids to Medieval Studies, Davis, May 18, 1985.

“Computer Literacy: Quagmire or Morass?” Delivered at the Modern Languages Association convention, Chicago, December 29, 1985.

“The Concept of Computer Literacy.” Delivered at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, July 5, 1986.

“Preparing Periodicals for the Electronic Submission of Articles: A Feasibility Study.” Delivered at the Eighth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Columbia, April 10, 1987.

“Computer Applications in Medieval Studies.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Los Angeles, April 1, 1989.

“The Challenge of Image Access.” Delivered at the symposium, The Humanities: Scholarship, Communication, and Libraries, Sacramento, March 29, 1990.

“Computer Aids to Research in (and out of) the Renaissance.” Delivered at the Northern California Renaissance conference, Davis, May 5, 1990.

“Educational Reasons for Teaching the Internet: A Faculty Perspective.” Delivered at the Convention of the American Library Association, CLS/BIS Conference Program, Miami Beach, June 27, 1994.

“The Internet as an Aid in Teaching Medieval Studies.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Berkeley, March 7, 1995.

[with Carol Everest and Caroline Falner]. “Translation Project for Vincent of Beauvais' Speculum Naturale.” Delivered at the Association for Computers and the Humanities/the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing joint international conference, Santa Barbara, July 15, 1995.

[with Glenn Peter Luft]. “Reconstructing Hadrian's Wall: A Web-Based 3-D Multimedia Project.” Delivered at the Medieval Association of the Pacific conference, Honolulu, March 14, 1997.

“Reconstructing Hadrian's Wall: A Web-Based 3-D Multimedia Project.” Poster/demonstration at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education conference, Calgary, June 17, 1997.

[with Maureen Coulson]. “THE ARBOR: A Center for Teaching and Technology at the University of California, Davis.” Delivered at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education conference, Seattle, June, 1999.

EDUCATION:

University of California, Davis. Ph.D., 1972 (English)
University of Bristol, England. 1968-69 (Drama)
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. M.A., 1967 (English)
Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. B.A., 1965 (English)

EDITING EXPERIENCE:

Between 1978 and 1991, I served as Managing Editor for twenty-eight books and one journal. In 1981, I undertook complete responsibility for the publication of James J. Murphy's A Short Title Catalogue of Renaissance Rhetoric (Garland). The other titles are: Davis Medieval Texts and Studies [E.J. Brill]:

Gerald of Wales, The Jewel of the Church (John Hagen);
The Craft of Crétien de Troyes (Norris Lacy);
The Romance of Hunbaut (Margaret Winters);
Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine (Henry Ansgar Kelly);
The Ars Componendi Sermones of Ranuph Higden, O.S.B. (Margaret Jennings);
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: The Ethics of Authorial Stance. (Katharina M. Wilson);
Epistolography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Catalogue of Manuscripts of the Ars dictaminis in East European Libraries (Emil Polak);
Between Two Armies: The Place of the Duel in Epic Culture (Victor Morris Udwin).

Literary Evaluation (Karl Menges, Daniel Laferriere) [Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart];
Späthumanismus in Schlesien (Manfred Fleischer) [Delp];
A Biographical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Rhetoricians (Ann Gunion) [Greenwood];
Peter Ramus's Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintillian (Carole Newlands, James Murphy) [Northern Illinois Press];
A Bibliography of Publications . . . on Grapes, Wines (Maynard Amerine, Herman Phaff) [UC Press];
The Non-verbal Graffiti, Dipinti, and Stamps. Gordion Special Studies 1 (Lynn Roller) [U Pennsylvania Press];
Reader's Guide to China's Literary Gazette (Donald Gibbs) [U California Press];
A Bibliography of Medieval Rhetoric (James J. Murphy) [U Toronto Press];
Rhetorica, A Journal in the History of Rhetoric [UC Press];
A Harvest of Humanism: Studies in Honor of Lewis W. Spitz (ed. Manfred Fleischer) [Concordia];
Peter Ramus's Brutinae Quaestiones (Carole Newlands, James Murphy) [Hermagoras Press];
The Landmark Essay Series (8 Volumes completed) (James Murphy) [Hermagoras Press];
Representations of the Body in French Renaissance Poetry (Karen R. Sorsby) [Peter Lang].

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:

I have used and taught students, staff, and faculty to use UNIX editors, shells, and utilities; batch processors nroff/troff; programming languages awk, Perl and Javascript; markup languages postscript, SGML, and HTML; FileMaker Pro, Powerpoint, Omnipage and Photoshop software; I have experience in computer projects related to the humanities, involving concordances, information retrieval, and data-base management.

OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS:

WEB SITES:

The Arbor
http://arbor.ucdavis.edu
Medieval Studies Program
http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/
Local 2023, American Federation of Teachers
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~kroddy