Daniel E. O’Sullivan
Curriculum vitae

Associate Professor of French

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., French, Boston College, 2000
  • M.A., French, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1994
  • A.B., French, College of the Holy Cross, 1992

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

  • Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval European literature, music and culture
  • Manuscripts and material culture, including historical linguistics, philology, and textual criticism of both music and text
  • Proficiency-oriented language instruction; technology in the classroom; and teacher education

MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES:

  • Medieval and Renaissance French Literature (FR 582)
  • History of the French Language (FR 574)
  • La Chanson francophone (FR 323/399)
  • Composition and Conversation II (FR 304)

PUBLICATIONS:

    MONOGRAPHS (written):

    • Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric. Toronto and London: U of Toronto P, 2005.
      o Reviews in Encomia, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and The French Review (all forthcoming)
      o Nominated for MLA First Book Prize.
      o Nominated for Southeastern Medieval Association Best First Book Prize.
    • Les Echés amoureux: A Critical Edition, with Gregory Heyworth of UM Department of English, in progress and intended for submission to Droz, which has requested a finished copy of the work.
    • Les Chansons de Thibaut IV, Roi de Navarre, (working title), edition of the trouvère’s lyrics, both music and text, with Christropher Callahan of Illinois-Wesleyan University, in progress
    • ‘Le beau jeu nottable’: Chess in Medieval European Culture (working title), anthology of critical essays edited by O’Sullivan on significance of chess in medieval thought and culture, to be published in the series Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Thought. Berlin: De Gruyter, (in progress)

    ARTICLES (all articles are peer-reviewed unless indicated "npr"):

    • “Na Maria: The Virgin Mary in Old Occitan Song,” in progress.
    • “Old French Refrains in Song, Dit , and Prose,” in progress and intended for submission to Plainsong and Medieval Music.
    • “Is There a Manuscript in this Class?” with Andrus Ashoo, Roland Mullins, and Douglas Ray, in progress and intended for submission to Textual Cultures.
    • “Editing Old French lyrics and the Challenges of the Devotional Corpus,” The McNeese Review (forthcoming).
    • “Putting Women in their Place in the Rosarius," Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: The Voices of a Genre (working title). Ed. Jacob Blevins. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, forthcoming.
    • “Children in Gautier de Coinci’s Miracles de Nostre Dame.” Neophilologus 89 (2005): 199-217.
    • “Text and Melody in Early Trouvère Song: The Example of Chrétien de Troyes’s ‘D’Amors qui m’a tolu a moi.’” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 15 (2002): 97-119.
    • “Revisiting Mouvance and Medieval Lyric Performance.” Romance Languages Annual 12 (2001) on CD-ROM.
    • “Les Merveilles de Rigomer’s Apocalyptic Geography.” Medieval Perspectives 12 (1997): 110-122.

    REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, ETC.:

      ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES

    • “Chronique d'un Templier de Tyr,” “Grandes Chroniques de France,” “Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois,” and “Jean de Joinville.” The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Ed. Gaeme Dunphy. Leiden: Brill [forthcoming]
    • “Popular Religion/Spirituality in Medieval Studies, ” “Contrafacture,” “Religious Lyrics,” “Miracle Narratives,” and “Gaston Paris.” Concepts, Methods, and Trends in Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin: de Gruyter Encyclopaedia [forthcoming]
    • “Reverdie,” “Roundel [Rondeau],” “Tail-rhyme,” and “Trouvère.” Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2007. [forthcoming]

      • REVIEW ARTICLES

    • Sala, Marius. From Latin to Romanian: The Historical Development of Romanian in a Comparative Romance Context in Balkanistica (in progress).

