R. Howard Bloch

Curriculum Vitae

Department of French
P.O. Box 208251
New Haven, CT 06520-8251
Tel: (203) 432 4900, 4912
Fax: (203) 432 7975
Email: howard.bloch@yale.edu

64 Blake Rd.
Hamden, CT 06517
Tel: (203) 789 8213

Education:
B.A. Amherst College, 1965
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1970 (Thesis: An Interpretation of Dreams
in Old French Narrative)
M.A. Yale University (privatim), 1998

Teaching and Professional Experience:
1970-1973 State University of New York, Buffalo (Assistant Professor)
1973-1982 University of California, Berkeley (Assistant and Associate Professor)
1982-1994 University of California, Berkeley (Professor, Chair 1985-1990)
1982 (fall), 1984-1985 Yale University (Visiting Professor)
1990 (January) Directeur d’Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris
1992 NEH Summer Seminar, University of California, Berkeley
1995- Professor, Chair Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia
University
1996 (fall) Visiting Professor, Yale University
1996 NEH Summer Seminar, Columbia University
1997-2005 Augustus R. Street Professor of French, Yale University
2000 NEH Summer Seminar, Yale University
2002- Director Division of the Humanities, Yale University
2003 NEH Summer Seminar, Yale University
2004-5, Getty Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2005 NEH Summer Seminar, Yale University
2005- Sterling Professor of French, Yale University

Honors:
NDEA Fellowship, 1965-1968.
Fulbright Fellowship, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1968-1969.
University of California Humanities Council Fellowship, 1978.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980-1981.
ACLS Fellowship, 1990-1991.
Institute for International Studies, UC, Fellowship for Travel, 1990-1991.
James Russell Lowell Award of the Modern Language Association, 1990.
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993-
Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1994-
Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, 1998-2001.
Medal of the Collège de France, 2001.
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association, 2004.
Chancellor’s Distinguished Medal, Louisiana State University, 2004.

Publications:
Books:
Medieval French Literature and Law (University of California Press, 1977).
Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 1983; paperback edition 1986).
Etymologie et Généalogie: une anthropologie littéraire du moyen âge français (translation of Etymologies and Genealogies, Paris: du Seuil, 1988).
The Scandal of the Fabliaux (University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Moses in the Promised Land, a novel (Peregrine Smith Books, 1988).
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne (Chicago: Chicago Press, 1994).
Le Plagiare de Dieu (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1996).
The Anonymous Marie de France, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, Modern Language Association of America. Paperback to appear in 2005.
Il Plagiario di Dio (Milan: Edizione Sylvestre Bonnard, 2003), preface by
Umberto Eco.
A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman Conquest of 1066, forthcoming Random House.

Books edited or introduced:
Misogyny, Misandry, Misanthropy, ed. with Frances Ferguson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
A New History of French Literature, ed. of medieval section (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1989). Lowell Award of the Modern Language Associa tion of America. Translated as De la littérature française (Paris:
Bordas, 1993).
Les Fabliaux érotiques, postface, Livre de Poche, Paris, 1993.
Future Libraries, special issue of Representations, ed. with Carla Hesse, spring 1993, published as a book University of California Press, 1995.
Medievalism and the Modernist Temper: On the Discipline of Medieval Studies, ed. with Stephen Nichols (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Articles:
“Roland and Oedipus: A Study of Paternity in La Chanson de Roland,” French Review 46 (1973): 1-18.

“From Grail Quest to Inquest: The Death of King Arthur and the Birth of France,” Modern Language Review 69 (1974): 40-55.

“The Death of King Arthur and the Waning of the Feudal Age,” Orbis Litterarum 29 (1974): 1-14.
“Tristan, the Myth of the State, and the Language of the Self,” Yale French Studies 51 (1975): 61-81.

“The Text as Inquest: Form and Function in the Pseudo-Map Cycle,” Mosaic 8 (1975): 107-119.

“Some Further Thoughts in the Mort Artu,” Modern Language Review 71 (1976): 26-30.

“Signs and the Times,” University Publishing (summer 1980) (special issue on the Middle Ages).

“Wasteland and Round Table: The Historical Significance of Myths of Dearth and Plenty in Old French Romance,” New Literary History 11 (1979-1980): 255-276.

“Merlin and the Modes of Medieval Legal Meaning,” Archéologie du Signe, ed. L. Brind Amour and E. Vance (Toronto: Pontifical Institute, 1983): 127- 144.

