Virginie Greene
CHAIR
Harvard College Professor and Professor of Romance Languages
and Literatures
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Academic Degrees: 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 in 2009-2010:
French 108. “Amours et armes”: A Study of Medieval Romances [spring term]
French 216. The Romance of the Rose and the Art of Debating - (New Course) [fall term]
Other Courses Offered:
[French 70a. Introduction to French Literature I: From the Middle Ages to Modernity]
[French 100. History of the French Language]
[French 102. Introduction to Medieval Literature and Old French]
[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]
[Literature and Arts A-47. The Perfect Tale: The Art of Storytelling in Medieval France]
[Romance Studies 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year]
[Romance Studies 98. Tutorial-Junior Year]
[Romance Studies 99. Tutorial-Senior Year]
[Romance Studies 120. Emergence of the Lyric Subject in Early Romance Poetry (12th-16th Centuries), co-taught with Mary M. Gaylord]
For more information go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 8, 2009