      • BOOK REVIEWS

    • Busby, K. et al., eds. "De sens rassis": Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005 in The French Review (in progress).
    • Busby, Keith. Codex and Context. 2 vols. in TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies(forthcoming).
    • Chartier, Alain, et al. Le cycle de "La Belle Dame sans Mercy" : Une anthologie poétique du XVe siècle.Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003 in The French Review (forthcoming).
    • Haines, John. Eight Centuries of Troubadours and Trouvères. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004 in The Medieval Review (forthcoming).
    • Dumanoir, Virginie, ed. Música y literatura en la España de la Edad Media y del Renacimiento in The Sixteenth-Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (forthcoming).
    • Collet, Olivier et al, eds. “Ce est li fruis selonc la letre”: Mélanges offerts à Charles Méla in The French Review 78 (December 2004): 365-66.
    • Einbinder, Susan L. Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France in The French Review 77 (February 2004): 584-86.
    • Silverman, Lisa. Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France in The French Review 76 (March 2003): 833-34.
    • Lynde-Recchia, Molly. Prose, Verse, and Truth-Telling in the Thirteenth Century in The French Review 76 (March 2003): 805-06.
    • Léglu, Catherine. Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of Parody in the Troubadour Lyric in The French Review 76 (February 2003): 594-95.
    • Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Grimbert, Joan T.; Pfeffer, Wendy; and Aubry, Elizabeth. Songs of the Women Trouvères in The French Review 76 (December 2002): 388-89.
    • Collet, Olivier. Glossaires et index critiques des oeuvres d’attribution certaine de Gautier de Coinci in Speculum 77 (2002): 495-96.

      • RECENT PRESENTATIONS

    • “Thibaut de Champagne’s Debate Poetry: A Material Approach” (scheduled for May, 2007) - 42nd International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan
    • “Debating Thibaut de Champagne in Paris, BnF 844 and Paris, Arsenal 5198” (scheduled for March 2007) - Society for Textual Scholarship Biennial Conference, New York University
    • “Teaching Pre-print Textuality in a Post-print World” (scheduled for March 2007) - Society for Textual Scholarship Biennial Conference, New York University
    • “The Rosarius and the Limits of Anthologization” (May 6, 2006) - 41st International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan
    • “’Pour conforter cuer et corps’: The Language of Love and War in Les Echés amoureux” (April 21, 2006) - Kentucky Foreign Language Association, Lexington, Kentucky
    • “Changing the Rules of Chess and Love in the Echés amoureux, Lydgate’s Reson and Sensuallyte, and the Catalan Scachs d’amor” (October 2, 2005)- 31st Southeastern Medieval Association conference, Daytona Beach, Florida
    • "In Perfect Harmony: Words and Music in Old French Song," (March 16, 2005)- Society for Textual Scholarship Triennial Conference, March, 2005)
    • “Teaching French Pronunciation to American Students” (November 5, 2004)- Mississippi Foreign Language Association Conference, Louisville, Mississippi
    • “Breaking the Rules of Chess and Love in the Echés amoureux” (October 16, 2004)- 30th Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Charleston, South Carolina
    • “A Medieval Lyric Menagerie” (November 6, 2003) - Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois
    • “Devotion and Dolor in Old French Women’s Devotional Song” (October 24, 2003) - 29th Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Fayetteville, Arkansas
    • “Old French Refrains and Generic Border-Crossing” (September 26, 2002) - 28th Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Tallahassee, Florida
    • “The Beginning and End of Devotion: The Prologues and Epilogue of Gautier's Miracles de Nostre Dame" (December 29, 2001)- Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • “Through the Looking Glass: From Peer Evaluation to Self-Evaluation” (August 24, 2001)- Department of French and Italian Workshop for Returning Associate Instructors, Indiana University
    • “I, Theophilus: Metaphor, Synecdoche, and Rutebeuf’s Miracle de Théophile” (May 4, 2001) - 36th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
    • “Continuity, Change, and Fragmentation in Trouvère Song” (April 21, 2001)- 13th Annual Medieval Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
    • “Revisiting Mouvance and Medieval Lyric Performance” (October 12, 2000)- Twelfth Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages, Literatures, and Film
    • “An Artful Approach to Bridging the Gap [to the College Foreign Language Classroom]” (December 28, 1999) - Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago

      • JOURNAL VOLUMES (edited):

    • Textual Cultures, Anglo-American Book Review Editor
    • Medieval Perspectives, Book Review Editor

    GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS:

    • Summer Research Grant, awarded by College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi on November 1, 2003, December 10, 2004, and January 19, 2007.
    • Faculty Research Fellow, awarded by the University of Mississippi on May 3, 2004 and Dec 6, 2005.
    • Mississippi Humanities Council Grant, awarded for hosting a mini-conference on Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Mississippi on March 29, 2004.
    • Summer Research Grant, awarded by College of Liberal Arts, University of Mississippi on November 1, 2002.

    PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY ORGANIZATIONS:

    • Executive Committee, Southeastern Medieval Association
    • Executive Board, Society for Textual Scholarship

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