“Money, Metaphor, and the Mediation of Social Difference in Old French Romance,” Symposium 35 (1981): 18-33.

“Etymologies et généalogies: théories de langue, liens de parenté, et genre littéraire au XIIIe siècle,” Annales ESC 5 (1981): 946-962.

“Le Mantel mautaillié des fabliaux,” Poétique 54 (1983): 181-198.

“The Fabliaux, Fetishism, and Freud’s Jewish Jokes,” Representations 4 (1983): 1-26.

“Jean de Meun and the Poetics of the City,” Mélanges E. Koehler (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1984): 43-59.

“Le Rire de Merlin,” Bulletin de l’Association Internationale des Enseignants de Français 35 (1984): 1-18.

“Silence and Holes: The Roman de Silence and the Art of the Trouvère,” Yale French Studies 70 (1986): 81-99.

“Genealogy as a Medieval Mental Structure and Literary Form,” Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1986): 135-156.

“Naturalism, Nationalism, Medievalism,” Romanic Review 76 (1986): 341-360.

“The Discourse of Misogyny in the Middle Ages,” Odense Studies in Medieval Culture (Odense: Odense University Press, 1986): 87-117.

“Medieval Misogyny,” Representations 20 (1986): 1-24.

“The Dead Nightingale: Orality in the Tomb of Old French Literature,” Culture and History 3 (1988): 63-78.

“The Medieval Text--Guigemar--as a Provocation to the Discipline of Medieval Studies,” Romanic Review 79 (1988): 63-73. (Reprinted in The New Medievalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).

“Chaucer’s Maiden’s Head: The Physician’s Tale and the Poetics of Virginity,” Qui Parle 2 (1988): 22-45.

“Chaucer’s Maiden’s Head: The Physician’s Tale and the Poetics of Virginity,” Representations 28, special issue in memory of Joel Fineman, fall 1989: 113-135. (To be reprinted in MacMillan’s Casebook Series, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales).

“Naturalisme, Nationalisme, Médiévisme” in L’Identité Française, ed. Hans Boll-Johansen (Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1989): 62-87.

“842--The ‘Oaths of Strasbourg’ and the Birth of Medieval Studies,” The New History of French Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989): 6-13.

“The Arthurian Fabliau and the Poetics of Virginity,” Continuations: Essays on Medieval French Literature and Language in Memory of John Grigsby, ed. N. Lacy (Atlanta: Summa Publications, 1989): 231-251.

“New Philology and Old French,” Speculum 64 (1990): 38-58.

“The Lay and the Law: Sexual/Textual Transgression in the Lais of Marie de France,” special issue of Stanford French Review on transgression, ed. Kevin and Marina Brownlee (1990): 181-210.

“Critical Communities and the Shape of the Medievalist’s Desire: A Response” Exemplaria 3 (1990): 203-220.

“Das Paradox der Jungfräulichkeit und die Poetik höfischer Liebe,” Paradoxien, Dissonanzen, Zusammenbrüche. Situationem offener Epistemologie, eds. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich and Pfeiffer, Ludwig (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991): 238-258.

“Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love,” in The Modernity of the Middle Ages, eds. Cazelles, Brigette and Méla, Charles (Geneva: Droz, 1990), pp. 289-313.

“Das Altfranzösiche Lai als Ort von Trauer und Gedächtnis” in Gedächtnis als Raum, ed. Lachmann, Renate and Haverkamp, Anselm (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991).

“Old French and the New Medievalism,” forthcoming in The Future of the Middle Ages: Medieval Literature in the 1990s, eds. Paden, William and Sankovitch, Tilde (University Press of Florida).

“1179: Royal Peace and Carnal Love--The Accession of Philippe-Auguste and Béroul’s Roman de Tristan,” forthcoming in French translation of A New History of French Literature (Paris: Bordas, 1992).

“Better Never than Late: Romance, Philology, and Old French Letters,” Representations 36 (1991): pp. 122-144.

“’Mieux vaut jamais que tard’”: Rhétorique du désir mimétique et du médiévisme à la fin du XIXe siècle” in Rhetoriques fin de siecle (Christian Bourgeois, Paris, 1992).

“’Du bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” forthcoming, Medievalism and the Modernist Temper: On the Discipline of Medieval Studies, ed. Bloch, R. Howard and Nichols, Stephen (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996): 169- 191.

