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William Calin -- Curriculum Vitae Name: William Compaine Calin Born: April 4, 1936, at Newington, Connecticut Education: Yale College and Sweet Briar Junior Year in France, 1953-57. A.B. 1957.

Summa cum laude.

Yale Graduate School, 1957-1961. Ph.D. Fall 1960. Teaching Positions: Dartmouth College: Instructor 1960-62.

Assistant Professor 1962-63. Stanford University: Assistant Professor 1964-65. Associate Professor 1965-70. Professor 1970-73. University of Oregon: Professor 1973-88. Head, Department of Romance Languages 1976-78. Université de Poitiers: Visiting Professor 1982. Exchange Professor 1984. Whitman College: Edward Arnold Visiting Professor 1987. University of Florida: Graduate Research Professor 1988-- Florida Foundation Research Professor 1998-2001. Fields of Specialization:

Medieval Literature (epic, romance, allegory) French Poetry (Renaissance to the present) Franco-British Literary Relations, Middle Ages and Renaissance

Literature in Breton, Occitan, and lowland Scots Medievalism Criticism Professional Responsibilities and Offices:

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International Vice President, Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes (1993-2002). International Council (1981-84; 1989-93).

President, American Branch of the Société Internationale Rencesvals (1973-76). Vice President (1985-87) and President (1987-89), International Guillaume de Machaut Society. Executive Board (1996-99).

Conseil scientifique of the Centre International de l'Ecrit en Langue d'Oc (1996--). Executive Council (1978-82), Secretary (1980), and President (1981) of Medieval French Division, Modern Language Association. Executive Council (1986-90; 1998-2002), Secretary (1988, 2000), and President (1989,

2001) of the Provençal and Catalan Division, Modern Language Association. Executive Council (1989-95), Secretary (1989-90), and President (1990-91), International Courtly Literature Society Division, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Advisory Board, International Society for the Study of Medievalism, 2006.

Election to the American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, 1991. Oregon Representative, Institute for Renaissance Interdisciplinary Studies (1981-88).

Executive Council, Medieval Association of the Pacific (1975-78); Nominating Committee (1977-78); Chair, Program Committee (1986-87).

Governing Council, Western Society for French History (1981-84). Member, Oregon Foreign Language Council (state) (1980-88).

Task Force, Governor's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies, State of Oregon (1980-82).

Board of Directors, Association of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers (1977-79, 1983-84). Founding Member, Medieval Circle of Stanford. Editorial Board, Olifant Tenso Studies in Medievalism

Escrituras medievally speaking Guest Editor, special issue of L'Esprit Créateur devoted to “The Future of Old French Studies.”

Grants: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1957-60

Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 1963-64 ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1963-64 ACLS Grant-in-Aid 1968 American Philosophical Society 1970 Canada Federation in the Humanities Grant 1981 Fulbright Award 1982 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research 1984-85 NEH Summer Institute for Teaching of Literature and History 1985

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Fulbright Senior Research Grant, France and United Kingdom, 1987-88 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 1996-97

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Honors: Lilly Foundation Lecture, Whitman College 1978 Invitation to lecture at C.N.R.S. Colloquium, Rheims 1978 Lecture at the Collège de France 1980 Visiting Professor in French Literature, University of Poitiers 1982 Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge 1984-85; Life Member 1985-- Edward Arnold Visiting Professor, Whitman College 1987 Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, University of Maryland, April 1988

Interviewed by La Quinzaine littéraire (French literary magazine) concerning literature in Occitan and the Colloquium at Castries 1989 Distinguished Guest Speaker, University of Miami, November 1991 Interviewed on French television concerning the Bordeaux lectures and the Manciet Colloquium, November 1992 Elected “Sòci dóu Felibrige,” Honorary Membership in the historic Provençal literary

society, 1993 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 1997 Florida Foundation Research Professor, 1998-2001 Fellow, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2000 Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, 2004-05, 2008, 2009 A Festschrift volume, Cahier Calin, Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of William Calin. Eds. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery. Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011. First Brian Merrilees Memorial Lecture, Northrop Frye Centre, University of Toronto, 2015.

Prizes:

Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize, 1981, offered by the Institut Français de Washington, for A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France.

American Library Association Choice Award for one of The Outstanding Academic Books of 1984 for A Muse for Heroes.

American Library Association Choice Award for one of The Outstanding Academic Books of 1995 for The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England.

Public Lectures:

Stanford University; Foothill College 1965 Stanford University 1966 University of California, Santa Cruz 1969 Harvard University 1970 University of Oregon 1972 Whitman College 1978

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University of Virginia (two); Washington University; University of Texas; UCLA 1979

Collège de France; University of Bologna; University of Padua; Trier University; University of Connecticut 1980 University of Antwerp; University of London; Oxford University; University of Edinburgh; University of Poitiers 1982 University of Southern California 1983 University of Oregon Forum Lecture; Cambridge University 1984 Oxford University; Cambridge University; University of London (two); University of Saint Andrews; University of Reading; University of Warwick; University of Antwerp; Würzburg University 1985 University of California, Santa Barbara;

University of California, Los Angeles; University of British Columbia;

Simon Fraser University 1986 Whitman College (two); Washington State University 1987 University of Florida; Ohio State University; University of Maryland 1988 New York University; Fordham University; University of Miami; University of Florida Humanities Series 1991 University of Bordeaux; Whitman College; University of Oregon 1992 University of Kansas 1993 Harvard University; Hamilton College 1995 Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III); University of Edinburgh (three); Cambridge University 1997 University of Florida 2000 University of Georgia 2001 Arizona State University (two) 2002 University of Maryland 2004 University of Toronto (two) 2005 University of Florida 2006 Marquette University; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; 2009 University of Toronto

University of Toronto 2015

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Plenary Session/ Keynote Addresses: Société Internationale Rencesvals, Liège, 1976. Modern Literature Colloquium, West Virginia University, 1979. Société Internationale Rencesvals, Padua, 1982. International Courtly Literature Society, Utrecht, 1986. Colloque: Etudes Occitanes, Wégiment (Belgium), 1989. Colloque: Bernard Manciet, Bordeaux, 1992. International Conference on Medievalism, Leeds, 1994. Conference on Reading the Margins, University of Oregon, 1994. South Atlantic MLA, Atlanta, 1995. Conference on Women and Medieval Writing, University of Western Ontario, 2000. International Conference on Medievalism, Hope College (Michigan), 2000. South Atlantic MLA, Birmingham, 2000. Colloquium on Marie de France, King’s College (Ontario), 2005. Yale French Graduate Conference on Ethics and Literature, Yale University, 2012.

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Books

The Old French Epic of Revolt: “Raoul de Cambrai,” “Renaud de Montauban,” “Gormond et Isembard.” Geneva: Droz, 1962. 235 pp.

(with Michel Banamou) Aux Portes du Poème (anthology of 20th century verse). New York: Macmillan, 1964. 126 pp.

The Epic Quest: Studies in Four Old French “Chansons de Geste.” Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins Press, 1966. 271 pp. La Chanson de Roland. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. 183 pp.

A Poet at the Fountain: Essays on the Narrative Verse of Guillaume de Machaut. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. 264 pp.

Crown, Cross and Fleur-de-lis: An Essay on Pierre Le Moyne's Baroque Epic “Saint Louis.” Saratoga: Stanford French and Italian Studies, 1977. 77 pp.

A Muse for Heroes: Nine Centuries of the Epic in France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 514 pp. This book was awarded the Gilbert Chinard First Literary Prize

in 1981, and the American Library Association Choice Award for1984.

In Defense of French Poetry: An Essay in Revaluation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. 208 pp.

. The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England. Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 1994. 587 pp. Hardcover and paperback. This book won the American Library Association Choice Award for 1995.

Minority Literatures and Modernism: Scots, Breton, and Occitan, 1920-1990. Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2000. 399 pp. Hardcover and paperback..

The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics: From Spitzer to Frye. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. 267 pp. Hardcover and paperback.

The Lily and the Thistle: The French Tradition and the Older Literature of Scotland – Essays in Criticism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 217 pp.

