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Kimberlee Campbell

Professor of the Practice of Romance Languages and Literatures (Director of Language Programs in Romance Languages and Literatures)

  • Office: Boylston 435
  • Office hours fall 2008: to be announced.
  • Phone: 617-495-2524
  • Fax: 617-496-4682
  • E-mail: kcampbel@fas.harvard.edu

Degrees: B.A., Alma College; M.A., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., New York University


Major Interests: Second Language Acquisition; Computer-based Learning; French and Spanish Medieval Epic Literature.
Selected Works: Échos: Cultural Perspectives for Students of Beginning French (Yale University Press, 2003); "Cyclical Temporality and Ritual Renewal in Hervis de Metz," Transtextualities (1996); "Crusade and Bourgeois in Hervis de Metz," Aspects de l'épopée romane (1995); "The Reiterated Self: Ritual Renewal and Narrative Cycles," Cyclification: The Development of Narrative Cycles in the Chansons de Geste and the Arthurian Romances, ed. with Bart Besamusca et al. (North-Holland, 1994); "Fighting Back: A Survey of Patterns of Female Aggressiveness in the Old French Chanson de geste," Acts of the 1991 Congress of the Société Rencesvals (1993); "Of Horse-Fish and Frozen Words," Renaissance and Reformation 14 (1990); The Protean Text: A Study of Versions of the Medieval French Legend of Doon and Olive (Garland Publishing, 1988); "The Renaissance Reader and Popular Medievalism in France," Studies in Medievalism 3 (1987).

Courses taught 2008-09:

  • Romance Languages 200. Theory and Practice of Language Teaching (fall term)

    Other courses taught:

  • [Romance Studies 82. The Middle Ages at the Movies]

    For more information go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.


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    Last updated on June 4, 2008