“The Once and Future Middle Ages,” Modern Language Quarterly 54 (1993): 67-77.

“’Du bon, du bon marché,’ ou la fabuleuse production des Pères de l’Eglise par l’abbé Migne” Travers 5 (1993): 26-41. Reproduced in L’Hostellerie de Pensée. Etudes sur l’art littéraire au Moyen Age offertes à Daniel Poirion par ses anciens élèves, ed. Zink, Michel and Bohler, Danielle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1995): 59-74.

“Modest Maidens and Modified Nouns: Obscenity in the Fabliaux” in Obscenity in the Middle Ages, ed. Ziolkowski, Jan (Leiden: Brill, 1998): 293-307.

“The Blind Leading the Mute: Gesture in the Realm of the Senses,” forthcoming in Medieval Theatricality, ed. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich.

“Other Words and Other Worlds in the Works of Marie de France,” in The World and its Rival: Essays in Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog, ed. Conley, Tom and Karczewska, Kathryn (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1999): 39-57.

“Old French Literature and its Devices,” Yale French Studies, special issue in honor of Daniel Poirion, ed. Ahmer, Saher and Guynn, Noah 95 (1999): 237-259.

“Marcel Proust and the Art of Fly Fishing,” Yale Angler’s Journal vol. II, no. 2, Winter 1999: 11-17.

“The Siege of the Manuscripts: Military Philology between the Franco-Prussian and the First World War,” Aporemata, ed. Most, Glenn W., 5 (2000): 1-15.

“Lancelot as Ilustrator: Images of Seduction and the Seduction of Images in Yale 229,” in Old Books, New Learning. Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Books at Yale, ed. Babcock, Robert G. and Patterson, Lee (New Haven: Beinecke Publications, 2001): 21-43.

“Fin de Siècle Nuclear Sublime (Introduction to the 1990s),” “Fifty Years of Yale French Studies: A Commemorative Anthology,” Yale French Studies 97 (2000): 73-78.

“Eneas before the Walls of Carthage: The Beginnings of the City and Romance in the Suburbs,” French Literature Series, special issue on Beginnings (2001): 1-27.

“Les dialectes de la diaspora: Le créole et le yiddish Traverser la mangrove dans le Upper West Side” in Maryse Condé. Une nomade inconvenante, ed. Cottenet-Have, Madeleine and Moudileno, Lydie
(Guadeloupe: Ibis Rouge Editions, 2002): 175-183.

“Paris, France,” forthcoming Marie de France, a Casebook of Criticism Edward Mellen Press.

“Altérité et Animalité dans les Fables de Marie de France,” Littérature 130 (2003): 26-38.

“Etymologies and Genealogies: History, Words, and the World,” SACS serie "In the beginning: Origins of semiosis," eds Morana Alac and Patrizia Violi (2004): 49-68.

“The Wolf in the Dog: Animal Fables and State Formation,” Differences 15 (2004): 69-83.

“Animals in the Margins of Yale 229,” forthcoming in edition of Yale 229 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004).

“Die Schlacht um die Manuscriptke. Militärische Philologie Schwischen französisch-preußischen Krieg und Erstem Weltkrieg” in Medien und nationale Kulturen, ed. Vincent Kaufmann, Facetten der Medienkultur 4 (Bern, Stuttgart, und Vienna, Haupt Verlag, 2004): 135-161.

“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” forthcoming POETICA.

“Foreward,” Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux, forthcoming (Palgrave: New York, 2006).

Reviews:
René Alleau, Enigmes et symboles de Mont-Saint Michel, French Review 44 (1971): 778.
Michel Florisoone, Dictionnaire des cathédrales de la France, French Review 46 (1973): 1085.
John Newhouse, De Gaulle and the Anglo-Saxons, French Review 47 (1974): 457.
Georges Duby, Guerriers et paysans au moyen âge, French Review 47 (1974): 676.
Jacques Verger, Les Universités au moyen âge, French Review 47 (1974): 681.
Colin Morris, The Discovery of the Individual: 1050-1200, French Review 48 (1975): 808.
Béroul, Le Roman de Tristan, tr. H. Braet, Romance Philology 29 (1976): 573.
Neal Carmen, An Historical Study of the Pseudo-Map Cycle, Romance Philology 31 (1977): 453-455.
Robert W. Hanning, The Individual in Twelfth-Century Romance, Modern Language Notes 94 (1979): 898-901.
Jean-Charles Payen, La Rose et l’utopie, Modern Language Notes 94 (1979): 901-904.
Stephen G. Nichols, Romanesque Signs, Speculum 59 (1984): 421-425.
Philippe Ménard, Les Fabliaux, forthcoming Romance Philology.
Leah L. Otis, Prostitution in Medieval Society. The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc forthcoming Contemporary Sociology.
Penny Gold, The Lady and the Virgin. Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France forthcoming Modern Philology.

