CURRICULUM VITAE

1992-2000

Ph.D. in French Literature (2000)
University of Oklahoma, Norman
Dr. Keith Busby, Dissertation Director

1989-1992

M.A. in French Language and Literature (1992)
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Dr. Rupert T. Pickens, Advisor

1978-1982

B.A. in French (1982), Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky

2007-present

Associate Professor of French, University of Oklahoma

2001-2007

Assistant Professor of French, University of Oklahoma

2000-2001

Visiting Assistant Professor of French, University of Oklahoma

Primary

Medieval French literature: lai, romance, fable, fabliaux, chanson de geste, Arthurian texts
Authors: Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France

Secondary

Dante, troubadours, bestiary, manuscripts, text and image, rhetorical memory

  Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2008. 

A Companion to Marie de France. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2009.

“Li premerains vers”: Essays in Honor of Keith Busby. Ed. Catherine M. Jones and Logan E. Whalen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, forthcoming 2009.

  “De sens rassis”: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens. Ed. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot, and Logan E. Whalen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 

“Illuminating Morality in the Manuscripts of Marie de France’s Isopet.” In The Social Life of Illumination. Ed. Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn Smith. Turnout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming.

“Rhetorical Discourse in the Prologues and Epilogues to the Works of Marie de France.” In A Companion to Marie de France. Ed. Logan E. Whalen. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2009.

“The Fables and Fabliaux in Paris, BnF fr. 2173.” In “Li premerains vers: Essays in Honor of Keith Busby. Ed. Catherine M. Jones and Logan E. Whalen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, forthcoming 2009.

“The ‘Lai de Joie’ as Intertext in Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide.” In Essays in Honor of …. Ed. …. (Forthcoming)

“Modern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux.” In Laughing Matters: Essays on the Old French Fabliaux. Ed. Kristin Burr, Norris J. Lacy, and John Moran. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2007. 147-59.

“Ex libris Mariae: Courtly Book Iconography in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Marie de France.” In Courtly Arts and the Art of Courtliness. Ed. Keith Busby and Christopher Kleinhenz. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2006.

“Marie de France and the Ancients.” In “De sens rassis”: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens. Ed. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot, and Logan E. Whalen. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 719-28.

“A Knight in Hell: The Poetics of Memory for Clerical and Courtly Worlds in Marie de France’s Espurgatoire Saint Patrice.” In Courtly Literature and Clerical Culture. Ed. Christoph Huber and Henrike Lähnemann. Tübingen: Attempto, 2002. 19-27.

"A Medieval Book-Burning: Objet d'art as Narrative Device in the lai of Guigemar." Neophilologus 80 (1996): 205-11.

“Nef (magique).” In Dictionnaire des pays mythiques. Ed. Olivier Battistini, Jean-Dominique Poli, and Jean-Jacques Vincensini. Paris: Bouquins, Editions Robert Laffont, forthcoming.

French citation translations for Pamela A. Genova. Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence. London: Ashgate Press, 2002.

Doubrovsky, Serge. “Autobiography/Truth/Psychoanalysis.” Trans. Logan E. Whalen and John Ireland. Genre 26.1 (1993): 27-42.

Marie de France: An Analytical Bibliography, Supplement no. 3. Glyn S. Burgess. Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series 8. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis, 2007. Forthcoming in Encomia.

Enfances arthuriennes: Actes du 2^e colloque arthurien de Rennes, 6-7 mars 2003. Ed. Denis Hüe and Christine Ferlampin-Acher. Orléans: Paradigme, 2006. Forthcoming in Revue critique de philologie romane.

Performing Medieval Narrative. Ed. Evelyn Vitz, Nancy Regalado, and Marilyn Lawrence. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. Forthcoming in The French Review.

Doon and Tyolet. Two Old French Narrative Lays. Eds. and trans. Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook. Liverpool: Liverpool Online Series, U of Liverpool, 2005. French Studies 61.3 (2007): 354-55.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance. Ed. Roberta L. Krueger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. Romance Philology 57 (2006): 207-10.

Le roman de Gliglois. Ed. Marie-Luce Chênerie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003. Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 83 (2005): 1015.

Fables, by Eude de Cheriton. Ed. Pierre Ruelle. Paris: Champion Classiques, 1999. Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 83 (2005): 998-99.

The Anonymous Marie de France. R. Howard Bloch. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. The French Review 79.1 (2005): 153-54.

Le Conte de Floire et Blanchefleur. Robert d’Orbigny. Ed. Jean -Luc Leclanche. Paris: Champion Classiques, 2003. French Studies 58.3 (2004): 393.