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Articles “On the Chronology of Gautier d'Arras,” Modern Language Quarterly 20 (1959), 181-96. “Sur la composition de Gormond et Isembard,” Cultura Neolatina 21 (1961), 57-65. “Structure and Meaning in the Eracle by Gautier d'Arras,” Symposium 16 (1962), 275-87. “Structure and Doctrinal Unity in the Jeu d'Adam,” Neophilologus 46 (1962), 249-54. “Cain and Abel in the Mystère d'Adam,” Modern Language Review 58 (1963), 172-76. “Flower Imagery in Floire et Blancheflor,” French Studies 18 (1964), 103-11.

“Aspects of Realism in the Old French Epic: Aymeri de Narbonne,” Neophilologus 50 (1966), 33-43.

“The Woman and the City: Observations on the Structure of Aymeri de Narbonne,”

Romance Notes 8 (1966), 116-20. “Patterns of Imagery in Anouilh's Antigone,” French Review 41 (1967), 76-83.

“Observations on Point of View and the Poet's Voice in Villon,” L'Esprit Créateur 7 (1967), 180-87.

“A Reading of Machaut's Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre,” Modern Language Review 66 (1971), 294-97.

“Between Two Worlds: The Quest for Death and Life in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's

L'Aventure ambiguë,” Kentucky Romance Quarterly 19 (1972), 183-97. “The Quest for the Absolute: Ami et Amile,” in Parnassus Revisited: Modern Critical Essays on the Epic Tradition, ed. Anthony C. Yu. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1973), pp. 290-300.

“Ronsard's Cosmic Warfare: An Interpretation of his Hymnes and Discours,” Symposium 28 (1974), 101-18.

“La comédie humaine chez Jean de Meun,” in Mélanges d'histoire littéraire, de linguistique

et de philologie romane offerts à Charles Rostaing, eds. René Dumas and Jacques de Caluwé. (Liège: Association des Romanistes de l'Université de Liège, 1974), pp.101-14.

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“Un univers en décomposition: Raoul de Cambrai,” Olifant 1:4 (1974), 3-9; and Société Rencesvals. VIe Congrès International. Actes (Aix-en-Provence: Université de Provence, 1974), pp. 427-37.

(with Françoise Calin) “Medieval Fiction and New Novel: Some Polemical Remarks on the Subject of Narrative,” Yale French Studies, No. 51 (1975), 235-50. “Love and War: Comic Themes in Voltaire's Pucelle,” French Forum 2 (1977), 34-46.

“Ronsard and the Myth of Justice: A Typological Interpretation of Hymne de la Justice,” Degré Second, I (1977), 1-14; reprinted in Mélanges de philologie et de littératures romanes offerts à Jeanne Wathelet-Willem (Liège: Association des Romanistes de l'Université de Liège, 1978), pp. 33-42.

“La tradition épique médiévale dans la littérature moderne: le cas Aragon,” in Charlemagne et l'épopée romane: Société Rencesvals: 8e Congrès International: Actes (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1978), pp. 459-68.

“The Poet at the Fountain: Machaut as Narrative Poet,” in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, No. 314 (1978), pp. 177-87.

“Defense and Illustration of Fin' Amor: Polemical Comments on the Robertsonian Approach,” Stanford French Review 2 (1978), 247-57; reprinted in The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature, ed. N.B. Smith and J.T. Snow (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980), pp. 32-48.

“Problèmes de technique narrative au Moyen Age: Le Roman de la Rose et Guillaume de

Machaut” in Mélanges de langue et littérature du Moyen Age offerts à Pierre Jonin (Aix-en-Provence: CUER MA, 1979), pp. 125-38.

“'Querelles de clocher': Aspects du comique dans le Lutrin,” in Etudes de philologie romane et d'histoire littéraire offertes à Jules Horrent, ed. Jean Marie D'Heur and Nicoletta Cherubini (Liège, 1980), pp. 559-64.

“Jean Lemaire de Belges: Courtly Narrative at the Close of the Middle Ages,” in The

Nature of Medieval Narrative, ed. Minette Grunmann-Gaudet and Robin F. Jones (Lexington: French Forum Monographs, 1980), pp. 205-16.

“The Medieval Presence in Modern Literature: A Question of Criticism and Culture,” in Philological Papers, No. 27 (1981), pp. 1-7.

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“L'épopée dite vivante: Réflexions sur le prétendu caractère oral des chansons de geste,” in VIII Congreso de la Société Rencesvals (Pamplona: Institucion principe de Viana, 1981), pp. 71-76; reprinted in Olifant 8 (1981), 227-37.

“Littérature médiévale et hypothèse orale: une divergence de méthode et de philosophie,” Olifant 8 (1981), 256-85.

“Poetry and Eros: Langauge, Communication, and Intertextuality in Roman du castelain de Couci,” French Forum 6 (1981), 197-211.

“Militia and Amor: A Reading of Adonis,” L'Esprit Créateur 21:4 (1981), 28-40.

“Parenté et sexualité dans la littérature française du XIIe siècle,” Lectures, No. 7-8 (1981), 35-55. “Textes médiévaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une épopée?” Perspectives Médiévales, No. 8 (1982), 117-24. Reprinted in Romance Epic: Essays on a Medieval Literary Genre, ed. Hans-Erich Keller (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1988), pp. 11-19.

“Le moi chez Machaut,” in Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Actes et colloques (Paris: Klincksieck, 1982), pp. 241-52.

“La Fonteinne amoureuse de Machaut: son or, ses oeuvres-d'art, ses mises en abyme,” in L'Or au Moyen Age: Monnaie-métal-objets-symbole)(Aix-en-Provence: CUER MA, 1983), pp. 75-87. “Singer's Voice and Audience Response: On the Originality of the Courtly Lyric, or How

'Other' was the Middle Ages and What Should We Do About It?” L'Esprit Créateur 23:1 (Spring 1983), 75-90.

“Les rapports entre chansons de geste et romans courtois au XIIIe siècle,” in Essor et fortune de la chanson de geste dans l'Europe et l'Orient latin (Modena: Mucchi, 1984), pp.407-24.

“The Density of the Text: Charles d'Orléans,” in Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Alice Planche (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1984), pp. 97-104.

“A Reading of Voltaire's Poetry,” Degré Second, No. 8 (1984), 1-12.

“The Occitan Tradition: Interpreting Love Poetry of the Baroque,” in The Spirit of the Court, ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Robert A. Taylor (Cambridge: Brewer, 1985), pp.

120-28.

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With Fritz Peter Kirsch, “Les tâches de la recherche occitane: le texte littéraire des XIXe et XXe siècles,” Bulletin de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, No. 1

(1985), 21-24. “The Poets' Poet: Intertextuality in Louis Aragon,” Symposium 40 (1986), 3-15.

“Towards A New Reading of Jaufre: A Dialogue with Marc-René Jung,” in Studia Occitanica in memoriam Paul Remy, vol. 2, ed. Hans-Erich Keller (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1986), pp. 13-21.

“Problèmes littéraires soulevés par les chansons de geste: l'exemple d'Aspremont,” in Au carrefour des routes d'Europe: la chanson de geste, ed. Jean Subrenat (Aix-en- Provence: Université de Provence, 1987), pp. 333-50.

“La Grava sul camin de J. Bodon: Technique narrative, phénoménologie et structures du désir,” in Actes du premier Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, ed. Peter T. Ricketts (London: Westfield College, 1987), pp. 149-56.

“Machaut's Legacy: The Chaucerian Inheritance Reconsidered,” Studies in the Literary Imagination 20:1 (1987), 9-22. Reprinted in Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition, ed. R. Barton Palmer (New York: AMS Press, 1999), pp. 29-46.

“Aubanel's Miougrano and the Romantic Persona: A Modern Reading,” Tenso 3 (1987-88), 43-57.

“Medievalism and Ancien-Régime France: An Afterword,” Studies in Medievalism 3 (1987- 88), 99-106.

“On Christian Poetry: From the Courtly to the Sacred and the Functioning of Contrafactum in Gautier de Coinci,” in Studia in honorem Martin de Riquer, Vol. 3 (Barcelona: Vallcorba Editor, 1988), pp. 385-94.

“The Exaltation and Undermining of Romance: Ipomedon,” in The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes, ed. Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly & Keith Busby, vol. 2 (Amsterdam: Rodopi,1988), pp. 111-24.

“Medieval Intertextuality: Lyrical Inserts and Narrative in Guillaume de Machaut,” French Review 62 (1988-89), 1-10.