Public Lectures:
Series of lectures on Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald delivered at the Université de Grenoble, spring 1971.
“The Death of King Arthur,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, New York, November 1972.
“Roland and Oedipus,” Romance-Epic Seminar, Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 1972.
“Some Legal Aspects of the Tristan Myth,” Stanford University Medieval Studies Seminar, February 1973.
“Lovers and Outlaws,” Medieval Studies Committee, Berkeley, December 1974.
“Love Court and Law Court,” Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1974.
“Turoldus and the Legacy of Self-Reflection,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 1974.
“The Text as Inquest,” International Arthurian Congress, Exeter, England, August 1975.
“Jean de Meun and the Poetics of the City,” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 1976.
“Merlin et les modes de savoir juridique au moyen âge,” Cerisy-la-Salle, France, August 1977.
“Fall into Metaphor as a Medieval Problem of Verbal and Economic Signs,” Comparative Literature Graduate Student Colloquium on Metaphor and the Fall, Berkeley, May 1979.
“Terre Gaste et Table Ronde,” International Arthurian Congress, Regensburg, Germany, August 1979.
“Etymologies et généalogies,” medieval seminar, D. Poirion, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, March 1980.
“Etymologies and Genealogies: Language Theory and Family Structure in the Making of the Medieval State,” Colloquium on the Medieval State, University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities, April 1980.
“Family Structure and Language Theory in the Old French Epic,” Société de Roncesvals, Berkeley, June 1980.
“Genealogy as a Medieval Mental Structure,” Yale University, April 1981.
“Toward a Literary Anthropology of the Middle Ages,” University of the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany, June 1981.
“Toward a Literary Anthropology of the Middle Ages,” Romance Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 1981.
“Toward a Literary Anthropology of the Middle Ages,” University of Pennsylvania, December 1981.
“Lineage and Language in the Old Provençal Lyric,” Medieval Studies Committee, Berkeley, January 1982.
“Abélard et la philosophie de la castration,” Colloquium “Iconicités, Déplacements,” Urbino, Italy, July 1982.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” Miami of Ohio, October 1982.
“Toward a Literary Anthropology of the Middle Ages,” New York University, October 1982.
“Le Mantel mautaillié des fabliaux,” University of Montreal, November 1982.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” University of North Carolina, November 1982.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” Brown University, December 1982.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” Amherst College, December 1982.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” Cornell University, December 1982.
“Le Mantel mautaillié des fabliaux,” Yale University, December 1982.
“Silence and Holes: The Roman de Silence and the Art of the Trouvère,” Dartmouth Colloquium on History and Discourse, Squam Lake, October 1983.
“The Ill-Fitting Coat of the Fabliaux,” University of Nevada, Reno, December 1983.
“Silence and Holes: The Roman de Silence and the Art of the Trouvère,” Wesleyan University, October 1984.
“Le Rire de Merlin,” l’Association Internationale des Enseignants de Français, Collège de France, Paris, July 1984.
“Naturalism, Nationalism, Medievalism,” Dartmouth College, November 1984.
“Silence and Holes: The Roman de Silence and the Art of the Trouvère,” State University of New York, Buffalo, December 1984.
Series of lectures on medieval literature and culture, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, December 1984.
“Poetry and Prophecy in the High Middle Ages: Marie de France,” Yale University, April 1985.
“Naturalism, Nationalism, Medievalism,” University of California, Irvine, May 1985.
“Naturalism, Nationalism, Medievalism,” Stanford University, November 1985.
“The Voice of the Dead Nightingale: Orality in the Tomb of Old French Literature,” Helsingor, Denmark, November 1985.
“The Discourse of Misogyny in the Middle Ages,” Odense, Denmark, December 1985.
“The Medieval Text as a Provocation to the Discipline of Medieval Studies,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago December 1985.
“Medieval Misogyny,” Duke University, January 1986.
“Women, Property, Poetry,” Colloquium on Rhetoric and Property, Northwestern University, June 1986.
“Berkeley’s Relation to America,” public address delivered to the citizens of Berkeley, July 4, 1986.
“The Arthurian Fabliau: Guenivere as Everywoman,” Colloquium on the Passing of Arthur, Barnard College, November 1986.
“Medieval Misogyny,” University of Washington, Seattle, November 1986.
“The Legitimacy of the Illegible,” Colloquium on the Legitimacy of the Middle Ages, University of Pennsylvania, March 1987.
“The Oaths of Strasbourg and the Birth of Medieval Studies,” Medieval Studies Colloquium, Berkeley, September 1987.
“The Arthurian Fabliau and the Poetics of Virginity,” University of California, October 1987.
“Etudes médiévales, identité nationale,” Center for Research in the Humanities, Copenhagen University, Denmark, November 1987.
“The Arthurian Fabliau and the Poetics of Virginity,” University of Wisconsin, March 1988.
“Medieval Misogyny and the Origins of Western Romantic Love,” Stanford University, April 1988
