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Virginie Greene

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Director of Undergraduate Studies (spring term 2008-2009)

  
Academic Background: Licence, Maîtrise,Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Virginie Greene is the author of Le sujet et la mort dans La Mort Artu (Saint-Genouph: Nizet, 2002), editor of The Medieval Author: Essays in Medieval French Literature (Palgrave McMillan, 2006); and Le Débat sur le Roman de la Rose (Paris: Champion, 2006).
Research interests: French Medieval Literature; Proust and His Times; Time, Death and Subjectivity; Images and Texts (illuminated manuscripts); Literature and Logic.
Courses offered 2008-2009:

  • French 100. History of the French Language (spring)
  • French 102: Introduction to Medieval Literature and Old French (fall)
  • Romance Studies 120. Emergence of the Lyric Subject in Early Romance Poetry (12th-16th Centuries) ] (co-taught with Mary M. Gaylord) (fall)
  • Literature and Arts A-47. The Perfect Tale: The Art of Storytelling in Medieval France (spring)
  • Professor Greene is spring term Course Head for Romance Studies 91r. Supervised Reading and Research; Romance Studies 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year; Romance Studies 98. Tutorial-Junior Year; and Romance Studies 99. Tutorial-Senior Year

    Other courses offered:

  • [ French 70a. Introduction to French Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Modernity ]
  • [ French 112. From the Troubadour to the “Grand Rhétoriqueur”: Lyric Poetry in Medieval France (12th to 15th Century) ]
  • [ French 213. In Search of a Medieval Subject ]

    For more information go to the Harvard course catalogue.

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    Last updated on July 8, 2008