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“Amadas et Ydoine: The Problematic World of an Idyllic Romance,” in Continuations: Essays on Medieval French Literature and Language, ed. Norris T. Lacy & Gloria Torrini-Roblin (Birmingham, AL: Summa, 1989), pp. 39-49.

“La réception de la poésie française: un problème de critique et d'histoire littéraires,” in

Miscellanea di studi in onore di Aurelio Roncaglia (Modena: Mucchi, 1989), pp. 249-55.

“Modernité et tradition de la littérature d'Oc,” Impressions du Sud [special issue, “Vingt ans

d'écriture occitane], No. 23 (Autumn 1989), 6-10.

“Contre la fin' amor? contre la femme? Une relecture de textes du Moyen Age,” in Courtly Literature: Culture and Context, ed. Keith Busby & Erik Kooper (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1990), pp. 61-82.

“Gui de Warewic and the Nature of Late Anglo-Norman Romance,” Fifteenth-Century Studies 17 (1990), 23-32.

“Lecture de Pouèmo de Max-Philippe Delavouët,” in Vingt ans de littérature d'expression occitane: 1968-1988, ed. Philippe Gardy & François Pic (Montpellier: Section Française de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 1990), pp. 88-94.

“Suggestions de lecture pour nos textes occitans modernes,” Bulletin de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes 7 (1991), 40-53.

“Women and Their Sexuality in Ami et Amile: An Occasion to Deconstruct?” Olifant 16

(1991), 77-89.

“Les lettres d'Oc aujourd'hui: le cas Delavouët,” in Mélanges de langue et de littérature occitanes en hommage à Pierre Bec (Poitiers: Université de Poitiers, 1991), pp. 95- 102.

“Camin de la Crous: Max-Philippe Delavouët et le baroque sacré,” in Contacts de langues, de civilisations et intertextualité, ed. Gérard Gouiran (Montpellier: Université Paul- Valéry, Centre d'Etudes Occitanes, 1992), pp. 417-27.

“Narrative Technique in Fourteenth-Century France: Froissart and His Chroniques,” In Honor of Hans Erich Keller: Studies in Medieval French and Occitan Literature and

Romance Linguistics, ed. Rupert T. Pickens (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 1993), pp. 227-36.

“John Gower's Continuity in the Tradition of French Fin' amor,” Mediaevalia 16 (1993), 91-

111.

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“Saints' Stories: The Literary Quality of Anglo-Norman Martyr Hagiography,” in The Shaping of Text: Style, Imagery, and Structure in French Literature, ed. Emmanuel J. Mickel, Jr. (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1993), pp. 24-44. “La littérature occitane contemporaine: Un témoignage,” Garona 10 (1993), 131-38. “Aimez-vous Ronsard? Problems in Enlarging the Canon of French Poetry,” in Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millenium, ed. Stamos Metzidakis (New York: Garland, 1994), pp. 195-208.

“Questioning the Canon? Defending the Canon? Reflections on Parisian Classicism and American Diversity,” Romance Quarterly [special issue on “The French Canon”] 41 (1994), 176-85.

“Will the Real Charles of Orleans Please Stand! or, Who Wrote the English Poems of Harley 682?” in Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly, ed. Keith Busby and Norris J. Lacy (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), pp. 69-86.

“Felix Culpa? Les archétypes de Verd Paradis (I et II),” in Max Rouquette: Actes du Colloque International, ed. Phillipe Gardy & François Pic (Montpellier: Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 1994), pp. 22-27.

“Scandale en Avignon: Théodore Aubanel dramaturge,” in Actes du IVe Congrès International de l'Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes: Vitoria-Gasteiz, 22-28 août, 1993, ed. Ricardo Cierbide (Vitoria-Gasteiz: Universidad del País

Vasco, 1994), pp. 407-14.

In Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler and Grover A. Zinn (New York: Garland, 1995), Amadas et Ydoine, p. 28; Aspremont, pp. 77-78; Jean de Meun, pp. 488-89; Raoul de Cambrai, p. 780; Rebellious Vassal Cycle, p. 784.

“Evolution de la chanson de geste: Merveilleux et mélodrame dans Renaut de Montauban,” in Aspects de l'épopée romane: Mentalités, idéologies, intertextualités, ed. Hans van Dijk and Willem Noomen (Groningen: Forsten, 1995), pp. 43-48. “Occitan Literature Today: Cultural Identity and the Sense of the Past,” Tenso 11 (1995- 96), 64-77.

“L'Enterrament a Sabres et les structures de l'imaginaire: Bernard Manciet de R à S,” in Bernard Manciet: Le feu est dans la langue, ed. Guy Latrie (Centre d'Etude de la Littérature Occitane: William Blake, 1996), pp. 13-24. “Closing the Circle: Medievalism in Today's Occitan (Provençal) Literature and the

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Consciousness of a Minority Culture,” Studies in Medievalism 8 (1996), 210-22. “Ernst Robert Curtius: The Achievement of a Humanist,” Studies in Medievalism 9 (1997), 218-27.

“The Modern Novel in Breton and the Quest for a European Literature,” French Forum 22

(1997), 235-42.

“Makers of the Middle Ages: Leo Spitzer, “Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997), 495-506.

“The Stranger and the Problematics of the Epic of Revolt: Renaut de Montauban,” in The Stranger in Medieval Society, ed. F.R.P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 104-16.

“Makers of the Middle Ages: Ernst Robert Curtius,” in Miscellanea Mediaevalia: Mélanges

offerts à Philippe Ménard, Vol. 1, ed. J. Claude Faucon et al. (Paris: Champion, 1998), pp. 299-309.

“Du réalisme magique dans le roman occitan: Lecture subversive de La Santa Estèla del

centenari de J. Boudou,” in Toulouse à la croisée des cultures, ed. Jacques Gourc and François Pic, Vol. 2 (Pau: Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 1998), pp. 477-80.

“Gerard J. Brault, American Medievalist,” in Echoes of the Epic: Studies in Honor of Gerard J. Brault, ed. David P. Schenck and Mary Jane Schenck, with a Preface by William Calin (Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1998), pp. xi-xiv.

“Regional Writing: Breton” and “Regional Writing: Occitan” in the Encyclopedia of

Contemporary French Culture, ed. Alex Hughes and Keith Reader (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 458-60.

“Deschamps's `Ballade to Chaucer' Again, or the Dangers of Intertextual Medieval

Comparatism,” in Eustache Deschamps, French Courtier-Poet: His Work and His World, ed. Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (New York: AMS Press, 1998), pp. 73-83.

“Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Phillips' Paolo and Francesca,” in Medievalism in

the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman, ed. Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 255-61.

“Leslie Workman: A Speech of Thanks,” ibid, pp. 451-52. “Making a Canon,” Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999), 1-16.

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“Erich Auerbach's Mimesis--'Tis Fifty Years Since: A Reassessment,” Style 33 (1999), 463-74. With Lawrence Earp, “The Lai in Remede de Fortune,” Ars Lyrica 11 (2000), 39-75. “Y-a-t-il un post-modernisme breton et occitan?” Paol Keineg, Joan Larzac et l'après-1968,” in Le Rayonnement de la civilisation occitane à l'aube d'un nouveau millénaire, ed. Georg Kremnitz et al. (Vienna: Praesens, 2001), pp. 625-30. “Per-Jakez Hélias dramaturge: Structures comiques et tragiques,” in Pierre-Jakez Hélias,

Bigouden universel? ed. Francis Favereau (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001), pp. 55-60.

“Is Jeun de Meun Antifeminist?” in “Riens ne m’est seur que la chose incertaine”: Etudes

sur l’art d’écrire au Moyen Age offertes à Eric Hicks, ed. Jean-Claude Mühlethaler and Denis Billotte (Geneva: Slatkine, 2001), pp. 81-90.

“C. S. Lewis, Literary Critic: A Reassessment,” Mythlore 23:3 (Summer 2001), 4-18. “Obscene Anglo-Norman in a Central French Mouth; or, How Renart the Fox Tricks

Isengrin the Wolf, and Why It Is Important,” Florilegium 18:1 (2001), 7-19. “The Great Books: A Canon for the Twenty-First Century?” South Atlantic Revue 67

(2002), 1-16. “What Tales of a Wayside Inn Tells us about Longfellow and about Chaucer,” Studies in

Medievalism 12 (2002), 197-213. “Dramatized Eclogues in Occitan: A World of Love and War,” in Theatrum Mundi:

Mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin, ed. Claire L. Carlin and Kathleen Wine (Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood, 2003), pp. 53-61.