Respondant at colloquium History/Theory/Text: Reconceiving Chaucer, University of Rochester, April 1988.
“Medieval Misogyny and the Origins of Western Romantic Love,” Newberry Library, May 1988 (series of 8 talks).
“The Physician’s Tale and the Poetics of Virginity,” New Chaucer Society, Vancouver, B.C., August 1988.
“Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love,” Medieval Institute, University of Western Michigan, October 1988.
“Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love,” University of Michigan, October 1988.
“The Lay and the Law: Sexual/Textual Transgression in the Lais of Marie de France,” Modern Language Convention, New Orleans, December 1988.
“Les ‘Serments de Strasbourg’: Etudes Médiévales et identité nationale,” Université de Strasbourg, March 1989.
“The Paradox of Virginity and the Poetics of Courtly Love,” International University Center, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, April 1989.
“Response to Janet Martin’s ‘Cicero’s Jokes at the Court of Henry II’,” University of Washington, Seattle, October 1989.
“New Philology and Old French,” Princeton University, November 1989.
“The Old French Lai as a Site of Mourning and of Memory,” University of Konstanz, December 1989.
“La Poétique de la virginité,” Université de Paris, Jussieu, January 1990.
Series of lectures on medieval sexuality and poetics, Rice University, February 1990.
“Old French Literature and the New Medievalism,” Conference on the Future of the Middle Ages, Newberry Library, Chicago, March 1990.
“The Paradox of Virginity in the Middle Ages,” University of Geneva, June 1990.
“L’Invention du rire au moyen âge,” Chexbres, Switzerland, June 1990.
“Old French Literature and the Invention of Western Romantic Love,” Conference entitled La Chose Médiévale, Louisiana State University, October 1990.
“Genre and Gender in the French Middle Ages,” Conference on Gender, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1990.
“Mieux Vaut Jamais que Tard: Romance, Philology, and Old French Letters,” Con ference on Writing/Ecriture/Schrift, Stanford University, March 1991.
“Some Thoughts on the Future of Medieval French Studies,” University of North Carolina, March 1991.
“Mieux Vaut Jamais que Tard: Romance, Philology, and Old French Letters,” Duke University, March 1991.
“Mieux Vaut Jamais que Tard: Romance, Philology, and Old French Letters,” Boston University, October 1991.
“’A Few Romanists in Formal Dress”’: Geniality, Gentility, and Genealogy in the Creation of Medieval Studies,” MLA Convention, San Francisco, Decem ber 1991.
“’Du Bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” University of Notre Dame, February, 1992.
“’Du Bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” University of Michigan, October 1992.
“’Du Bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” University of Washington, Seattle, October 1992.
“’Du Bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” New York University, November 1992.
“’Du Bon et du bon marché’: The Abbé Migne’s Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers,” Johns Hopkins University, December 1992.
“De Bovin de Provins: from metteur-en-scène to entremetteuse,” University of Pennsylvania, December 1992.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” Cornell Lectureship in Classics, Rollins College, Febuary 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” Stanford University, March 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” University of California at Santa Barbara, April 1993.
“The Once and Future Middle Ages,” Medieval Graduate Colloquium, Berkeley April 1993.
“Buffalo Bill and the Invention of the American West,” Odense, Denmark, European Community Summer School, June 1993.
“Le Corps virginal de la chrétienté,” Association Descartes, Paris, July, 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” Yale University, October 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” University of Colorado, Boulder, November 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” Syracuse University, November 1993.
“God’s Plagiarist: The Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne,” Bard College, October 1994.
“The Abbé Migne, Saint or Sinner,” Barnard College, November, 1994.
“Bill and Bull: William F. Cody’s Making of the American West,” Dartmouth Col lege, January, 1995.
“The Blind Leading the Mute: Writing in the Realm of the Medieval Senses,” MLA Convention, Chicago, December, 1995.
“Bill and Bull: William F. Cody’s Making of the American West,” Harvard University, February, 1996.
“The Blind Leading the Mute: Writing in the Realm of the Medieval Senses,” Miami University, February, 1996.
“Eneas before the Walls of Troy or Romance in the Suburbs,” French Department, Yale University, March, 1996.
“Old French Literature in the Realm of the Senses,” Yale University, Medieval Studies Colloquium in Honor of Daniel Poirion, April, 1996.
“Modest Maidens and Modified Nouns: Obscenity in the Fabliaux,” Harvard University, April 1996.
“Esthetic Pleasure and Cultural Capital in Old French Literature,” Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1996
“Buffalo Bill’s Invention of the American West and the Creation of the Old French Epic,” Montana State University, September, 1996.
“Other Words and Other Worlds in the Works of Marie de France,” Harvard University, December 1997.
