September Newsletter, 2005    Departmental News:
Roy Harris has published a critical edition of the only known Occitan Cathar ritual on Rialto, a corpus of digitized editions housed at http://www.rialto.unina.it/. For direct access to the edition, go to http://www.rialto.unina.it/prorel/CatharRitual/CathRit.htm. He has also published in collaboration with Peter T. Ricketts a heretofore unedited text of a medieval Occitan devotional poem (with French translation and notes): "Une paraphrase du Pater Noster en occitan médiéval," Revue des langues romanes, vol. CVIII, 2004, nº 2, pp. 527-535. A. J. Arnold was the keynote speaker at the "Caribbean Interfaces Caribéennes" conference, which opened at the Université de Lille-3 on 19 May. The conference concluded on 21 May at the Courtrai campus of Leuven University, where he began the final session with an illustrated discussion of "Origines du comparatisme caribéen au 17e siècle." Marva Barnett was invited to return to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, in June to work with USNA faculty writing teaching portfolios. She always seeks feedback about her portfolio (especially since the site is recently re-designed); you can find it at http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/marva/. Gladys Saunders participated in the very lively and dynamic Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference-2005, sponsored by Cambridge University Press, Hodder Arnold and McGraw Hill, which took place at University College London (UK), from Wednesday 27th July through Saturday 30th July. The keynote speaker for the conference was the celebrated linguist, David Crystal. Gladys' paper was entitled "On the Teaching and Learning of French Semivowels: Principles, Practices and Unpredictable Problems". Elisabeth Ladenson delivered four talks in France during the summer: "Homosexualité et censure littéraire" at a Queer Studies conference at Paris XIII-Villetaneuse on May 27; "Madame Bovary and Lady Chatterley" at a nineteenth-century French Studies conference at Reid Hall in Paris on May 31; "Le français se meurt, le français est mort" at the annual AIEF (Association internationale des études françaises) conference at the ENS (rue d'Ulm) on July 4; and "Le 'politiquement correct' dans les études françaises aux Etats-Unis" at the Institut d'Etudes françaises in Avignon on July 6. She is disconcerted to find herself back in New York for the year, and is trying to eat as much smoked fish as possible. Her book, Dirt for Art's Sake: Literature, Sex and Obscenity, 1857-1966 is now completed and will come out in Fall 2006. John Lyons’s latest book, Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau, has just appeared at Stanford University Press. On August 9 he gave a lecture at Dartmouth College on “The Phantom of Chance: Tragedy, Heroism, and Everyday Life.” On September 6th Maggie McColley successfully defended her thesis: The Epistolary Self: "Home" and Identity in Francophone Women's Travel Letters (1850-1950). Now that she is in Williamsburg, she welcomes correspondences, and visitors from the department. Lisette Luton (Ph.D. 1997) gave a paper called "Etre Stagiaire à Québec: This Could Be You!" at the AATF conference in Quebec City in July, 2005. Study Abroad Programs:Another successful Study Abroad program this summer in Rabat, Morocco.
15 students participated. Thirty students participated in the 2005 UVa Summer Program in Lyon.
Janet Horne, Roland Simon, Mary
McKinley, Matthew Afron (Art History),
Stephanie Hopwood, Isabelle Gandy,
and Aurore
Portet taught in the program.
Vincent Michelot, Annick Spay and Francois
Portet offered lectures and
site visits. We also traveled Undergraduate News:Congratulations to Lauren Jessica Bruch (Commerce/French), who has received a scholarship from the Institute of Practical Ethics in New York for a summer internship program. |
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