“René Nelli: Poet of Occitan Modernism,” in “Sempre los camps auràn segadas

resurgantas”: Mélanges offerts à Xavier Ravier, ed. Jean-Claude Bouvier et al. (Toulouse: CNRS and Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, 2003), pp. 453-60. “Robert Lafont dramaturge: Lecture de trois pièces,” Auteurs en scène, Théâtres d’oc et

d’ailleurs 5 (mai 2003), 22-31. “Or/Ordure: From Gold to Garbage, or Deconstructing the Anglo-Norman Romance Topas

et Pleindamour,” in Proceedings of the Psuedo Society: First Series, ed. Richard R. Ring and Richard Kay (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003), pp. 107-12.

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“The Occitan Baroque in Provence: The Example of Michel Tronc,” in “Du sens rassis”: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens, ed. Keith Busby et al. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005), pp. 97-108

“Is Pey de Garros the Occitan Ronsard? A Reading of the Poesias Gasconas (1567),” in

Etudes de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts, ed. Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 659-70.

With Robert Lafont and Wendy Pfeffer, “Dire mis en musique,” Tenso 20 :1 (Spring 2005),

19-45. “Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: The Belle Dame sans mercy Cycle,” Fifteenth-

Century Studies 31 (2006), 31-46. “The Pierre-Jakez Hélias Controversy, and Why It Is Important,” in Littératures de Bretagne: Mélanges offerts à Yann-Ber Piriou, ed. Francis Favereau and Hervé Le Bihan (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006), pp. 157-64. “Northrop Frye on Canada,” Journal of Canadian Poetry 20 (2006): 144-51. “The French Presence in Medieval Scotland: Le roi René and King Hart,” Florilegium 24 (2007): 11-20. “Auerbach and History,” Libretto: Journal of the Faculty of Film and Media Studies, And of Comparative Literature at Singidunum University, Belgrade, http://www.libretto.com.yu, January 2008. “The dit amoureux, Alain Chartier, and the Belle dame sans mercy Cycle in Scotland: John Rolland's The Court of Venus,” in Chartier in Europe, ed. Emma Cayley and Ashby Kinch (Cambridge: Brewer, 2008), pp. 149-64. “The dit amoureux and the Makars: An Essay on The Kingis Quair and The Testament of Cresseid,” Florilegium 25 (2008): 217-50. “Is Orientalism Medievalism? or, Edward Said, Are You a Saracen?” Year's Work in

Medievalism 22 (2008): 63-68. “Lecture de Michel Tronc,” in La Voix occitane, ed. Guy Latrie (Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009), pp. 1039-47. “Postcolonialism and Medievalism: How French Regional Cultures/Literatures Reshape Their Past and Present, ” Year's Work in Medievalism 25 (2010): 23-32.

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“Robert Brasillach, Maurice Bardèche et moi: The Story of an Interview and Why It is Important,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 15 (2011): 357-

62. “Traces de la chanson de geste en Écosse: Lecture d'un roman carolingien,” in Le Souffle épique: L'Esprit de la chanson de geste, Études en l'honneur de Bernard Guidot, ed. Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella et al. (Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2011), pp. 445-51. “French Medievalism and Its Discontents: Testimony from the Proceedings of a

Conference,” Medievally Speaking. October 19, 2011. Web. “A French Legacy in Scotland: Arthurian Romance,” in “Moult a sans et vallour”: Studies

in Medieval French Literature in Honor of William W. Kibler. Ed. Monica L. Wright et al. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 67-98.

“Reading Fabliaux: Le povre clerc and The Freiris of Berwik,” in “Fresche Fontanis”;

Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, ed. Janet Hadley Williams and J. Derrick McClure (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), pp. 75-84.

“Christianity.” In Medievalism: Key Critical Terms. Eds Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz.

(Cambridge: Brewer, 2014), pp. 35-41. “Sex, Violence, and Rural Provence: An Essay on Theodore Aubanel’s Lou Pastre. In Amb

un fil d’amistat: Mélanges offerts à Phillipe Gardy. Eds. Jean-François Courouau, François Pic and Claire Torreilles. (Toulouse : Centre d’Étude de la Littérature Occitane, 2014), pp. 259-265.

“Medievalism in a Minority Language: Frédéric Mistral’s Wish-Fulfillment Provençal

Past,” Relief 8.1 (2014): 48-60. Six articles or chapters from books reprinted in the Gale Research Company series: 1986,

1986, 1990, 1999, 2001, and 2006.

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Reviews:

Lorenzo Renzi, Tradizione cortese e realismo in Gautier d'Arras, in Romance Philology 20 (1966-67), 248-51.

Pierre Ruelle, ed., Les Congés d'Arras, in Speculum 42 (1967), 550-52.

Henrik Heger, Die Melancholie bei den französischen Lyrikern des Spätmittelalters, in Romance Philology 24 (1970-71), 527-29.

Italo Siciliano, Les Chansons de geste et l'Epopée: Mythes--Histoire--Poèmes, in Romanic

Review 42 (1971), 133-34. John V. Fleming, The “Roman de la Rose”: A Study in Allegory and Iconography, in

Speculum 47 (1972), 311-13. Robert Francis Cook, ed., Le Bâtard de Bouillon, in French Review 47 (1973-74), 178-79. Paul Archambault, Seven French Chroniclers, Witnesses to History, in Comparative

Literature 27 (1975), 182-84.

Karl D. Uitti, Story, Myth and Celebration in Old French Narrative Poetry 1050-1200, in Comparative Literature 27 (1975), 280-81.

Claude Luttrell, The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance: A Quest, in French Review

49 (1975-76), 119. Marguerite Rossi, Huon de Bordeaux, in French Review 51 (1977-78), 430-31. Joan M. Ferrante, The Image of Women in Medieval Literature, in Comparative Literature

31 (1979), 319-20. Gerard J. Brault, ed. The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition, 2 vols. in Olifant 7 (1979-

80), 359-64. A. T. Hatto, ed, Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry, vol. 1: The Traditions, in Olifant 11

(1986), 161-63. Charles Muscatine, The Old French Fabliaux, in Comparative Literature 40 (1988), 179-80.

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David P. Schenck, The Myth of Guillaume: Poetic Consciousness in the Guillaume d'Orange Cycle, in French Review 64 (1990-91), 841-42.

James I. Wimsatt, Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century, in Chaucer Yearbook 2 (1994), 211-14.

Chrétien de Troyes, Le Chevalier de la charrette ou le Roman de Lancelot, ed. Charles Méla,

in French Review 68 (1994-95), 727-28. Stamos Metzidakis, Difference Unbound: The Rise of Pluralism in Literature and Criticism,

in South Atlantic Review 60 (1995), 140-42. Ad Putter, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and French Arthurian Romance, in Speculum

72 (1997), 213-14. Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon, trans., Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of

Friendship, in Speculum 73 (1998), 890. Philippe Gardy, Une écriture en archipel: Cinquante ans de poésie occitane (1940-90), and

L'Ecriture occitane contemporaine: Une quête des mots, in Tenso 14 (1999-2000), 251-56.

Jeffrey Wallen, Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture, in Philosophy and

Literature 24 (2000), 223-27. Michel Zink, The Invention of Literary Subjectivity, in Philosophy and Literature 24 (2000),

488-90. Guillaume de Machaut, Le livre dou voir dit (The Book of the True Poem), ed. Daniel

Leech-Wilkinson, tr. R. Barton Palmer, in Speculum 76 (2001), 761-62. Mary-Jo Arn, ed., Charles d’Orléans in England (1415-1440), in Speculum 77 (2002), 131-32. Guillaume de Machaut, La Prise d’Alexandre (The Taking of Alexandria), ed. R. Barton Palmer, in Speculum 79 (2004), 517-18.

Philippe Carrard, The French Who Fought for Hitler : Memories from the Outcasts, in Contemporary French Civilization 37.1 (2012), 113-14.

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Papers and Lectures:

“Sur la composition de Gormond et Isembard, the second international meeting of the Société Rencesvals, Venice, September, 1961.

