Areas of Research/Interest: Medieval literature: performance; oral and written tradition; hagiography, biblical and religious literature; crusader culture; storytelling; literary theory.

Fellowships/Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities and French Government grants; New York University Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Select Publications:

Performing Medieval Narrative , ed. with Nancy Freeman Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, Cambridge , D.S. Brewer, 2005

Orality and Performance in Early French Romance, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1999.

“Gender and Martyrdom,” Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s., 26, 1999, pp. 70-99.

“La liturgie, Le Roman de Renart, et le problème du blasphème dans la vie littéraire au Moyen Age, ou: Les bêtes peuvent-elles blasphémer?” Reinardus 12, 1999, pp. 205-225.

“'Bourde jus mise'?: François Villon, the Liturgy, and Prayer,” Villon at Oxford: The Drama of the Text, ed. by Michael Freeman and Jane H.M. Taylor, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999, pp. 170-194.

“French Medieval Oral Traditions,” Teaching Oral Traditions, ed. John Miles Foley, MLA, 1998, pp. 373-381.

“Rereading Rape in Medieval Literature,” Partisan Review, April 1996, pp. 263-274.

“1215: November: The Fourth Lateran Council Prescribes that Adult Christians Confess at Least Once a Year,” A New History of French Literature, Denis Hollier, ed., Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 82-88.

Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology: Subjects and Objects of Desire, New York, New York University Press, 1989; paperback edition, 1993.

“Vie, légende, littérature: traditions orales et écrites dans les histoires des saints,” Poétique 72, November 1987, pp. 387-402.

“Type et individu dans l'autobiographie médiévale,” Poétique, no. 24, 1975, pp. 426-445.

The Crossroad of Intentions: A Study of Symbolic Expression in the Poetry of François Villon, The Hague, Mouton, 1974.

Websites:

“Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase,” co-directed with Marilyn Lawrence, New York University Digital Studio:
http://wilde.its.nyu.edu/mednar/

“Storytelling in Performance”: http://www.nyu.edu/humanities.council/workshops/storytelling/

Articles:

La performabilité de la voix et du déguisement dans le récit et au théâtre: Wistasse le moine, ” in press, 2006, Pris-Ma ( University of Poitiers

“Performing Aucassin et Nicolette ,” Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado, eds. Eglal Doss-Quinby, E. Jane Burns and Roberta Krueger, Cambridge , D.S. Brewer, in press, 2007.

“Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative,” with Linda Marie Zaerr, Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Acts and Texts , ed. Laurie Postlewate, Amsterdam, Rodopi, in press, 2007.

“Biblical vs. Liturgical Citation in Medieval Literature and Culture,” Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Studies for Jonathan J.G. Alexander , eds. Gerry Guest and Susan L'Engle, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2006, pp. 443-449.

“Teaching Arthurian Literature through Performance,” Arthuriana 15:4 (winter 2005), pp. 31-36.

“ Floriant et Florete ,” The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library , eds. Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York Public Library/Harvey Miller, 2005, pp. 389-391.

“The Liturgy and Vernacular Literature,” The Liturgy of the Medieval Church , rev. ed., eds. Thomas Heffernan and Ann Matter, Kalamazoo/TEAMS, 2005, pp. 503-563.

“Erotic Reading in the Middle Ages: Performance and Re-performance of Romance,” in Performing Medieval Narrative , eds. E.B. Vitz, Nancy Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2005, pp. 73-88.

“Performance in, and of, Flamenca ,” De sens rassis: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens , eds. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot and Logan E. Whalen, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 683-698.

“Liturgy as Education in the Middle Ages,” Medieval Education , eds. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Bronx, NY, Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, No. 4, Fordham University Press, 2005, pp. 20-34.

“La lecture érotique au Moyen Age et la performance du roman,” Poétique 137, février 2004, pp. 35-51.

“On the Discovery of a Lost Manuscript of Chrétien de Troyes: Toward an Appreciation of its Vast Importance for the Study of Medieval Literature and Culture” [ parody ], The Proceedings of the Pseudo Society: First Series , Kalamazoo , MI : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, pp. 224-238.

“Minstrel Meets Clerk in Early French Literature: Medieval Romance as the Meeting-Place between Two Traditions of Verbal Eloquence and Performance Practice,” Cultures in Contact , ed. Richard Gyug, Fordham University Press, 2002, pp. 169-188.

“Liturgical Citation in French Medieval Epic and Romance,” invited contribution to Philologies Old and New: Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski , eds. Joan Grimbert and Carol Chase, Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature, 2002, pp. 191-209.

La performabilité de la voix et du déguisement dans le récit et au théâtre: Wistasse le moine, ” in press, 2006, Pris-Ma ( University of Poitiers

“Performing Aucassin et Nicolette ,” Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado, eds. Eglal Doss-Quinby, E. Jane Burns and Roberta Krueger, Cambridge , D.S. Brewer, in press, 2007.

“Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative,” with Linda Marie Zaerr, Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Acts and Texts , ed. Laurie Postlewate, Amsterdam, Rodopi, in press, 2007.

“Biblical vs. Liturgical Citation in Medieval Literature and Culture,” Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Studies for Jonathan J.G. Alexander , eds. Gerry Guest and Susan L'Engle, Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2006, pp. 443-449.

“Teaching Arthurian Literature through Performance,” Arthuriana 15:4 (winter 2005), pp. 31-36.

“ Floriant et Florete ,” The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library , eds. Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James Marrow and Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York Public Library/Harvey Miller, 2005, pp. 389-391.

“The Liturgy and Vernacular Literature,” The Liturgy of the Medieval Church , rev. ed., eds. Thomas Heffernan and Ann Matter, Kalamazoo/TEAMS, 2005, pp. 503-563.

“Erotic Reading in the Middle Ages: Performance and Re-performance of Romance,” in Performing Medieval Narrative , eds. E.B. Vitz, Nancy Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2005, pp. 73-88.

“Performance in, and of, Flamenca ,” De sens rassis: Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens , eds. Keith Busby, Bernard Guidot and Logan E. Whalen, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2005, pp. 683-698.

“Liturgy as Education in the Middle Ages,” Medieval Education , eds. Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., Bronx, NY, Fordham Series in Medieval Studies, No. 4, Fordham University Press, 2005, pp. 20-34.

“La lecture érotique au Moyen Age et la performance du roman,” Poétique 137, février 2004, pp. 35-51.

“On the Discovery of a Lost Manuscript of Chrétien de Troyes: Toward an Appreciation of its Vast Importance for the Study of Medieval Literature and Culture” [ parody ], The Proceedings of the Pseudo Society: First Series , Kalamazoo , MI : Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, pp. 224-238.

“Minstrel Meets Clerk in Early French Literature: Medieval Romance as the Meeting-Place between Two Traditions of Verbal Eloquence and Performance Practice,” Cultures in Contact , ed. Richard Gyug, Fordham University Press, 2002, pp. 169-188.

“Liturgical Citation in French Medieval Epic and Romance,” invited contribution to Philologies Old and New: Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski , eds. Joan Grimbert and Carol Chase, Edward C. Armstrong Monographs on Medieval Literature, 2002, pp. 191-209.