Echoes and Reflections: Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France. SunHee Kim Gertz. Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2003. The French Review 78.1 (2004): 145-46.

Morceaux de ciel, presque rien. Claude Esteban. Paris: Gallimard, 2001. World Literature Today 76.2 (2002): 180.

The Enchantment of the Middle Ages. Michel Zink. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998. Speculum 76.4 (2001): 1128.

Cold Water Shielded: Selected Poems. Salah Stétié. Trans. Michael Bishop. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe Books Ltd. / Dufour Editions, 2000. World Literature Today 75.2 (2001): 357.

Basse continue. Jean-Christophe Bailly. Paris: Seuil, 2000. World Literature Today 74.4 (2000): 843.

Stances Perdues. Lost Quatrains. Alain Bosquet. Trans. Roger Little. Dublin: Dedalus, 1999. World Literature Today 74.2 (2000): 396.

La course. Jacques Réda. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1999. World Literature Today 74.1 (2000): 109-10.

Maintenant. Christian Hubin. Paris: José Corti, 1998. World Literature Today 73.4 (1999): 699-700.

Les Masques et le miroir. Robert Sabatier. Paris: Albin Michel, 1998. World Literature Today 73.2 (1999): 298.

“Marie de France et la hoge bretonne.” 22nd International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Rennes, France. July 15-20, 2008.

“La nef magique dans les textes arthuriens des XII^e et XIII^e siècles.” 22nd International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Rennes, France. July 15-20, 2008.

“Marginally Moralizing the Manuscripts of Marie de France’s Isopet.” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 8-11, 2008.

“Memory and the Rhetoric of Captatio Benevolentiae in the Vie seinte Audree.” The New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota, FL. March 6-8, 2008.

“‘De fables dire’: The Fables and Fabliaux in Paris, BnF fr. 2173.” 63rd Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. October 26-28, 2006.

“The Lai de Joie as Intertext in Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide.” 21st International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Utrecht, The Netherlands. July 24-31, 2005.

“‘What’s worse than a cat on your piano?’: Modern Dirty Jokes and the Old French Fabliaux.” 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 21-23, 2005.

“Ex libris Mariae: Courtly Book Iconography in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Marie de France.” 11th Triennial International Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Madison, WI. July 29-August 4, 2004.

“Marie de France’s Poetic Garden.” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 6-9, 2004.

“Memoria and the Case for Authorship of La vie seinte Audree.” 60th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs, AR. October 30 -November 1, 2003.

“Exotica and the Art of Memory in the Works of Marie de France.” 72nd Annual Convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, MD. November 15-17, 2002.

“Crossing Rhetorical Boundaries: Marie de France and the Artes Memorativae.” Southeastern Medieval Association. Tallahassee, FL. September 26-28, 2002.

“King Arthur and Henry II: Geography and Politics in Marie de France’s Lanval.” 20th International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Bangor, Wales. July 21-28, 2002.

“‘Ce di je por la gente vilaine’: Dysfunctional Peasant Families in the Fabliaux.” 55th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 18-20, 2002.

“Calling Her Witness to the Stand: Rhetorical Memory in Marie de France’s Prologues and Epilogues.” 117th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. December 29, 2001.

“‘Custume fu as anciens’: Marie de France and the Medieval Arts of Poetry and Prose.” 58th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Tulsa, OK. November 2, 2001.

“Rainouart’s Tinel and Frère Jean des Entommeures’s Cross: Epic Inspiration for Evangelical Parody.” Romance Epic in the Americas: A Meeting of the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch. Baltimore, MD. October 6, 2001.

“A Knight in Hell: Rhetorical Coordinates for Clerical and Courtly Worlds in Marie de France’s Espurgatoire Saint Patrice.” 10th Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Tuebingen, Germany. July 31, 2001.

“Marie de France, Courtly Physician: Women Who Heal in the Lais.” 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 5, 2001.

“From Inventio to Translation: A Consideration of lines 3-6 and 2297-2300 of Marie de France’s Espurgatoire Saint Patrice.” 16th Conference of the Medieval Association of the Midwest. Duluth, MN. October 7, 2000.

“A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Economy of Description in Marie de France’s Ysopet.” 53rd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 28, 2000.

“Memory, la Moralité, and the Manuscript Tradition of the Fables of Marie de France.” 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9, 1999.

“Description and the Architecture of Memory in the Lais of Marie de France.” 55th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. November 13, 1998.

“Equitan and the Fables of Marie de France.” 48th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 21, 1995.