“The Quest for the Woman and the City: Aymeri de Narbonne,” lecture, Stanford

Philological Association, Spring, 1965. “Courtly Love in the Middle Ages,” lecture, Foothill Community College, Spring, 1965. “Bernier's Dilemma: The Problem of Existence in Raoul de Cambrai,” lecture, Stanford

University, Spring, 1966, and University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring, 1969. “Old Scholarship versus New Criticism,” first annual meeting of the American section of

the Société Rencevals, New York, Modern Language Association of America, December, 1966.

“Questions juridiques dans Ami et Amile,” read at the 10th meeting of the Fédération

Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes, Strasbourg, August, 1966. Résumé published in Le réel dans la littérature et dans la langue, ed. Paul Vernois (Paris, 1967), p. 169.

“A Reading of Machaut's Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre,” the third annual meeting of

the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California at Riverside, Spring, 1969, and, expanded version, a lecture, Harvard University, Spring, 1970.

Organized, directed, and participated in a panel discussion of the Medieval Circle of

Stanford on “Obscenity in the Middle Ages,” Fall, 1971. “Love and Art in the Fourteenth Century: A Reading of Machaut's Le Voir Dit,” lecture at

University of Oregon, April, 1972. “Between Two Worlds: The Quest for Death and Life in Cheikh Hamidou's Kane's

L'Aventure ambiguë,” lecture at University of Oregon, June, 1972. “The Human Comedy of Jean de Meun,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, Stanford

University, February 1973, and Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1973.

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“Un univers en décomposition: Raoul de Cambrai,” the international conference of the Société Rencesvals, Aix-en-Provence, August 1973. Also chaired a session at the conference.

“Poetry of Faith and Battle: An Essay on Ronsard's Discours,” Pacific Northwest

Renaissance Conference, Regina, Canada, March 1974. “The Rhetoric of Comedy in Boileau's Lutrin,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference,

University of Kentucky, April 1975. “Love and War: Comic Themes in Voltaire's Pucelle,” Modern Language Association of

America, San Francisco, December 1975. “La tradition épique médiévale dans les littératures modernes: le cas Aragon,” read in

plenary session at International Congress of Société Rencesvals, Liège, August, 1976.

“Critical Approaches to the Romance of the Rose: the Notion of Comedy,” Modern

Language Association of America, New York, December 1976. “Ronsard's Hymne de la Justice: A Typological Interpretation,” ibid. “Fin' Amor and the Robertsonian Approach: Some Polemical Comments from the Vantage

Point of French Literature,” Second International Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Georgia, April 1977, and Medieval Association of the Pacific, Vancouver, February 1978.

“Guillaume de Machaut and the Question of Narrative Technique,” Medieval Academy of

America, Toronto, May 1977. “Basho and the Western Tradition,” Asian Studies of the Pacific Coast Conference, Eugene,

June 1977. “Courtly Narrative at the Close of the Middle Ages: Jean Lemaire de Belges,” read at a

Colloquium on Medieval Narrative, University of Western Ontario, October 1977, and at Medieval Association of the Pacific, San Francisco, February 1979.

“The Poet at the Fountain: Machaut as Narrative Poet,” New York Academy of Sciences,

December 1977. “A Freudian Reading of Chrétien de Troyes,” the Arthurian Division of the Modern

Language Association of America, December 1977; also organized and chaired the session on the Medieval Romance Epic.

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“Image, Archetype, Convention: Early Literature and Modern Mentality,” Lilly Foundation Lecture, Whitman College, March 1978.

“Le moi chez Guillaume de Machaut,” International Colloquium on Machaut, Centre

National de la Recherche Scientifique, Rheims, April 1978. Also chaired a session. “L'épopée dite vivante: Réflexions sur le prétendu caractère oral des chansons de geste,” 8th

International Congress of the Société Rencesvals, Pamplona-Santiago, August 1978. “'Querelles de clocher': aspects du comique chez Boileau,” at International Congress of

Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes, Aix-en-Provence, August 1978.

“Is the Song of Roland an 'Oral Epic'? Some Polemical Remarks in Defense of Literature,”

Penn State Conference on Song of Roland. October 1978. Also chaired a session. “New Developments in Literature Studies,” joint meeting of Oregon and Washington

Associations of Foreign Language Teachers. Portland, October 1978. “A Little Known Development in Contemporary French Poetry: the Epic,” at the Modern

Language Association of America, December 1978. Also co-chaired and organized a session.

“Le Roman de la Rose: Towards a New Criticism,” lecture at University of Virginia,

University of Texas, and UCLA, February and March 1979; and University of Connecticut, October 1980.

“The Epic in France from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: Towards a New

Criticism,” lecture at Washington University, St. Louis, February 1979. “New Criticism and Revisionist Scholarship: Some Polemical Remarks on Approaches to

Medieval Literature,” lecture at the University of Virginia, February 1979. “A Version of Twentieth-Century Epic: Pierre Emmanuel's Babel,” Kentucky Foreign

Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1979. “The Medieval Presence in Modern Literature: A Question of Criticism and Culture,”

featured address at Modern Literature Colloquium, West Virginia University, September 1979.

“Jean de Meun et la comédie humaine,” lecture delivered at the University of Bologna and

the University of Padua, April 1980.

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“La parenté et la sexualité dans la littérature française du XIIe siècle,” lecture at the Collège

de France, the University of Bologna, the University of Padua, and the University of Trier, February-June 1980.

“Poetry and Eros: Language, Communication, and Intertextuality in Le Roman du Châtelain de Couci,” at the international conference of the International Courtly Literature Society, Liverpool, August 1980, and Medieval Association of Pacific, Victoria, B.C., February, 1981.

“Literature and Mentalité in Twelfth-Century France,” at Western Society for French

History conference, University of Oregon, October 1980, and New England Medieval Forum, University of Connecticut, October 1980.

“Towards a New Reading of Jaufre: A Dialogue with Marc-René Jung,” Kentucky Foreign

Language Conference, April 1981; and (in French) the Congrès International d'Etudes de Langue et Littérature d'Oc, Liège, July 1981.

“Reading Voltaire's Poetry Today,” Western Society for French History, Northern Colorado

University, October 1981. “Singer's Voice and Audience Response: On the Originality of the Courtly Lyric,”

International Courtly Literature Society, Modern Language Association of America, New York, December 1981. Also organized and chaired Medieval French Division.

“La Fonteinne amoureuse de Machaut: son or, ses oeuvres d'art, ses mises en abyme,” Aix-

en-Provence conference on Gold in the Middle Ages, February 1982. “Textes médiévaux et tradition: la chanson de geste est-elle une épopée?” Société de Langue

et Littérature Médiévales d'Oc et d'Oil, Paris, March 1982; and the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 1982.

“Vers une lecture nouvelle de Marie de France,” lecture at the University of Antwerp,

February 1982. “A Reading of Chrétien's Yvain,” lecture at the University of London, March 1982. “Vigny's Poetry: A Re-appraisal,” lecture at Oxford University, March 1982. “The Epic in France: An Overview,” lecture at the Unversity of Edinburgh, March 1982.

“La femme, l'amour et le mariage,” lecture at the Centre d'Etudes Médiévales of the Université de Poitiers, March 1982.

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“Late-Medieval Mentality and the Function of the Artist: Intertextuality and Mise en abyme in Guillaume de Machaut,” Medieval Academy of America, Western Michigan University, May 1982.

“Les rapports entre chansons de geste et romans courtois au XIIIe siècle,” at the Société

Rencesvals, 9th International Conference, Padua, August 1982. A Plenary session lecture.

“The French Epic: Its Implication for the History of Literature,” Western Society for French

History, Tenth Annual Conference, University of Winnipeg, October 1982. “Voltaire's Poetry: A Reassessment,” Mid-Hudson MLA, Eighth Annual Conference,

Poughkeepsie, November 1982. “The Density of the Text: Charles d'Orléans,” Modern Language Association of America,

Los Angeles, December 1982. Also organized and chaired an International Courtly Literature Society section.

“Aspects of Obscenity in Medieval French,” Medieval Academy of America, University of

California, Berkeley, April 1983, and lecture, University of Southern California. “All My Children: Literary Criticism of a Soap Opera,” Conference of Oregon Foreign

Language Teachers and Pacific Northwest Foreign Language Teachers Conference, April 1983; American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages, San Francisco, November 1983; and Florida Foreign Language Association, Jacksonville, October, 1990.

