Assistant Professor in French
Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Also: Visiting Academic
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Research Interests:
• Medieval French, Occitan, and comparative literature: 11th-14th c. lyric and narrative poetry (romans, lais, novas, dits, fabliaux) and poetics.
• Literary debates: i.e. discussion about literature, and discussion in literature. Reading and the “history of the imagination,” as part of intellectual and literary history.
• Digital humanities (e.g. this present Forum designed, built, and maintained [2007-09] by my fair hand). Meta-literary history. Philologies old and new.
See current research webpage for further details.
Selected Publications:
• Translation of Gustave de Beaumont, Letters from Cannes (to Clémentine de Beaumont; Spring 1859). For a monograph by Andreas Hess (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U P, 2009/10 – under review).
• “Reading (and) Courtly Love in Flamenca, via the Charrette Project.” In Dame Philology’s Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien’s Lancelot (Essays in Memory of Karl D. Uitti), ed. Gina Greco and Ellen Thorington. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, Arizona State U P, 2009.
• “Making Sense of a Lacuna in the Romance of Flamenca.” TENSO – Bulletin of the Société Guilhem IX 20.2 (2005): 1-25.
• The Princeton Charrette Project
◦ 2002-03: co-ordinator, proofreader, and editor: grammatico-lexical database
◦ 2002: text markup, data entry, proofreading, and editing: adnominatio database
◦ 2000-01: text markup and data entry: grammatico-lexical database
Funded Projects:
PhD: Trobar Cor(s): Erotics and Poetics in Flamenca (2006).
Funding: Princeton University full scholarship and fellowship funding, Armstrong-Foulet Fund, Hyde Fellowship Fund, and the Mellon Foundation (2000-05).
Area of specialisation: Medieval French and Occitan poetry. Mainly 12th – 13th c.; and mainly romance, other verse narrative, lyric poetry, and poetics and grammar treatises.
General field: Medieval and Renaissance French literature.
The Princeton Charrette Project (ran 1990-2003): comprising digitisation, transcription, and edition; and multimedia databases; on Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la Charrette; under the direction of the late Karl D. Uitti.
Funding: Princeton University (and their Dept. of French & Italian, OIT, and ETC), Armstrong-Foulet Fund, Fulbright Program, Florence Gould Foundation.
Current Teaching:
2009-10
• UBC
◦ Advanced Studies in French Literature from 1000 to 1700 (term 1)
◦ Selected Topics in French Literature and Culture: Éducations sentimentales – Perceptions masculines du féminin dans la littérature française des 18e et 19e siècles (term 1)
◦ Contemporary French language and literature (term 2)
◦ Medieval to Early Modern Romance Literature and Culture: Adventures (term 2)
2008-09
• UCD Stage 1 and 2 French language (Semesters 1 and 2)
• UCD Stage 2 French literature courses:
◦ Enlightenment (Semester 1: with Dr Síofra Pierse);
◦ Early Modern (Semester 2)
• TCD, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies:
◦ “Reading Medieval French Literature through Tristan et Iseult“: Old French reading group / Old French for reading purposes. A.k.a. The Joys of Old French. (Hilary and Trinity terms)
2007-08
• TCD, CMRS:
“Joys, Jewels, and Japery”: Old French reading and translation class, mainly for beginners; open to all with a basic reading knowledge of modern French (Hilary and Trinity terms).
Texts: Fabliaux – Roman de Renart – Marie de France, Lais – Roman de la Rose
• TCD, CMRS / M.Phil. in Medieval Language, Literature, and Culture:
Medieval French session of “Wild Women,” a course on medieval women’s writing/women and writing with modules in various western European vernaculars (Hilary term).
Texts: from the Séquence de Sainte Eulalie and Chanson de Sainte Foy, to Jean d’Arras’ Mélusine and Christine de Pisan’s Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc.
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