Visiting Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Boston College)
Degrees: A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Medieval French Literature, especially 12th and 13th c. Romance, Verse and Prose Narrative, Troubadour and Trouvère Lyric
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Major Publications:
Songs of the Women Troubadours, ed. and tr. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White. New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995 (revised paperback edition 2000).
Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
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Major Publications:
Songs of the Women Troubadours, ed. and tr. Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White. New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1995 (revised paperback edition 2000).
Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Articles:
“LeFresne’s Model for Twinning in the Lais of Marie de France.” Modern Language Notes 121 (2006): 946-06.
Arthur in the Narrative Lay” in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, IV The Arthur of the French, ed. Glyn Burgess and Karen Pratt. Cardiff: The Vinaver Trust and the University of Wales Press, 2006. 186-214 (co-authored with Glyn Burgess; my section is on Marie de France’s Lais, 187-98, 206-8).
Clever Foxes, Fierce Lions, Diabolical Dragons: Animals Tell Tales in Medieval Arts and Letters." In Secular / Sacred, 11th – 16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ed. Nancy Netzer. Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2006. 19-42.
Marie de France,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Authorial Relays: Continuing Chrétien’s Conte du Graal.” The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature, ed. Virginie Greene. New York/Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 13-28.
The Miracle of Compound Interest, or Accounting Games in the Jeu de Saint Nicolas.” “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Réunis par Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont et Frank Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 39-55.
Chrétien de Troyes,” in Medieval Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Alamanda”(I: 15-16), “Azalais d’Altier” (I: 52-53), “Clara d’Anduza” (I: 193-94), “Lombarda” (II: 51-62), “Tibors” (II: 896-97). In Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ed. Katharina Wilson and Nadia Margolis. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
Redefining the Center: Prose and Verse Charrette.” In A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, ed. Carol Dover. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2003. 96-105.
Of Swords and Plowshares: Dislocations and Transformations in Chrétien’s Grail Story.” In Knight and Samurai: Actions and Images of Elite Warriors in Europe and East Asia, ed. Rosemarie Deist in collaboration with Harald Kleinschmidt. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik. Göppingen, Germany: Kümmerle, 2003. 31-45.
L'imaginaire du progrès dans les cycles romanesques du graal." In "Progrès, Réaction, Décadence dans L’Occident médiéval. Etudes recueillies par Emmanuèle Baumgartner et Laurence Harf-Lancner." Geneva: Droz, 2003. 111-21.
Looping the Loop Through a Tale of Beginnings, Middles & Ends: from Chrétien to Gerbert in the Perceval Continuations." In "Por le soie amisté": Essays in Honor of Norris Lacy, ed. Keith Busby & Catherine M. Jones. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 33-51.
The Shape of Romance." In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, ed. Roberta Krueger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 13-28.
Courses offered 2007-08:
French 111. Violence: Medieval French Responses (fall term)
French 115. Animals, Monsters and the Medieval Imagination (spring term)
For more information, go to the Harvard course catalogue.
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