“Charles d'Orléans: A Commentary on Four Texts,” Kentucky Foreign Language

Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1983. “The Occitan Tradition: Interpreting Love Poetry of the Baroque,” International Courtly

Literature Society, Fourth Triennial Conference, Toronto, August 1983. Also chaired a session.

“Tradition in the Humanities,” University of Oregon Colloquium on Humanistic

Imperatives in a Technological Age, Eugene, October 1983. “Eros, Image and Point of View in an Occitan Novel: La Grava sul camin by Joan Bodon,”

Modern Language Association of America, New York, December 1983. “From the Courtly to the Sacred: The Functioning of Contrafactum in the Thirteenth-

Century French Lyric,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Washington, February 1984.

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“The Knight, the Lady, and the Poet: Courtly Love in the Middle Ages,” University of Oregon Forum Lecture, Winter 1984; Salem, February 1985; Medford, April 1985.

“Lecture de La Grava sul Camin de J. Bodon: Technique narrative, phénoménologie et les structures du désir,” Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, first international conference, Southhampton, England, August 1984. Also chaired a session.

“La réception de la poésie française: Un problème de critique et d'histoire littéraires,” a

paper read at the 16th International Conference of the Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes, Budapest, August 1984; expanded version as lecture, Antwerp University, June 1985.

“Women in the Chanson de Geste,” lecture, Cambridge University, November 1984. “The Poets' Poet: Intertextuality in Aragon,” Modern Language Association of America,

Washington, D.C., December 1984. “On Epic and Romance,” lecture at the University of Reading, January 1985. “Is Don Quixote (La Princesse de Clèves? Tom Jones?) the First Novel? Medieval Romance

and the Tradition of Narrative,” lecture at the University of Warwick, January 1985. “On the Sacred Lyric in France: the Middle Ages and the Baroque,” lecture at Oxford

University, February 1985. “Low Style in Medieval France: Invective and Eros, Comedy and Criticism,” lecture at

London University, February 1985, and Cambridge University, April 1985; UC Santa Barbara, October 1986; University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, November 1986.

“François Villon: The Poet, Persona, and Point of View,” lecture at the University of

London, February 1985. “Psychology and Symbolism in the Song of Roland,” lecture at University of St. Andrews, February 1985. “The Exaltation and Undermining of Romance: Ipomedon by Hue de Rotelande,” at the

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 1985.

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“Problèmes littéraires soulevés par les chansons de geste: l'exemple d'Aspremont,” at the Tenth International Conference of the Société Internationale Rencesvals, Strasbourg, August 1985. Also chaired a session.

“Aubanel and the Romantic Persona,” Modern Language Association of America, Chicago,

December 1985. “An Institute for the Combined Study of History and Literature: A Report,” Modern

Language Association of America, Chicago, December 1985. “Machaut and Chaucer: Literary Considerations,” at the Western Michigan University

Medieval Institute, May 1986. “Machaut's Remède de Fortune: The Perspective of Poetic Imagination,” Medieval Institute,

Western Michigan University, May 1986. “Literature and Politics in France: From 1100 to Stendhal,” lecture at a National

Endowment for the Humanities seminar, Summer 1986. “Contre la fin' amor? contre la femme? Une relecture de quelques textes du Moyen Age,”

International Courtly Literature Society, 5th Triennial Congress, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, August 1986. A Plenary session address. And a seminar at the University of Florida, February 1988.

“Comparative College-University Programs: France, England, U.S.” Confederation of

Oregon Foreign Language Teachers, Sunriver, October 1986. “A Revaluation of French Poetry,” lecture at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA, October 1986. “Feminism and Antifeminism in the Literature of Courtly Love,” lecture at the University of

British Columbia, November 1986. “Medieval Intertextuality: Guillaume's Lyrical Insertions as Pretexts in Machaut's Narrative

Intertext,” Medieval Academy of America, Toronto, April 1987. “Or/ordure: From Gold to Garbage, or Deconstructing the Anglo-Norman Romance Topas et Pleindamour,” Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 1987. “Enlarging the Canon of French Verse: The Example of Ronsard,” American Association of Teachers of French, San Francisco, July 1987. “Old Literature and Modern Criticism: Pedagogical Problems,” at Conference of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers, Portland, October 1987.

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“Thoughts on Literary Criticism, History, and Theory,” lecture at Whitman College,

October 1987. “The Invention of Love in the Middle Ages,” lecture at Whitman College, November 1987. “In Defense of French Poetry,” a lecture at Washington State University, November 1987

and the University of Florida, February 1988. “The Emergence of the Individual as Artist and the Elaboration of Myth: Machaut and

Froissart,” featured lecture at Ohio State University Conference on “The Emergence of the Individual in the Fourteenth Century,” February 1988.

“Nobles, Clerks, Poets: Sociology of Medieval Literature,” as Distinguished Visiting

Lecturer, Spring 88 Polyseminar, Center for Critical Studies, University of Maryland, April 1988.

“Raoul de Cambrai and Villon: Sociology of Text,” seminar conducted under same

program. “The Mythological World of Froissart,” Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,

May 1988. Also organized and chaired session on Machaut. “Teaching Graduate Students: French Literature,” Medieval Institute, Western Michigan

University, May 1988. “Defending the French Canon: Here We Take Our Stand,” Kentucky Foreign Language

Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1989. Co-organized and co-chaired a day-long series on “What Should We Teach?”

“Suggestions de lecture pour nos textes occitans modernes,” Plenary session “rapport” at

Colloquium on Occitan studies, Castle of Wégimont, Belgium, April 1989. “Gui de Warewic: An Anglo-Norman Court Epic?” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1989. Also organized and chaired a session on Machaut.

“La France non-francophone: Aspects du roman contemporain occitan,” Conference of the

American Association of Teachers of French, Paris, July 1989. “Lecture de Pouèmo,” The Colloquium “Vingt Ans de littérature d'expression occitane,”

Montpellier, Castle of Castries, October 1989.

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“Max-Philippe Delavouët: A Modern Reading of a Modern Provençal Poet,” Modern Language Association of America, Washington DC, December 1989. Also organized and chaired the session.

“The Problem of English Courtliness: Chaucer,” Modern Language Association of America,

Washington DC, December, 1989. “Listening to Trouvère Song: Gace Brulé and Thibaut de Champagne,” International

Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1990. Also organized and chaired a session.

“John Gower's Confessio Amantis: Secular Comedy in the French Tradition,” International

Congress on Fifteenth-Century Studies, Perpignan, France, July 1990. “Camin de la Crous: Max-Philippe Delavouët et le baroque sacré,” International Conference

of the Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, Montpellier, France, August 1990. Also chaired a session.

“Alain Chartier's Cruel Lovely Lady: Convention and the Undermining of Convention in

Medieval French Poetry,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Tampa, November 1990.

“Women and Their Sexuality in Ami et Amile: An Occasion to Deconstruct?” Modern

Language Association of America, Chicago, December 1990. “Gower's Cinkante Balades: Continuity in the Tradition of fin' amor,” International

Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1991. “The Knight, the Lady, and the Poet: Reflections on Courtly Love” [totally revised],

Humanities Lecture, University of Florida; lecture at New York University and, as Distinguished Guest Speaker, at the University of Miami, Fall 1991; lecture at the University of Kansas, April 1993; lecture at Hamilton College, October 1995.

“Saints' Stories: Women Martyrs in Anglo-Norman Hagiography,” lecture at Fordham

University, October 1991. “Questioning the Canon? Defending the Canon? Reflections on French Classicism and

American Diversity,” American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, November 1991.

“Reading an Allegory: Digulleville's Pilgrimage of Human Life,” University of Miami

Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, February 1992. Also organized and chaired a session.

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“Inventing the Middle Ages: Medievalism and Medieval Studies in France,” International

Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1992. “Wace's Sainte Marguerite: The Phenomenology of a Martyr.” International Conference on

Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1992. Also chaired a session. “The Arabic World and the West: A Tale of Three Books,” talk at Arab-American Culture

Association, Orlando, June 1992. “Secular Humor in a Purportedly Patristic Age: John Gower's Confessio Amantis,”

Conference on Medieval Humor, University of Michigan, October 1992. “Deceit, Desire and Discourse: From the Romance of the Rose to Chaucer's Pardoner's

Tale,” public lecture, Whitman College, October 1992; and University of Oregon, October 1992.