“Buffalo Bill, rémanences chevaleresques et épiques dans le Far West américain,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Fontenay Saint-Cloud, December, 1997.
“Lost Illustions and New Found Presses: Printing Under the Restauration and the Second Empire,” Dartmouth College, July 1997.
“Old French Literature and its Devices,” Inaugural Lecture, Yale University, February 1998.
“The Anonymous Marie de France,” Brown University, February 1998.
“Lancelot as Ilustrator: Images of Seduction and the Seduction of Images in Yale 229,” Colloquium on the Medieval Senses, Potsdam, Germany, March 1998.
“Yale 229,” Colloquium: Treasures of the Beinecke, April 1998.
“The Anonymous Marie de France,” University of Utah, October 1998.
“Is There a Broom in the Text,” MLA Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
“Old French Literature and its Devices,” Philological Society, Johns Hopkins University, February 1999.
“Buffalo Bill et l’Invention du Farwest,” University of Rome, April 1999.
“Tales of the City: The Fables of Marie de France and the Rise of the Monarchic State,” School for Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June 1999.
“The Anonymous Marie de France,” Emory University, October 1999.
“The Anonymous Marie de France,” UCLA, March 2000.
“Tales of the City: The Fables of Marie de France and the Rise of the Monarchic State,” Yale University, April 2000.
“Etymologies and Genealogies: History, Words, and the World,” Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino, May 2000.
“Meaning in the Margins of the Arthurian Illuminated Manuscript (Yale 229),” Brooklyn College, September 2000.
“Tales of the City: the Fables of Marie de France and the Rise of the Monarchic State,” Medieval Club of New York, November 2000.
“The Animal Appetites and the Senses,” Colloquium on the Senses in the Middle Ages, Stanford University, December 2000.
“Terre Gaste et Table Ronde,” Collège de France, March 2001.
“Animalité et Sociabilité: Les Fables de Marie de France,” College de France, March 2001.
“Aneas before the Walls of Carthage: The Beginnings of Old French Literature and of Romance in the Suburbs,” University of South Carolina, March 2001.
“Medieval Visual Culture,” Dartmouth College, June 2001.
“Translation as a Near-Death Experience and the Translatio of the Soul to the Other World in Marie de France’s Espurgatoire Seint Patriz,” MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 2001 (read in absentia).
“Marie de France: Medievalism and the Eternal Feminine from the French Revolution to the Present,” Keynote address, Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 2002.
“The Margins of the Bayeux Tapestry,” Johns Hopkins University, April 2002.
“Generation from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Linguist and Biological Models,” Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, June 2002.
“Translation as a Near-Death Experience and the Translatio of the Soul to the Other World in Marie de France’s Espurgatoire Seint Patriz,” University of Montreal, September 2002.
“The Wolf in the Dog: Animal Tales and State Formation,” Conference on Man and Beast organized by Naomi Schor, Yale, November 2002.
“The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century,” series of 5 lectures sponsored by the Yale University Women’s Organization, October-November 2002.
“Animal Fables, the Bayeux Tapestry, and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Boston University, November 2002.
“Animal Fables, the Bayeux Tapestry, and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” In the Company of Scholars, Yale, November, 2002.
“Medieval Esthetics: Erec and Enide,” Seminar on Cultural Esthetics, Yale, December 2002.
“Les Altérités de la Conquête: Animalité et Philosophie dans la Broderie de Bayeux,” Instituto di Cultura Italiana, Paris, January 2003.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” NYU, March 2003.
“Creating in Detail: Adam, Eve, and the Cosmetic Theology of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages,” The Lure of the Detail, a Conference in Honor of Naomi Schor, Brown University, April 2003.
“Animals and the Image of Man,” Conference in Memory of Leo Lowenthal, UC Berkeley, April 2003.
“Medieval Literature and Law,” Dartmouth, French Institute, June 2003.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Southern Connecticut State University, October 2003.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Medieval and Renaissance Center, UCLA, March 2004.
“Ayes and Eyes: Vision in the Bayeux Tapestry,” Spelman Center, Florence, Italy, May 2004.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture, Louisiana State University, October 2004.
“Duration in the Bayeux Tapestry,” Getty Research Institute, November 2004.
“Duration in the Bayeux Tapestry,” University of California, Riverside, November 2004.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” University of Cologne, Germany, January 2005.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Freie Universität, Berlin, January 2005.
“Weaving to Byzantium: The Bayeux Tapestry and Eastern Silks,” UCLA, February 2005.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” Stanford University, February 2005.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Making of the Anglo-Norman World,” UCI, March, 2005.
“The Bayeux Tapestry and the Formation of Anglo-Norman Identity,” UCSB, April 2005.
“‘La Chanson de Roland’ and the Bayeux Tapestry,” four lecture series, UCLA, April. 2005.

