John H. R. Polt. Curriculum Vitae

John H. R. Polt

Professor of Spanish, Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley

ADDRESS

33 Bowling Drive, Oakland, California 94618-1707

EDUCATION

Princeton University

A.B., Public and International Affairs, 1949

University of California, Berkeley

M.A., Spanish, 1950

Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literature, 1956

EMPLOYMENT

University of California, Berkeley, 1956-1992

Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor of Spanish;
Chairman, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 1974-78;
Acting Director, Language Laboratory, Summer 1979

University of California Study Center, Madrid

Associate Director, 1964-65; Director, 1968-70

University of California, Santa Barbara

Visiting Associate Professor of Spanish, 1965-66

California State University, Hayward

Lecturer in Spanish, July-September 1972

University of Oviedo, Spain

Visiting Professor of Spanish, July 1973, July 1994

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Dieciocho

HONORS AND AWARDS

A.B. magna cum laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honorary Society)

Pi Delta Phi (French Honorary Society)

James Sutton Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1950-51

Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1960

Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1973

Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1974

Humanities Research Fellow, U.C. Berkeley, 1978-79, 1985

Charter member by invitation, Instituto Feijoo de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, Oviedo

Member by invitation, Centro di Studi sul Settecento Spagnolo, Bologna

Member by invitation, Patronato de la Fundación Foro Jovellanos del Principado de Asturias