Contact me about:
Le Cercle Français
The French Translation Program at MSU
Early Modern French Literature

Education:
Ph.D., New York University, 2002, French Literature
B.A., Boston College, 1992, Romance Languages and Literatures – French

Book:
Conversation and Storytelling in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French Nouvelles. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

Conference Presentations:

“Storytelling and Story-Performance in Early Modern France.” 2005 Meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. Panel entitled, “The Short Narrative Genre in Early Modern France.” Atlanta, Georgia. October 2005.

“Chattering Women: From the Evangiles des quenouilles to the Caquets de l’accouchée.” 2005 Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Conference entitled, “Panglossia: Conversation, Gossip, and the Voice in Early Modern France.” Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. Cambridge, England. September 2005.

“Un marchié de hire hare: Women’s Truthtelling and Storytelling in Les Evangiles des quenouilles.” Panel entitled, “Feminine Perspectives in Middle French.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. May 2005.

“Festive Times: Scenes of Storytelling and Celebration in Noël du Fail’s Propos rustiques.” Panel entitled: “The Rhetoric of Celebration in 16th-Century Europe: Dialogue, Storytelling, and Chronicle.” Celebration! Colloquium sponsored by the journal Romance Studies and hosted by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Montclair State University. Jersey City, New Jersey. October 2004.

Contributing panelist, speaking on the Arrêts d’Amour by Martial d’Auvergne. “New Perspectives on Medieval Narrative: A Round Table Featuring Presentations by Recent PhD’s and Doctoral Candidates in French at NYU.” Faculty Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture. Humanities Council, New York University. November 2003.

“In Pursuit of Truth: Tellers and Talkers in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.” Faculty Colloquium on Orality, Writing, and Culture. Humanities Council, New York University. October 2003.

“Separate and Unequal? Storytelling and Conversation in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron.” Panel entitled: “Sixteenth-Century French Literature.” Annual Meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 2003.

“Martial d’Auvergne: Do Multiple Perspectives Enhance Narrative’s Truth Value?” Panel entitled: “La vérité et la femme au Moyen Age.” Twenty-Third Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati. May 2003.

“Asides, Digressions, and Narratorial Commentary: Noël Du Fail’s Use of Parentheses in Shaping Represented Speech in Les Propos rustiques.” Panel entitled: “New Media? Premodern Texts and Hypertexts.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. California State University. April 2003.

“L’Effet de passé: François Villon’s Processes of Nostalgia in the Testament.” Panel sponsored by the journal Fifteenth-Century Studies at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University. May 2000.

“A la recherche de la voix perdue. La Représentation de la voix dans le texte imprimé: Les Propos rustiques de Noël Du Fail.” New College Conference on Medieval-Renaissance Studies. University of South Florida. March 1998.

Teaching and research interests:
- Narrative literature of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
- La préciosité and salon culture of the seventeenth century
- Reading practices and orality, early modern period
- Women writers of the Middle Ages to twentieth century