Administrative Experience:
Director, SUNY Study Abroad Program, Grenoble, France, 1971.
Director, SUNY European Studies Council, 1971-1972.
Director, Undergraduate Studies, French Department, SUNY, 1972-1973.
Chair, Option II Language Requirement, UC, 1973-1980.
Chair, UC Medieval Studies Committee, 1975-1976.
Academic Senate Course Committee, UC, 1976-1979.
Undergraduate Advisor, French Department, UC, 1979-1980.
Chair, Departmental search and lecture committees, UC, 1979-1980.
College of Letters and Science Course Committee, UC, 1982-1984.
Chair, French Department, UC 1985-1990.
Chair, Humanities Area Council, UC, 1985-1990.
Member Academic Senate Academic Planning Committee, spring 1986.
Member of Faculty Awards Committee, UC, 1987-
President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities Panel, 1988-
Co-Director, French Cultural Studies, 1990-
Board of Advisors, University of California Humanities Research Institute, 1992-
Executive Director, France-Berkeley Fund, 1993-
Advisory Committee for the Humanities and History Libraries, Columbia University, 1994-
Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1995-
Chair, Subcommittee on Graduate Student Teaching of Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1995-
Modern Language Association Committee on Professional Employment, 1996-
Graduate Committee, French Department, Yale University, 1997-
Medieval Studies Committee, Yale University, 1998-
Chair, Hilles and Griswold Funds Committee, Yale University, 1998-
President’s Advisory Committee on the Humanities (Appointments and
Tenure), Yale University, 1998-
Director, Division of the Humanities, Yale University, 2001-

Conferences Organized:
“The Future of French Studies,” University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
“La Politique de la Langue Française,” University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
“La Très Grande Bibliothèque and the Future of the Library,” University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
“Gaston Paris et la naissance des études médiévales en France,” Cerisy-la- Salle, 1994.
“Literature in the Library,” Columbia University, 1995.
“Journée de Travail--Marie de France,” Columbia University, 1996.
“Journée de Travail--The Old French Fabliaux,” Columbia University, 1997.
“Frontiers, Roads, Quest: The Middle Ages and Beyond,” Montana State University, September, 1996.

Editorial Experience:
Editorial Board, Representations, Culture and History, Exemplaria, Assays, Romanic Review.
Editor, Regents Studies in Medieval Culture, University of Nebraska Press, New Studies in Medieval Culture, Stanford University, Cambridge Studies in French, Stylus series on medieval culture, University of Michigan Press.
Advisory Committee, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1988-1992).
Editorial Committee, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (2001-2003).

Public Service:
1991-1994, Member Board of Trustees, French American International School, San Francisco.