“Explicating the Baroque Epic: Saint-Amant's Moyse sauvé,” seminar at Whitman College,

October 1992. “La littérature occitane contemporaine: Un témoignage,” public lecture at the Musée

d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, November 1992. “L'Enterrament a Sabres et les structures de l'imaginaire: Bernard Manciet de R à S,”

inaugural lecture at the International Colloquium on Bernard Manciet, University of Bordeaux, November 1992. Also chaired a session.

“The Prose Lancelot and Malory's Morte Darthur: Two Examples of Cyclification and the

Problems They Pose,” Colloquium of the Royal Netherlands Academy on Narrative Cycles, Amsterdam, December 1992. Also chaired a session.

“History of the French Language: A Sociolinguistic or Cultural Approach,” Modern

Language Association of America, New York, December 1992. “Madness in the French Style: Thomas Hoccleve Writes Fifteenth-Century

Pseudoautobiographical English Verse,” University of Miami Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, February 1993. Also organized and chaired a session.

“Archetypes of Women and Gower's Mirour de l'Omme,” International Conference on

Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1993.

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“Scandale en Avignon: Théodore Aubanel dramaturge,” International Conference of the Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, Vitoria, Spain, August 1993. Also chaired a session.

“Closing the Circle: Medievalism in Today's Occitan (Provençal) Literature and the

Consciousness of a Minority Culture,” a plenary session address at the International Conference on Medievalism, University of Leeds, England, September 1993. Also chaired a session.

“Felix culpa: Les archétypes de Verd Paradis,” Colloquium on the Occitan writer Max

Rouquette, Montpellier, October 1993. “Marginalization and the Will to Centrality in Bernard Manciet: The Greatest Living Poet

in Occitan,” Modern Language Association of America, Toronto, December 1993. “Alienation and the Problematics of Revolt: Renaut de Montauban,” Conference on

Strangers in Medieval Society, University of Minnesota, February 1994. Also chaired a session.

“Inventing the Medieval Canon, Then and Now: Whose Middle Ages?” Conference on

“Peripheral Visions: Reading the Margins in the Middle Ages,” University of Oregon, April 1994. A plenary session address.

“Evolution de la chanson de geste: Merveilleux et mélodrame dans Renaut de Montauban,”

International Congress of the Société Rencesvals, University of Groningen, Netherlands, August 1994. Also chaired a session.

“Teaching the History of French; or, How Sociolinguistics Saved Romance Philology,”

Linguistics Seminar, University of Florida, October 1994. “The Occitan Phenomenon: Inventing A Cultural Identity,” Colloquium on Multiculture in the French Arena, University of Oregon, October 1994. Also participated in two Round Tables, one on teaching. “In Dubious Battle: Saint-Amant's Baroque Idyllic Epic, An Eccentric Encounter with

Virgil,” Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Miami, February 1995. Also organized and chaired a session.

“`National' Identity in a Minority Culture: Contemporary Writers of Occitan,” Twelfth

International Colloquium on Twentieth-Century French Studies, Stanford University, April 1995.

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“Makers of the Middle Ages: Ernst Robert Curtius,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1995.

“Literary and Musical Approaches to the Lais: The lai in Machaut's Remede de Fortune,”

ibid. Also organized and chaired the session. “Dante on the Edwardian Stage: Stephen Phillips' Paolo and Francesca,” Tenth International

Conference on Medievalism, Worcester Mass., September 1995. Also chaired a session.

“Minority Literatures and Modernism: The Example of Breton,” a lecture at Harvard

University, October 1995. “Occitan (Provençal) Literature Today: Inventing Cultural Identity and the Sense of the

Past,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1995. A plenary session address.

“The Modern Novel in Breton: Magical Realism and the Quest for a European Literature,”

Thirteenth International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, University of Maryland, March 1996. Organized and chaired the session on regional literature.

“Obscene Anglo-Norman in a Central French Mouth: How Reynard the Fox Tricks Isengrin

the Wolf and Why it is Important,” University of Florida Linguistics Seminar, April 1996.

“French Minority Literatures and Modernism,” Romance Languages Graduate Studies

Colloquium, April 1996. “Makers of the Middle Ages: Leo Spitzer,” 31st International Congress on Medieval

Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1996. Also chaired a session. “The Bad Man, the Good Citizen, and Twelfth-Century Literature,” session on law and

literature, Congress on Medieval Studies, ibid. “Du réalisme au merveilleux dans le roman occitan: Jean Boudou,” Association

Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, 5e Congrès International, Université de Toulouse, August 1996. Also chaired a session.

“Littératures modernes face à la modernité: les lettres occitanes,” public lecture at the

Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III), February 1997.

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“Literature in Scots, 1920-1990: Modernism and Postmodernism,” public lecture at the University of Edinburgh, April 1997.

“In the Aftermath of 1968: Breton and Occitan Postmodernism,” Fourteenth International

Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, Ohio State University, April 1997.

“Making a Canon: The Example of Medieval France,” public lecture at Cambridge

University, May 1977, and at the University of Edinburgh, June 1997. “Celtic Studies Today,” seminar at the University of Edinburgh, July 1997. “Robert Lafont Publishes La Festa (1983), the First Occitan Nouveau Roman,” Modern

Language Association of America, Toronto, December 1997. “Political Correctness and Diversity: Issues of Freedom of Expression,” Romance

Languages Graduate Studies Colloquium, February 1998. “Per Jakez Helias and the Captive Space of Doomed Peasant Life: A Triumph of the Breton

Theater,” Fifteenth International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, University of Massachusetts, March 1998.

“War and Sacred Memory: Resistance to the Resistance in the Poetry of Brittany,”

Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1998; and Sixteenth International Colloquium on Twentieth Century French Studies, University of North Carolina, March 1999.

“Makers of the Middle Ages: Erich Auerbach,” Thirty-Third International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1998. “The Middle Ages as Inheritance: Courtly Love and the Myth of French Occupation in the

Occitan Theater of Robert Lafont,” Thirteenth International Conference on Medievalism, University of Rochester, October 1998.

“Is There a Postcolonialist Identity in the Modern Literature of Brittany and Occitania?”

Modern Language Association of America, San Francisco, December 1998. “History and Literature: The Medieval Problematic,” Seminar at the University of

Washington, March 1999.

“Is Jean de Meun Antifeminist?” Thirty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1999.

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“Y a-t-il un post-modernisme breton et occitan? Paol Keineg, Joan Larzac et l'après-1968,” International Conference of the Association Internationale d'Etudes Occitanes, University of Vienna, September 1999. Also chaired a session.

“Helias dramaturge: structures comiques et tragiques,” Rencontres rennaises internationales

autour de P.-J. Helias, University of Rennes, September 1999. Also chaired a session.

“European Multiculturalism? Twentieth-Century Literature in Scots, Breton, and Occitan,”

American Civilization Seminar, University of Florida, December 1999. “Obscene Anglo-Norman in a Central French Mouth: How Reynard the Fox Tricks Isengrin

the Wolf and Why It Is Important,” Outreach lecture at the Thirtieth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Florida, February 2000; and keynote address at the Conference on Women, Sexuality, and Medieval French Writing, University of Western Ontario, April 2000.

“The Occitan Theater before and after 1968: High Culture Gives Way to Rebellion,”

Seventeenth International Colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 2000.

“What Tales of a Wayside Inn Tells Us about Longfellow and Chaucer,” Thirty-Fifth

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2000. Also chaired a session.

“A Maker of the Middle Ages: C.S. Lewis, Literary Critic,” Fifteenth International

Conference on Medievalism, Hope College, Michigan, September 2000. A keynote address.

“The Great Books: A Canon for the Twenty-First Century?” South Atlantic Modern

Language Association, University of Alabama, Birmingham, November 2000. A keynote address; and in the Entre Nous Lecture Series, University of Florida, March 2006. “Celtic Kitsch? Celtic Schlock? Recycling (and Inventing) Myth in French and American

Popular Culture,” International Colloquium in Twenty-First Century French Studies, University of California at Davis, March 2001; and Sixteenth International Conference on Medievalism, University of Buffalo, October 2001.