“A Medieval Book-Burning: Objet d’art as Narrative Device in the lai of Guigemar.” 14th Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages & Literatures. Cincinnati, OH. May 12, 1994.

“Marie de France’s Poetics of Memory and the Rhetorical Tradition.” Invited lecture. Baylor University, Honors College. September 27, 2007.

“Reading Old French Aloud II.” Invited panel discussion speaker. 12th Triennial International Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. July 29–August 4, 2007.

“The Marie(s) of the Espurgatoire seint Patriz and the La vie seinte Audree: Some Rhetorical Considerations.” Invited lecture. The Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. November 8, 2005.

“Reading Old French Aloud.” Invited panel discussion speaker. 21st International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Utrecht, The Netherlands. July 24-31, 2005.

“Textus Surrogatus: Paleography and Medieval Manuscripts on the World Wide Web.” Invited lecture. University of Central Oklahoma Medieval Society.  Edmond, OK. February 1, 2002.

“Memory, la Moralité, and the Manuscript Tradition of the Fables of Marie de France.” The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Faculty Colloquia Series, University of Oklahoma. February 22, 2000.

“Ekphrasis and Narrative Technique in Marie de France’s Guigemar.” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma. April 7, 1994.

“France and the Flowering of the Arthurian Legend.” April 13, 2007. With assistance from the French Consulate (Houston, TX) and various units at the University of Oklahoma.

            Norris J. Lacy, Pennsylvania State University

            Joan Tasker Grimbert, Catholic University of America

            Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor University

            Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College

            Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison

            Richard Trachsler, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV

“French I: Linguistics and Literature to 1600.” 64th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, TN. November 1-3, 2007.

“Marie de France.” 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 10-13, 2007.

Three sessions in honor of Judith Rice Rothschild at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 4-7, 2006:

            “Marie de France: In Honor of Judith Rice Rothschild I”

            “Marie de France: In Honor of Judith Rice Rothschild II”

            “Oral Performance of the Lais of Marie de France:  In Honor of Judith Rice Rothschild”

“Saints and Lovers in Medieval France.” 59th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 20-22, 2006.

“International Courtly Literature Society.” 62nd Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Houston, TX. October 27-29, 2005.

“Arthurian Literature: Theme 3.” 21st International Congress of the International Arthurian Society. Utrecht, The Netherlands. Thursday, July 28, 2005.

“The Manuscript Tradition of the Works of Wace.” Wace Colloquium. Jersey, United Kingdom. September 10-12, 2004.

“The Breton Lais.” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 6-9, 2004.

“Text and Context: Medieval French Literature and it’s Medieval Audience.” 57th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 15-17, 2004.

“International Courtly Literature Society.” 60th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Hot Springs, AR. October 30-November 1, 2003.

“Political Uses of the Arthurian Legend.” 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 8-11, 2003.

Three sessions in honor of Rupert T. Pickens at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 8-11, 2003:

            “In Honor of Rupert T. Pickens I: Medieval French Romance”

            “In Honor of Rupert T. Pickens II: Romance Epic”

            “In Honor of Rupert T. Pickens III: Troubadour Poetry”

“Old French Literature Revisited.” 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2-5, 2002.

“Worldly Concerns in Marie de France.” 55th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. Lexington, KY. April 18-20, 2002.

“The Romance Epic II.” 177th Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. December 28, 2001.

“Gift Exchange in Courtly Literature.” 58th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. Tulsa, OK. November 1, 2001.

“French I: Linguistics and Literature to 1600.” 57th Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. November 11, 2000.

“Hagiography.” 18th Conference of the Mid-America Medieval Association. Norman, OK. February 26, 1994.

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Beginning French

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Beginning French (continued)

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French Review

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Intermediate French

FR 2223

Intermediate French (continued)

FR 2133

French Conversation and Culture

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French Conversation and Literature

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Advanced French Conversation and Phonetics

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Advanced French Composition

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Business French

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French for the Professions

FR 3853

Introduction to Literary Analysis

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Survey of French Literature to 1800

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French Civilization II

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Introduction to Old French (graduate)

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Problems in Research (graduate)

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Arthurian Legend and Literature

University of Oklahoma Good Teaching Award (spring 2007)

University of Oklahoma Cecil W. Woods Award for Excellence in Teaching (spring 2003)

University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Research Grant (summer 2002, summer 2004, summer 2006)

University of Oklahoma Faculty Travel Assistance Grant (summer 2001, summer 2004, summer 2005)

University of Oklahoma Faculty Enrichment Grant (fall 2001, spring 2002, fall 2002, fall 2003, spring 2004, spring 2005, spring 2006, spring 2007)