“Robert Lafont Writes the First Occitan New Novel: La Festa (2 vols.),” Florida

Colloquium on the Languages and Literatures of the Pyrenees, April 2001. Organized and chaired the colloquium.

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“Textes Médiévaux, approches modernes,” public lecture, University of Georgia, April 2001.

“The Quarrel over La Belle Dame sans Mercy: Questions of Love and Narrativity,” Thirty-

Sixth International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2001.

“Pey de Garros and Baroque Pastoral in Occitan,” Modern Language Association of

America, New Orleans, December 2001. Organized and chaired the session. “Intertextual Play and the Game of Love: The Quarrel over La Belle Dame sans mercy,”

public lecture, Arizona State University, February 2002. “Albert Béguin: His Legacy to Literary History and the Canon,” International Colloquium:

20th - Century and Contemporary French Studies, University of Connecticut, April 2002. Organized and chaired the session on “La Nouvelle Critique, revue et corrigée.”

“Problems in the Occitan Baroque I,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University

of Kentucky, April 2002. “La nouvelle critique, revue et corrigée: Jean Rousset,” Twentieth-Century French Studies

Colloquium, University of Illinois, March 2003. “Problems in the Occitan Baroque II,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2003. “The Quarrel over La Belle Dame sans merci: Condemnation and/or Antifeminism,” May Thirty-eighth International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2003. Also chaired a session on the troubadours.

“The Pierre-Jakez Hélias Controversy; or, How Breton Militants and Writers Negotiate Old Cultural Memory and New Cultural Identities,” International Conference on Cultural Memory in France, Florida State University, October-November, 2003. “Is Pey de Garros the Occitan Ronsard? A Reading of the Poesias Gasconas (1657),” Division on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Modern Language Association of America, San Diego, December 2003. “The Occitan Renaissance in Gascon: Heroides and Epistles,” Thirty-Ninth International

Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2004. Also chaired a session.

“The Making of Medievalism,” Nineteenth International Conference on Medievalism,

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University of New Brunswick, October 2004. “Sex and Perversion in the Southern Heartland: Théodore Aubanel,” public lecture, University of Maryland, October 2004. “Renaissance in the South of France: Poetry in Occitan,” public lecture, University of Toronto, February 2005.

“Marie de France: Psychology, Imagery, Poetry,” a plenary session address at the Marie de France Colloquium, King’s College, Ontario, April 2005.

“Le Roi René, His Cuer, and King Hart,” Fortieth International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2005.

“Revisiting a Monument: C.S. Lewis’s Allegory of Love,” ibid.

“The French Tradition and Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis,” at the 2005 International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, Brock University, July 2005. Also chaired a session.

“Lecture de Michel Tronc,” at the VIIIe Congrès de l’Association Internationale d’Etudes Occitanes, University of Bordeaux, September 2005. Also chaired two sessions. “The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval and Renaissance Scotland,” invited public lecture, University of Ontario, October 2005.

“The French Tradition and Dunbar’s ‘Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo,’”

Discussion Group on Scottish Literature, Modern Language Association of America, Washington D.C., December 2005.

“Die französische Kultur of 1930 in and ahead of Its Time; or, How Ernst Robert Curtius Situated France,” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of Miami, March-April 2006. “Guillaume de Machaut and the Scots Makars,” Forty-first International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2006. “Climacticism, Dubiotics, and the Ecole de Miami: Grundlagen for Prolegomena to Literary Studies in the Twenty-first Century,” ibid. “Postcolonialism and the French Regions: Expanding into New Spaces?” at the International Conference on Boundaries and Limits of Postcolonialism, Florida

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State University, November-December 2006. “Satirical and Didactic Verse of the Courts in the Long Fifteenth Century: Eustache Deschamps and William Dunbar,” Forty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007. “Erich Auerbach: Mimesis,” Colloquium on Europa Europa in Philosophy, History, Literature, Music, and Film, University of Florida, September 2007. “Is Orientalism Medievalism? Or, Edward Said, Are You a Saracen?” Twenty-second Conference of the International Society for Studies in Medievalism, University of Western Ontario, September 2007. “Auerbach and History,” Colloquium on Exile, Judaism, and Literary Criticism: Erich Auerbach, University of Florida, October 2007. “Philology As Seen by a Literary Critic,” Division on Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature, Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, December 2007. “Avian Intertextuality: Jean de Condé, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and David Lyndsay,” Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008. “Translating Modern Occitan: Robert Lafont et moi,” ibid. “Reading Fabliaux: Le povre clerc and The Freiris of Berwik,” Twelfth Triennial Conference, Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, University of Edinburgh, June-July 2008. Also chaired a session. “Postcolonial Studies, Imperialism, and the Origins of the Novel,” Modern Language Association of America, San Francisco, December 2008. “The Chanson de Geste in Scotland: The Taill of Rauf Coilyear,” ibid. “Robert Brasillach, Maurice Bardèche et moi: The Story of an Interview and Why It is

Important,” International Colloquium on Twentieth and Twenty-first Century French Studies, University of Minnesota, March 2009. Organized and chaired the session on“World War II and Its Aftershocks.”

“The Christian Middle Ages: A Scholars’ Myth,” Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2009. “Postcolonialism and Medievalism: How French Regional Cultures/Literatures Reshape Their Past and Present,” Twenty-fourth International Conference on Studies in Medievalism, Siena College, October 2009. Also chaired a session.

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“The Knight, the Lady, and the King: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature,” public lecture, Marquette University, October 2009. “The French Tradition and Earlier Scots Literature: Problems of Mediocrity and Misogyny,” public lecture, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, October 2009; and at the University of Toronto, November 2009.

“Postcolonialism and Medievalism: How French Regional Cultures/Literatures Reshape Their Past and Present,” Twenty-fourth International Conference on Studies in Medievalism, Siena College, October 2009.

“The Knight, the Lady, and the King: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature,” public lecture, Marquette University, October 2009. “The French Tradition and Earlier Scots Literature: Problems of Mediocrity and Misogyny,” public lecture, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, October 2009; and at the University of Toronto, November 2009. “Medieval Literature and Modern Celtic Culture: The High Road and the Low Road,” Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2010. “The International Guillaume de Machaut Society: ‘Tis Twenty-five Years Since,” ibid., at a panel on Guillaume de Machaut. “Sex, Food, and Deceit: A French and a Scots Fabliaux,” Nineteenth Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Miami, February 2011. Also chaired a session. “To Hell and Back: Interviewing a Fascist French Intellectual and the Unforgotten World War II,” Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Seminar, University of Florida, March 2011. “Sex, Violence, and Perversion in Rural Provence: Théodore Aubanel’s Occitan Play Lou Pastre,” at the Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century Colloquium, UF Paris Research Center, May 2011. Also chaired a session. “Mary Queen of Scots: Her Poetry in Its French Context,” at Natio Scota: The Thirteenth International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, University of Padova (Italy), July 2011. Also chaired a session. “The Ethical Turn: The Moral Imagination? or Ideological Moralism?” Keynote Address at

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Yale French Graduate Conference on Ethics and Literature, Yale University, February 2012.

“Morality Plays: French and Scots,” Forty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2012. “Coming to Terms with Medievalism: Splendeur and Misère of the French Model,” Forty-

seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2012. Also chaired a session.

“Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Provence: Frédéric Mistral’s Nostalgic Medievalism,”

Twenty-seventh International Conference on Medievalism, Kent State University, October 2012.

“On the Geographic Margin of the Arthurian Canon and World: Le Roman de Fergus,”

American Comparative Literature Association Annual Congress, University of Toronto, April 2013.

“Scandal at the Court: Mary Queen of Scots’ Libidinous French Poetry,” Forty-eighth

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2013.

“Coming to Terms with Medievalism, ibid. “The Provençal Margin Finds a Place in the Paris Center: Edmond Rostand’s Play La

Princesse lointaine,” Twenty-eighth Conference on Medievalism, St. Norbert College, October 2013.

“Medievalism and the French Counter-Reformation Baroque,” Thirtieth Conference on

Medievalism, University of Pittsburgh, October 2015. Current and Future Research Classic, Rococo, Preromantic: Readings in French Poetry of the Eighteenth Century Studies in Occitan Literature: The Baroque; the Felibrige Essays in Medievalism